Welcome to
The Calm Collection
The Calm Collection brings together three of my longest-running self-study courses that equip you to live with a calmer, more peaceful, contented life, in one beautiful collection.
Exhale – in this meditation course you will create a sustainable meditation practice that works in your busy life.
Be Here Now – with this mindfulness course you will learn how to stop living in your head and start enjoying your life.
A Thankful Heart – in this gratitude course you will discover how to build a happiness habit that boosts your love of life right now.
All of the courses are self-paced which means you go at your own speed – there's no keeping up or falling behind.
The Calm Collection
Exhale
A beginner's guide to meditation
Be Here Now
A practical guide to living mindfully
A Thankful Heart
Create a happiness habit with gratitude practice
About the courses
Click the buttons below to read more about each course in The Calm Collection.
- You want to find peace and quiet in a loud, demanding world
- You've tried meditation before and found it a struggle
- You find it impossible to empty your brain or make it go blank
- You don't have time to sit on a cushion and chat ohm for half an hour a day
- You want to know how it can be possible for someone juggling work and life can find time to meditate
Whether you have never tried meditation before or you’ve struggled to meditate regularly, here you will get step by step guidance and the tools you need to begin meditating and create a sustainable mindfulness meditation practice that works in your busy life and allows you to feel calm, in control and at ease.
Mindfulness meditation makes a difference to your life when you're not meditating. The few minutes you spend in meditation teach you how to access calm when you're in the thick of a stressful, busy day. When you learn to notice you're sinking into overwhelm you can interrupt the cycle and take action to help yourself. And by taking a few minutes to meditate you can spend the rest of your waking hours getting on with your life as you want to, enjoying it, because you're better able to bring down the overwhelm.
“Your presentation style is easy, digestible and a pleasure to read. The meditations are wonderful and for me, the perfect way to start my work day at my desk.”
– Karin
- Examine what meditation is, the misunderstandings around it and its relationship with mindfulness
- Discover how you can benefit from meditation
- Look at when to use mindfulness meditation in everyday life as well as in daily practice
- Troubleshoot challenges to beginning a new meditation habit
- Focus on creating a consistent, sustainable meditation practice that works within your life and gives you the feeling of calm and control you crave
- Hear from several women who share their experience of creating a regular meditation practice around their busy work and family lives
- Begin with a simple three minute meditation, alternating with different styles of meditation (stationary and active) and gently experimenting with meditating for up to ten minutes by the end of the course
- Instant access to the complete course in the private online classroom
- Ten guided meditations (nine audio and one video) which include moving as well as sitting meditations
- Interviews with women sharing their experience of making meditation a part of their busy work and family lives
- A resource library to support you in maintaining your newly established practice including practical tips from real life meditators, worksheets, recommended apps and more
- The content is available as written text and audio recordings so you have the option to listen and read
Exhale leads you step by step into meditating so you can create a sustainable practice that supports and benefits you rather than overwhelms you. It’s more beneficial to meditate daily for a handful of minutes than to save it all up and do half an hour once a week. This is why we begin with a short three minute meditation and build up to ten minutes later in the course. It’s why I talk you through every meditation and why, by the end of the course, you will have a menu of meditations of varying length, focus and use so you can choose what meditation to follow for your needs at any given time.
Exhale is a self-study course that begins as soon as you join. You can follow it at your own pace without feeling pressured. I know time can be a challenge to establishing a meditation habit so the lessons are a manageable size and the guided meditations are only a few minutes long.
- To begin you’ll need three minutes a day to meditate undisturbed. This builds up to five and then ten minutes by the end of the course
- A phone, tablet or computer to read the lessons and listen to the guided meditations
- A printer if you choose to print any of the resources
- An openness to learn and begin creating a regular meditation practice
- You’re feeling weighed down by your busy mind
- Your stressing is getting in the way of your relationships and peace of mind
- You’re reacting to the world around you, playing catch-up and trying to be everything to everyone
- You want to feel like you’re living your life right now, not as if days and weeks are rushing by, but you don’t know how
- You want to find out how to spend less time in your head – lost in replaying what’s already happened and worrying about what might happen in the future – you’re not sure how to do it but you want to have a go
Perhaps you're going through a difficult time and want to learn how to focus your attention on what’s good in your life.
Perhaps you know that your life is essentially fine but you don't seem able to really enjoy it, and you've had enough, you want to stop living in your head and start loving your life.
