Mindfulness
Steady your attention, soften your inner tone, and create space to choose.
Mindfulness is paying kind attention to the present moment - on purpose and without judgment. It’s not about emptying your mind; it’s about changing your relationship to it. With practice, you gain a pause between a trigger and your response. And this pause is where your power lives.
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✦ Calms the nervous system: Gentle attention to breath, body, and senses signals safety and helps reset stress responses.
✦ Reduces reactivity: You start to notice urges without automatically acting on them - less snapping, spiralling, or numbing.
✦ Clarifies needs: When you tune in, you can respond to what your body and heart are actually asking for.
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✦ Short practices: 2-10 minute exercises you can use during real life, not just in sessions - breath awareness, 5-senses grounding, body scans, compassion breaks, etc.
✦ Everyday mindfulness: We’ll weave presence into routines so that practice fits in with your schedule. For example, mindful coffee, mindful email, mindful evening wind-down.
✦ Compassion training: Softening self-talk, placing a hand on the heart, and learning to meet yourself like you would a dear friend.
✦ Working with difficult experiences: Naming and “making room” for sensations and emotions so they move through your body more freely.
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✦ More calm “underneath” even on busy days
✦ A kinder inner voice
✦ Quicker recovery after bumps in the road
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Great if you’re seeking steadiness, clearer and less emotionally reactive choices, or a gentler relationship with yourself. It pairs well with CBT, ACT, and DBT to support real-world change.