Practising Mindful Gratitude
Embrace Your Inner Hygge
Filled with ‘Meh’ when it’s dark by 4pm? Winter is the perfect time to connect with yourself and your inner stillness. Crisp, frosty mornings and long dark nights are a great opportunity to give yourself a warm glow inside by creating hygge. Pronounced hoo-ga and sometimes translated as a ‘Cosyness of the soul’. It’s all…
Self Care Tips for a Calm Christmas
Christmas. The time for carols, tinsel, mince pies and let’s face it, sometimes, stress and anxiety. Christmas can be crazy busy and not much fun. Reframe the frenzy into the perfect time of year to practice self care. So, how to make sure you don’t lose your sparkle amidst the chaos? Here are 5 self care…
I Stopped Using Facebook. Here’s What Happened
I’ll admit it, I’m as nosy as the next person. Despite my claims to be on Facebook for ‘business’ part of my reason for joining it in the first place was a healthy dose of FOMO. Then came ‘Fake news” closely followed by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, then, data breaches and most damningly, genocide of…
The Ultimate 10 Step Digital Detox (your brain will thank you)
How Your Perception of Stress Can Affect Your Stress Level
How to be Mindful at work
Are you desperately trying (& failing) to multitask? Do you battle constant interruptions whilst nursing a workload that gains traction every second? Wondering how to make it all go away? to dial down your perception of stress & manage distractions? Mindfulness might just be the answer. We examine how to be mindful at work with these…
How to stop Catastrophizing
It’s one of the most unhelpful thinking styles there is. Catastrophizing imagines the worst and takes us straight into a downward spiral of unhelpful black and white thinking that freezes us in our tracks. When you’re stuck in a paralysing cycle of negativity it can feel like a gargantuan feat to prevent it. We take…
What you can Learn about Happiness from a Buddhist Monk
We all want to be happy. It’s part of being human. No one wants to be miserable. We involve ourselves in all sorts of things to avoid it and pursue happiness instead. Sometimes we get caught up in striving, weighing ourselves down with things; a faster car, the next rung on the professional ladder, a…
Embrace Your Inner Wabi Sabi
Wabi Sabi. The ancient Japanese tradition of discovering beauty in imperfection is experiencing something of a renaissance. In a world where we’re constantly striving to achieve perfection we show you how to embrace your inner wabi sabi and recognise the complex, imperfect beauty that is you (just as you are). In this post we examine;…