If this sounds familiar to you, Be Here Now – A Practical Guide to Living Mindfully e-course is for you. This self-study course will guide you to unsticking yourself from that bogged down feeling of overthinking, so you can feel freer and lighter, able to enjoy life as you really want to.
“Thank you so much for Be Here Now, it was really informative and very useful. The practical element of it especially, as it gave me concrete things to do and try and felt so manageable and the things to try weren't overwhelming. It was great to have smaller things to try, as well as the guidance to focus on different areas at a time.”
- Jennifer
In this course you will learn how to spend less time lost in your head, bogged down with worry, and more time enjoying what’s going on in and around your life, paying closer attention to how you feel and interact with the world. While mindfulness techniques and meditations form an integral part of the course, this isn’t about learning to practise mindfulness meditation.
During the course we’ll look at how living mindfully helps you take better care of yourself, strengthens your relationships with those you care about and the wider world, and how it can help you to find more enjoyment, meaning and contentment in your ordinary, everyday life.
Living mindfully isn’t something to do when you have more time, when you’ve turned a corner, or when you’ve achieved a specific goal. Begin living mindfully now, increase your awareness of your daily thoughts, actions and words now, and you begin to live a fuller, more joy-filled life now.
Through this course you’ll discover that by living mindfully you can:
- Have more positive and meaningful connections and relationships with family, friends and work colleagues
- Develop a healthy and happy relationship with social media and establish boundaries with your use of your phone or tablet
- Be kinder to yourself in your words and actions
- Cope better with, and reduce, feelings of worry and stress
- Increase the contentment, meaning and joy you feel every day
- Focus more of your time and energy on what you find fulfilling, rewarding and enjoyable
Module 1 we lay the ground work, looking at why you want to live more mindfully and how it relates to meditation. We also think about how you talk to yourself and your relationship with your inner critic.
Module 2 sees us continuing with considering how you care for your mind, body and soul, exploring misconceptions and realities of self-care. We look at what mindful eating and drinking is and how you can benefit from practising it.
Module 3 we focus on the sticky subject of your relationship with your digital devices – how you use and relate to social media, what and how you share yourself online, and ways to create a healthy relationship with your device and online use.
Module 4 we turn our attention to how living mindfully can build and strengthen your relationships with family, friends, work colleagues and the wider community, and we look at dealing with difficult people. We also consider your environment and how being mindful of where you live and work enhances your wellbeing.
Module 5 we build on the previous modules and focus on how mindfulness can help you deal with and reduce how stressed you feel, what it means to live with intention and making mindfulness part of everyday life.
“I took Be Here Now at a time when I'm facing some major changes and uncertainties. I found this a useful focus to start to reduce the rumination. I really enjoyed the course and I now have the tools to go back and use them again to re focus and check myself.”
- Caroline
- Instant access to the private classroom where you’ll find the lessons, worksheets and guided meditations available to you on any device
- The content is available as written text and audio recordings so you have the option to listen and read
- Six guided meditations to help you focus on the present, calm racing and anxious thoughts, and to cultivate a more positive mindset
- 20 worksheets with practical and doable actions to live more mindfully
- Knowledge, guidance and actions to empower you to spend less time in your head and more time enjoying your life as it is right now
Noticing and appreciating the good in the everyday plays a key role in helping us to stress less and enjoy life more. Making gratitude practice a habit, making it part of your everyday routine, is one of the most effective steps you can take to bring more joy into your life.
Research studies have found that you feel more joy in ordinary life and build your resilience to deal with life’s difficulties by cultivating an attitude of gratitude. The benefits of a thankful mindset are far reaching.
You can…
- experience more joy, optimism and enthusiasm
- cope better with stress
- are healthier and recover more quickly from illness
- are more generous and helpful
- feel a greater sense of purpose
- are more resilient to adversity
Gratitude is not about being indebted or beholden to anyone, or bypassing what's difficult in our lives and the world. It’s about being aware of the good in our lives, in others, in the world around us.
By feeling and expressing appreciation for what you have in your life you are more mindful of your connections with others, you’re more aware of your thoughts, words and actions to yourself and those around you, and you are able to recognise and savour the good in your life, however small those moments may appear.
And all of this has been found by countless studies to have a significant positive impact on your wellbeing.
“A Thankful Heart really opened my eyes to all the smaller things around me to be thankful for. It’s helped me make gratitude practice a part of my everyday. The course has helped me to see the beauty in the everyday.”
– Amanda
A Thankful Heart is 21 days long because studies have shown that noticeable changes can occur within three weeks of daily gratitude practice.
