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Illustration of a person held by strings like a puppet. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Main, Medium, Mind

Understanding dependencies

Reflection questions to help you understand your dependencies.

16th July 2026
Illustration of a hand filling out the Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Easy, Mind, Starter

Psychologically Rich Life Questionnaire

Exploring a third dimension in life.

8th May 2026
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium

Developing somatic literacy

Cultivating perceptiveness to reclaim the mind-body connection.

29th April 2026
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Mind, Starter

5-4-3-2-1 grounding

A simple technique for coping with anxiety.

1st April 2026
Illustration of a person surrounded by 5 thought clouds with the word "why". © Recipes for Wellbeing
Dessert, Easy, Mind

5 whys

Five “whys” to rewrite a belief.

26th March 2026
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Main, Mind

The window of tolerance

Expanding your window of tolerance to spend more time in regulation.

6th March 2026
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Body, Dessert, Medium, Mind, Youth

5 principles to guide children’s play toward resolution

Using play to help children move through trauma.

30th April 2025
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Body, Dessert, Hard, Heart, Mind

Managing the freeze response

Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive freeze response.

6th August 2024
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Body, Dessert, Hard, Heart, Mind

Managing the flight response

Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive flight response.

6th August 2024
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Body, Dessert, Hard, Heart, Mind

Managing the fight response

Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive fight response.

6th August 2024
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Body, Dessert, Hard, Heart, Mind

Managing the fawn response

Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive fawn response.

6th August 2024
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

The wheel of emotions and feelings

A compass to name your emotions and feelings and build emotional regulation in teams.

6th August 2024
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Body, Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind, Organisations

Emotional regulation in teams

Strategies to regulate emotions in individuals and teams.

6th August 2024
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Heart, Medium, Mind, Starter

Developing emotional agility

A four-step process to become flexible with your thoughts and feelings.

6th August 2024
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Dessert, Hard, Heart, Soul

Returning to community to resolve conflicts

Practices to restore a community from an individual’s damaging behaviour.

12th June 2024
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Body, Dessert, Gender, Hard, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

Matrescence: From womanhood to motherhood

Supporting the spiritual transformation from woman to mother.

29th May 2024
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Body, Dessert, Gender, Hard, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

Spring equinox ritual

A short ritual to celebrate the arrival of spring.

19th March 2024
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Dessert, Medium, Soul

The Five Remembrances meditation

A meditation to accept reality as it is and find peace.

23rd June 2023
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Heart, Main, Medium, Soul, Youth

Making your life navigation map

Identify your Guiding Star and the constellations that can guide you when you are lost.

8th March 2023
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind

STOPP framework

A simple framework to work with difficult emotions.

22nd February 2023
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Body, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

9 habits for a healthy lifestyle

Tips for living a healthy life.

8th February 2023
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Body, Easy, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

HALT

Pre-empt impulsive decision-making with HALT.

7th February 2023
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Hard, Heart, Main

The wheel of power and privilege

Mapping marginalisation in an intersectional way.

7th February 2023
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Soul

The wheel of wellbeing at work

Take a snapshot to assess wellbeing at work.

1st February 2023
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Easy, Mind, Starter

The habits scorecard

Making unconscious habits conscious.

1st February 2023
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Heart, Medium, Starter

Cycle of emotions

Understand your emotions to choose how to respond.

1st February 2023
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Dessert, Main, Medium, Organisations, Starter

5 stages of team development

Understanding the internal characteristics influencing the performance of your team.

11th January 2023
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Easy, Starter

Create the optimal work setup in 5 steps

Health and productivity considerations for remote workers.

11th January 2023
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Starter

Brief Resilience Scale

Assess your ability to bounce back.

11th January 2023
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Heart, Medium, Starter

Dealing with shame

A mindfulness exercise to deal with shame.

15th November 2022
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Body, Dessert, Heart, Medium, Youth

Colourful confusions

Awareness and acceptance of difficult emotions through drawing.

25th July 2022
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Dessert, Heart, Medium, Soul

Healing communication

Four practices to communicate in ways that support trauma healing.

25th July 2022
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Body, Medium, Mind, Starter

Befriending stress

Change your perspective towards stress to turn it in your favour.

