Liathach: The Power of Simply Being

This week, we walk the layered ridges of Beinn Eighe, the File Mountain. Its very name speaks of shaping, of refining. In this episode, we reflect on how life’s erosions, the challenges, the griefs, t...

16 Sep 20258min

Bidein a’ Ghlas Thuill, the Peak of the Grey Hollow, teaches us that beauty is not confined to light or clarity. The shadowed places, the hollows in our lives, are not flaws to be erased. They are par...

7 Sep 202512min

This week, we walk into the middle of nowhere, and find something deeply grounding. Ben Alder doesn’t demand you reach the top. It doesn’t offer a badge or a view you can post. But it does give you sp...

31 Aug 202510min

This week, we stand on Beinn Bhuidhe: the Yellow Mountain, to explore what it means to live with an honest joy. Thekind that glows golden for a moment, then drifts away, and always returns.Together, w...

22 Jul 202511min

Join me on Beinn Dearg, the Red Mountain, or rather, many Red Mountains scattered through the Highlands. Each one holds its own quiet warmth beneath stone and snow, teaching us that we too carry an em...

14 Jul 20258min

Join me on the Notched Ridge of Aonach Eagach, one of Scotland’s most striking knife-edge ridges, and a powerful reminder that life’s narrow paths hold lessons we cannot find in gentle places. In this...

6 Jul 202512min

In this episode of Mountains of Mindfulness, we journey to Beinn a’ Bhùird: the Mountain of the Table, a broad, steady giant in the eastern Cairngorms whose name reminds us that sometimes we need a pl...

2 Jul 202510min

Stac Pollaidh is a mountain of contrasts; jagged, broken, dramatic. But beneath its wild ridges lie still pools that mirror its shape with perfect calm.In this episode, we explore what it means to hol...

23 Jun 20259min