As a busy mum, you're often balancing work, family, household chores, and more. In the midst of all this, it’s easy to lose sight of the present moment and get caught up in the hustle and bustle of daily life.

But what if I told you that embracing Mindful Parenting could completely transform your experience of motherhood?

Let’s explore how becoming a mindful mama can lead to greater joy, deeper connection, and enhanced well-being for both you and your children.

It’s only now, on the eve of graduating as a Breathwork Facilitator with Breathing Space that I'm starting to grasp what this training has done for me personally.

This feels incredibly vulnerable to share this but I think it’s important that I do. One of the most important parts of training to become an apprentice breathwork facilitator is allowing myself to go to my most tender places in my own breathwork journey. This journal entry gives a little glimpse into what this can look like using a personal example.

Breathing in this way means taking in a lot more air (about 3 times more) than you would with normal breathing and this can cause quite powerful physical, mental, emotional or spiritual sensations or experiences. This can feel quite intense, especially the first time you try it. I’ll go through each of these, including what I personally have experienced in breathwork sessions.

Have you been hearing people talking about something called breathwork and wondering what it is? Maybe you've even heard some people calling breathwork the new yoga and you want to know what the fuss is all about. In this journal entry, I'm sharing all the need-to-know basics about breathwork so you can decide if it might be something you want to try!

In the winter of 2019/2020 a couple of things happened. One of them a very personal experience and the other a very collective experience. Both led me on a journey into myself via the breath.

Procrastination: that unwelcome old friend for so many of us! But what's actually going on when we procrastinate? And what can we do to minimise the time we waste procrastinating?

It's that time of year again when our Instagram feeds start filling up with posts about wild swimming in dropping temperatures. Especially since lockdowns started in 2020, it seems like everyone and their dog got the wild swimming bug. I was one of them. Check out this blog post for more on how I used it as a 2020 coping mechanism while struggling with the early days of motherhood and all the other 2020 stresses!

“I feel overwhelmed.” How many times have you thought or said this in the last week? How about in the last month? I know that overwhelmed is one of my default settings.

When I first started this journal back in 2019, I was focussed on helping people eat more plant-based food. This was what felt aligned to me at the time. But when 2020 well, happened, and the world changed overnight (and I also became a mother at almost exactly the same time), my mission changed

Nothing has stoked my feminist fire like the experience of being a female surfer. And I’m sure I’m not alone in the things I’ve experienced over the years:

• I’ve had a man in a CANOE tell me to paddle harder.

• I’ve been the only woman in the sea of 40 + men on many, many occasions.

Are you stuck in an unfulfilling 9-5 but you know deep down that you want more out of life? But the thing is...you can’t quit just yet. You’re not alone. I was in that exact situation last year. I get it, it’s not a fun place to be in.

For the last decade or so, physical movement has been my feel-good drug of choice. Like for many of us, it helps me sleep well, feel happy, manage stress and just generally feel like myself. Yoga, running, swimming and surfing are the usual suspects, with the odd bit of bouldering and cycling thrown in for good measure.