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💛 Mindfulness doesn't have to mean sitting still and being quiet.For children especially, mindfulness through movement a...
10/06/2026

💛 Mindfulness doesn't have to mean sitting still and being quiet.

For children especially, mindfulness through movement and making is often far more powerful than any traditional meditation.

When a child is absorbed in drawing, painting or creating — they are completely present. Their nervous system is calm. Their mind is focused.
That IS mindfulness. And it's available to every child, regardless of ability or experience.

🧠 Starting secondary school is one of the biggest emotional transitions a child will face. New friendships to navigate. ...
10/06/2026

🧠 Starting secondary school is one of the biggest emotional transitions a child will face.

New friendships to navigate. New teachers. A much bigger environment. Higher expectations. And all of it happening while they're right in the middle of some of the most intense emotional development of their lives.

Creative mindfulness gives children a toolkit for all of it — a way to process, to regulate, to understand what's going on inside them.

It's not a luxury. For this age group, it's genuinely essential.

🎨 This week's challenge is a mindful one: Set a timer for five minutes. Draw only what you can see from where you are si...
08/06/2026

🎨 This week's challenge is a mindful one:

Set a timer for five minutes. Draw only what you can see from where you are sitting right now. Don't move, don't plan — just look and draw.

It doesn't matter what it looks like. What matters is that for five minutes, you were completely present.

That's your mindfulness practice for today. ✨

Share what you saw in the comments 👇

One of the things I love most about working with children creatively is watching the moment they stop worrying about whe...
05/06/2026

One of the things I love most about working with children creatively is watching the moment they stop worrying about whether it looks right.

There's always a moment — usually about ten minutes in — where they just... let go.

And what comes out after that is always the most beautiful thing in the room.

That's what this work is really about. 🎨💛

💛 Mindfulness doesn't have to mean sitting still and being quiet. For children especially, mindfulness through movement ...
03/06/2026

💛 Mindfulness doesn't have to mean sitting still and being quiet.

For children especially, mindfulness through movement and making is often far more powerful than any traditional meditation.

When a child is absorbed in drawing, painting or creating — they are completely present. Their nervous system is calm. Their mind is focused.

That IS mindfulness. And it's available to every child, regardless of ability or experience.

We don't lack time. We lack permission.Coming Back to Myself 🎨This week the book asked me to sit for twenty minutes and ...
02/06/2026

We don't lack time. We lack permission.

Coming Back to Myself 🎨

This week the book asked me to sit for twenty minutes and do absolutely nothing. No phone, no book, no meditation. Just nothing.

It was genuinely one of the most uncomfortable things I've done in a long time.

Five minutes felt like twenty. I kept looking at the clock. I couldn't settle. And I say that as someone who teaches meditation — because there's a world of difference between meditating and doing truly nothing. No anchor. No purpose. Just sitting.

But here's what struck me: I've sat on my sofa staring out of the window contentedly for twenty minutes before. The moment I was told to, it became unbearable.

We do the same thing with creativity. We say we don't have time — but we find time for the scroll, the inbox check, the quick five minutes that becomes thirty. Time isn't the problem. Permission is.

Giving yourself permission to create — to call it important, to protect it, to show up for it — that's where it starts. Not with more hours in the day. With deciding that this hour counts. 🌿

🎨 This week's creative challenge: Get a piece of paper and fill it entirely with colour. No shapes, no drawing, no plan ...
01/06/2026

🎨 This week's creative challenge:

Get a piece of paper and fill it entirely with colour. No shapes, no drawing, no plan — just colour, any colour, all colours. Use whatever you've got. Felt tips, watercolour, coloured pencils, crayons.

Cover every single bit of the page.

Notice how you feel when it's full.

Share yours in the comments — I want to see ALL the colour 🌈

💛 Something I'm really excited about is coming this summer — and it's for children heading into secondary school in Sept...
29/05/2026

💛 Something I'm really excited about is coming this summer — and it's for children heading into secondary school in September.

If you've been with The Art Box for a while, you might already know about the Creative Mindfulness Course. It's back. And this time the timing couldn't be more perfect.

More details coming very soon. Drop a 🎨 in the comments if your child is making that big move to secondary school this September — I'd love to know you're out there.

Coming Back to Myself 🎨This week's exercise was to create a small daily ceremony — something that keeps the dream alive ...
28/05/2026

Coming Back to Myself 🎨

This week's exercise was to create a small daily ceremony — something that keeps the dream alive without demanding anything of me.

Mine is this: a glass jar wrapped in cream ribbon, sitting in the kitchen window with paintbrushes standing in it. Beside a plant cutting, in the morning light.

Every morning I make my coffee and sit with it at the window. I look at the brushes. I look out at the garden. I don't plan anything or make it practical. I just let myself remember: I am creative. This matters to me. I'm coming back to it.

In the evenings I come back to the same room — the armchair, the low lamp, the quiet. The brushes still there in the window. A small, daily act of saying: I haven't forgotten.

This is what creativity for wellbeing actually looks like — not grand gestures, but small repeated acts of intention. Keeping the door open. Tending the flame.

What small thing could you put in place to keep your creativity alive this week? 🌿

🧠 Three things that happen when children practise creative mindfulness regularly: 1. They get better at naming their emo...
27/05/2026

🧠 Three things that happen when children practise creative mindfulness regularly:

1. They get better at naming their emotions — which means they can manage them more effectively

2. They develop focus and patience in a world that constantly pulls their attention away

3. They build confidence — because creativity is a place where there's no wrong answer

These are life skills. And they start with a paintbrush.

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