Values
Resilience - Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving.
Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient. -Steve Maraboli Here are five key...
Tools
My Mum’s Silverbeet Pie (with simple tomato salad accompaniment.)
This pie is delicious hot or cold. My Mum serves it with a tomato salad for colour & juiciness (also...
Values
Cooperation - It’s fun to do things on your own, to be independent and not need anyone else. Or is it?
Helen Keller was the first first deaf and blind college graduate who went on to achieve remarkable feats; Publishing 14...
Tools
Maximise your day in 6 minutes ✅
The early bird gets the worm. You might have heard or noticed successful people talk about maintaining a good morning...
Tools
Distress intolerance is totally a thing… 🙉🙈🙊
No one likes emotional discomfort. No need to be shy in admitting that tolerating sticky emotions in this one big...
Tools
Boredom, anhedonia and feeling blah 👎👎🏼👎🏾
Boredom. Part of our mental health. When you pay attention to boredom, it gets unbelievably interesting - Jon Kabat-Zinn Boredom...
Tools
Sober Curious?
Why on earth would you give up alcohol?! When I first heard the term sober curious I’ll be honest… I...
Tools
3 Steps to Mental Fitness
How's your head going? Mental fitness is a goodie. You would already know how to train and eat our way...
Tools
Emotions. They can be FULL on 💥
Coming back from being overwhelmed is difficult. We all have emotions and from time to time and we can all be...
Tools
6 Things to try the next time you feel yourself escalating
We've all been there. I’m certain that you can relate to the feeling of a person, place, animal, memory, situation...
Values
What are Values?
Put simply, values are desired qualities of behaviour: How you want to behave right now, and on an ongoing basis. To...
Tools
Decision Fatigue: What is it and how to avoid it.
Psychologists estimate that the average adult makes 35,000 decisions each day. This number is made up of every notification you...
Mindfulness
Breathing Exercises to Have up Your Sleeve
Here are 3 Breathing exercise you can add to your tool box for any time you like. Belly breathing, Box...
Mindfulness
Urge Surfing
Urge Surfing is a well used technique by people recovering from anything from binge eating to substances to the 3pm...
Mindfulness
Using HALT to Identify Triggers
Being Hangry (Angry due to hunger and thirst) is one thing but Halt is even worse. HALT = Hungry, Angry,...
Mindfulness
Anchoring Phrases
Anchoring phrases can be used to connect into the present moment and stay grounded. Racing thoughts can carry us away...
Mindfulness
Pause and Reframe Exercise
Self awareness is a fantastic tool in improving our mental health overall. Self awareness needs space and this pause and...
Mindfulness
5-4-3-2-1 Technique
So many of the values promoted by Inspired Spark can be aligned through mindfulness. Grounding skills are really valuable to bring...