Why Words Matter.
Be careful of the way you’re speaking to yourself, because you are listening! Our words shape our whole world. The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is a network of neurons in your brainstem that filters the 14,000,000 bits of information we receive at any one time into information we can process. Our words, thoughts, and experiences […]
Four mantras that got me through 2020
That can help us all acheive success in 2021 Lovely readers, As most of you will know it’s been a helluva year for me. In the space of four months my long-term relationship ended (badly), I was treated unkindly by the person I loved immensely and thought I would marry, I lost my grannie, left […]
How to become a master of your reactions
Whether it’s bad traffic, a still-lifted toilet seat, or someone interrupting you at work, we all have things that annoy, upset, or full on send us into a spiral, these four steps will help you – gradually – become a master of your reactions and spend your energy on what matters most – you! The […]
Five ways to heal from stress (and cope better next time).
Whether it’s a one-off episode, short-term stressors, or long-term mental health challenges, healing is a journey. Here are five ways to build healing from stress into your life right now – and cope better next time it comes around. A few weeks ago, I was filming a segment for the DiscoverE Global Marathon webinar I’m participated […]
On Mental Health this May
May is Mental Health month in the US and includes Mental Health Awareness week in the UK. For a long time, mental health for me was more of a theoretical principle and something I did not have to work at, but last year a few things happened that shifted that for me. As Mental Health […]
Leading from Within
Meditating your way to the top This article is adapted from a talk I gave at the Society of Women Engineers Annual Conference in Austin – I was thrilled when SWE accepted my submission, as I’m working more in bringing together my various and seemingly contrasting worlds of yoga and engineering. To put it simply, […]
The little voice in your head and how to ignore it
Three tips to objectively address, and compassionately ignore, the little voice in your head. A weird thing happened last week. It was early – and dark – and a group of yoga students and teachers were talking outside of the studio before class. A man, a black man, approached saying something like “sorry to bother […]
Forgiveness and goal-setting
As we leave 2016 and start to plan for the year ahead I find we are very unforgiving towards ourselves – for last years mistakes, things we didn’t achieve, how terribly we ate and drank over the holiday period (hi there…). I’m guilty of this, and as a result become super hard on myself, set totally […]
The big mistake
A few weeks ago, I made a mistake. Yes, it’s true, and here I am admitting it. Very uncomfortably. Why is “mistake” such a dirty word for so many of us? I took a look at my own reaction and came up with three ways I could start to embrace my mistakes, and see them […]
Feeding the good wolf
An intention I’ve been working with in the past weeks is actually inspired by something a FANTASTIC YogaOne teacher, Piper, mentioned in one of her classes. There’s a Native American legend that speaks of two wolves fighting within all of us. One is evil, and represents hate, anger, reactivity, resentment, ego; the other is good, representing […]