Morten Bonde has an eye condition that is slowly making him go blind. In 2016, his vision was so severely reduced that his life couldn’t continue as before. With a family and a career as senior art director at the LEGO Group, suddenly his whole world collapsed. But when everything was at its bleakest, he experienced a sudden clarity for how to regain a zest for life and emerge from the darkness stronger than ever before. In his blindness he found true insight and succeeded in returning from hopelessness to regaining a positive and indomitable view of life.

He has since published a book called Sentenced to Blindness – Now What? Presented a TedTalk and uses his story to help and inspire others to see the possibilities in life rather than limitations. And Morten joins us today to share his story the techniques he’s used to help him change his perspective and change his life.  

To find out more about Morten’s story you can check out his website here:

https://mortenbonde.dk/en/

Social media links: 

www.facebook.com/mortenbondeforedrag

https://www.linkedin.com/in/morten-bonde-4139628/

https://www.instagram.com/bondemorten

https://www.youtube.com/user/morbonde/featured

Hey everyone and welcome to the MC Bitesize Book Review with Shirley Blanch from Get Mindful and Mindset Coach Amanda O’Rourke.  In this series we’re going to be taking a look at some of the best self-help books out there to help you find the right one for you, depending on the area in your life you want to focus on. We’ll tell you what each book is about, why we think it deserves to be on your bookshelf, and how you can use this information to make real changes in your life.

In this episode, we look at the book ‘It’s Not Your Money’ by Tosha Silver in which she looks at an alternative way to manifest abundance. Instead of grasping and chasing, what if we offered everything--our money (or lack of it), our triumphs, our problems, our desires--fully back to Love? What if this offering itself was actually the secret to abundance?

Rev. Pamela Borawski CHt is an ordained pagan minister and a green hedge witch. She works on her personal spiritual path which she has named the Greenwild Tradition and hosts a witchy podcast called Belle, Book & Candle.

Her story is one of triumph over hopelessness, emptiness, and fear. Having been raised in a fundamentalist cult, the victim of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, she fell into decades of deep depression and considered suicide her only option. It was only through learning to love herself, to become a resilient human being, and finding her own authentic personal spiritual path did she rise above the darkness of her past to become an inspiration to those that meet her and hear her story and she joins us today to help us understand more about the ancient practice of witchcraft and bust some myths along the way.

For more information about Mela and her work please check out her website here:

www.3RaysofLight.org

Facebook: @3RaysofLightLLC

Podcast: www.podpage.com/belle-book-candle/

Episodes featuring more information about Mela’s story can be found here: www.podpage.com/belle-book-candle/category/personal-stories/

Hey everyone and welcome to the MC Bitesize Book Review with Shirley Blanch from Get Mindful and Mindset Coach Amanda O’Rourke.  In this series we’re going to be taking a look at some of the best self-help books out there to help you find the right one for you, depending on the area in your life you want to focus on. We’ll tell you what each book is about, why we think it deserves to be on your bookshelf, and how you can use this information to make real changes in your life.

In this episode, we look at the book ‘Mindset’ by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck and talk about the importance of the concept of ‘growth’ mindset whether it’s related to career, business, personal development, success in sports, or even parenting, and how developing this mindset can have a hugely beneficial impact on our success and our lives in general. 

For more information about ‘getting mindful’ with Shirley check out her website at getmindful.co.uk or to find out more about Amanda’s coaching work you can find her at happycoach.co.uk

This week we’re focusing on the important issue of online grooming awareness. Mark Harrington an SEN teacher from West Sussex has developed some amazing resources for SEN students and together with the Breck Foundation is on a mission to deliver this important training to some of the most vulnerable young people out there.

Hey everyone and welcome to the MC Bitesize Book Review with Shirley Blanch from Get Mindful and Mindset Coach Amanda O’Rourke.  In this series we’re going to be taking a look at some of the best self-help books out there to help you find the right one for you, depending on the area in your life you want to focus on. We’ll tell you what each book is about, why we think it deserves to be on your bookshelf and how you can use this information to make real changes in your life. 

In this episode, we look at the book The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer in which he tells us how we can train ourselves to see intention as a field of energy, and how by doing this we can learn to tune into that energy and step beyond our minds to become ‘connectors’ and begin co-creating our lives.

In this week’s episode, mindfulness coach Shirley Blanch gives us a run down of her top 10 favourite mindfulness and emotional resilience exercises for you to try with your own children.

Hey everyone and welcome to the MC Bitesize Book Review with Shirley Blanch from Get Mindful and Mindset Coach Amanda O’Rourke. In this series we’re going to be taking a look at some of the best self-help books out there to help you find the right one for you, depending on the area in your life you want to focus on. We’ll tell you what each book is about, why we think it deserves to be on your bookshelf, and how you can use this information to make real changes in your life. In this episode, we take a look at Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford and discuss the transformative power of ‘shadow work’. Watch now to find out more about what shadow work is and why it is such a powerful tool in personal development.

A counterintuitive approach to living a good life.

In this series mindfulness coach Shirley Blanch and mindset coach Amanda O'Rourke take a look at some of the best self- help books out there to help you find the right one for you. So if you've been wondering if the Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is the book for you, why not check out our review before you buy.

Our team love mindfulness books - This is the first episode which takes a bitesize book review about books the team have read or are reading and feel are helpful. This week Amanda & Shirley review James Clear's book 'Atomic Habits'.