Chapter 11

Mindful self-care

Well-being is fundamentally no different from learning to play the cello.

Richard Davidson – founder and chair of the Center for Healthy Minds

As we have seen from the previous chapter, we can cultivate a kinder, self-caring and more self-supporting way of being that offers us enormous benefits when navigating our way through our busy, hectic lives. In this chapter, we invite you to continue to increase your awareness of how you can better care for yourself with mindfulness, in the many different areas of your day-to-day life.

Body kindness

We all know that exercise and eating healthily are important for our physical health, but they can also be beneficial to our mental health and well-being, too. Both exercise ...

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