Bring peace and calm to your busy-mama days with these inspiring meditations and mantras.Becoming a new parent can be an overwhelming experience, presenting significant challenges to mental health and wellbeing. The powerful techniques offered in this book are intended to boost psychological health, help you navigate the ups and downs of motherhood and help you be the mother – and the YOU – that you want to be. Sarah Rudell Beach offers a rich compendium of practical advice on how to be present in the moment, and how to live with curiosity and without judgement and offers powerful tools that can transforms how you relate to your own life and how you engage with the world. There is a growing body of research that tells us that when mothers practise self-care they experience less stress and anxiety, build stronger relationships with their children and feel less overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood. Their children experience less stress and anxiety, too. In this beautifully illustrated book, Sarah Rudell Beach introduces the basics of self-care and offers a collection of meditations and affirmations. From dealing with tantrums and your patience being tested to making time for yourself and practising self-compassion, you’ll discover how being present in the moment can lead to greater calm, balance and ease in your daily life.

EASY and FUN activities to do with your child (aged 3–11) to encourage MINDFULNESS. Mindfulness helps children FOCUS, become more RESILIENT, CALM their emotions and experience greater JOY. Helping children to be more mindful is a powerful gift: they will learn valuable lifelong skills, such as how to recognise and manage their emotions, calm down when they are upset, concentrate on important tasks and interact with others with empathy and generosity. These fundamental skills often aren’t taught explicitly – frequently, we demand that children ‘pay attention’ or ‘calm down’, without showing them how to do so. Now parents can, with help from mindfulness expert Sarah Rudell Beach.Easy-to-follow activities and games cover several mindful actions – Soothe, Focus, Feel, Pause, Appreciate and Connect – with helpful variations for different age groups and ‘emergency how-tos’ for particularly stressful moments. Advice for parents on how to become more mindful themselves is also included, so that they can more efficiently teach and demonstrate these techniques.

Bring peace and calm to your busy-mama days with these inspiring meditations and mantras.Becoming a new parent can be an overwhelming experience, presenting significant challenges to mental health and wellbeing. The powerful techniques offered in this book are intended to boost psychological health, help you navigate the ups and downs of motherhood and help you be the mother – and the YOU – that you want to be. Sarah Rudell Beach offers a rich compendium of practical advice on how to be present in the moment, and how to live with curiosity and without judgement and offers powerful tools that can transforms how you relate to your own life and how you engage with the world. There is a growing body of research that tells us that when mothers practise self-care they experience less stress and anxiety, build stronger relationships with their children and feel less overwhelmed by the demands of motherhood. Their children experience less stress and anxiety, too. In this beautifully illustrated book, Sarah Rudell Beach introduces the basics of self-care and offers a collection of meditations and affirmations. From dealing with tantrums and your patience being tested to making time for yourself and practising self-compassion, you’ll discover how being present in the moment can lead to greater calm, balance and ease in your daily life.

EASY and FUN activities to do with your child (aged 3–11) to encourage MINDFULNESS. Mindfulness helps children FOCUS, become more RESILIENT, CALM their emotions and experience greater JOY. Helping children to be more mindful is a powerful gift: they will learn valuable lifelong skills, such as how to recognise and manage their emotions, calm down when they are upset, concentrate on important tasks and interact with others with empathy and generosity. These fundamental skills often aren’t taught explicitly – frequently, we demand that children ‘pay attention’ or ‘calm down’, without showing them how to do so. Now parents can, with help from mindfulness expert Sarah Rudell Beach.Easy-to-follow activities and games cover several mindful actions – Soothe, Focus, Feel, Pause, Appreciate and Connect – with helpful variations for different age groups and ‘emergency how-tos’ for particularly stressful moments. Advice for parents on how to become more mindful themselves is also included, so that they can more efficiently teach and demonstrate these techniques.