Benefits of Mindfulness
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Parenting can be joyful—but it’s also challenging. From toddler tantrums to teen mood swings, stress can build quickly. Mindful parenting is a powerful way to respond with patience, clarity, and calm, helping both you and your children navigate everyday life more smoothly.

Menopause is a major life transition that brings physical, emotional, and psychological changes. Hot flashes, sleep disturbances, mood swings, and anxiety are common experiences for many women. Mindfulness is a practical, evidence-based approach that can help you navigate these changes with calm, clarity, and self-compassion. In this post, we’ll explore: Why menopause can be challenging How mindfulness supports mental and physical wellbeing Simple mindfulness practices to tr

Many people think mindfulness is complicated or that you need to meditate for hours each day. In reality, starting a mindfulness practice can be simple, practical, and highly effective. This beginner-friendly guide will show you how to start, what to practice, and how to make it a habit, with the option to deepen your learning through the 8-Week MBSR course. Mindfulness practice doesn’t need to be complicated. By starting small, practicing consistently, you can cultivate cal

Anxiety is something almost everyone experiences at some point—racing thoughts, tension, and a restless mind. Mindfulness offers practical, evidence-based ways to calm these experiences and build emotional resilience. In this post, we’ll explore why mindfulness works for anxiety, simple exercises you can try today, and how a structured course like MBSR can deepen your practice.

Mindfulness is more than a buzzword—it’s a practical, evidence-based way to reduce stress, calm the mind, and respond to life with clarity. If you’ve been curious about mindfulness or wondering how it can help in your daily life, the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme is one of the most widely respected paths for learning these skills. In this post, we’ll explore: What MBSR is and how it started How the 8-week programme works Who can benefit The science behi

As a mindfulness teacher and creator who has developed resources for publishers such as Macmillan Education, I’ve spent years exploring how to bring mindfulness into everyday life — gently, simply, and with heart. But no place has ever felt more naturally open to presence than bedtime.

Let’s face it: life can often feel like a mad dash through a never-ending obstacle course, complete with unexpected hurdles, the odd puddle of mud, and the occasional surprise pie to the face. Amidst all this chaos, there’s one relationship that often gets neglected—the one you have with yourself. Yes, you, the person who sees you at your best, worst, and all the awkward bits in between. But here’s the thing: you’re stuck with yourself, so why not make it the best relationshi

Created for the Perimenopause Hub this is valid for anyone dealing with the inner critic. Fine out more about the Perimenopause online course.

With mindfulness you're practicing learning to not react to the "stressor". That stressor can be a concrete thing (like someone just crashed into my car), or it can be a thought. So, worrying about the thought "I don't want more anxiety" creates anxiety. A future fear is now a present moment experience. Mindfulness offers an alternative to this response: "Can I sit with anxiety and just watch it?"

Why do we have more anxiety in menopause, which can lead to sleeplessness, and what can be done about it?

“Mindfulness” seems to be everywhere these days and unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve most likely heard of it. Every year more and more schools, universities and corporate groups are engaging in Mindfulness programmes to help people become less stressed, more focused, more accepting and perhaps just a little happier…

Imagine you’re going to a party. Just as you step through the door you are grabbed by Mary. She wants to tell you all about it, all the problems, all the things to worry about. She gets on to politics or the latest thing to concern oneself about in the news and she’s having a field day, bending your ear. Moving on, she drops a critical comment about the clothes you’re wearing, or perhaps tells you who to talk to, who not to. Finally you politely extricate yourself from Mary,

Someone during a recent session Maria (not her real name) explained how sad she was feeling about the break-up of a friendship. “Oh well, I keep telling myself- there is nothing I can do.” This seemed to be mindful in some way- not getting into the story. She reflected that another friend was also feeling sad about lack of work and wasn’t going to go to a birthday party they'd both been invited to. Instead she was going for a walk with her sadness on the beach. Maria meanwhil

I was asked to come in and talk about Mindfulness and Meditation at English Radio, Barcelona. Why do we get so anxious...? Tune in and find out...

So many people find it hard to get to sleep. If you're one of them, why not try this short meditation, suitable for children and adults.

Having just completed another workshop on mindfulness for school teachers, I thought I'd share some tips and tools for any teachers out there interested in trying out some easy practices.... Why do mindfulness practices with students? You are teaching them to be aware of themselves- their emotions, their thoughts, which allows them to self-regulate. You are giving them practical tools to help with stressful experiences such as tests and exams. When you are in a state of high

It's 5am, you're had no sleep and now you're anxious you'll never sleep again. You're frustrated that even though you feel exhausted, the body and mind just won't give in. You're stressing already about how tired you will be in the morning and you're frustrated your mind just won't SHUT UP!!! Sound familiar?

To be honest being a parent can be very stressful. The combination of tiredness, time constraints and not receiving a parenting manual (!) can leave you frazzled. I became interested in Mindfulness after having my first child 4 years ago and it was a revelation. Over the years I've gone from being a practitioner to becoming a teacher and I'm now an accredited Mindfulness teacher (MBSR) and Mindfulness teacher for children (MiSP UK).

So how did I get into all this I'm often asked...here's the answer :) I became interested in Meditation when I basically had a life crash. I was 41 years old, had just given birth to my first child, was running my own business and I was mentally and physically exhausted. I saw someone mention an App Facebook which helped you to meditate and that meditation could help you relax. To be honest I used to just go to sleep during the meditations many times as I was so tired and I

I'm happy to say the meditations are going online, making it easier to download and practice. Please subscribe to get the latest posts. Here is the Body Scan - 20 minutes. This comes from the 8 week meditation course to help lower stress and anxiety. For more information on the course click here.