Your Mental Wellbeing

12/01/2026

Afternoon All & a good Monday to you. How are you all doing at the start of the week? This was me earlier making some time for my wellbeing to do something I wanted to do before a busy afternoon of errands & private practice.
I forget what a great hill Blackford is in Edinburgh, you can drive most the way up 😅, the views are spectacular and there are lots of different walking routes off the hill! The sunshine & windy fresh air was very revitalising and welcomed, hoping others about the UK will get a break from the more extreme weather soon!
I'm noticing that any exercise you actually enjoy is much easier to prioritise and again using my hack of finding a nice nature spot near a supermarket I can pop to after to do my groceries (a bit of habit-stacking) can make the day run quite efficiently balancing what you need to do with what you want!

Really enjoying working with some lovely new & interesting clients in private practice too, very grateful to have this opportunity just now! 🙏 Anything going well for you so far this year? Anything you would like to make happen for yourself in 2026?

12/01/2026

A question for you this Monday morning.

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10/01/2026

What a great morning and bunch of folk for park volunteering today! Delighted to have 8 of us along on a cold but beautiful, icy January morning and so lovely to see new faces. Our task today was to rake fallen leaves and load them up into our new compost enclosure with the hope of them rotting down into leaf mould - brilliant compost that feeds the park back into itself. I enjoyed the job of stepping on them to flatten & compress! 🍂 😅

I find it so hopeful at this time of year to see new green shoots & life coming up 🌱, we may have seen the first member of the Ranunculaceae family in bloom! 💛

And as always such lovely, interesting chats with hot drinks & biscuits bathing in the Winter sun after! ☕☀️

If one of your New Year intentions is to get outside in nature more, do something positive for your community or meet a few connections/neighbours, we'd love to have you join our or any local park/community group. 🤝
Our volunteers have made a lot happen the past year giving from just 3 hours a month to:
• Build a new compost area and dead hedges using reclaimed materials and fallen branches
• Expand, seed and protect the wildflower meadow
• Plant bulbs, saplings and hedging for future springs to come
• Keep the park welcoming through regular litter-picks and maintenance sessions
• Help deliver community events enjoyed by hundreds of local families
Friends Of Montgomery Street Park

10/01/2026

Start where you are.
With what you have.
Exactly as you are. 🌿

You don’t need a perfect plan, a clear ending, or complete confidence. You just need the courage to begin — imperfectly, gently, honestly. Every small start creates movement. Every step teaches you something new.

Trust the winding path. Trust your pace. Keep starting.

SixSeconds

09/01/2026

A huge study and systematic review from the British Psychological Society of over 2600 participants about how to make habits stick, if you want them to of course 😅 a brief summary below:
"Making a deliberate decision to act and having a clear, structured plan before starting could be essential for making lasting changes.
Multiple studies suggested that performing habits at the same time every day also strengthened them, with morning habits proving more resilient than evening ones.
Strategies designed to boost habit formation, such as structured planning and monitoring, also improved consistency.
Taken together, this literature suggests that the best way to form a new healthy habit is to set a plan, make effort to carry it out regularly, and track your progress."

Imagining that new habits will stick quickly and easily isn’t necessarily realistic, as new research suggests.

07/01/2026

07/01/2026

07/01/2026

Morning Folks, half way through the week! 🎉😅 I have been working on a wee resource for myself as much as you all for building and sticking to new healthy habits! Not that anyone needs to be changing or undertaking NY resolutions, as I mentioned, I am going to try to make some tiny changes to help me live with a bit more ease and energy and maybe even longer! The first simple small goal I'm working on is an earlier bedtime which is proving a game-changer already, I rarely see over 7 hours on my Fitbit but I have the last few days! 😅
The 2nd habit I am attempting is some home strength-training & exercising, starting so small with this one I am still reading the manual! 😆

These are some research-based, expert tips in this graphic to help you build and stick to a new habit. Do be mindful that it can take months for these things to become automatic! Patience and self-compassion in the process will be key!
Is there anything you are hoping to work towards this month or year that will help you live easier?
Save this to your phone when you need the reminder and motivation boost!

05/01/2026

There are 52 Mondays in 2026, but there is only 1 of you. Hope you’re doing okay.

04/01/2026

"To experience anything fully and see it clearly, there must be a moment of Presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment." —Eckhart Tolle