UPDATE: The winner for this giveaway, chosen at random, is: Beth Gallager
Please contact me at email@tinybuddha.com with your address so I can send you your kits! I wish I could send a kit to everyone who commented, but since I can’t, I’m extending this offer here.
There’s no denying it’s a strange holiday season this year. Annual traditions are on hold for many. Loved ones are far away. And I imagine most of us are getting antsy for a return to some semblance of normal.
While a lot feels different this year, there’s one thing that remains the same: the spirit of the season. And right now, that means focusing on what we appreciate (admittedly easier for some than others at this point in time).
For me, among other things, that’s all of you, and the love, kindness, and generosity of spirit you bring to this site.
I only need to look through comments and forum posts to see what an amazing group you are. You care. You offer empathy and support. You see beyond the surface, understand instead of judging, and give the kind of love we all deserve but haven’t always received.
It’s easy to get cynical sometimes—to focus on the worst of humanity and everything that’s wrong with the world. But then someone comes along and reminds you people are good. That’s what this site is for me, and I think for many of you as well: it’s a place where people share their light, even when they’ve known tremendous darkness. And I can’t think of anything more inspiring than that.
So to celebrate you this year, I’m running a giveaway for my new Mindfulness Kit, offering a pair—one for the winner, and one for the winner to gift to a friend.
What’s in the Mindfulness Kit?
The kit features a collection of aromatherapy-based products and detailed practice guides to help simplify mindfulness and bring more peace, calm, and relaxation to your daily life.
The products include:
- A Soothing Bath & Shower Gel
- A Lavender Essential Oil Roll-On
- A Relaxing Pillow Spray
- A Lychee Flower Scented Candle
The digital guides include:
- How to Make Your Shower Mindful, Blissful, and Rejuvenating
- 5 Breathing Exercises to Calm & Focus Your Mind
- How to Do a Bedtime Body Scan for a Peaceful Night’s Sleep
Why Did I Create This Kit?
I decided to create this kit because I know what it’s like to live lost in your thoughts. I’ve felt the pain of dwelling on the past, worrying about the future, replaying things I think I’ve done wrong, and obsessing about what other people think.
This is my default mental mode, programming I’ve lived with all my life, as I imagine is true for many of us.
But I also know the peace and relief that come from practicing mindfulness. I know how tension and anxiety melt away when I get out of my head and come back to my body and the present moment.
There are countless ways to do this—meditation, yoga, incorporating mindfulness into your daily activities. And it doesn’t require anything other than a willingness to focus on your breathing and bring yourself back to your breath when your mind starts to wander.
But I personally enjoy having tools to enhance my practice, specifically aromatherapy products. It’s easier to ground ourselves in our bodies when we connect with our senses, and there’s no sense as powerful as the sense of smell.
I chose lavender for most of the products in the kit because it’s scientifically proven to reduce stress and anxiety.
Whether you’re washing your worries away with the Soothing Bath & Shower Gel, taking a few deep breaths at work after applying the Calming Essential Oil Roll-on, or practicing progressive relaxation after spraying the Relaxing Pillow Spray, I believe these products can help you access a state of peace and calm.
And let’s face it: we could all use a little peace right now!
How to Enter the Giveaway
To enter the giveaway, post a comment below sharing one reason you want this kit.
You can enter until midnight, PST, on Thursday, November 26th. I will list the winner’s name at the top of the post on Friday the 27th. Please note you will need to check back then to see if you’ve won so you can email me your address.
If you’d like to grab a Mindfulness Kit right away, you can get one here.
Sending you all so much love!
**Giveaway limited to US. International shipping coming soon!
About Lori Deschene
Lori Deschene is the founder of Tiny Buddha. She started the site after struggling with depression, bulimia, c-PTSD, and toxic shame so she could recycle her former pain into something useful and inspire others to do the same. You can find her books, including Tiny Buddha’s Gratitude Journal and Tiny Buddha’s Worry Journal, here and learn more about her eCourse, Recreate Your Life Story, if you’re ready to transform your life and become the person you want to be.
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Though I run this site, it is not mine. It's ours. It's not about me. It's about us. Your stories and your wisdom are just as meaningful as mine.
As a wonderful escape from reality is reason enough to truly be a must have.
