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Rest, Together

Listen, read or simply breathe — we’ve opened our most-used resources to everyone, free, for as long as you need them.

Seasonal Practice Calendars

One small invitation a day, for thirty days, to deepen a practice and notice what quietly shifts.

September “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
SMTWTFS
01Name a sound
02Outside first
03Eat sitting down
04Ask a better one
05Leave one undone
06Walk in silence
07Write a worry
08Thank someone
09Sit four minutes
10Notice your jaw
11Say no once
12Reread a letter
13Phone in the hall
14Stretch on waking
15Watch the light
16Finish one thing
17Sit with it
18Call, don’t text
19Make the bed
20Notice a kindness
21Take the long way
22Phone down first
23Write three lines
24Let silence sit
25Eat outside
26Forgive one thing
Print it, or keep it on the fridge. stillmere
August “Rest is not the reward for finishing. It is part of the work.”
SMTWTFS
01Open a window
02Drink water first
03Take the slow way
04Text an old friend
05Read four pages
06Sit in the sun
07Clear a surface
08Breathe twice
09Cook slowly
10One screen only
11Ask for help
12Look up a while
13Go to bed early
14Say what you mean
15Sit, then answer
16Radio off
17Notice a breath
18Give one thing away
19Eat, no screen
20Write a thank you
21Slower shower
22Let inbox wait
23Learn a name
24Window open
25Do one thing badly
26Look up twice
27Stop ten early
Start on any day. Skip any day. stillmere

Daily Gratitude Pages

We made these pages to help you catch the ordinary, unremarkable good that a week tends to swallow.

“Gratitude turns what we already have into enough, and enough into a kind of plenty.”


Marguerite Odell
TODAY I’M GRATEFUL FOR:

“If the only sentence you ever wrote down was thank you, that would do.”


Ansel Braithe
TODAY I’M GRATEFUL FOR:

Click here to read more and download.

Mind Training Field Guide

We wrote this guide to give you eleven specific exercises — not theory, just things to actually try.

Night sky and stars over a mountain lake — Trey Ratcliff, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
MIND TRAINING

FIELD
GUIDE

Eleven exercises worth repeating.

Click here to read more and download.

Intention Card Deck

We made this deck and its companion journal as a way to deliberately grow the qualities that help us show up for ourselves and for other people, in ways that feel worth the effort.

Pick one card. Live with it for a week.
  • Where did this quality already show up today, unprompted?
  • Who made it easier for me to practise it this week?
  • What did it cost me — time, comfort, being wrong out loud?
  • Which situation made it hardest, and what did I do instead?
  • If tomorrow held one small test of it, what would that look like?
  • What would I like to have said, and to whom?
  • What am I willing to carry into next week?

Click here to read more and download.

Practice Guidebooks

Four short guidebooks — sitting, sleeping, walking and writing — for people who would rather begin than read about beginning.

A woman walking through shallow water on a quiet shore — Artem Beliaikin, CC0
Unwind
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Download the Unwind Guidebook here

The Thanks Practice Kit

Six written exercises, one for each evening of a long week, plus a letter you will probably never send.

EXERCISE FOUR — A LETTER TO YOUR PAST SELF
A single yellow daffodil in a glass on a warm background — rawpixel, CC0

This exercise is a letter of thanks to the person you used to be. If you think about it, you owe them a great deal.

Consider the thousands of small decisions made by earlier versions of you, nearly all of them unremarkable at the time, all of them leading to the life you are living in this particular moment.

Write to them — and thank them, plainly — for the choices that turned out well and for the ones that only look wise in hindsight.

We recommend writing it by hand, and being specific. Vague gratitude is easy to write and impossible to feel.

“If the only sentence you ever wrote down was thank you, that would do.”

— ANSEL BRAITHE
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Download the Thanks Practice Kit here

Stress Reset Workbook

Take a minute to acknowledge how much you carry, and how much of it is asked of your body, your attention and your patience.

A woman holding wildflowers in a summer field at golden hour — Image Catalog, CC0

Download the Stress Reset Workbook here

Peak Focus Journal

Built with two performance coaches for people whose work asks for concentration they cannot always summon on demand.

Your Focused Space

Mist rising off a still lake at sunrise — ohefin, CC BY-SA 2.0

Download the Peak Focus Journal here

Finding Ease Journal

Thirty-one entries on what actually makes a day feel lighter — and how little of it turns out to be circumstance.

What went quietly right today?
Who did I make things easier for?
What did I stop carrying?
What would I like more of tomorrow?

Download the Finding Ease Journal here

Making Things Anyway Journal

For anyone who has waited to feel ready. Nine prompts about doing the work while the doubt is still in the room.

What would you begin this month if nobody you respect were going to see the first draft?

Name the fear plainly. Then name the smallest version of the thing you could still make today.

Download the Making Things Anyway Journal here

Slow Eating Journal

Track what you notice — not what you ate — and see how differently a week of meals reads back.

Before the first bite, what do you notice?

MEAL FOUR · WEDNESDAY · STILLMERE

Download the Slow Eating Journal here

Night Notes Journal

Empty your head onto one page before the light goes off, so the same four thoughts stop circling at 2am.

WHAT I’M STILL CARRYING
TOMORROW CAN WAIT UNTIL
Sleep
Soundly

Download the Night Notes Journal here

Reflection Journal

Writing prompts for looking back, sitting still and saying thank you. Plus pages worth colouring in slowly.

Sunday

What feeling would you like to invite into today?
What are you ready to put down?
What are you letting go of tonight?
Checking in with your body

Where does the day sit in you right now? Without arguing with it, write down the sensations you can actually feel.

Read more about the Stillmere Reflection Journal here.