Three Good Things – a weekly gratitude list
Happy Monday. I woke up feeling content after a lovely weekend, ready and grateful to face a new week. I love starting my week with a gratitude list. Reminding myself...
Year: 2021
Managing a Restless Mind
Many emotions and repressed feelings tend to surface when you begin to meditate. A restless mind can usually be dealt with in much the same way as you would deal...
How Can You Help Your Mental Outlook Through Light and Color in Your Home?
Color and light have a significant impact on our mental outlook. The right combinations of the two can help you feel relaxed, improve your moods, cognitive function and improve sleep...
Gratitude – A Mid-Week Three Good Things
I’m sat on my sofa, enjoying a peaceful house. All my kiddos are out, and I have a whole day ahead of me {well, until 3pm anyway}. I don’t even...
Now I’m the Mama of an adult…
Saturday saw my eldest daughter turn 18. 18!!! I managed to raise an actual adult. As I sat writing her card the night before her birthday, I was struck with...
Anxiety – how I fought back control
Anxiety. I had it for years before I really even knew that I did. For as long as I can remember, there has been that knot in my stomach, the...
Self-soothing – 5 techniques to help
Self-soothing. This is one thing that made a HUGE difference to me when my anxiety and depression were crippling. Learning methods that I could use when I was upset, anxious,...
Mental Health Awareness Week
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a week to talk about Mental Health. A timt to bring it into everyday conversation and to help to remove the stigma that...
Weekend Reflections
It’s a very wet day here in Wales. I’m curled up on the sofa, Oren is napping on my knee whilst I’m doing some writing and watching A Star is...
Khushi Kantha – beautiful baby blankets
Khushi Kantha – meaning Happy Blanket’, sells beautiful, vibrant, multi-purpose baby blankets that have been made from reclaimed and ethically-sourced cotton. Each blanket is hand-stitched by mothers in Bangladesh, each one...
4 Childrens Books we’re loving right now
I love snuggling up with my little kiddos, and reading a good book. We’ve bookshelves full of old favourites, but I am always on the look out for some new...
5 Steps to Opening a Yoga Studio in Your Backyard
More and more people are starting home-based businesses, maybe due to redundancy caused by their employer going because of COVID 19, or just because they want to escape the 9-5...
Natural Deodorant – a DIY recipe
I stopped using ‘normal’ deodorant years ago, there are a lot of health concerns over regular deodorants, and I try to use as much natural product as I can. I’ve...
Take The Stress Out Of Shirt
Special cloth alert. Fan luv. Celebrate success right, the only way, apple. Give thanks to the most high. In life there will be road blocks but we will over come...
Gratefulness – my Three Good Things
It’s a cold and wet bank Holiday Monday here as I write this. Keeping gratefulness in my heart, by giving thanks for the rain and the good it is doing...