25th July 2022
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Body, Heart, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Thriving at work as a highly sensitive person

Advocate for yourself at work as an HSP.

8th June 2022
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Soul, Youth

Managing eco-anxiety

Learn to cope with eco-anxiety.

30th May 2022
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

HERO Traits

Reach higher levels of wellbeing and protect yourself from burnout.

30th May 2022
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Body, Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind

Healing a broken heart

Tips to mend a broken heart.

23rd May 2022
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Body, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Starter

6 red flags of burnout

Notice red flags in your team to avoid burnout.

23rd May 2022
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Body, Dessert, Heart, Medium, Mind, Soul

The joy of uselessness

Practise the noble art of being useless.

5th May 2022
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Body, Main, Medium, Soul

Practising body neutrality

Learn to practise body neutrality.

25th April 2022
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations, Soul

6 causes of burnout

Recognise the 6 root causes of burnout and how to address them.

20th April 2022
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Dessert, Easy, Organisations

Respectful rejection letters

Craft a respectful rejection letter.

11th April 2022
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Easy, Heart, Mind, Starter

Healthy money habits

A financial self-care routine to improve your finances.

4th April 2022
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Easy, Mind, Starter

Automate your savings

Automate your savings for wellbeing.

4th April 2022
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Heart, Medium, Mind, Soul, Starter

Weekly planner for uncertain times

A planner to help navigate the complexity of uncertainty.

28th March 2022
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Youth

Catharsis through clay

Processing tensions through kneading clay.

21st March 2022
Illustration of a person with a sad expression surrounded by the four steps of the process (acknowledging, learning, healing, and re-visiting). © Recipes for Wellbeing
Heart, Medium, Starter

Mind mapping for grief

An exercise to work through the heaviness of grief.

21st March 2022
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Organisations

Talking mental health in the workplace

Skills to discuss mental health concerns with work colleagues.

25th February 2022
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Hard, Heart, Main, Soul

Gentleness through grief

Learn to be gentle with yourself through grief.

20th February 2022
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Heart, Main, Medium, Soul

Vulnerability and honesty at the dinner table

An opportunity to build community by having a dinner with guests who can engage in memorable open and honest conversation.

31st January 2022
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind

Dance with your shadow self

A movement meditation that helps to recognise your shadow self.

31st January 2022
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Body, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Soul

Tips to avoid burnout

A series of tips to avoid burnout.

24th February 2021
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind

Backcasting to move forward

A backcasting practice to clarify your wellbeing goals and catch yourself when you are off track.

10th February 2021
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Heart, Mind, Soul

Burnout and wellbeing scale

A questionnaire to assess your level of burnout and wellbeing.

4th January 2021
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Body, Easy, Heart, Mind, Soul, Starter

5 elements meditation

Using the elements to cultivate calmness and connection.

3rd January 2021
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Body, Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Soul

5 steps towards “critical wellness” to overcome racism

A five-step process to heal from the wounds of racism and discrimination.

27th October 2020
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Heart, Medium, Mind, Starter

Drop the to-do list guilt

An activity to drop unattainable standards and reclaim serenity in your life.

22nd October 2020
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Body, Main, Medium, Soul

The desire to change

Finding the desire to change.

28th May 2020
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Body, Dessert, Easy, Mind, Youth

Koeppen’s relaxation for children

A technique for working on anxiety for the little ones.

28th May 2020
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Body, Heart, Medium, Starter

Arm linking

A vulnerability exercise to build a sense of connection and shared humanity.

6th May 2020
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Body, Main, Medium, Soul

Mandala drawing

A creative activity to heal your spirit.

1st May 2020
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Body, Main, Medium, Mind

Coping with panic attacks

A simple technique to cope with panic attacks.

26th March 2020
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Dessert, Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Starter

Mitigating aftershock for activists

Tips for activists to avoid or mitigate aftershock.

8th March 2020
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Heart, Medium, Mind, Starter

Fear setting to make difficult decisions

Overcoming your paralysis by visualising your fears.

25th February 2020
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Body, Dessert, Medium, Mind

CBT strategies to help you sleep

Self-initiated informal strategies to help you sleep.

