01/04/2026
🧩✅️🌐 Mindfulness Moments: A Founder's battle for Purposeful Autonomy with Impact
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As I reflect upon my globally serving UK-hybrid business and Practice, and the subsequent social and professional media journeys, I observe the seemingly infinite hours spent expanding upon my learning and skills development, on researching and developing across amazing sectors and disciplines, the consumption of much water, stem ginger cookies, fruit and vegetable smoothies, unhealthy takeout, chai and coffee, networking events, podcast listening, new friends made, eyes roving through hardcopy and e-copy books, pausing to observe events and contexts, assess the drivers, the risk and the purposeful impact probabilities, to design engaging projections for executive reports and quarterly reviews, to compose professional proposals, develop solutions for clients, create posts, and sometimes respond within comments, ensuring that these responses would be tactful, timely, relevant and impactful ( TTRI ).
The thousands of hours caring for lover ones, hundreds of hours within public and private groups across media, the active listening, the lessons delivered, the soul-searching after relationships fail, the support and care administered to me and by me, the training of global activists, meetings with advocates exploring the art of deep research and diplomacy, and nurturing the minds of Sustainability and STEM innovators and ambassadors of today and tomorrow, navigating sociopolitico taboos and our widespread intolerances, and wondering what new experience I will discover tomorrow.
I observe that the occasional media fatigue alongside this dynamic lifestyle, sometimes, seriously undermines my confidence in my communication experience, skills and impact. I acknowledge that I perhaps, physically over-challenged myself to de-stress from this complex life I lead.
My copy typos began increasing, my multiple sensory impairments began advancing, and unfortunately, a few connections became strained. As such, I began to withdraw, as my medical health declined, and to add to my challenges, we experienced the loss of my canine best-friend and our family Elders.
This catalysed my decision to focus on what was within my power. Overcoming clinical malnutrition, rehabilitating my cardiac and pulmonary systems after the discovery I had been unknowingly experiencing multiple cardiac events, teaching myself to walk again after the fallout from these major medical and life events, discovering at 38 years of age that I have autism and adhd, and navigating many injuries and extra learning and tasks because of these factors. Reconnecting with my loved ones.
The resumption and acceleration of my personal and professional development was my saving grace. My island of salvation, where my immersion was immediate and complete. Attending coaching, counselling, peer-support, creative sessions, increasing my time out in nature, and testing my physical amd cognitive capabilities.
Many of us were experiencing 2020, as we similarly did during pandemics in 2008 to 2010. Hospitals experiencing code blacks more frequently, and the subsequent advancement in technologies and software to, " Make us more productive. " The aforementioned, opened up so many opportunities for me, and I readily engaged with many of these opportunities to learn and grow.
I accept the ironies of youthful ignorance with compassion, reminded of the extreme traumas of a young life explored to it's fullest within whatever confines of context, allowing for transformation to continue. In doing so, I am developing my abilities to adapt and overcome challenges that would have the toughest of us begging for mercy from co-creators few of us can agree are two and the same.
Add to this, the fact we war over which telling is correct and whether this is true or an ancient bedtime story our parents told us, and their parents told them and they all told themselves, to calm weary hearts and minds and comfort our souls enough to rest after the noise, learning, pain, love, and discourse of our respective daily life.
All of these things are wonderful, terrible and interesting, and I continue to explore why that is, and how we might all develop upon our communication skills, learn to be more cautiously curious, and become more aligned to address the inevitable challenges that come with change, for today and for tomorrow.
I've learned that there is no one-solution-fits-all, and that our differences are what ensure we will eventually become better humans as we have to go forwards with open heart and open mind to navigate our respective and collective pathways unhindered.
Written by Founder and Multidisciplinary Practitioner, Miss. Natalie Thomas of WholeHealing Practice and NMRTsolutions, United Kingdom. 🧩✅️🌐
