Overcoming Overthinking with Mindfulness

  A Swirl Live event 25th September, Newcastle upon Tyne I'm…

A Reflection on Personal Practice Mentoring

The following is a post written by a mentee and shared recently…

Being in The Digital Age

The Word Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of…

Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living course

My first Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living course is well…

Swirl

I was delighted to receive my copy of Swirl recently, a booklet…

Staying put

Following the thaw, life has returned to more normal routines,…

The value of retreat

Retreat, however long a time we can manage to commit to, enlivens…

Starting Start the Week

On Monday, in the dark of a January morning at 7 30 am, I held…

The power of the present moment

When we begin to practice paying attention, we start to notice…

Mindfulness, distraction and the Christmas rush

At the last monthly practice support meeting held in Newcastle…

Keeping Practice Alive Through Personal Practice Mentoring

As we continue our journey of mindfulness practice, it is vitally…

Aware and knowing it

Awareness is something that is inherently part of us, so developing…

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

~Jon Kabat-Zinn