Mind Your Mindful

Feeling the pull of the holiday season? I know I am.

Here are three gentle ways to welcome yourself back home:

1. Soften within what you’re already doing.
If stepping away isn’t an option, try softening inside the moment you’re in. Loosen your jaw while answering an email, invite one longer breath while stirring a pot, let your shoulders drop as you move through the next thing on the to do list. Inner spaciousness counts. If you can find the space to take 2-3 minutes of silence, try that too.

2. Name the truth of your capacity.
Instead of pushing through, gently acknowledge: “This is a lot. And I’m doing the best I can with what I have.” Give yourself permission to take one thing off the to-do list, to save a task for another day or to ask a loved one for support if they have the capacity.

3. Find micro-connection instead of “self-care.”
If long rituals aren’t realistic, weave in tiny gestures of connection: a hand over your heart for two seconds, noticing one thing that feels supportive around you, a text to someone who gets it. These small threads can hold you when life is demanding.

These invitations meet you right where you are with just a little more kindness woven through the life you’re already living.

Check out the newest release on Mind Your Mindful

Welcome to this gentle guided meditation for authentic presence, created to help you let go of performance, release expectations, and return to the simple truth of just being. In this short practice, you’ll be guided through breath awareness, softening the body, and reconnecting with your inner sense of authenticity and peace.

This meditation is designed to support anyone feeling overwhelmed, overextended, or caught in “performance mode.” Through slow breathing, grounding cues, and mindful awareness, you’ll are welcomed to breathe into your truth, settle into the present moment, and reconnect with who you are beneath pressure, productivity, and external demands.

You don’t need to feed the jar and this bread is my go-to for soups, pastas and chilli.

You will need a dutch oven or an oven-safe dish that has a lid.

In your mixing bowl, mix the yeast and warm water together. Not too hot or you can kill your yeast.

Add in the flour and salt. At this step, I throw in some rosemary or whatever herb I feel like flavouring with - I usually add about 1/3 of a cup.

If you are using a mixer, use a dough hook and if you are mixing by hand, use a wooden spoon until all of the flour lumps are gone.

Cover the dough with a tea towel and place in a warm area for about 1.5 hours or until the dough doubles its size.

At the 1.5 hour mark, turn your oven to 450 degrees F with your dutch oven inside. Make sure your dish is rated for this heat.

Let the oven pre-heat with the dish inside. In the meantime, grab a piece of parchment paper, grab your dough and some olive oil.

Place the dough on the parchment paper and drizzle some olive oil or infused olive oil. Knead the dough and fold it inward from all sides, flip it over and do it again.

Aim for the shape of your dish.

Grab your dish out of the oven - with oven mits of course. Place the dough with the parchment paper into the dutch oven, put the lid on and stick the whole thing back into the oven.

Bake for 30 mins with the lid on. At 30 minutes, take the lid off and bake for another 15-20 minutes or until the top is golden.

Pull it out, let it cool and enjoy!

I hope you found something nourishing in this newsletter.

Until next time, beautiful souls.

Breanna