In this course you will learn how to express thanks in ways that feel comfortable and are effective in improving your mood, and how to make gratitude a habit as much a part of your daily routine as drinking your morning cuppa.
Practising gratitude helps you to look at the bigger picture and broaden your perspective. It enables you to recognise what’s good in your world, pay attention to it and express your gratitude for it. And it’s this practice that empowers you to spend more time enjoying your life as it is right now.
“Gabrielle has taught me the power of gratitude, which, with practice, has helped retrain my mind to focus on the positives, no matter how small or big they might be.”
– Danielle
- access to the private classroom where you’ll find the lessons and guided meditations become available to you each day as you work through the three-week course
- you can listen to recordings of the lessons as well as read them
- a lifelong practice that will build your resilience, enable you to cope better with stress, spend less time worrying and more time enjoying your life
- about 15 minutes of your time each day
- a phone, tablet or computer to access the lessons and listen to the visualisations
- a notebook to write in
- a readiness to explore how practising gratitude can help you to worry less and enjoy life more
You get instant access to the three courses straight away, with Exhale and Be Here Now in their entirety. When you begin A Thankful Heart the next section of the course will become available to you each day, for 21 days.
You'll get direct access to me through 1:1 office hours when you can message me through Voxer – a free walkie-talkie app that allows us to exchange voice and text messages – about anything that's come up for you in the courses and I'll reply to you with a personalised response. Details for the Voxer office hours are shared via email.
"I love Exhale, the time needed is so achievable. I used the mantra meditation on a crowded bus journey yesterday and felt so much calmer when I arrived at my destination. Thank you so much."
– Paula
Buy The Calm Collection Now!
3 for 2 – Get the three full courses, Exhale (£49),Be Here Now (£99) and A Thankful Heart (£49) for the price of just two!
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“The Be Here Now course has helped me make changes in my day to day life which is helping me cope better with stress. Gabrielle’s course is easy to follow and enjoyable to read and conveys her passion for the subject. I’d recommend the course to anyone looking to live more mindfully.”
– Joanna
Frequently Asked Questions
You get three of my longest-running self-study courses – Exhale, Be Here Now and A Thankful Heart – in full.
Exhale and Be Here Now: You’ll get access to both of the complete courses in the private classroom straight away.
A Thankful Heart: You’ll get access to the private classroom straight away where you'll find the welcome lesson waiting for you. Then, each day for the following 21 days the next lesson will become available for you to access at around the same time.
For the lifetime of the courses, at least 12 months, probably longer!
Click on one of the Join Now buttons (choose to pay in full or in three monthly instalments) on this page and you’ll be taken to a payment screen. You can pay for the course using your debit or credit card.
Once your payment has been made you will receive confirmation by email. You can then access the private classroom through your account where you’ll find the courses available to you.
These courses are self-study which means you can take them at your own pace. There's no rush, no timetable, no keeping up or falling behind.
In Exhale we explore the benefits of meditation and the misunderstandings, we deal with overcoming the challenges you could face and how to create a sustainable practice that works for you with your unique life. I guide you step-by-step through the whole process so you don’t have to figure out anything alone. You don’t need anything but yourself and no sitting cross-legged, incense burning or chanting is required. Unless you want to.
If you have a question that has not been answered
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“A Thankful Heart is a really good grounding in how to establish a gratitude practice and how to think about gratitude. And a massive help in training and focussing your mind on all the positive things in your day and your life, rather than the bits that didn't go so well.”
– Lucy
A bit about me
I'm Gabrielle and I help overthinking, overdoing women who always put everyone else first and themselves last. They've had enough of feeling stressed, exhausted, unappreciated, resentful and guilty for feeling that way.
I help you feel like you can breathe again, to get back your spark, to have time and space, healthier relationships and more fun.
As an empathetic introvert and overdoing people-pleaser I have been on a long journey to build my resilience, feel more in control (and be okay with what's out of my power) and find calm and confidence.
As a certified international life and positive psychology coach I have supported individuals and organisations such as The Prince’s Trust, CareFirst, Design Nation and Choose to be Healthy Coalition in the US, for more than six years.
As a writer I have written for and being featured in many magazines such as Psychologies, Breathe, The Simple Things, Happy News and the Daily Express newspaper.
I host the Pressing Pause podcast, I’ve been interviewed as a guest on other podcasts and invited to speak at events. Through my one to one coaching, online courses and workshops I've helped hundreds of women find more space, peace, calm and joy in their daily lives.