Most people think a retreat is a place you travel to. A cabin somewhere. A centre with white walls and a gong, three hours from the nearest town. And because it lives somewhere else, it stays a someday thing. A…
Personally I’ve never really been someone who reaches for their phone to kill time. If I’m bored, or waiting, or sitting with nothing to do, my first instinct isn’t to unlock the screen and start scrolling. It’s just never been…
Somewhere along the way, a lot of us stopped knowing how to actually stop. Even when we sit down to relax, we’re often still doing something else: scrolling through our phone while the TV plays, folding washing during a film,…
There’s a piece over on the blog Be More With Less that’s worth pointing you all to. Courtney Carver, who’s managed multiple sclerosis for the past twenty years, writes about how her old habit of constant busyness eventually caught up…
Most people come to mindfulness looking for the same thing: some relief. A way to feel less overwhelmed, less reactive, less at the mercy of their own thoughts. That’s a completely reasonable thing to want and for a while, it…
Nobody signs up for the lessons that change them most. They arrive uninvited, often at the worst possible time, dressed in difficulty or loss or complete disruption of everything you thought you had figured out. And yet, when you look…
Inner peace sounds like something reserved for monks, yoga instructors, or people who’ve had some kind of profound life-changing moment on a mountain but for the rest of us, caught up in work deadlines, difficult relationships, and the endless scroll…
You’ve heard it’s good for you. You’ve probably tried it once or twice. And you almost certainly sat there wondering if you were doing it wrong. Here’s the thing, you probably weren’t. Meditation has a bit of an image problem.…
This morning, I stood in the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil so I could make my morning coffee. Now, there’s nothing unusual about that. It’s something I do every day but instead of just standing there, I noticed…