This year has been such a washout! It’s been a challenge. It’s been many challenges. Huge ones, little ones and in between ones. Some days have felt so heavy and long, yet as this year is winding down, I’m also baffled by how fast it’s flown by! Back in March when lockdown hit, I went …
Category Archives: Spirituality
Faith in uncertain times
We are living in times of great stress, pressure and uncertainty. Every day new threats are looming and our to do lists expanding. As a society we seem to value autonomy and independence over community and connection, organisation and productivity over health and wellbeing and financial and material gain over inner peace and a deeper …
A mindfulness based approach to counselling
For as long as I can remember I have wanted to be a counsellor. As a child, when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I pictured myself sitting with someone and helping them figure things out in a deeply meaningful way. As I grew up I didn’t have a term for …
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True Happiness – and how to achieve it
In my native language, Swedish, there are two words for happiness. One is glädje – used to describe the fleeting joy we might feel as we tuck in to an ice cream or enjoy a stroll on the beach or even get a new car or a work promotion. This feeling is reliant on our circumstances …
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the collective term used to describe those moments where we slow down enough to notice what is going on. It is switching from autopilot to awareness, from stress to calm, from passively being swept along to actively creating our lives. As a society we are increasingly busy and more and more health professionals are …
