Discover monthly meditation tips & seasonal mindfulness, from cosy winter reflection to summer outdoors, to help you find your calm all year.
December. The last page. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the darkest month, the one that holds the winter solstice, the one that somehow manages to be simultaneously the most hectic and the most sacred time of the entire year. In the Southern Hemisphere, it’s the arrival of high summer, long days, holidays, warmth, and that…
November is the month that asks the most of you. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the full arrival of winter darkness. The clocks have gone back, the trees are bare or nearly so, and there’s a rawness to the world that November doesn’t try to soften. It’s the month that strips things back. And that…
October is the month I find most emotionally rich of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s autumn in full, glorious, slightly melancholy swing. The trees are doing something extraordinary with colour. The air has that particular cold-meets-warmth quality that makes you want to wrap up and go outside at exactly the same time. There’s…
September is one of those months that arrives with a very distinct feeling. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the return. Back to school, back to routines, back to the particular rhythm of autumn life. The air changes almost overnight. There’s a crispness to it, a smell of something earthy and new, and the light does…
August is the month when the year starts whispering about change. In the Northern Hemisphere, summer is still very much present, but there’s a feeling underneath it, barely perceptible at first, that something is beginning to turn. The light is subtly different. Evenings arrive a little sooner. There’s a quality to August afternoons that is…
July has a particular quality that I find really interesting from a well-being perspective. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the heart of summer. Schools are out, holidays are happening, and there’s a kind of suspended, out-of-time feeling to the month that doesn’t exist in quite the same way at any other point in the year….
June is extraordinary. In the Northern Hemisphere, it contains the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, when the sun is at its highest point, and daylight stretches into the evening in the most generous way. There’s a particular kind of magic to a June evening, that slow, reluctant darkening that makes you feel…
May might be my favourite month to write about for wellbeing. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s arguably the most abundant month of the year. Everything is green, the days are long, flowers are everywher,e and the light has that warm, golden quality that makes even ordinary moments feel a bit cinematic. In the Southern Hemisphere,…
April is one of those months that has a real personality. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s all about arrival. Blossom, birdsong, showers, and that particular smell of rain on warm earth that genuinely does something to your nervous system. In the Southern Hemisphere, autumn is deepening now, the light is golden and low, and there’s…
March is the month everything starts to move. After the slow, inward stretch of January and February, something shifts in March. Days get noticeably longer in the Northern Hemisphere. There’s a restlessness in the air. Energy starts to return, sometimes in sudden bursts, sometimes in a gentle trickle. And somewhere in the middle of it…