Category Archives: Adults

What Mindfulness Is Not.

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When some organisations ask me to do Mindfulness training for their staff, I often find they are actually saying “Michelle, we need to get more productivity out of our people.  They aren’t coping. Can you train them in mindfulness so they manage all the stress better and get more done?”  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hilarious!  Thank you corporate world for taking a rather…

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The Power of “Perspective”

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I have Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Yeah,  I hadn’t heard of it either.  I only know about it because my mother was diagnosed a good 20 years ago, and because of its heritability, I was diagnosed too. Historically the ladies in our family haven’t done so well, but I think that is because medicine wasn’t advanced enough to track…

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Sometimes things have to hit you in the head.

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I found myself swallowing back some tears when my littlest Mini was trying to explain to me the “funny feeling” she gets in her tummy when forced to talk to children she doesn’t know. It was school holidays and we were doing that home holiday thing where you end up jamming as many activities into your life as possible!  This…

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When Dreaming Gives Me Nightmares

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I’ve recently been asked about sleep and dreams and poor sleep quality.  Its an area of interest because I too had a recurring dream that drove me balmy.  And don’t get me started on the 3am eye pop moment – which inevitably ends up with a lovely (read “frustrating”) internal argument about needing to fall asleep before writing off the…

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