Who We Are?

Hi! 👋 Welcome to mindful(ish), a weird little corner of the internet providing practical tools for people going through 💩.

I'm Luisa, a tired and wired corporate employee working in a high pressure tech job, mom of humans and furkids, wife, daughter, cool aunt, friend, wearer of many hats, family COO, founder of mindul(ish), the list goes on... 

Over the last few years, I have gone through some pretty intense 💩 that has made me think long and hard about a lot of things; life, death, suffering, the world, the state of it, our overexposure to technology and resulting desensitisation to tragedy, our insignificance in the context of the scale of the universe, and the beauty of our very existence in it. All pretty deep stuff, much of it pondered in the confines of hospital rooms, during the tiny hours of the night, plagued by insomnia, feeling like I was the only person awake on the planet. 

All this was compounded by the miserable overwhelm caused by doomscrolling through social media, allowing blue light from my device's tiny screen to pollute my eyes when I should've been trying to sleep. I watched everyone living better, happier, more successful lives than my own, free from suffering. This was juxtaposed with an onslaught of distressing current political and socio-economic affairs, and the imminent rise of the robots 🤖. Let's not forget the burnout caused by not having the luxury merely to exist, but having to keep other living beings alive and thriving, and retain employment.

It was all a bit much, and needless to say, didn't exactly make for a good headspace. I saught the support of mental health professionals, and they taught me some stuff to help me be present in the moment and make space for my feelings, reset when facing overwhelm and anxiety, let go of what I couldn't control, and power through the drama one day at a time.

So was born mindful(ish). Our goal is to get you away from your devices and the doomscroll, and help you to reclaim even just 10 minutes of the day, but giving you some tools to focus on instead of your phone. We want to make mindfulness relateable AF, and accessible to everyone, removing the stigma attached to mental wellbeing. Mindful(ish) is for real people, with real and busy lives. It's for the overstimulated, overwhelmed and overcaffeinated, dry, sarcastic, and a little bit ridiculous. It's for the burnt out A-types, the bros, the besties, the millenial parents trying to gentle parent their kids one bitten tongue at a time. We see you. We are you💛.  

What's with all the ducks, you ask? Ducks are adorable, duh! They're also a bit silly and funny. They're the picture of serenity on a lake at dawn even though you know they're paddling furiously to stay afloat. Among their many endearing qualities, they've inspired countless hilarious idioms. So join the mindful(ish) community, and let's try get our 🦆🦆🦆 in a row.