April is almost over so here is a summary of everything we have spoken about this month in regards to our focus of Nutrition...

The month is coming to an end so we both felt we should share a little about the nutrition plans and guidelines that each of us follow before we conclude the focus of Nutrition on Saturday

With this sudden heatwave we realised that we haven't written about the most important part of nutrition.... HYDRATION!!

We are continuing our focus of nutrition and today we are talking about mindful eating. This is something we have touched on before, as one of the biggest things we do mindlessly is eat.

Our focus for the month is nutrition and in Wednesday's email we talked about how the media can influence us. A continuance from that comes from the effect supermarkets and advertising can have and how their very successful strategies can cause us to make poor choices when it comes to food!

In today’s email I wanted to touch a little on some of the research I have done as part of my Open University Degree (still ongoing!) – in particular about how much the media can affect many of our decisions, including our food choices.

Thank you to everyone who replied and reached out with what they would like to read about in our emails regarding nutrition. As we expected, the responses were varied and showed just how individual nutrition and diet is to everyone!

There is a big announcement coming but first lets introduce you to our monthly focus of Nutrition...

We are now at the end of Mindful March (that conveniently takes us in to a lovely long weekend that we can maybe take advantage of and practise some mindfulness!) 

Here is a quick roundup of what we covered in the emails this month -

What did you eat today? What about yesterday? Could you list everything and know when you ate or are you a “mindless” eater?

I am often asked why I am so passionate about mindfulness and how I am able to confidently say that it is because of mindfulness that I am in the happy place that I am today. I guess there is never going to be any 'proof' that I will ever be able to show, all I can ever really stress is how much I know my mindset has changed...

Following on from Monday's class 'Playground' we wanted to discuss briefly how important it is that we embrace the child within, that person we were before we allowed barriers stand in our way, and how this links up to mindfulness

Today is definitely a ‘grab a cup of tea and settle in kind of email as I wanted to share the story of my last ever hangover….

Monday 19th March 2018 marks the date where I have been sober for 9 years… 9 YEARS!!

As we continue with our mindfulness focus for the month, we wanted to show how the benefits of mindfulness meditation can be observed in other areas of your life. We hear every day how we need to 'live in the moment' and 'enjoy the present' but what does this really mean?

Today I wanted to share with you my experiences with mindfulness and why it means so much to me. You may want a cup of tea for it! This week marks my 500th day streak of using the CALM app, with Ash also reaching day 700!

I was asked by a member of the SMASH community what mindfulness means to me. There is so much I could say, and I will share some more of my personal journey next week, but right now I would say Freedom.

How are you feeling right now? How often do you take the time to appreciate the present moment, your emotions and feelings? As most of you know, when we created SMASH we said from the beginning that we are focusing on our mental health as much as our physical health so, with that in mind, welcome to...

 Mindful March

Today marks the last day of February and our focus of kindness so here is a little recap of what we talked about this month -

I am back after an amazing honeymoon in Cape Town! I had an incredible time and did lots of great things such as visiting the gorgeous winelands, trekking up to the highest point of Table Mountain and abseiling down part of it  (check out our Instagram page @smashlondon for my story on facing that fear!)