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5 Midday Rituals to Help You Find Mindfulness

In the past week, have you ever thought to yourself that life just moves so fast? Or maybe you arrive at your bed ready to collapse for the night and it dawns...

5 Midday Rituals to Help You Find Mindfulness

By Andy Hayes

4 Things You Can Do to Maintain Serenity During the Holidays

Andy Hayes

Tis the season for holly, jolly, and frayed nerves. (Don't laugh — you know it's true.) I think it is possible to enjoy the season and at the same time...

4 Things You Can Do to Maintain Serenity During the Holidays

By Andy Hayes

What to Do When You're In a Negative Thought Spiral

Andy Hayes

We've all been there: the worries and the concerns and the fears pop up in our mind, and quite easily they can sweep us away like a rising riverbed, flooding...

What to Do When You're In a Negative Thought Spiral

By Andy Hayes

Lessons in Mindfulness that Foraging Taught Me

Ciaran Keast

Several years ago, my fascination with plant life led me to add foraging to my food gathering repertoire. These days, thanks to some herbalism training, I hunt both edible and...

Lessons in Mindfulness that Foraging Taught Me

By Ciaran Keast

How to Keep Your Spirits Up & Spot Opportunities When Times are Hard

Andy Hayes

A few months ago, we talked about what to do if your world feels apocalyptic. But what if things are just difficult, not apocalyptic? How do you keep your spirits...

How to Keep Your Spirits Up & Spot Opportunities When Times are Hard

By Andy Hayes

How the "Yes, And" Improv Technique Can Improve Your Positivity

Andy Hayes

Previously we have talked about how positively impactful an improv class can be on your emotional health. Today I'd like to talk about a specific improve technique and how it...

How the "Yes, And" Improv Technique Can Improve Your Positivity

By Andy Hayes

15 Pick-Me-Ups to Boost Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

It doesn't require a dark night of the soul to have a bit of a rough day -- we all have seasonal lows. It's nothing to be ashamed of; in...

15 Pick-Me-Ups to Boost Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

How to Find Quiet

Andy Hayes

Noise. noun: a sound, especially one that is loud or unpleasant or that causes disturbance. Continuous exposure to noise can lead to physiological changes in blood pressure, sleep, digestion, and...

How to Find Quiet

By Andy Hayes

The Power of Joy with Michele Larsen (Tea Time Podcast Episode 3)

Andy Hayes

Plum Deluxe Tea Time is the podcast where we bring you thoughtful conversations about what it means to create moments that matter and how we can show up as the...