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What I learned from my week of being perfectly imperfect, ME
What happens when we drop perfectionism and admit our mistakes? I discovered something profound… Is this a drawing of my brain being sick? No - read on to find out... My coach, Claire Higgins, invited...
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Top 5 things the children loved about Mindfulness classes
Teaching mindfulness in schoolsI’ve just finished teaching a 10 week course to the children of three seperate classes in year four and five at The Dolphin School in Bristol. I absolutely loved the...
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Creating a Meditation Space for Your Home - Top Ten Tips
Whilst you may not be able to make this 'perfect' kind of space, don't let that stop you. Setting up a beautiful, peaceful and sensual space adds pleasure and meaning to practice. These things help...
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How to STOP reacting to anxiety
If you’re anything like me, you have worries. You worry about your health, your finances, about the way the world is and, of course, about how much you worry! I've managed to find a way to reduce my...
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Reminding myself everyday: The MORNING routine
Every morning I forget. I wake up brand new and forget that I'm OK, that life is beautiful, as it is, that this is a gift and life owes me nothing. So everyday I have to remind myself. Like someone...
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Overstimulation - The reason you struggle to focus
It's 7:00 am and as I wake up I habitually reach for my phone. Do you do the same?I notice. I stop. I take a breath and make a decision - not today. Today I will connect with what is important, what...
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How To Liberate Yourself From Wounded Patterns
This blog is my perspective on why we repeat patterns, get attracted to people who trigger us, and why nothing is wrong - this is all good stuff, if we choose to play with it. Reactions RuleWe are...
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Trying to Change a Habit? Forget Dopamine Fasting, Take a Holiday!
A behavioral brain trick called “dopamine fasting” has been around for a while now - the idea of restricting most of your pleasurable daily activities — from social media, to watching videos, gaming,...
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Breaking the Lockdown Blues
“I’m a mindfulness coach, I’m not supposed to feel miserable! Why the hell am I so low?”These were the words uttered by my brain this morning, as I woke up and laid there, thinking. That was rubbish so...
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When to listen to your gut: The power of intuition and instinct
TLDR: The main insights of this blogWe evolved to move. Civilized socialisation teaches us to inhibit movement and overly rely on the conscious mind to solve problems. This disconnects us from...
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Understanding the Main Styles of Counselling
The real reason I posted this is because the three videos at the bottom blew my socks off. If you want just skip to them - they are worth it!I recently began a formal qualification in Counselling and...
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7 Steps To Establish a New Habit
Habit Stacking Make it easy and tasty! In this short BLOG I'm sharing a slide from session 2 of my course 'Mindfulness and Emotional Resilience', where we focus on habits. I'm doing this because I am...
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How to find true love using meditation
I believe we can generate unconditional love through a practice of loving connection, which helps us feel more love towards everything and everyone. How? Well just did a lovely practice with the Monday...
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Using Self Awareness to Overcome Negative Emotions and Heal Your Trauma Patterns
As we go through our day, we sometimes find ourselves experiencing what are referred to as ‘negative emotions’, such as some of the...
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Compare and Despair? Remember Now is Wow!
I've had a depressing week. I've been comparing myself and letting my mind drag me into a low mood by believing (or not challenging) the stories of comparison, regret and self judgement:He's so...
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Reschooling and Reparenting - Heal and Train Yourself (Like a Kitten)
How many of us get a prescription from the doctor, coach or physiotherapist but don’t complete it and see it through? How many of us spend too long punishing ourselves for mistakes and spend so much...
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Being good enough - letting go of 'exceptional'.
Since lockdown in 2021 I notice a gradual ebbing away of my confidence in myself. Self doubt has been nipping at my heels. I've been doing all sorts to try and get rid of it. I recognise it as my old...
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Practices To Improve Polyvagal Tone
Polyvagal theory has become core in my teaching and practice, since researching Dr Porges ideas and then through my trauma healing. It has helped me become more resilient. Here I share practical uses...
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The Attention Wars - Know Your Enemies!
We live in a safer world now (I speak from my privileged position in it). But we still have wars and the biggest war is fought 24/7 - it is the war for our attention. We have enemies in this war and...
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Committing To Your Deep Truth: Your Mission
I'm in the midst of a change of direction and it's bloody hard. As part of this I'm training more, reading more, surrounding myself with positive influences and delving deep into my fears. Three...
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