by Vanessa Potter As I started to wake, and sleep loosened its grip on me I stretched out my body feeling the warmth of the morning sun caress my face. A heartbeat later the crushing reality of where I was hit me like a high-speed train. I was not at home lying within the safety […]
How Mindfulness And Self-Compassion Transformed My Life
Posted on April 24, 2017 //
by Mike Fitzgerald When you live with a rare, poorly understood, and progressive health condition, there are a number of difficulties you are faced with. For example, no one can clearly tell you what you should do to successfully manage your condition, and there’s no clear advice in relation to what you can do to […]
Discovering Mindfulness – The Journey
Posted on April 10, 2017 //
by Abby McPhee It only took about fifteen minutes of the first mindfulness class before I started to wonder whether I’d made a big mistake. It seemed like I was being told not to think. Was I really being told not to have goals and not to have hopes for the future? This went against […]
Screw The Rules: Living Mindfully
Posted on March 28, 2017 //
by Sheila Bayliss Before I discovered mindfulness, I was on a bit of a quest. I was pretty sure I was failing at life, while everyone else was succeeding. I devoured self-help books, searching for The Answer that would guarantee my happiness. Following the advice, whether it was cutting out wheat or saying daily affirmations, […]
Finding Quiet: Why I Meditate
Posted on February 21, 2017 //
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 […]
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 […]