Better sleep was the number one and biggest improvement I noticed in and for myself when I started practicing mindfulness regularly. Previous to this, if I was struggling with sleep I could go a week or more without much sleep at all. Night after night I would lie...
Growing up I was surrounded by a lot of people that didn’t have my best interests at heart and up until a year and a half ago, most of these people were still in my life. Having unkind people around me growing up meant that I assumed that people being mean was normal....
Mother’s Day on Sunday and I have started advertising my next adult mindfulness course. This course is called Just Relax for Adults as relaxing, resting and sitting with ourselves is a lot of what we will be doing so for this blog I want to talk a little about the...
For the past week I have been waking up at whatever time I wake up at and asking myself ‘What do I want to do?’ and as a result this has been my most productive week in a long time. I think I believed that I would feel much better as soon as I moved house but that...
I’m not even sure where to start. I am currently in my kitchen with my foot propped up on a cushion because I may have sprained my ankle. My good ankle and I am getting ready to move to a new house so this is going to be interesting... I moved into this house for 12...
I mentioned in the last blog that I was stressed. I amn’t as stressed now but it hasn’t gone completely. Even yesterday, I had a lovely day by the sea reading and walking and then suddenly I felt this tension and tightness in my jaw. This isn’t the first time my jaw...
I have been learning about my menstrual cycle for the past two years and one of the biggest things I have learnt is that if I listen to my body before and during my bleed time and rest, then I can be more productive for the rest of the month. I have spent the past ten...
My mentor and friend Jenny Grainger asked me a few months ago as we planned some Positive Living Network events ‘How does it feel to sit in the unknown?’ and I knew and the time and I still know now; it’s awful! I started writing this blog this morning but as things...
I lived in Galway seven years ago. I worked as a journalist for the newspaper Gaelscéal. I got the job straight after college and I had about a week to find somewhere to live, move to Galway and start the job. I knew that I would need a car for work so I also had to...
My friend told me last week that she doesn’t think she is a ‘real’ adult. She has a fulltime job, she lives on her own, she makes her own dinner and does her own washing, she pays tax, she can drive but yet she is still not a ‘real’ grown up. Although she is doing all...