Be & Breathe

09/12/2025

Join us this Saturday… create some calm and flow with gently guided meditative and creative activities to soothe and awaken the senses! ❤️🙏🏼

28/11/2025

Just over two weeks to go until our winter retreat, see details below to book your place… ❤️🌲🌳

18/11/2025

One tool of mindfulness that can cut through our numbing trance is inquiry. As we ask ourselves questions about our experience, our attention gets engaged. We might begin by scanning our body, noticing what we are feeling, especially in the throat, chest, abdomen, and stomach, and then asking, “What wants my attention right now?” or “What is asking for acceptance?” Then we attend, with genuine interest and care, listening to our heart, body, and mind.

17/11/2025

❤️ 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.

My next CMR course runs in January 2026. 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. ❤️🙏🏼

17/11/2025

Join me and Ruth Hill around a cosy fire on 13th December to welcome in the winter… ❄️ 🔥

13/11/2025

It’s nearly time for our next wonderful Seasonal Wellbeing retreat in the woods. 🌳❄️

Retreat from the world for a morning of cosy fires and warming treats while Ruth Hill and I gently guide you through some wintery-themed meditative and creative activities, including a gentle mindful walk through crisp meadows and woodland. If you love the outdoors, wrap up and join us around the fire, 🔥

📆 Saturday 13th December
📍 Found Outdoors CIC, Great Cheverell
⏰ 10.00-13.00

No meditation or writing experience required, just bring an open heart and mind. ❤️🙏🏼

Book your tickets here…

https://www.foundoutdoors.org/events

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! 🌳❤️