Your Best Is Good Enough
It’s 26th April 2018 & I’m just about to launch my REST EASY Method of Self-Help to the wider world. I’ve been working on for the last 3 years & teaching it in workshops since September 2017. I’m really pleased & happy with the method & I’m excited about how it can help people to support themselves to overcome difficult emotions. Although I was feeling happy & excited, I woke up this morning with a fear about the launch. I thought it was a fear of judgement, a fear of failur
Mindful Parenting
It's the Easter holidays & the children are off school. We're having a lovely time enjoying simple pleasures & it's given me time to reflect on how stressed I used to be during the school holidays. I wanted my children to have every inch of energy I could muster so I used to do all that I could to be with them as much as possible. I was obsessed with routines & wanted to know as much as I could about their development so I was addicted to books like The Contented Little Baby
Using Mindfulness to Manage Thoughts
How can we manage our thoughts? We begin by simply noticing them. Each & everyday we process between 50,000-70,000 thoughts, which means we have 35-48 thoughts per minute. It would be an impossible task to notice every thought but we can start by becoming aware of the re-current thoughts & thought processes that we have. By becoming aware of the thought processes we can stop them spiraling out of control. Most of the time our spiraling thoughts are negative ones. Our bra
