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Building resilience with Mindfulness
In a world that is becoming increasingly complex and demanding resilience is becoming an essential life skill. Resilience is the capacity to cope well with life’s inevitable challenges and disasters, to meet the stressors and storms of life with adaptive and...
A lesson on being supported by others:
When you want to begin a new habit, it’s easy to be really inspired for the first week or two, but fall off track once the novelty wears off. If you notice this happening, bring it up with the community. It’s entirely normal to encounter enthusiasm dips, so please...
Four ways mindfulness can help you manage the emotional roller coaster ride of motherhood
Motherhood is an exhilarating spiritual journey of epic proportions where each day we are faced with the privilege of witnessing our most creative project flourish. That’s on a good day. On a bad day it’s an exhausting, frustrating ride where we are tested beyond our...
Five expert tips on Mindfulness
Mindfulness Meditation has existed for over 2,500 years however over the past few years it’s popularity has exploded with people and organisations curious to know what the practice is and how it can be of benefit. As a mindfulness meditation teacher and doctor I...
Five scientific reasons to practise mindfulness meditation
Living our best life requires an investment in our health. It requires a lifelong commitment to practices that keep the mind and body replenished and nourished for the increasing demands of this world. It is of great concern that The World Health Organization (WHO)...
Four ways mindfulness can enhance your happiness
“It is the mind that translates good and bad circumstances into happiness or misery. So happiness comes with the purging of mental toxins, such as hatred, compulsive desire, arrogance and jealousy, which literally poison the mind. It also requires that one cease to...
How to Mindfully Manage a Tantrum
Motherhood is an exhilarating spiritual journey of epic proportions where each day we are faced with the privilege of witnessing our most creative project flourish. That’s on a good day. On a bad day it’s an exhausting, frustrating ride where we are tested beyond our...
Mindfulness for Social Media Addiction
Have you ever found yourself up late at night scrolling through Facebook when you were meant to be going to sleep? You’re not alone. Social media addiction is becoming an increasing problem. As technology develops exponentially, at the click of a button we can access...
Lessons for my daughter…
I recently celebrated my 40th birthday and in the week leading up to my birthday I spent a lot of time writing and reflecting on what felt like a significant milestone. I was mining for some wisdom from the past 40 years and it came out as some advice that I’d...