by Rachael Roberts | Jun 11, 2019 | MIndfulness, Mindfulness practice, Monkey Mind, Negativity, Overwhelm
You know all about the benefits of mindfulness, and it seems like a good idea, but you either can’t get started, or you don’t keep it up. Why? I don’t have time This is a common one. We all have busy lives, but just 5 minutes a day of focused practice can...
by Rachael Roberts | May 28, 2019 | MIndfulness, Negativity
It’s been a difficult week, and the final straw for me was when we received a letter from the school my kids attend saying that, after 52 years, they are changing the principle that students and teachers should all be addressed by their first names. What was once a...
by Rachael Roberts | May 14, 2019 | Meditation, Overwhelm, Stress, Wellbeing
‘I feel like I’m about to explode inside.’ This is how my son told me he felt in the run up to GCSEs. What he was describing was a massive build up of cortisol. Cortisol is known as a stress hormone. It floods the body when it detects that you may need some help to...
by Rachael Roberts | May 2, 2019 | MIndfulness, Negativity, Personal Development, WEll-being
If things in our lives are not going as well as we’d like it’s tempting to blame others or simply circumstances. However, more often than we’d probably like to admit, it may be that we are subconsciously sabotaging our own lives. Here are a few very common types of...
by Rachael Roberts | Apr 10, 2019 | Burnout, MIndfulness, Overwhelm, Stress, stressed day, WEll-being
I was brought up by a single parent mother who raised me to believe I could ‘have it all’, but what I didn’t really understand for many years was that I couldn’t have it all at the same time. The four burners theory I recently came across the ‘four burners theory’...
