Have you considered the importance of self care at Christmas time? Christmas is a crazy time of year. But I didn't need to tell you that. You're probably already looking ahead at the holiday season with that annual mix of giddiness for all the fun things in your calendar, and dread over, well, all the things in your ...
Happiness
How To Set New Year Resolutions You Might Actually Keep
I can’t be the only one who is living in mild denial that the year is almost over. I have embraced the festive period the way I always have (with unchained enthusiasm) but also with tempered apprehension for what lurks just around the corner; the New Year. It’s not the mere changing of a calendar that sets my ...
Essential Self-Care Tips For The Full-Time Worker
Full-time employment can be tough on a lot of people. At some point, every full-time worker has come to the realisation that they spend more waking hours with their high-maintenance boss than with their spouse and loved ones. That stings! Unfortunately, as a full-time worker it can be easy to fall into the trap of ...
The ULTIMATE Spring Bucket List
Tell me I'm wrong. It feels like yesterday that you were pulling on your boots and scarf to brave the weather. You were sipping hot chocolates, bundling up under cozy blankets, reading that awesome Hygge book that everyone's been Instagramming non-stop, pondering the correct pronunciation of the word ...
How To Build A Meaningful Morning Routine And Start Your Day Superbly
What did you say to yourself when you woke up this morning? "Wow, I had a terrible sleep." "I can't believe I'm still so tired." "I don't want to go to work." "Please, child, go back to sleep." "Just five more minutes." I am, and have often been, the bearer of all of these lines before I even start my day. ...
10 Easy Pick-Me-Ups to Brighten Your Day
Life, man. It can be rough around the edges. Even the strongest of us can get caught up in its crazy whirlwind and find ourselves left spinning on the floor sometimes. When I'm feeling off-kilter, I tend to focus on what is causing me to feel that way, rather than considering ways to cheer myself up. And that rarely ...
3 Gorgeous Free Printables to Kick Start Your New Year
Happy new year! Really, the new year is sort of thrilling, isn't it? I always look back at the enormity of the year prior, knowing that I couldn't have possibly pictured so many of the things that happened, and then I look forward to the new year, wondering what will happen that I can't yet picture? What adventure ...
Katherine Louise on Happiness
Happiness is always such a sketchy topic. It's so broad and expansive, and can cover such sweet, fleeting moments that become memories, or such incredible depth that changes you forever. I like to think that both are important, providing only the second one is the one you pursue. It's also the harder one to obtain. Of ...
Shemma Timney on Happiness
Happiness is a fickle thing, isn’t it? Last week there was this moment, I was standing in my kitchen cupping a very fragrant mug of Earl Grey in my hands. I could feel a cool breeze coming through my dining room window and in that same breeze, I could see the bedsheets on the clothesline out back billow up full of ...
My Happy List: Letting the Little Things Shape my Happiness
It’s the little things. Am I right? It’s those little pockets of happiness throughout the day that make the hours that much sweeter – and I do mean the little, tiny things. Things you probably wouldn’t even notice unless you’ve got your happiness detection switch turned all the way up to full. If you’ve never made a ...
Why We Shouldn’t Marry For Happiness
When I was 20 years old, which was not very long ago, I did something that was absolutely outrageous for the time. Even today, almost-complete-strangers will question me on the decision that I made and continue to stand by. “You did what?!” they will profusely question, “But aren’t you too young?!” “Yes,” I will ...
How to Cultivate Happiness (without relying on others)
As a stay at home mum, I often find my life gets mired in details. In the everyday mundane, I can feel like my life is boring and ordinary. Not unhappy as such, but not particularly happy either. I then find myself in a space where I am swayed by the emotions of others. My reality becomes, “if my children are happy ...