Mental Health Grows Bud by Bud, Brick by Brick

Mental Health Grows Bud by Bud, Brick by Brick

Something happened here but it didn’t happen overnight. As a gardener I have been working on an old homestead garden for two days every week for around two years. When I first started, the garden was in bad shape. Over grown with weeds, dead trees and sick looking plants it […]

Why You Need to Welcome Ravens for Your Mental Health

The rawness of the meat was either inviting or disturbingly unappealing. Stories shared, honesty held as holy, the powerless being empowered. For some it was too raw, too up close and uncomfortable for them to receive the gift God was offering. To take in this gift there would have to […]

Do you Have People who Invite you to Rest?

It’s his favourite resting place. I have a large comfortable chair in my office. With solid armrests and comfortable cushions sometimes it’s a tussle between myself and our two dogs who gets to sit on it. Our nervous pound pooch Tyler particularly likes it. He climbs his large body into […]

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It’s Time For You to ‘Give it a Rest’

I had never quite sensed that feeling of release before. It was time to have a rest.  That feeling of letting it all go and handing it on to someone else. I had been in ministry for 13 years serving as a Pastor/ Chaplain to people who struggled with ‘Normal […]

How to Start Your Day by Going to Sleep

This morning I woke up and realised some thing was different. While I was sleeping somebody came in and cleaned the house, sorted the washing, and even … took out the rubbish. Well, it felt like that.

5 Keys To Maintaining Your Creative Rhythm

5 Keys To Maintaining Your Creative Rhythm

When the demands of life seem to take over and drown out our creative pursuits, we need to return and find our Creative Rhythm Guest Post from Marc Shaw After several years as an English teacher at an inner city school, my creative life had become dry as dust. I […]

How Do We Learn a Lifestyle of Rhythm?

As I write this I have the sound of birds singing, a gentle water fall and a trickling stream. There is a rhythm to this. Every 15 seconds it stops and repeats, stops and repeats, stops and repeats. I am not sitting in the middle of some leafy grove, but […]

7 Steps To Enable A Rhythm Of Rest

7 Steps To Enable A Rhythm Of Rest

A Rhythm of rest invites you to come away, rest, restore and ready yourself for the next moment. 7 steps to enable a rhythm of rest to be part of your life. Her response wasn’t surprising. She was probably more surprised at being asked the question. It was one of […]

7 Steps To Develop A Rhythm of Creativity

Are you a creative sort? Actually I am going to tell you that you are a creative person and that tapping into that creative zone will transform your life, and in particular your Mental Health. Creativity comes in millions of different forms.