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You know how messy your mind can feel when you’re surrounded by ‘things’? When the totality of your possessions becomes overwhelming, it chips away at your wellbeing. But, did you know you don’t need to be drowning in a sea of stuff for this to take effect? Some of us are more sensitive to this…
Dear Santa, This Christmas, I don’t want to stuff every nook and cranny in my home with purposeless possessions that have no place. I don’t want a room full of ‘junk’ I haven’t looked at in months. I don’t want to put up another shelf to display random bits and bobs that aren’t deeply meaningful…
If you’re reading this, it’s my guess that you’re feeling pretty hopeless right now. I know what that’s like. In fact, there are a lot of us at Quiet Connections who have been there. And now you’re here, perhaps you’re hoping to find a solution that you can do all by yourself. Something that doesn’t…
How did you choose what to do after school? Did you choose a-levels based on a career path you wanted to take? Took a subject you enjoyed perhaps? Did you study as many subjects at college as you could to keep your options open? Not me. Following the herd I knew I didn’t like a…
Unlocking Potential have been a great source of support in my journey to growing my own confidence and helping others. Five years ago, I joined their Stand Out from the Crowd course to support me in making a career change -it was here I met two of my incredible team members, Michele and Gemma- and…
Who would have thought first aid training could actually be fun? That’s certainly not how I remember it being. I found it to be a hugely anxious experience when I was in my old job. There was no escaping the centre of attention and I felt like I was under the microscope as I awkwardly…
If you truly loved yourself… As compassion, and more importantly self-compassion seems to be a running theme at the moment, certainly in my life, I finally got around to reading something that has been on my list for a while: a short but brilliant book by Kamal Ravikant called ‘Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends…
Shelving Self-Compassion When I first heard about the concept of Compassion as a therapeutic tool to support people, I thought ‘Great! I love that idea; it’s right up my street!’ so I bought a few books, read a couple of chapters and then put them on a shelf somewhere, feeling positive about the basic idea…
We’re on a gentle mission to quietly and creatively bring people together from all over Cornwall living with feelings of low confidence, social anxiety and depression. We’re running a Coffee Cake Create evening at Old Bakery Studios on World Mental Health Day (that’s Tuesday 10th October) – and you’re invited. Wait! Before you tell me “I…
We all experience anxiety; it’s a completely natural emotion and physical response – it can even serve us well in certain moments and in small controlled spells. However, if anxious feelings are something that you feel like you are currently struggling with, then finding ways in which to manage that experience can really help to…
I have been ‘quiet’ all my life. Sitting in a room full of others taking turns reading out loud from a book we were studying at that time. It’s my turn to read and my hearts racing, my heads feeling light and I want to hide away. I was the one who dreaded school presentations;…
You know that feeling when you are having a moment to think? You’re sat looking at something you love, you breathe deep and a sense of calm follows. This is what I have with my great love of nature. This love has expanded as I have grown older, developed a business within nature and in…