by Nicky | Mar 25, 2019 | Health and Lifestyle, Nicky For Life
How often do we try to fix ourselves? Berate ourselves for all the things we are not, for all the things that are still left to do, for all the things we want to achieve?But what if we’re OK exactly as we are, in this moment? What if we let go of the longing to be...
by Nicky | Feb 11, 2019 | Health and Lifestyle
It’s supposed to be the day we celebrate love but it brings up so much in so many of us. If you’re on your own it can bring up resentment, fear, longing for something you don’t have. If you’re in a relationship the expectations can be high, and often unmet. There are...
by Nicky | Jul 2, 2018 | Health and Lifestyle
Yesterday I went to see Jack Kornfield in London, Jack trained as a Buddhist Monk in Thailand, India and Burma and now teaches Buddhist psychology and meditation all over the world. Yesterday he ended with this “Everything you need is within you.” So often...
by Nicky | Jun 18, 2018 | Health and Lifestyle, Nicky For Life
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” Thich Nhat Hanh The saying goes “be yourself, everyone else is taken” by Oscar Wilde. But why is it so hard sometimes to show up as we...
by Nicky | Apr 17, 2018 | Family Life, Health and Lifestyle
When my Mum died I felt like I was the only person in the world who had lost her Mum and going through grief – even though I knew that wasn’t true, not only was my sister going through this but one of my friends had lost her Mum a few years before too. But...
by Nicky | Jan 21, 2018 | Family Life, Health and Lifestyle
I’ve finally succumbed to the winter cold. I’ve been really proud of my immune system this winter, keeping me well whilst everyone around was ill. But finally it got me! I try and give in to it when I’m not well but I find being ill and a Mum of two little ones hard....
by Nicky | Dec 1, 2017 | Health and Lifestyle
I’ve written about grief a few times now (you can find my first post here, and my second here), it’s something close to my heart and something I think isn’t spoken about enough. But recently it’s cropped up again for me so I thought I’d put pen to paper again,...
by Nicky | Oct 9, 2017 | Health and Lifestyle
Today I should be at a seminar all to do with stress, instead I’m at home, still in my PJs with my family. I haven’t had a weekend free in over a month and this week, with my daughter being ill as well, I’ve started to feel it. So I made the decision not to go. I...
by Nicky | Sep 26, 2017 | Health and Lifestyle, Strong Women
In 2006 I went to Thailand and for some reason I came home wanting to learn to meditate. I say for some reason as I’m not sure where it came from, it wasn’t a spiritual holiday at all, I just came home with a desire to learn to meditate. And that’s when someone...
