Ten Tips for a Simple Home
It’s true what they say about a tidy house, tidy mind. Research shows that having a neat, well-organised, and sparkling clean home plays an important role in mental health and general wellbeing. An untidy home can subconsciously negatively affect our wellbeing. Whereas cleaning your house alleviates the stress associated with an untidy home, plus the physical…
Learn To Focus On Quality Not Quantity
Part of living simply is about bringing everything back to the basics. The tendency is to overspend and get too many things in life because they are cheap or you’re are concerned things will run out. This leads to more items in our homes or life generally. More clutter can lead to more stress, which…
How to Take Control and Grow in Confidence
This post was updated on 07/01/20Have you seen what’s on the blog so far this month? There’s a blog post on 7 signs you need a confidence boost and a free checklist with 10 ways to boost your confidence and How to Start your Day with More Confidence – also with a free checklist. So…
7 Self-Care Activities You Can Do This Weekend
Maybe you’d like to incorporate more self-care activities into your weekend, but you’re not really sure where to start. Well today I’ve got 7 self-care activities you can do this weekend, to feel healthier and happier and shine that little bit brighter. Let’s keep this simple and get right to it.
An Introduction to Self-Care for Your Body
This post was updated on 10/07/19When we think of self-care, we often think of massages and pedicures. Those are fantastic but certainly not part of daily self-care. But some of the most important self-care activities are those that tend to the more mundane needs of the body: getting enough sleep, drinking lots of water, eating healthy food,…
Introducing Self-Care for Your Mind-Part One
This post was updated on 04/04/20If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know self-care is crucial to me and a huge part of my blog. It took me collapsing in a gym class and a doctor telling me I had exhaustion for me to slow down and rest. Now I have a passion…
Self-Love vs Self-Care
This post was updated on 20/03/19I’ve mentioned this before, I am passionate about promoting the importance and impact of daily self-care. I talk a lot about it on this blog and I have a Facebook group, Shine in Self-Care, with ideas, support and encouragement. There’s lot of exciting things to come as well by the…
Simple Holiday by the Sea, in Rock, Cornwall
I am currently spending the most glorious week in Rock, Cornwall. So much so I decided to change the subject of today’s post, so that I can tell you about this instead. Rock is a coastal fishing village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is opposite Padstow on the north-east bank of the River Camel estuary…
My way to wellbeing through daily greatness
It’s taken me a little while to write my Wellbeing Wednesday post. I felt “out of sorts” in July. Progress with wellbeing and fitness goals was slow. Can I blame the heat? Well partly, because it has increased my fatigue and thrown out our daily routine. July was a successful month in many other ways, but…
Enjoy Life’s Simple Pleasures
This is the final post in a series on How to Live Simply to Shine in Life. You can read the second post in the series here-Ten Tips for a Simple Home. This post will focus on enjoying life’s simple pleasures. I’m sure you’ve heard the expression Happiness is not a destination. It’s a way of life.…
