Embracing Change
My grandfather lived into his late Nineties. He had a simple, but rich and happy life. What was his secret? He cared passionately [...]
Covid-19, One to one and group sessions available online
Your mental health has never been more important than in this current climate of uncertainty. It is all too easy to get caught in a [...]
Q&A with co-founder of Headspace, Andy Puddicombe
It was a great joy to share the stage with Andy Puddicombe, the co-founder and ‘Voice’ of Headspace, at the GQ Heroes Retreat at Soho [...]
Balance gets a bad name
Rightly most New Year's resolutions are now buried in the back end of January. But one that rarely makes the extensive list is much-maligned [...]
MORALITY TALE FOR THE ME TOO GENERATION
There is a lot of chat amongst Mindfulness coaches about the importance of teaching ethics. There is ethical clothing, ethical farming etc. What about ethical Mindfulness? [...]
This is why meditation is so good for you (and why Prince Harry does it everyday)
Prince Harry is said to meditate everyday - along with 16 million people using the app Headspace - and 91 million people searching for the [...]
Ditch New Year’s To Do List
I purposefully didn’t write this blog at New Year. It seemed to have too puritanical a sentiment - rather like a teetotaller at a New Year [...]
AN EXCUSE TO CELEBRATE LIFE, JOY AND FRIENDSHIP
We clutch armfuls of plastic shopping bags, snail forward in heaving Post Office depots for missed deliveries, lick closed our body weight in Christmas [...]
OUR OWN STORY
When we were small, many of us invented imaginary stories with imaginary friends. Our abstract games would be noted by amused parents as a sign [...]
A FLEXIBLE PERSPECTIVE
Last week, I went to an Italian friend’s fancy dress party to celebrate her passing her British citizenship test. The theme: Best of British. When [...]