Category: Mindset
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Death by papercut
Today’s post is about the impact of microaggressions. Theoretical and personal examples are listed, so feel free to look after your mental health and give today a miss if you think the content might be upsetting. Carry my support and understanding with you today and always. * * * Before…
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“The Art of Healing”
Hello lovely people, today is a (long-ish) book review (with a personal craft project detour) for Doctor Bernie S. Siegel’s “The Art of Healing: Uncovering your inner wisdom and potential for self-healing” (2013) (He also has a blog here). [Image source: Berniesiegelmd.com] Straight up I want to clarify something; I…
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Messing with my mind
My email server is flooded with ads, generally spammy ads for things I don’t need and didn’t ask for… nothing new there. What has changed, however, is that they are now almost exclusively illustrated with AI art. Instead of a photograph of real people celebrating their new purchase or someone…
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“Precious Illusions”
I was a child in the 1970s and 80s. It was quiet. I don’t mean that figuratively, but literally. Our house had a small black and white TV, a radio and a giant piece of furniture that held a mini-record turntable (in the corridor (of all places)). Weekends were spent…
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“We are waves in the same ocean”
The above quote is shamelessly taken directly from another blogger’s post – Raffaello Palandri writes a beautiful blog that covers everything from philosophy to Tai Chi, meditation, Buddhism, art and photography – it is one of my favorite places to visit in blog-land. In a post I tagged a year…
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“Yoshuku – the Japanese art of manifesting”
I’m still heavily invested in my “let’s manifest a nicer world” tangent, as part of my New Year’s Revelation for 2026 (there’s personal progress updates (and pictures) at the end of this post). As such, I was interested to discover a Japanese perspective on manifesting. Straight away, I felt a…
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Red brain / Green brain
In the book “Mindfulness on the run” (2016), the author Dr Chantal Hofstee notes that the way our thoughts and emotions interact is complex. And yet, the ‘bottom line’ of all the discussions about layers of the conscious and sub-conscious is simple: “your brain [either] feels safe or unsafe” (page…
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I think I have Telephonophobia
“Telephonophobia” or “phone anxiety” has always been an issue for me. I remember as a Project Manager being VERY aware that if the phone on my desk was ringing, it was NOT going to be good news. No one called up to say “hey girl, love ya work” – instead…
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Dialing down the ‘hurry up’
My mind is not minding the way it used to. I’m sad to say that I think it has fallen victim to a problem that is sweeping the globe (which I delusionally thought I was immune to): a decreasing attention span. My revelation came the other day when I was…
The Mindful Migraine 