11 Nov Bodyscan Meditation
A seriously relaxing meditation that guides you on a trip around the body as you feel into each body part. A mindfulness meditation suitable for beginners....
11 Nov Simple Meditation On The Breath
This 7 minute meditation is an opportunity to just simply stop and take stock, and 'come to your senses' giving you an opportunity for a usually much needed break from the go go go of life....
11 Nov Progressive Muscle Relaxation
This relaxation exercise involved clenching and releasing the muscle groups in the body. Research shows that it is an effective relaxation technique....
04 Aug Creativity v Hopelessness
Creativity in all its forms can be therapy. It can bring connection, purpose, reduce stress and allow us to achieve a state of flow. And it can change the world for the better. But many of us don’t see ourselves as creative or give ourselves...
04 May Staying cool when the shit hits the fan is possible
How we ‘deal’ when the heat is on is always important and even more so right now. For example, in my situation, I can fret about less paid work coming my way during this pandemic or I can see this as an incredible opportunity to...
03 Mar Self-care is not the be-all and end-all
While I’m a big advocate of self-care, there are a few problems with this idea. In a nutshell, it can be too easy to judge those who are struggling as not looking after themselves. We are in danger of blaming others for being strung out...
10 Sep Want to be well? consume with care.
Avoiding putting ‘junk’ into our bodies is not just about the food we eat—though avoiding food that is terrible for our health is not as easy as we might like to believe (more about that in a moment). In a world of unprecedented information-overload, helping people...
15 Apr Learn how to be less stressed
Creating a life in which you are offsetting the stressful times we live in and countering the distractions we are all dealing with day to day is not difficult but we do need to learn to do things differently. Here is a selection of our favourite...
26 Mar Your beliefs about stress could be killing you
The title of this post might sound a bit dramatic, but hear me out. While I am a huge advocate of creating a lower stress lifestyle it turns out that our beliefs about stress may be even more important than how stressed we actually are. There...
06 Dec Relieve stress, embrace doing less
I am an expert at saying no. It’s been my default for a really long time. When the incredible power of present moment awareness became so remarkably obvious to me, doing less was just the way things had to be. To maintain focus, to not...