by Nikki | Apr 13, 2020 | Meditations, Mindfulness, Recovery
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly” -Morticia Adams When I called my blog finding your new normal it was aimed at picking your life back up after stroke or illness or some kind of trauma that shakes your whole world up...
by Nikki | Feb 27, 2020 | Meditations, Mindfulness, Recovery, Yoga
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much ” ~Helen Keller ~ I’ve been diagnosed for a long time with my cavernoma. I was 14 years old when I got diagnosed. So that is 22 years of ups and downs, of strokes and surgery and depression and...
by Nikki | Feb 19, 2020 | Meditations, Mindfulness, Recovery, Yoga
“You give me reasons to smile and and reasons to laugh, but most of all you give me memories I could never forget” It’s a bit of a strange title I know and What the hell are bandhas I hear you cry!? Bundas are the energy locks in your body, they will...
by Nikki | Feb 5, 2020 | Meditations, Mindfulness, Recovery, Yoga
As part of my yoga teacher training I was asked to give a small presentation to the group on life lessons I learned from Yoga. I think I’m addicted to chaturangas? (For those who don’t know what a chataranga is, it’s a kind of Yoga push up). Or it might just be that...
by Nikki | Dec 17, 2019 | Mindfulness, Recovery
A beautiful friend of mine recently messaged me as she was struggling to accept that some great and wonderful things had happened to her. She said “stuff like this doesn’t happen to me. I’m just not that lucky” So in this blog I’m going to tell you...
by Nikki | Dec 16, 2019 | Mindfulness, Recovery
You will be amazed at how things magically fall into place when you let go of the illusion of control – Maryam Hasnaa- And the winner is In my typical style, I didn’t even realise that I’d won The Headway Achiever of the Year award, until people started...
