self-care | Vanessa Vella

My Long-Awaited Return to Vipassana

A day-by-day remembering of my third 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course

Kids These Days!

Gen Z kids are very proactive about their mental health - having learned from their parents and grandparents. That's great news!

Routines Gotta Change!

Like most humans, I find the balance between routine and structure and novelty and variety a tricky thing to navigate. On the one hand, I...

Mindfulness Breaks For Everyone!

Hands up if you know the value of breaks and often recommend them to others but also struggle to take enough breaks yourself! (Me! You?...

About Asking For (and Receiving) Help from Others

It’s hard to find a consensus about anything these days, but in my experience most people agree that it’s hard to ask someone to help...

Have You Rested Your Brain Lately?

Here are some tips and tricks to help your brain get some much needed rest. We all forget to properly rest our brains from time to time

The Importance of Having Faith in Yourself (a.k.a. “Why TF is This Not Working??”)

I often have clients who are going through the ‘Why the fuck is this not working?!’ phase of change and growth. This is a normal and...

New Habit Incubator: Getting Up Earlier

Getting up earlier is a new habit that many of my clients want to (or have decided to, for reasons of adultivity) tackle. People often...

Self-Criticism and Self-Compassion: A Mindset Smackdown

Yesterday was a stellar day for me (yes, thank you, *curtsies gracefully*). Just joking! I managed to disappoint and embarrass myself, in...

Mindfulness In The Rain

If you know me, then you know I can blather on about mindfulness an awful lot, in a way that is at least marginally useful, if not...

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