Thank you for this generous offer! I would love this kit to gift to a friend of mine. She is working from home bed having trouble disconnecting from work since it’s in her living room. Also, I love aromatherapy and can always use more of it in my life!
I would love this kit to kickstart 2021 off right! I’m re-vamping my morning routine and this would be perfect!
I would love this kit to help me take some time for myself to relax and unwind!
Thanks for the opportunity! Both my husband and I have a had a year of stress and grief, like many during these unprecedented times,we have been impacted in so many ways, loss, sadness and grief. We are working on mindfulness techniques to help with some of the anxiety we have experienced and continue to learn through your newsletter, which has been helpful. Thank you for the insight provided in the newsletters I look forward to them.
In kindness
Teressa
I want to give this kit to a nurse or doctor who is working in the ICU at one our local hospitals. I’m an occupational therapist and know what it’s like to be an essential worker, but those folks are in it deeply! Any token of someone caring as they care for others is most welcome! Even if I don’t win this, I still plan on doing something.
Boy could I use this kit. Between election work, pandemic and working from home, it’s been a stressful few months.
Dear one, I suffer. I am doing my best. Please help me.
I would appreciate this TB kit in hopes of enhancing my meditation/mindfulness practice. My best.
My stress and anxiety could sure use this. Will share with my daughter who has PTSD.
I would love to share this prize with my mom. She keeps encouraging me to be more mindful. 🙂
Edit…. never mind. You can’t ship to Canada 🙁
It’s been a rough couple of years and would love to enjoy something for myself.
I have friends that suffer from seasonal affective disorder. This time of year is difficult for them. A kit like this could help someone get through the holidays.
I am a healthcare provider in long term care and my daughter a nurse in the emergency room. Need I say more……please let this be finished soon! We are exhausted.
I would love to win this so i can use it with my parents (and the cat 😉 ) at home to help us live together more mindfully! 🙂
Best 2020 coping kit EVER!!!!!!!
This has been a really stressful year, and I think we can all agree to that 🙂 That being said I’ve been doing more mindfulness exercises with my family and this would be a great addition to some of the things I’ve been teaching them. A multi-sensory experience I think would go along way to keeping us all a little better grounded and able to release the stress.
This would be ideal to help my granddaughter with her anxiety a lovely pamper day just the two of us would be very wonderful xx
After the year we’ve had, we could all use this kit, but this year my job description went from being a security Dispatcher to being a COVID call taker (I didn’t change jobs–we just added a new hat), and we only get busier every day.
*bliss* “😑HM” 🛁
Four teens at home with full online learning has made it difficult for each of them to find their centers. A little tiny buddha boost would be greatly appreciated.
I just recently ran across TB and I feel like it came across what I needed at the right time. I would love to be chosen for this kit to help me move forward with my journey. I would also like to share it with my sister since we are also dealing with the cognitive decline of our mother.
Be well
Simply to help access the state of peace and calm.
What a wonderful thing you are doing not only with the offer, but just your whole presentation of materials. Tiny Buddha has been my go to for quite a while. I would love to win this awesome gift..but I would gift both of them one to my daughter and one to my granddaughter. I have lots of oils and relaxation tools..never hurts to add some more.This year I am grateful for what I already have and really do not need anything else. But I love to gift and my pocket book is empty. Thank you..sending love and light Barbara Black
To help with my anxiety, I have had a rough couple months
To have a lingering peace and a sense of calm.
What an amazing offering! I’d love this kit bc your emails are truly the first bit of information that has ever knocked me off my feet to make me pause and read. They make me pause and reflect. Your blog has been my saving grace for realizing that’s ok be broken & still have an incredible life. Thank you for all you do!
Perfect way for my friend and I to shake off 2020 and hit the ground running (and healthy) in 2021.
This sounds heavenly would love tiny Buddha mindfulness kit the perfect solution for peace and inner calm for me.
I have a VNS implant, which helps with my depression, but my anxiety is off the charts this year. And has mad my dermaticolmania so much worse. Thank you for your newsletter and information, you truly are helping!
I would love to win this for my husband. He has been extremely stressed this year with the pandemic, as well as recently losing his job. He works so hard for our family, this would be such a nice thing to give him to help him relax and hopefully cope with the stress and anxiety better! Thank you for doing this!!
