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Amy Pickering

Christian Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Meditation: When Information Overloads

Your inbox is full of emails. All the emails contain links. You are supposed to follow the links, which will take you to webpages. You have to read, and sometimes watch, the webpages. There is stuff in them that you are meant to know. There is even some stuff that Read more…

By Amy Pickering, 4 days4 days ago
Christian Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Meditation: This is the Time to be Slow

Over Christmas, my books piled high, and on a theme. There was Katherine May’s Wintering, a New York Times bestseller, about the power of rest and retreat in difficult times; the Chronicles of Narnia, beginning with an endless winter; and James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life. As the Meadows disappeared beneath the snow, I Read more…

By Amy Pickering, 2 weeks2 weeks ago
Christian Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Meditation: When Zoom Fatigue Becomes Zoom Burnout

When Zoom Fatigue Becomes Zoom Burnout Many of us are at the point of digital exhaustion that goes beyond fatigue. People are finding it hard to look at faces on the screen, or feeling the urge to sit on the floor rather than a chair. Some struggle to sit still, or Read more…

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day – Thursday 27th August 2020

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day – Tuesday 25th August 2020

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Videos from the Manse

Reflections from the Manse – Sunday 23rd August 2020

Please join us at 11.30am this Sunday morning for the Gathering on Zoom Click here to join Zoom meeting Meeting ID: 951 9272 3946 Password: 904377

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day – Thursday 20th August 2020

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day – Tuesday 18th August 2020

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Christian Mindfulness

Mindfulness and Meditation: Tiny Beautiful Wild Things

Tiny Beautiful Wild Things In 1995, the writer Cheryl Strayed hiked a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, aged twenty-six, alone. Four years earlier, Strayed’s mother had died of cancer at forty-five, just seven weeks after her diagnosis. The young woman’s life, marriage, and family fell apart in the wake of her sudden loss, Read more…

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago
Videos from the Manse

Reflections from the Manse – Sunday 16th August 2020

Please join us at 10.30am this Sunday morning for the Gathering on Zoom Click here to join Zoom meeting Meeting ID: 951 9272 3946 Password: 904377

By Amy Pickering, 5 months5 months ago

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