Be & Breathe

30/10/2025

Already Whole

28/10/2025

28/10/2025

Are the darker evenings getting you down? This time of year used to be a trigger for my anxiety and panic attacks, and because our minds are designed to hold on to our negative experiences, it became a yearly cycle for me - the clocks would change and my anxiety would return. This was before I discovered the transformative and nurturing qualities of mindful meditation. I now welcome the changes that come and go throughout the year. How lucky are we to experience such variety in our four seasons?

Learn how to take in the good and nurture the positive experiences in your life (trust me there are more than you think!) to balance out our negativity bias.

I teach mindfulness through gentle and educational courses that require a commitment from you to practice daily and a promise from me to give you all the tools and techniques you need to live a more present and joyful life.

What’s coming up?

🌳 Saturday 13th December 2025
Seasonal Wellbeing Retreat at Found Outdoors CIC. A morning of meditation, mindful walking and creativity in the woods with me and Ruth Hill.

📚Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR)
A 4-week course designed to build mental resilience in a busy world, using self-compassion practices to enable you to put yourself first for a change. My next course runs in January 2026.

📚Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
An 8-week course introducing mindfulness as a way of being - the beginning of the rest of your mindful life (it changed mine!). I teach this course throughout the year for Mindfulness UK. My next MBSR starts in February 2026.

For more details on any of these activities and to arrange a free no-obligation chat about how mindfulness can help you, please get in touch! ❤️🙏🏼

24/09/2025

Good morning. ❤️

My next Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR) course starts on Wednesday 26th November from 18.30-20.30 via Zoom and runs for 4 weeks. This course is an introduction to mindfulness and compassion practices as we learn how they can build mental resilience against stress, anxiety and overwhelm. Read on for more information…

❤️ Compassionate: How do you talk to yourself? With kindness and understanding or with impatience, anger and distain?

🧘🏽‍♀️Mindful: How present are you in your life? Are you aware and accepting of each beautiful, developing moment, or are you forever lost in thought and living in autopilot as life passes you by?

💪Resilience: Do you cope well and maintain a healthy balance of work and rest in this frantic world, or do you feel overwhelmed and stressed, habitually turning away from the chaos and trying to block out the pain with unhealthy cravings?

If you feel continually exhausted from pushing through, from being everything to everyone, and leaving nothing left to nurture you own wellbeing, the 4-week Compassinate Mindful Resilience programme is for you.

Created by Karen Atkinson, CEO MindfulnessUK, it was developed to support individuals, groups, teams, employees and organisations and is recognised by the European and British Associations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches.

We will explore mindfulness, compassion, emotional intelligence and resilience through learning short and effective practical tools and techniques to take forward on this wonderful adventure we call life! Learn to hold yourself through the chaos, and rebuild that lost connection with your true self.

Leave a comment below or send me a message via the link if you want more details and would like to arrange a free, no obligation chat over the phone. ❤️🙏🏼

10/09/2025

Less than two weeks to go until our next Seasonal Wellbeing in the woods… Join me and Ruth Hill for our autumn morning of self-compassion and nature appreciation! 🌳❤️

19/08/2025

Seasonal Wellbeing: Autumn at Found Outdoors CIC takes place on Saturday 20th September from 10.00-13.00! 🌳

This event will include guided meditation, mindful walking through beautiful woodland and meadows and engaging and insightful creative activities with myself and Ruth Hill.

Our theme for this session will be self-compassion. Give yourself the gift of time in the woods this September!

There is no set fee for this event, we invite participants to contribute what you feel is right and suits your budget. 😊❤️

Visit https://www.foundoutdoors.org/events to book your place! 🙏🏼

21/07/2025

Hello! Just a little update before I embark on my first residential meditation retreat tomorrow at the beautiful Sharpham Trust in Devon… 🌳

There will be one more Serenity Circle gathering in July before I take a break from teaching for August.

📍The Mind Tree Cafe in Rowde
📆 Thursday 31st July
⏰ 19.00-20.30.
💰 £12.00

The theme will be Self-Compassion, so if you need some deep nurturing before navigating the summer holidays, please come along! No meditation experience needed, just an open heart and a curious mind. ❤️🙏🏼🌳