How Mindfulness Helps I completed another six-week mindfulness course recently. The participants were clients of a support organisation for people living with or affected by serious illness. While discussing how the course has helped them, here is what some of the participants said: “Now I can place distance between myself and my thoughts and […]

We’ve all been there—those moments when our inner critic, or as I like to call them, “the gremlins,” stage a full-on Broadway production of self-doubt. It’s especially pronounced when we’re stepping out of our comfort zones: a job interview, an exam, or that nerve-wracking first date. Spoiler alert: it’s normal. But here’s the thing—we […]

Cultivate calm and come home to the present moment. This meditation helps us centre and come home to ourselves. It can be practised at the beginning or end of the day or intermittently throughout your day by taking moments to pause and become present, for example, in transitionary times, before you stepping out of […]

Jon Kabat-Zinn, one of the global leaders in mindfulness, wisely says, “It’s not what’s happening; it’s how we are with what’s happening that determines our experience.” Mindfulness teaches us to notice our reactive thoughts and the emotions they stir in response to events. This awareness creates a small but powerful space that allows us […]

A meditation journey to meet with your higher self and reconnect with your source power and wisdom, remembering who you are and integrating the strength that is your birth right. This is an excellent meditation to help with anxiety, low self confidence, insecurity or self doubt. It can also help bring comfort and ease […]

Life is full of unwelcome experiences, and often, the most helpful thing we can do is breathe through these events. In this post, I share why and how resting our attention on the breath allows unhelpful thoughts to pass, enables us to manage difficult emotions, and regulates our central nervous system. But even better, […]

In this post, I share a ridiculously simple, free and mobile practice to reduce stress, increase your wellbeing and build resilience in highly sustainable ways. It begins with asking yourself a simple question: “How are you?” How many times a day do you ask people how they are? “How are you?” “How are things?” […]

  Across social media, every second holistic practitioner seems to call themselves a mindfulness teacher nowadays, despite said practitioners not meeting the minimum training standards set by the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI) or having any recognised formal mindfulness training. Furthermore, practitioners who lack awareness of what mindfulness is is rampant – for […]