Colour is powerful. There has been quite a bit of research done on the subject of colour and the effect it has on psychological performan...

Recently my 14-year old son came home from school very upset. It turns out that a “friend” had been bugging him about being of German de...

Recently someone attributed the phrase, “Everyone should meditate for 20 minutes a day, if they are too busy, they should sit for 1 hour....

The most amount of male participants that I have had in one of my courses is 2, and one of them dropped out after the first three weeks. ...

If you do a google search asking how many decisions we make on average every day, it comes up with 35 000 (imagine the implications of th...

So yesterday was my birthday, 48 years old now. I think the last 8 years have been the most rewarding and fulfilling in my life. Not beca...

Being an adolescent in our modern times is not an easy task. A 2017 Time Magazine article stated that depression has increased between 2...

As I try and build my teaching up in the big city of Auckland I have come across some resistance from people to promote Mindful Self-Comp...

The Dalai Lama says that compassion is not a luxury, we need it for the survival of humanity. After the events in Christchurch last week...

At my recent “MFY: Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens” training in Australia, I took the time to do a Labyrinth walking meditation each da...

The sign of a good teacher is someone that embodies what they teach. This type of teacher lives what they pass on to others, which is re...

Over the past 4 days I have been attending the International Conference on Mindfulness Asia Pacific. There have been some amazing presen...

Quiet courage, a way to face times that feel dark and hopeless with determination, knowing that things will change, as everything does. ...

A common struggle with most Mindful Self-Compassion teachers that I have talked to, is the struggle to fill classes with enough participa...

A bird comes to rest on a tree, as people walk aimlessly around me. Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. Asking; What SHOULD I do? How SHOULD I ...

After some persistence the local media did finally publish something about my next course offering on Waiheke Island. Unfortunately, the...