The Fierce Kindness Blog - Mental Health

Through my journey I've come to realise the importance of ritual. Stepping briefly out of the maelstrom of life to reconnect with ourselves creates a positive habit that both calms and gives us strength. Jump...

As we head into winter with a continuation of, and likely increase in, COVID restrictions, we need to find and build our resilience. Here are 5 practical, easy tools to help...

  In this How to Forest Bathe Article A Personal Story: Finding the Forest in the City Some background on Forest Bathing The Benefits of Forest Bathing Get instructions on How to...

23 years ago I was a chirpy 24 year old. I'd just bought my first house with the love of my life, my career as a project manager was nicely underway - and life was looking up for me. That all changed one...

Do you know what guarantees mental suffering? Being in resistance to what already IS! In fact a lot of human unhappiness, negativity or suffering comes from "resisting" whatever situation we are in. So,...

Learning to process our difficult feelings and emotions can be hard - because we live in a society that believes we should control our emotions. So what usually happens when we feel "bad" is we try to...

How to use adversity to build character and be more attractive! In this article we're going to take a look at character; what it is—and isn't, how our character is formed, why it matters, and of course,...

Never before have regular citizens been restricted like this on a world scale! Whilst we can take some (a lot of?) comfort from knowing that we're not alone, it doesn't make day-to-day life that much...

Many of our fears are basic survival and pain-avoidance. And many fears—as we also know—are literally in the mind. For example, are you creeped out by this picture of the spider? And while it's easy to...

This article was written during the COVID pandemic—a strange and unprecedented time around the world when we all felt waves of fear and anxiety. It was so hard to sit there and wait, feeling powerless and...