Breathing is really quite important. It keeps us alive, but it also changes when we are happy, excited, sad or angry. So, when you think about it, surely practicing breathing is really quite important too? Meditation is a mind and body practice used for thousands of years to improve calmness, relaxation, and achieve better psychological…
Written by Growing Kindness Ambassador Leahy Meyring 2022 Growing Kindness Project Ambassador Jenn Koym of Fern Creek Florals has a unique insight into the needs of families with children in hospital care. Her own experience of having a child who needed hospital care led Jenn to a unique way of sharing flowers in her community….
There’s a moment, often quiet and unexpected, when you walk into a room and your body speaks before your mind catches up. Maybe your shoulders tense. Maybe you feel a wave of heaviness. Or maybe, just maybe, you feel lighter—like you can exhale. Your home holds energy. It holds memory. It holds stories—both conscious and…
Resilience is our ability to return to a mindful and grounded center after having been thrown off balance. Resilience quotes are powerful statements about the mind’s power to return to neutral once stretched to the extremes. A resilient mind is both stable and flexible. Like a tree that can withstand high winds, our ability to…
Your body needs care and attention to stay healthy, and so does your mind. Setting mental health goals can help you feel better, handle stress better, and grow as a person. By choosing simple and meaningful goals, you can improve how you deal with challenges, manage stress, and think more positively. How to set effective…
One of the best ways of changing how you live is becoming aware of how you think. This is because your thoughts create a feeling which then will be the reason for your action or inaction, which will create the result you have in your life. When you understand what this means you are…
We can’t stop life from bringing pain—loss, disappointment, aging—but we can stop piling extra suffering on top of it. In this talk, I explore timeless Buddhist wisdom and practical psychology for meeting life’s “golden winds” without being blown away by them. Learn how to recognize the difference between pain and the suffering we create, work…
*Edited: Book Giveaway is now closed. Cheryl, you are our winner! If you’re new to growing cut flowers, are a beginning flower farmer, or are a floral designer expanding to growing, this is one book that you’ll certainly want to add to your library! We’ve found that most “beginning” flower growing books are either overwhelming…
As humans, we all have moments when we forget who we are and struggle with a diminished sense of self-worth. For men, this struggle is amplified when we embody the gender norms that tell us it’s not okay to express emotions or vulnerability. Mindfulness and positive affirmations for men can help us remember who we…
A group of clients and I were casually standing around talking as I impulsively told another funny story. It may have been the third story I’d told them in the time that we’d been talking. They laughed…and then I realized that I was the only one telling stories. I chided myself: You shouldn’t try so…