Personally I’ve never really been someone who reaches for their phone to kill time. If I’m bored, or waiting, or sitting with nothing to do, my first instinct isn’t to unlock the screen and start scrolling. It’s just never been…
There’s a piece over on the blog Be More With Less that’s worth pointing you all to. Courtney Carver, who’s managed multiple sclerosis for the past twenty years, writes about how her old habit of constant busyness eventually caught up…
Most people come to mindfulness looking for the same thing: some relief. A way to feel less overwhelmed, less reactive, less at the mercy of their own thoughts. That’s a completely reasonable thing to want and for a while, it…
Nobody signs up for the lessons that change them most. They arrive uninvited, often at the worst possible time, dressed in difficulty or loss or complete disruption of everything you thought you had figured out. And yet, when you look…
Inner peace sounds like something reserved for monks, yoga instructors, or people who’ve had some kind of profound life-changing moment on a mountain but for the rest of us, caught up in work deadlines, difficult relationships, and the endless scroll…
You’ve heard it’s good for you. You’ve probably tried it once or twice. And you almost certainly sat there wondering if you were doing it wrong. Here’s the thing, you probably weren’t. Meditation has a bit of an image problem.…
This morning, I stood in the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil so I could make my morning coffee. Now, there’s nothing unusual about that. It’s something I do every day but instead of just standing there, I noticed…
There was a time when I thought calm would arrive once everything in my life was finally “sorted.” You know the drill… But what I’ve come to realise over time is this: Calm doesn’t arrive when life becomes full. It…
Today, we live in a world where digital noise has become so normalised that many of us barely notice how much of it we carry around each day. A phone buzzing on the kitchen bench. Emails piling up before breakfast.…