Mindful Of It was a brand I created in 2020, during lockdown.
After leaving my role at Shelter, I followed a lifelong interest in meditation and trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
At first, I simply offered free local sessions – more for the sense of community than anything else. But as I began hosting them, sharing my personal experience and crafting mindfulness exercises to help us explore the practice more deeply as a group, I realised something: this work was a beautiful mash-up of everything I’d done up to that point.
So, I trained further – this time in mindfulness for children and young people. I made sure all of my work was trauma-informed and wrote a course called Mind Craft, designed to engage children of different ages in emotional wellbeing through creativity and play.
I loved doing this work – and it’s something I hope to return to later in life. But at the time, I just couldn’t make the hours work with everything else, so it was on to pastures new.
That said, I still use the skills every day – both professionally and as a parent – and continue to host free workshops whenever I can.