Category: * Slow Living & Rhythm *

Candlelit Christmas Parties: Tips for a Magical Gathering this Festive Season

Christmas is just around the corner and so is the excitement to throw a candlelit Christmas party. The soft, flickering glow of candles along with the warmth of festive cheer...

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Urban Homesteading: How to Live Sustainably in the City

Living in the city doesn’t mean you can’t embrace a sustainable lifestyle. Urban homesteading is about growing your food, reducing waste, and making small changes to live more self-sufficiently—even in...

Celebrating Imbolc

Imbolc is always one of my favourite Sabbats. After a long winter, Imbolc – the mid-way point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, is always a welcome sign....

Slimming Down Your Wardrobe to Avoid Clutter in the Future

People often collect clothes as they grow older because they always need to buy new stuff. Throwing out clothes often feels bad unless it’s completely unwearable, and our wardrobes are...

Simple Living

What if all I want is a small, slow, simple life? What if I am most happy in the space of inbetween? Where calm lives. Krista O’Reilly Davi-Digui For the...

Life lessons from Gardening

May is here, and it feels like finally, finally, new life is here. Winter felt long and cold this year, and spring slow to get off the ground. In the...

Living simply, simply living

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...

A slow January

Twenty days into the New Year, and I feel as though it should just be beginning. With the end of Mercury Retrograde, this feels like it is the real beginning...

How to simplify and slow down

Last week’s ‘Do Nothing Day‘ showed me that I’ve been taking on too much, expecting too much of myself, forgetting what is really important and been neglecting self care. Having...

A ‘Do Nothing Day’

How often do you allow yourself to do nothing? When you’re ill? Or just worn out? Or do you push yourself to keep going? I’ve always been terrible at doing...

Celebrating Imbolc with kids

Imbolc is a celebration of the natural world reawakening, as well as a time of cleansing. We honor the goddess Brigid at this time of year. On our walks, we’re...

A Mindful Solstice

If you’re signed up for my newsletter, you’ll have had this months email arrive this morning, with a beautiful Solstice Ritual for you to do today. If you don’t feel called...

New Moon Introspection

My cycle links to the New Moon. I find myself turning inwards at this time, feeling the need to hibernate for a few days. I feel old anxieties and worries...

Why weeds are wonderful

When you think of superfoods you probably don’t think of weeds. But there are many found-at-a-roadside plants common to the UK that can provide a whole host of health benefits....

Finding stillness in a pandemic

Before the pandemic, life was lived at 100 miles an hour. With five children, a home to run, my own business, no partner to share the workload and four of...