Only talk to yourself as you would your best friend.
This week’s post is short, sweet and hopefully life-changing! We're all familiar with the saying "you can't love someone else until you've learnt to love yourself"... Just how do we learn to do it? Here is a way: only talk to yourself as you would your best friend:...
How to Design your Self-Care Ritual
Take a good look at the 12 strategies from Part One (gratitude, optimism, avoiding overthinking, practicing kindness, nurturing relationships, coping, forgiveness, flow, savouring, committing to goals, spirituality, caring for body and soul) and decide which ones...
What is SELF-CARE?
Self-care can broadly be defined as personal health maintenance undertaken with the intention of improving or restoring health, or treating or preventing disease. I’d like to add the purpose of ‘flourishing’ to this definition and to promote the notion of thinking...
The Silver Lining to Suffering: Post-Traumatic GROWTH
A handful of dear friends of mine have recently experienced some extraordinarily challenging and painful life events which has prompted me to write this article. While most people will be familiar with the condition post-traumatic stress disorder far less well known...
How to make GOALS that actually work for you:
We're one month in to 2013 so now is a great time to revisit the intentions you set at the beginning of the year. If you haven't set any yet, it’s not too late! There are many benefits of goal setting – they help structure and shape your day, focus your attention and...
It’s Christmas! How to have your cake and eat it too…
As the festive season dawns upon us with the multitude of Christmas catch ups, family gatherings, work do’s, the odd glass of bubbly and all the other trimmings, how can we minimise the blowout on the health, fitness and well being front? Notice I say ‘minimise’...
Your daily yoga practice in just 7 minutes!
Spend just 7 minutes a day to come home to your body, your mind and your calm abiding centre. Your practice best serves you when it is a constant in your life. For the most profound effects, don't treat your yoga as a medicine you turn to just in times of stress, or...