Author Archives: Mrs Sting

Mindful breathing with Hurricane

The title of this post is actually a huge exaggeration! MASSIVE! Try to make our Hurricane to sit still for longer than one minute! Just TRY! You will have all sorts of cheeky faces, gestures and loud noises thrown onto yourself. She will not sit still without doing something. Do not make me wrong! She […]
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8-weeks MBSR course: reflection.

This week is the last week of mine 8-week MBSR course. I have completed it online, with British Mindfulness Institute. This particular Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course is advertised as the one specifically designed for Health and Social Care Professionals. “After all I am an Nurse!”, I thought when I came across it during internet […]
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How to find time for nourishing yourself?

By no means I would call myself an expert in above topic. I want to exercise, I want to meditate, do yoga, read the book/magazine or simply spend a time with my family. But as many, I do struggle to find time for everything I want to do. I work, thankfully not full time, but […]
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‘Fight or flight’ and bit of a neuro-science.

My daughter told me a story about boy who has escaped the her school. During play time he has managed to sneak out from playground, jump over the fence and run away outside the school ground. Thankfully, teachers managed to catch him and brought him back to school. Our Hurricane was in a bit of […]
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Llandudno, Tram and Copper Mines

We love our trips to Northern Wales. This region has lovely beaches, beautiful fairly high mountains and a lot of amazing historical castles and sites. Not so long ago we took kids to town called Llandudno. It has definitely perfect location and facilities to have fun for whole family. The town does have to beach […]
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Family with Autism

Today is the World Autism Awareness Day. Therefore there is no better day to explain how this condition affects our family and how we are trying to deal with it. The story should really start when our son, aka Flower Sting was born. But obviously we did not know he is going to have this […]
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Why mindfulness?

I can’t exactly remember when was the first time I have came across the concept of mindfulness. I guess it has happened quite naturally as this topic is quite trendy now. It’s present in all social media and all big corporations implementing mindfulness related strategies in order to improve employees satisfaction. Similar scenario happened in […]
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The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton