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…
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Discovering your core values
Knowing our values, what matters most to us, is a crucial ingredient to creating a fulfilling life. Our values are what guide us and help us stay connected to what really matters. Circle four of the values below that are most important to you. Here’s…
Mindful Eating and waking up to greater freedom
Many of us tend to eat in a rush, or while focused on other things – often we don’t even taste our food, and so we end up eating more than we need. Because of this, mindful eating has recently become a popular weight loss…
Mindfulness: the perfect antidote to our stressful lives
Few experiences can compare to holding a human brain. It was my first year of medical training. I was nineteen years old, and as I stood in the cold, sterile dissection room with a brain in my hands, I wondered how a lifetime of memory,…
Mindful Technology
‘The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.’ ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb With invisible umbilical cords connecting us to our devices 24/7, staying focused is becoming increasingly difficult. Our attention buzzes around with the restlessness…
The MINDFUL ABC’s of managing tantrums
Parenting. On a good day, it’s an exhilarating spiritual journey of epic proportions, where we have the privilege of witnessing our most creative project flourish. On a bad day, it’s an exhausting, frustrating ride where we are tested beyond our limits through sleep deprivation, tantrums,…
Mindfulness: the path to deeper happiness
Few experiences can compare to holding a human brain. It was my first year of medical training. I was nineteen years old, and as I stood in the cold, sterile dissection room with a brain in my hands, I wondered how a lifetime of memory, feelings…
The Happiness Plan – Relax the body and be mindful in everyday life
‘The body is your only home in the universe. It is your house of belonging here in the world. It is a very sacred temple. To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom.’ John O’Donohue Studying medicine…
The Happiness Plan – Connect with what makes you feel alive
‘The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.’ Mary Oliver Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission of…
Bring more heart into your busy life with #heartspark moments
The #heartspark experiment Life is so busy these days and we can forget to prioritise the things that make our #heartspark. This is an invitation to bring more heart and soul into your busy life. It’s an experiment.. An invitation to intentionally reconnect with what…
