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Mindfulness During Exam Weeks: Supporting Focus and Managing Stress Exam weeks can be challenging for students. Increased academic pressure, time constraints, and high expectations often lead to stress, anxiety, and mental fatigue. During these periods, students may struggle to concentrate, feel overwhelmed, or experience physical tension. Mindfulness  offers a practical way to support students’ well-being and focus during exam times. Rather than aiming to eliminate stress completely,...

Mindful Eating: Bringing Awareness to Every Bite In our fast-paced daily lives, eating often becomes an automatic activity. We eat while checking our phones, rushing between tasks, or thinking about what comes next. Mindful eating  invites us to slow down and reconnect with food, our bodies, and the present moment. Mindful eating is not about dieting or changing what you eat. It is about how  you eat — with awareness, curiosity, and without judgment. What Is Mindful Eating? Mindful eating...

You come home tired in the evening, the dinner rush is over, homework has been checked... You want to do something "quality" with your child in the limited time remaining. But often the scenario is familiar: Everyone gets buried in their own screens, and time slips away while in the same room but different worlds. As parents, we want to "stay in the moment" and truly connect with our child, but the to-do list in our minds doesn't allow it. This is exactly where Mindfulness comes to our...