A Mindful March

It’s March! Happy St David’s day! It’s the month of my birth and therefore the best month of the year because I can politely demand presents from everyone*.

*Yes, I am that unbearable and I make no excuses for it – I am a sucker for presents, please buy me a present thank you.

As we know, I love to give things a dramatic title, so this is Mindful March. I’m continuing on my journey to slow down, be kind to and better understand myself, and this month began with my dad handing me a book and asking, “Have you read this one?”

The book is The Art of Stopping Time by Pedram Shojai and claims to offer ‘Practical Mindfulness for Busy People’. In between my job hunting, my counselling studies, and just life at the moment, I feel very busy, so I thought I would give this book a go.

The book is split into 100 different ‘days’ of mindfulness with a little prompt for each one. I shall be beginning with my first prompt tomorrow and then seeing how far I go before I get so full of mindfulness I cannot bear anymore. My mind is going to be so full of ness, you won’t even recognise me.

Celebrations

Let’s start the month with a few celebrations too (not just my birthday, although that is this month, did I mention that?*).

*subtle reminder subtle reminder

Firstly, Job Week 2026 was a success! I managed to apply for a job every day of the week, even though by the final day I was climbing up the walls in frustration. By success, I don’t mean I have a job, but I have taken a pretty solid step in the right direction to getting one. Go me. I think that is worth celebrating.

I have just finished another cross-stitch as well – a strawberry cup-cake thing which took me a lot longer than I thought it would. I think the red thread of the strawberry has been my favourite colour to work with so far on my cross-stitch adventures.

The cross stitch was very neatly shoved into my backpack as I travelled home and has emerged a little battered as a result.

And I’ve just been published again! This time in the Lapidus Magazine – a magazine about writing and wellbeing. This month’s topic of the magazine was relationships, and I wrote a piece about my relationship with Gender in 2025. I’m pretty proud of the piece and it went through a few different versions before I managed to settle on what I really wanted to say.

Not a bad way to start this month, all in all.

Also, it’s my birthday soon. Did I mention that?