Category: INSPIRATION

Monthly Mindfulness Challenge – November

November 22, 2023

Mindful Nature Observation Simple but powerful, it will help you to connect with the beauty all around you. Choose something from nature – a tree, flower, leave, insect, stone…. Relax and explore it in depth, look at every aspect of it, and connect with it and it’s role in the natural world for as long...

INSPIRATION

The Happy List #5

November 13, 2023

Mondays seem to roll around quickly right now! We’ve just gotten home from Beastie’s swimming lesson, the kids are playing for an hour while I do some work, then they’ve got a lesson to do in a while! The sun has come out, although the wind is blowing like crazy. It’s been a good weekend,...

INSPIRATION

Monthly Mindfulness Challenge

October 15, 2023

This month’s mindfulness challenge Mindful Breathing Something that you can do anywhere and anytime. Just for one minute, do nothing but focus on your breathing. Begin by slowly breathing in through your nose, and slowly out through your mouth. One cycle of breath should take around 6 seconds. Let go of any worries, to-do lists,...

INSPIRATION

Monthly Mindfulness Challenge

September 20, 2023

Mindfulness. What is it? Can you remember how your first drink tasted this morning? Most of us spend most of our days on autopilot. Countless small things escape our notice, yet these little things are what make life… well, life-worthy. Mindfulness helps us be in the here and now, it helps us to pay attention...

INSPIRATION

September Journal Prompts

September 6, 2023

A week into September already – I have been soaking up this sunshine, spending time outdoors, wild swimming and embracing the warmth before it leaves us. Already I can feel the evenings drawing in, and am {almost} ready to embrace the changing seasons. I wanted to share with you this months Journal Prompts – print...

INSPIRATION

Creating space

July 4, 2023

Life is so full and busy, that often there is no room to think – no breathing space. I’ve been feeling the overwhelm lately. Trying to keep all the many plates spinning – parenting, house, work, money, home ed, etc etc Feeling increasingly stressed, I realised I needed to create some space. To put down...

INSPIRATION

Saying yes more

May 2, 2023

Last night, with the boys at their Dad’s, dinner for the me and the girls done, I got into my PJ’s and was sat on my bed reading. Planning an evening in front of the TV with lots of chocolate and a hottie to soothe my period cramps. Then the girls knocked and asked if...

INSPIRATION, JOURNAL

Living simply, simply living

February 15, 2023

Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends! Mehmet Murat Ildan With my word of the year, RELEASE, in mind, I’ve been letting go of what was no longer working for me. Letting go of the busyness that had taken over our lives. We’d gotten caught up in doing all the things even though...