What a road trip!! Last weekend, I treated my fiancé to a birthday weekend at a forest retreat, just forty minutes from where we live in Mid-Wales. I liked the fact that it had no mobile signal or wifi, just a cottage surrounded by trees, birds and tranquillity. After half an hour on the main […]
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I have a thing about words. If I hear one I’m familiar with but I’m not exactly sure how to use it, I have to Google its meaning and read all the examples until I’m clear. The last two I heard were ‘hubris ’ and ‘detritus ’, thanks to Lucinda Riley novels. I learnt many
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I don’t remember the first time I felt anxious. I experienced it from such a young age but only realised decades later that it was social anxiety. At the time, I just felt terrified. Often. To family and friends, I was just, “very shy and sensitive”. I’ve spent most of my adult life ‘fighting’ anxiety
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If you could be more compassionate, patient, relaxed, focused and wise, would you choose to be? ? If you could have more hours in the day, would you like some? I’m constantly discovering new benefits to practising meditation, so why are some people reluctant to even try it? The main reasons I’ve been given are: “I
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Q. How can Mindfulness help during a pandemic? A. These two simple methods will help keep you calm and effective in whatever circumstance you find yourself. 1. Notice when you have a ‘WHAT IF’ thought. So much of the factual information that we read and see on the news and social media is clouded by
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Are you really sure about what is best for your children? Do you feel that your son’s school fully meets his needs? Have you considered home-schooling your daughter? If there was one question I would ask senior management when I was a Primary School Teacher, it was: “Is that what’s best for the children?!” This
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Today I did my second session with a client who suffers from Anxiety and Panic Disorder and our theme was ‘Thoughts are not facts’. How can what we think be untrue? Surely we are honest with ourselves? Well, firstly we have to notice our thoughts in order to explore this idea and our feelings and
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Mindfulness Can Help You Sometimes one thought goes round and round in your head, making you feel increasingly upset or angry and stress hormones rage through your body. Result.. zero sleep. The other night just one thought kept repeating itself in my head, like a recording on a loop until my body felt so awake