This collection of posts illustrates the difference that acts of kindness make to others’ lives. Your actions matter and these good news posts show you how.
We dropped our daughter off for the pre-match warm up at Portchester football club, we then had about an hour to kill before going in to watch the game. A member of staff from the home team told us about the Salt Café (check out their website), which was 5 minutes walk away on the […]
“I work at a leisure centre and we quite often host a wheelchair basket ball competition for Reading Rockets. All the players come in and out with all the equipment that is required (quite a lot!!). Lots of other people using the centre often help them in small ways such as giving way. But in
When I got home from the shops, I noticed that my neighbour’s car boot was wide open. It was sitting on his drive but as there was no sign of him I rang his doorbell to tell him about his boot in case he didn’t know. He was pleased because he thought he had shut
“I went for a blood test the other day and for the first time ever, not only did a healthcare provider see me masked and ask if I wanted them to mask in a way that showed empathy and that this wasn’t a big deal – they also then proceeded to inform me ‘just to
I was on a train to Bramley and there were a couple of people doing some sort of survey of the passengers. The train guard came to find out how they were getting on and they mentioned they were planning to get off at the next station and get another train going back. He told
“A car driver let me out of a tricky junction as their viewpoint was much clearer than me edging out.” We can all appreciate the big difference a small kindness like this makes – that’s something we sometimes discuss in my wellbeing workshops where this story was shared. Learning to focus on these positives is
I recently chatted with Daniel Burns of KindLoook – someone across the globe with the same mission to get people sharing and talking about more kindness. If you love what we do here, go and check out Kind Loook too, you can find their website here, and fill your feed with positivity and hope by
“A young woman sitting next to me on the train was telling her friend that her sister has to stop breastfeeding her young baby due to a health problem of her own and that she feels really guilty that she can’t feed her baby. I couldn’t help myself, I had to interrupt! I told her
“A chap I’d just met offered to hold my backpack so I could take my jacket off.” This was one of the stories shared at a recent workshop and just goes to show how powerful the experience of taking part in my Wellbeing Workshops is as it helps us focus on the good. Learn more
“I have been experiencing kindness while looking after my frail, elderly mother. We now have a carer coming for three hours each weekday morning: she only started last week, and has already rejigged some of her other commitments in order to be able to offer me additional respite on some evenings. And Mum’s long-term companionship
