Articles on Mindfulness

A Free Bedtime Sanctuary for Calmer Nights and Kinder Hearts 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. Bedtime is a threshold. It’s not just the end of a day; it’s a transition from doing to being, from outward busyness to inner quiet.

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