Since having children I have noticed an increasing amount of clutter around my house. What I have also noticed is that recently this clutter was starting to cause me a significant amount of stress. When I would try and sit down to do some work and look around at my surroundings – I felt stressed.
I’m a big advocate of practicing gratitude. This is because I have experienced myself how powerful it can be when I’m having moments of negativity or stress. But if my first hand experience isn’t enough, that’s ok – go to the research. This will show you that practicing gratitude can assist in boosting: ✅ Happiness ✅ Optimism
Change is inevitable. We all experience it at different times throughout our life. As adults, change can sometimes bring a mixture of feelings including excitement and/or anxiety. The same is true for children. Kids will respond differently to change depending on what the change is, their temperament, how us as parents respond to the change,
Danielle McCarthy: Today I’m jumping on and doing a video prompted by a quote our lovely receptionist, Tracey, shared with me. The quote is: “Stress is a choice, so is peace.’’ The reason I like this quote is because it really resonates with me this week. Over the last 5 weeks, I have had non-stop
The last couple of months I have been focused on transforming our super boring boardroom. It never got used and was fast becoming our junk room. I decided that what Mind Potential needed was a space without harsh lights where we could come and chill-out. So I made the MPP Chill-out/Meditation room. This space is
In short, self-compassion is being kind to yourself through the good times and the not so good times. Research has shown numerous benefits of cultivating self-compassion. For example, it has been found that people who display self-compassion have greater: ⬆ Social connectedness ⬆ Emotional intelligence ⬆ Happiness, and ⬆ Life satisfaction In addition, self-compassion has been found to correlate
So here we are in Week 4 of the De-Stress Your Life Challenge. This is our last week. In today’s video I sum up what we covered over the last few weeks and introduce your final homework document. This document will walk you through a checklist of what was covered over the last few weeks
In this second video for Week 3 of our De-Stress Your Life Challenge I cover an additional exercise to assist with managing stress: Mindful Walking. Going for a walk can be a great way to relieve stress and physical tension. In this video I discuss how to make your walk a mindful one. This can
Welcome to Week 3 of our De-Stress Your Life Challenge. Last week we covered how to build awareness of sensations of stress in your body. We covered 2 new strategies: ✅ Body scan meditation ✅ A-N-D exercise This week we’re going to focus in on thoughts that might be driving your stress. I will discuss how
In this second video for Week 2 of our De-Stress Your Life Challenge I cover an additional exercise to use when you become stressed: the A-N-D exercise. This exercise is to assist you in moments of stress. By naming sensations in your body it will help tame the intensity of them and give you some