This is such an amazing giveaway & inspires me very much to continue doing acts of kindness each & every day. I read articles & written materials from Tiny Buddha throughout each day. Tiny Buddha has been there for me during what I perceived to be my darkest moments & helped me get through them. I learn so much from other people’s stories & their bravery to share their experiences with others. Tiny Buddha is an incredible mental health resource. As a Psychiatric Nurse, I wholeheartedly bring the perspectives of Tiny Buddha with me to work each shift at the hospital. I apply it to my own daily life & infuse it into my work with patients of all ages: children through elders. This Giveaway, I would love to share with my Mom & Sister: two women who never cease to amaze me with their resilience, courage, wisdom, & authenticity. My Sister has been struggling with infertility for over 5 years & is currently undergoing IVF. She is so strong & so hopeful: I know this kit would mean so much to her while simultaneously helping her manage stressors in her life. She has dreamed of being a Mom for so long & will be the best Mom: this kit would be a wonderful reminder that she is never alone & she has the whole Tiny Buddha community cheering her on in support of her. My Mom has multiple sclerosis & would just not even believe her good fortune to receive such an amazing kit. She loves essential oils. Her father recently died, her mom died when she was 27, & her younger brother died about 10 years ago. Family means so much to her & I know losing both her parents & her brother affects her & she misses everything about them. She is a woman who naturally & always looks on the bright side & has such a sunny way of looking at things. I know this kit would really resonate with her & support her in living with multiple sclerosis. Thank you so much for such a thoughtful & generous giveaway. Being able to write about my Sister, my Mom, & Tiny Buddha truly made my day & brought me such happiness & optimism. Thank you so much & have a beautiful day!
Being a Doctor on the front lines and also going through a divorce, I have been really struggling with trying to stay healthy mentally. I need to for my patients and my boys. A kit like this would help as every little bit is important and I thank you for your daily emails to get me thought the tough times.
I need more mindfulness before I loseit. Thank you. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
I want to remind myself while I am alone this holiday season there is no need to feel lonely.
Such a beautiful gesture of you thank you for offering this. If I win I will probably share both kits, they look beautiful.
I bought the kit and love it- woudl love to share with my sister! We lost uur Mom in April to Covid and grieving remotely has been a challenge- this has helped me and I’d love to help her!
I’m recently 4 years sober and could benefit immensely from this. Happy Holidays 😚
This would definitely be for my lady. She runs our growing psycho-therapy business and is at it all the time. This “crisis”, while being beneficial to our business, has been detrimental (see that pun?) to her well-being. She is so tired and I can only help so much. We will be moving into a new, larger space early next year (which increases her stress, as well) and while I will be directing that, any change is hard and she is stressing about it.
As Deb H said, “Please let this be finished soon!”
This would be helpful to get through the end of this year on my own
I love your articles – I often share them with clients. I could use one of your kits as I am a psychotherapist who has been working all along this year and need some self care.
PeaceK
This would be the perfect gift for my birth mom.
I have been stressed out lately, due to a friend who passed away and a uncle in the hospital. I have been so stressed out and this kit will help me to relax and take it easy. I also deal with mental illness and I love lavender.
I would love this kit to relax. I also love the smell of lavender. I love reading tiny Buddha articles. They help reframe my mind and do better. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I have been sleeping horrible for the past several weeks. This kit could be at the trick to ease me into a restful sleep! Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
I work in healthcare with a team of magnificent staff. We are doing our best . We are growing weary and we need to stay strong. If I received this gift I would use it to maintain stress balance in my life to continue being the back bone that motivates others. I would also incorporate the gift for our staff to utilize in and on their breaks for relief mid shift.
Thank you so much for your uplifting posts that I print and email to share with others. Tiny Buddha helped build a significant bond with a fellow coworker, your words gave her strength as she wrestled with some personal issues in her life, while being expected to be fully present at work. The journals as well as the daily Tiny Buddha writings have helped me through depression and anxiety while ending a 20 plus year marriage. I am very thankful for your work.
I thought I’d enter because all those things sound like they’d be terrific to help with keeping my $#!7 together during this dumpster fire of a year… but reading through the comments show me that so many others are so much more in need and deserving of this support than I am. So, if you pick me, please give it to someone who really needs it.
I am just starting on my learning journey of how to manage my overwhelming stress, and I feel this kit might boost my ability to self-sooth.
I want to share the kit with my BFF who is new to meditation
Would love to share one with my friend who inspired me to become more than I thought I could be