Life, as we know, does not always go as planned, or as we think it should, so how do we learn to accept and then cope with the cards that we are dealt? One of the greatest gifts that practicing mindfulness gives us is a mental strength and an ability […]
Mental Health & Mindfulness
Are you a busy woman with more commitments than you have time to manage at your best? Perhaps you are working, a mother, a carer, or all three, stressed and struggling to catch-up. Do you feel like a juggler trying to keep all the balls in the air at the […]
There is no ‘end goal’ when it comes to practicing mindfulness meditation. When you learn the skills of compassion-based mindfulness and practice these skills regularly, it very much becomes a way of approaching, living, and enhancing your life. I was particularly struck recently, at the last session of an introductory […]
Over the course of this past year, we have all been catapulted well and truly out of our comfort zones and change can be difficult, even at the best of times. We have been required to cope with a series of rapid and unexpected events and then a much longer-than-anticipated […]
In traditional Chinese medicine worry, anxiety, insomnia, excessive dreaming, and poor memory are all connected with your emotions, stress and digestive health. Insomnia refers to a number of different problems including the inability to fall asleep easily, waking during the night, sleeping restlessly, waking-up early in the morning and dream-disturbed […]
I speak to a lot of parents who are worried that their son or daughter is suffering from anxiety. Their child may still be in primary school, or a teenager, and they have heard that anxiety is normal and that their child will grow out of it. However it seems ages […]