Mountains of Mindfulness: Beinn Eighe
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: Beauty in the Grey Hollows
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
Ben Alder: Finding Meaning Where You Are
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
Beinn Bhuidhe: Joy Without Pretence
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 Juli 202511min
Beinn Dearg: The Quiet Fire Within
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 Juli 20258min
Aonach Eagach: Walking Life’s Sharp Edges
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 Juli 202512min
Beinn a’ Bhùird: The Mountain of the Table
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 Juli 202510min
Stac Pollaidh: Reflections of the Rugged
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 Juni 20259min
