Here’s a little work in progress I was working on yesterday. Like colouring, sketching is another beautiful way to practice mindfulness and remind us of the little magical wonders that surround us. Oftentimes we’re the only one who gets to witness something small like a bumblebee or a butterfly on a...

No mud, no lotus ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Out of the heavy, yet nourishing, darkness grows bright beautiful life. We wade through muddy painful lessons to learn how to rise up and burst through the surface to greet the sunshine, more beautiful than we were before. Then the cycle begins again – sinking low...

I will never forget this beautiful orange butterfly I rescued from a building in Thailand, and the time we spent together. She was flapping around in panic against a huge floor to ceiling window. I quickly abandoned my attempts to catch her in my cupped hands, and held out my palm to her, inviting h...

Vision boards make me soooo happy!

I’ve been making these babies for a long time, so I have a process that works for me, a process I know and love. I get a cheap Ikea frame, and use the back board as my canvas to stick pictures and quotes on, which I’ve usually ripped from psychologies magazine (my...

I love bumblebees. Fuzzy buzzy bloody important little buggers. Bees are everything.

To be able to catch a shot like this just proves to me that I‘m practicing mindfulness in real life, which is a reward in itself. Being mindful means being here and now, not worrying about the past or future. Notic...

We all have a bubble of personal space around us, that’s our energy field. When someone crosses into our little bubble, we feel it, when someone talks positively or negatively in our space, we feel it. And yet we often float along through our day allowing other people to taint our bubble, allowing t...

I remember when I spent four days on a spiritual retreat, where my inner child was invited to come to the surface, and she went straight for this tyre swing on the grounds, giggling and swinging, running around being silly, and laughing with the new friends she had made.

By making peace with that p...

It begins within, it transforms without.

Like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the children with theirs, fill yourself up, hold space for yourself, practice self-care and nourish your own experience, so that you can assist anyone that crosses your path and needs your help. The more we le...

We create our own reality.

While we can accept that about working with the law of attraction, while we understand that practicing gratitude and positivity acts like a magnet, while we know how to manifest more of the same goodness into our lives, we can actually benefit from accepting that the same...

Look up.

Your external world reflects your internal world, which you are responsible for co-creating. You have the power. So it makes sense that you see whatever you consciously or unconsciously choose to see. Sometimes our circumstances have been created, by us, to teach us a much-needed lesson, a...

Oh to be seen. To be truly seen.

That’s what all of us really want, to be seen for who we are in all of our vulnerable authenticity. To be held in view by another without judgement, without criticism, without needing to change or adapt to fit their idea of who we should be. To be fully ourselves, s...

Horton Hears a Who 

Have you seen the film based on the Dr Seuss book? ’Horton Hears a Who’ is about an elephant called Horton who stumbles across a flower just like this one, but that flower is actually a whole other tiny world called Whoville where tiny Who people live. It’s a children’s story ye...