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What stops you from living your truthful creative potential?

By Nicole Barton | Nov 7, 2019

For years I felt called to help people, and yet, I stayed in my Brand Management job until I eventually burnt out, developing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My body had enough, and it redirected me – ...

Why it is OK to Experience Suffering, and How to Find Freedom

By Nicole Barton | Aug 9, 2019

“Suffering is not holding you; you are holding suffering” ~ Buddha Someone challenged me the other day in a way that I didn’t expect. They asked me if I ‘suffered.’ At first I ...

Why You Should Care For and Love Yourself – with Valentte

By Nicole Barton | Jul 29, 2019

"All we need to be is who we are right now, holding ourselves in self-love." ~ Nicole Barton I've been through some really tough times recently, and the more tough life has felt, the ...

How Reconnecting to Yourself in Nature Can Help You Surrender to This Moment

By Nicole Barton | May 30, 2019

If there’s a place to go to reconnect to who you really are, it’s the Pods at Wootton Park in Warwickshire. As I sit here in one of their gorgeous treetop pod houses, surrounded ...

How Everyday Miracles Unfold When We Let Go and See Our True Freedom

By Nicole Barton | May 16, 2019

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” ~ Thich Nhat Hahn For so long I’ve tried to be in control. I’ve tried to make sure that my life ...

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Why 5 Steps to Achieve Happiness Aren’t Going to Serve You!

by Nicole Barton
November 16, 2018

Connection, Features, Letting Go, Thought

Published by Simple Reminders (McGill Media) Everybody’s always looking for 5 Steps for tackling stress, anxiety (or…

How to Face Uncertainty: Why We Don’t Need to Press the Panic Button

by Nicole Barton
October 5, 2018

Connection, Emotional Health, Features, Letting Go, Spirituality, Thought, Wisdom & Insight

I’m super excited to share my latest feature on Tiny Buddha blog, which is all about uncertainty. …

Stepping Curiously into Perceived Pain: How to Show Up

by Nicole Barton
August 8, 2018

Emotional Health, Letting Go, Lifestyle, Resilience, Spirituality, Thought, Wisdom & Insight

It is often in our discomfort where we learn the most. Not embedded in it, as…

Trust Your Heart: Having Time Feature

by Nicole Barton
August 7, 2018

Emotional Health, Features, Letting Go, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Wisdom & Insight

The beautiful team over at HavingTime.com invited me to share an impactful story on their wonderful digital story…

The Art of Letting Go: Why There is Nothing To Do

by Nicole Barton
June 20, 2018

Connection, Letting Go, Lifestyle, Three Principles, Wisdom & Insight

I breathe out, this morning, as I walk into change. In this moment, it feels messy,…

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And here we are - at Day 7!

As you have moved through the #DoNothing challenge, what have you noticed? The more time I spent in connection to myself the more I began to feel calmer and less anxious, or stressed. This was because in seeing how our inner wisdom is always there underneath, I began to recognise that we are always okay. We can't not be, because we have the answers, and so we don't need self-help, we just need to tune back in!

Self-Rediscovery Reflections:
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- Can you notice the freedom in the fact that as your thoughts are seen and held, they move on, all by themselves?
- How does it feel to rest in the space of doing nothing now?

What have you noticed? Share with me how you've enjoyed the 7 days! 💜

#worldmentalhealth #challenge #nothingtodo #wisdom #truth #transformationaltruth #transformation

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With all this talk of doing nothing, as the weather is getting more wintery, I have to be honest, I'm feeling like bunkering down and staying cosy in my pjammies!

This 7 days of #DoNothing for #worldmentalhealthday has been so beautiful so far. And it has even offered me the beautiful reminder that there really is nothing to do, which we all forget from time to time.

There's nothing to do to be psychologically okay. We have an inbuilt intelligence within us that knows how to return us to calm, if only we leave it alone and don't try to interfere. We just need to let nature do its job sometimes - after all, we are basically nature walking round, blessed with the power of thought.

So, in New Year 2020, I've created a Winter Nourish for us to reconnect to who we really are. We will share a cosy day retreat in which we will bunker down, nestled with blankets and warm drinks in a beautiful, heated wooden pod, surrounded by 360 acres beautiful Warwickshire countryside. Encased in nature, we'll take in its beautiful lessons, as we talk more about how to reconnect to our wisdom, and enjoy some beautiful spaciousness with breathing and meditation.

We will be exploring in depth how we can find freedom from our day to day and more difficult suffering, whatever that might look like, and resting in a beautiful space of connection to all that we are, with likeminded souls.
If you want to make a day of it, you're welcome to book a night's stay, which the venue @woottonparkevents
has created a special offering for so that you can arrive on Saturday and enjoy some space before the retreat on Sunday 12th Jan.

There are very limited spaces as this will be a most intimate group so that we can really rest in the beautiful spaciousness of being.

If you're interested, please message me to hold your space as soon as possible as we have already had some confirmed and as soon as it is full the retreat offering will be taken down. You can also have a read about the retreat in the link in my bio.

I can't wait for you to join, if you are meant to be there, there will be a way, and in my experience, the perfect group always comes together.

Much love

Nicole 💜
#retreat #newyear

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#DoNothing
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We so often look outside of this moment, and that's where our suffering lies. So, in today's 5 minute pause, I want you to notice this moment.
Self-Rediscovery Reflections: - What is happening in this moment, right now? - Are you okay right now? - How does it feel to rest here?
If it doesn't feel OK, that's OK too, because in the next moment there's always possibility for that to change.

How are you getting on?

#challenge #selfdiscoverynotselfhelp #mentalhealth #worldmentalhealth #truth #transformationaltruth #transformation #connection #pause #thismoment

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IN MY HEAD

I'm in my head today, my love.
My trauma taunts me,
As sensations of anger bubble up in my chest.

I feel unheard, unseen, not enough,
As if I give of myself again and again,
Only to be left in the corner,
Alone, and invisible, unimportant;
Feeling second best and betrayed.

Yet, it's simply how I see the world today, my darling;
It's not the truth.
But it feels so real,
As I rest in my narrative,
Licking my self-inflicted wounds.

And I could just dismiss it as thought, couldn't I?
Forcing myself to think that as old friends move away,
New ones come in,
Or that I am seen and making a difference.
I could try and change my feeling abandoned and invisible -
Or I could rest here;

Embracing it all as a part of me,
That simply longs to be seen.
An old, exhausting pattern of thinking
That shows up, every so often,
When I'm feeling the winds of change.

Because very soon, my love,
It'll move on through,
And I'll see the truth, once more
And what's underneath the thinking will simply be illuminated, before it falls away.

For we are always connected,
And we always have the capacity to see this,
In our wisdom -
Even when we think we don't.

All it takes is one new insight,
A deeper seeing of the world with fresh eyes.
But until that moment,
There's nothing wrong with resting here, gently,
Pausing for it to clear.

And so you'll find me, my love,
Nestled with a blanket and a mocha,
Reading a book, or writing a poem.
Tapping back into my soul.

Not waiting for new thought to arrive, but embracing this very moment,
Making friends with my suffering,
In all its messiness.

And very soon, I'll feel differently, I'm sure,
But for now, my darling, I'm in my head,
And that's OK, too. 💜

#inmyhead #truth #transformationaltruth #poetry #poetsofinstagram #poemsfromtheheart #poemsaboutlife #mywords #mythoughts #wordsmatter #words #anxiety #overwhelm #poemsoninstagram #ilovetowrite #ilovewords #wordsofwisdom #qotd #selfrediscovery #selfdiscovery #acceptance

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