Delightful Mala Beads: A How-to guide to easily improve your meditation

Mindfulness meditation is widely recognised as an effective tool to help boost your well-being. Sitting comfortably and quietly, focusing on your breathing for mere minutes daily can reduce blood pressure, stress, and heart rate, relax the nervous system, improve your sleep and enhance your cognitive abilities.   But it isn’t always easy. Many find focus challenging. […]

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5 Essential practices to protect your emotional energy and raise your vibe

I love having conversations with people, but sometimes I walk away feeling depleted. Emotionally drained, if you will. Then at other times, I leave conversations feeling uplifted, empowered, and re-energised.  Why? It’s all down to an exchange of energy. What is emotional energy? Everything on earth has an energetic frequency, even humans. Whenever we make contact with […]

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10 Awesome Instagram Accounts You’ll Be Happy You Followed

I’ve never been Instagram’s biggest fan. There you go, I’ve said it. To be honest, I haven’t been a fan of social media full stop; it can often feel a bit forced and, well, false. How many of us would actually take a picture of our mid-morning latte if Instagram didn’t exist?   Over the years, […]

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5 Ways to Free Yourself From People-Pleasing For Good

Helpful, supportive, attentive – all noble qualities to have as a human being. It’s a great feeling knowing you’re there for others; it can make you feel more connected, give you purpose, and increase your sense of achievement. Helping others is undoubtedly good for your well-being.   However, doing too much of any of those things […]

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10 Powerful Affirmations for When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed

As someone prone to anxiety, I understand what it’s like to feel overwhelmed. It’s not only a mental state (which is more than enough in itself), you can feel it physically too: tightness in your chest, fatigue, your breath quickening, panic attacks. Feeling overwhelmed is horrible, but you can overcome it.  When overwhelm sets in, […]

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8 Helpful Ways to Feel Better About Yourself

We all have times when we’re down on ourselves. There was a time not so long ago when I genuinely couldn’t say one nice thing about myself, which is crazy because we all have something good in us.  Society doesn’t advocate the loud blowing of our own trumpets. It’s less comfortable to say why we […]

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Why I’ve ripped up the New Years Rule Book

At the start of each new year, I update my vision board. I’m pretty proud of my board; it’s evolved & improved over the years. I find it provides focus, motivation and, to be honest, looking at it makes me feel happy.   A well-created vision board is something I recommend to everyone with dreams and […]

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15 Affirming Quotes to Promote an Attitude of Gratitude

There’s nothing more powerful than practising gratitude to help you feel happier. Cultivating an attitude of gratitude is a sure way to live a life of greater abundance.   How so? Research has shown practising gratitude positively impacts us both emotionally and socially. It can help boost our careers, our health and even our relationships.   Focusing […]

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5 Things I Must Do to Protect My Mental Health

If you’ve read my mental health story previously, you’ll understand how serious things got for me and why I would never willingly return to that mental space. It’s why protecting my mental health is a non-negotiable priority for me.   Over the years, as I’ve understood and accepted myself more, I’ve identified and employed effective coping […]

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We all have a mental health story to tell, here’s mine.

Before I share my story, I want to say that there was light at the end of the tunnel despite the darkness of it.  Please do keep with me all the way, as that’s where brighter times lie… [Please note this post deals with thoughts of self-harm] “Young girls should learn to determine between depression […]

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3 Free Resources to Help Boost Happiness

Ronan Keating wasn’t lying when he sang that ‘Life is a Rollercoaster’ song, now was he? We all experience ups and downs, and not forgetting, the in-betweens. I guess the key is increasing the frequency of up-times and contented times whilst also learning ways to minimise the impact of the ‘down’ times too.   As amazing […]

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5 Smart Ways to Keep Safe Whilst Out Running

Running is my exercise of choice. More than anything, I find it great for my mental health, so I’m always determined to keep up the habit whatever the time of year.   In the winter months, this throws up some safety concerns for me. With it getting darker earlier, I feel more nervous to head out […]

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6 Effective Ways to Be More Optimistic

My friend Lauren is a wonderfully inspiring person. She looks at life from a ‘what could go right’ perspective. She has this brilliant ability to tune in to her encouraging thoughts & feelings and allow them to spur her on. Inevitably, things do seem to work out well for her, most of the time.  Lauren […]

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