This week M+K sits across the table with Lara Morgan, the Founder of Scentered. Scentered is a mindfulness lifestyle brand that has created a unique Wellbeing Ritual, teaching people how to use the power of smell as a tool to direct our thoughts, emotions and actions to live happier lives. She talks with us about her life during the pandemic and how she is managing her energy.
1. My cooking inspiration…
Delia and my mum.
2. A meal that reminds me of home…
Shepherd’s pie with petit pois and ketchup was what I looked forward as my first meal home from boarding school. Heavenly.
3. A life lesson cooking has taught me…
If you can read you can do anything.
4. When I want to be creative I…
I am rubbish at being creative! I look at my youngest daughter’s art and just can’t believe she came from me! I do sketch stuff out to make sense of a problem or a challenge though. Does that count?
5. The most transformational book I’ve read is…
How to become a Rainmaker by Jeffery Fox. Not everyone’s read but packed with invaluable ideas.
6. The routines that keep me grounded are…
Exercise, limiting my coffee, meals with family (always at the table not in front of the TV!), Saturday coffee with my husband, brushing my teeth and applying our Focus Balm first thing each day.
7. I recently learnt…
That after the age of 45 we all kind of have a fuel shortage. Having raced through life learning and then accumulating, we then seem to crash and need a reset. I think we need to learn better about new ways of living, sharing, growing and putting back into society.
8. Favourite random act of kindness…
Giving someone a Scentered mini balm – it’s a beautiful gift for someone who needs a lift.
9. To make a difference in my community I…
I offer my time to share lessons learned and hope to inspire and lead by example. I am by no means perfect and happily am still making mistakes which I will learn from faster than ever.
10. Right now, I’m grateful for…
Living in the countryside during the pandemic and having more family time, with all of my children, than we could have ever hoped for. I am also hoping that this global experience allows us to stop, inhale and reset the way we work, live, share, experience and live better and healthier lives.
Lara Morgan is the Founder of Scentered, a mindfulness lifestyle brand that has created a unique Wellbeing Ritual, teaching people how to use the power of smell as a tool to direct our thoughts, emotions and actions to live happier lives. The idea was born while she was building a successful global hospitality business. She was travelling all over the world hundreds of days each year and realised the need for portable aromatherapy products to support her mindful transitions from home to office to travel to “me time”. Scentered was created to meet the demands of eco-conscious consumers hungry for natural, portable aromatherapy and essential oil solutions to help them mindfully transition their moods, thoughts and emotions from moment to moment on demand throughout their everyday journey.
To connect visit:
www.scentered.me (UK)
www.scentered.com (US)
Scentered have generously offered Marmalade + Kindness readers 20% storewide. Use promotion code MK20 at checkout.