8th November 2019
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Easy, Main, Mind

Overcome low battery anxiety (iPhone)

Digital tips to overcome low battery anxiety.

5th November 2019
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Medium, Mind, Starter

Creativity through boredom

A week of challenges to detach from your phone and foster creativity.

22nd September 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Take a step forward

A powerful activity to raise awareness about inequality of opportunity and foster empathy.

21st September 2019
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Hard, Heart, Mind, Starter

Rethinking rejection

Rethinking rejection to build resilience.

27th July 2019
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Medium, Mind, Starter

Wicked questions

A game to reframe your question in a more powerful one.

26th July 2019
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Body, Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Organisations

NVC dance floor

A dance floor to transform conflicts.

16th July 2019
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Heart, Main, Medium, Mind

10 categories of fear

A thought-provoking inquiry into fears to gain control over them.

5th July 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Unexpressed gratitude letter

A healing activity to foster forgiveness and acceptance.

1st July 2019
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Body, Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Soul

Crossing the line

A deep activity to build diversity awareness within a group.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Medium, Mind

Coping with a sense of urgency

Embracing “enough” in a paradigm of scarcity.

30th June 2019
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Dessert, Medium, Mind

Coaching feedback

Transforming feedback in a positive force for change.

30th June 2019
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Main, Medium, Mind, Organisations

The wheel of burnout

Exploring the root causes of burnout.

29th June 2019
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Body, Easy, Main, Mind

Stress diary

A diary to log your stress episodes.

29th June 2019
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Heart, Main, Medium

Self-compassion for your inner child

A creative activity to boost self-compassion.

29th June 2019
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Hard, Main, Soul

Truth mandala

A ritual to honour our pain for the world so as to heal from it.

29th June 2019
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Hard, Heart, Main, Organisations

Transforming conflict

Using the heart to transform conflict into an opportunity.

29th June 2019
Illustration of people standing in different lines. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Privilege walk

A powerful activity to uncover the layers of privilege in our lives.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a person pressing the palms of their hands in front of the heart area. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Main, Medium, Mind

Mental rehearsal

Letting go of the past to reclaim the future.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a pair of hand painting a theatre mask. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Meeting your shadow

A creative activity to embrace your shadow.

29th June 2019
Illustration of four trees representing the seasonal changes. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Hard, Main, Mind, Soul

Managing change

Symbolic death is an essential step towards self-renewal.

29th June 2019
Illustration of two people sitting in front of each other and gazing at each other. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Main, Medium, Soul

Eye gazing meditation

A soul-connecting meditation to feel whole.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a group of people sitting on a couch blindfolded. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Heart, Main, Medium

Dialogue in the dark

A bonding experience to increase openness and trust in a group.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a person sitting cross-legged on the floor in a meditative pose. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Hard, Heart, Main, Mind

Dealing with others’ suffering

A tonglen practice to cultivate compassion.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a sunflower. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Heart, Main, Medium, Mind, Soul

BRAVING

A check-list to trust others and ourselves and brave the wilderness.

29th June 2019
Illustration of a person sitting cross-legged on the floor in a meditative pose. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Heart, Medium, Starter

Releasing energy

Creating a shield to protect you from negative energy.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a womxn holding their hands in front of the heart area. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Hard, Heart, Main

8 steps to forgiveness

A healing practice to let go of pain and anger.

28th June 2019
Illustration of person sitting on the floor in a crunched position that expresses distress. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Easy, Mind, Starter

Managing stress

Deep breathing practice to reduce stress.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a group of people talking to each other in an office setting. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Hard, Heart, Mind, Organisations, Starter

Creating the right work spaces

Setting up your work space to encourage high performance in your organisation.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a female sitting on a mat in a meditative pose with colours surrounding the figure. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Easy, Heart, Mind, Starter

Colour-breathing meditation

Using colours to cultivate calmness and happiness.

28th June 2019
Illustration of a person in an anxious state with two dark shadows lurking behind. © Recipes for Wellbeing
Body, Easy, Mind, Starter

Calm your nerves

A little mindfulness can go a long way.

28th June 2019

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