By Allie Carmichael Stress has ruled my life. Anxiety has dominated my time. Worry has controlled my decisions. I thought this was normal, that stress was an inevitable part of life. Every day, there is always something to be stressed about. My job, my appearance, my family, my finances, my health. On and on. This […]
One Of The Worst Days
Posted on January 12, 2017 //
By Ana V. Ramirez I have much more experience with loss than I wish I had. This is the story of one of those losses, my heartbreak and how mindfulness helped me to get through it. It was my birthday, and I was planning the sort of afternoon that makes me happy: a trip to […]
How To Be Grateful For Depression
Posted on November 24, 2016 //
By Frances Trussell I can look back on my episode in the depths of despair with gratitude. Without that period of madness, my mindfulness practice would have remained in the ‘should do’ pile alongside many other I’ll-get-round-to-it-when-I-have-the-time projects. Broken into a million pieces, you tend to only pick up the bits that are truly important […]
Shame and Fear in Thailand
Posted on October 28, 2016 //
How could I look at my wife and son when I was about to let them down in one of the worst ways possible? Shame and fear so overwhelmed me that even the sound of my child’s laugh was a reminder of my failure. I hid away in the bedroom desperately waiting for some miracle […]
The Journey and the Destination
Posted on October 28, 2016 //
by Gerard Evans Back in 1988 I moved from the dull suburbs of London to the coastal city of Brighton and experienced the most wonderful feeling ever. Every day I would wander the streets of Brighton, bathed in glorious sunshine and pleasant astonishment that I’d moved somewhere so beautiful. I was truly living in the […]
How Mindfulness Turned My Life Around
Posted on October 24, 2016 //
by Maria Banfield Let me paint you a picture of how I remember it. I was flat out of luck. I felt as if I had done 12 rounds with mike Tyson and that, no matter what I did, it was never enough. I had bills piling up and I had borrowed from friends who needed […]
Letting Go
Posted on October 10, 2016 //
by Roger Hunt “Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh At a young age, I put on a mask. A mask to try and hide all my […]
How The Body Scan Gives Us The Power Of Choice
Posted on August 11, 2016 //
By Lucy Faulks I used to suffer from severe pain in my left shoulder. I would walk for 50 minutes into work each morning with a strappy bag casually hooked over my left arm. It was a beautiful vintage mulberry, so what did it matter that it was causing shooting pains deep into my muscle […]