Healing for the Heart
Take a self-compassion break

Take a self-compassion break

You might take regular tea breaks during the day at home or at work, but how about taking a 5-minute ‘self-compassion break’ when you feel upset or when something is causing you stress? Speaking to yourself as a kind friend might, this exercise accesses your own...
Three mindful moments

Three mindful moments

Mindfulness involves observing your thoughts in a neutral and unjudgemental way. MRI scans reveal positive effects of mindfulness on the brain: regions connected with stress and fear shrink, while areas related to attention and concentration get stronger, leaving...
The human need to connect

The human need to connect

Today, I have had some time to think of the importance of what it is to connect in person with other people, interacting with them as part of day-to-day life. The person in the corner shop, the person at the car park who smiled across at me, my colleagues at work and...
Loneliness

Loneliness

As humans, whether we are more extroverted or introverted, we all have a need for meaningful connections with others for our happiness and wellbeing. Loneliness is a natural feeling that highlights to us when this need is not being met as well as we would like. It can...
Self-care through creativity

Self-care through creativity

Finding our creative side can be so empowering but also can take us back to that age where we had the freedom to be messy, careless, and free with our art making, where we would use art materials for fun and without judgement from others. As adults this can be lost,...