A gift from you · On us

Give someone else a permission slip.

You already know what twenty quiet minutes can do. Send a friend three candles and the same permission you gave yourself — free, from me, with your name on the card.

Send a free sampler

Free with the code in your email — shipping included, nothing to pay.

A Mindful Matters meditation candle burning beside the brass figure
Mona, Founder of Mindful Matters

Why this exists

Hi,
It’s Mona.

In fifteen years as a psychotherapist, the sentence I heard most often wasn’t “I don’t believe in meditation.” It was “I know I should, but I never actually sit down.”

The gap is never belief. It’s permission. Most people are waiting for someone to tell them that twenty minutes for themselves isn’t selfish — and they will wait a very long time, because nobody ever says it.

So say it for them. A candle is a small thing, but it does something a recommendation can’t: it sits on the counter and it asks. That’s the whole idea.

Mona Mona · Founder & Psychotherapist

A row of hand-poured organic beeswax meditation candles

Designed by a psychotherapist

Three candles.
Sixty minutes of quiet.

The same hand-poured organic beeswax candles that go into the 28-Day Kit — just three of them, so your friend can find out what the practice feels like before deciding anything.

  • 20 minutes of burn time each — the candle is the timer, so there’s no phone and no counting.
  • 100% organic beeswax, hand-poured in small batches. Nothing synthetic, no fragrance load.
  • A card with your name on it — so they know this came from someone who thought of them.
  • Shipping included. They pay nothing, and neither do you.
20 minute burn time

The power of just 20 minutes

Twenty minutes is not a token gesture.
It’s the dose.

In a study of over 200 first-time meditators, twenty minutes was enough to measurably improve the brain’s ability to recognise its own mistakes and stay present — even in a deliberately distracting environment. Not after months. In first-timers.

20 min
The daily dose
200+
First-time meditators studied
8 weeks
To measurable change

How it works

Three steps, about ninety seconds.

Use your gift code

Add the sampler to your cart and paste the one-time code from your email. It takes the total to $0 — shipping included.

Give me their address

Enter your friend’s name and shipping address at checkout instead of your own, and add a line for the card if you’d like.

Check out with just the sampler in your cart. One order goes to one address — anything else you add would land on your friend’s doorstep too.

I post it

It goes out with the next batch, in the same packaging as everything else we send. No price anywhere, and nothing that looks like a promotion.

20 min daily meditation recommended by

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★★★★★

“Excellent quality. Great gifts for my anxiety ridden family and friends.”

Verified buyer

“Self-care should not be a challenge. If the practice needs willpower to start, the design is wrong — not the person.”

Mona · Founder & Psychotherapist

A gift of care

1,000+ mindful journeys started

Who came to mind while you read this?

Send it to them. It costs you nothing, and it might be the only time this month somebody tells them to take twenty minutes.

Send a free sampler

Your one-time code is in the email that brought you here.

Your code is single-use and tied to you. It covers the sampler in full and the shipping with it, so nothing is charged to you or to your friend. One per person, while stock lasts, Canada and the US.

Send the sampler on its own. A Shopify order has a single shipping address, so if you add anything else to the cart it travels to your friend as well — and the free shipping only covers the sampler. Two separate orders keeps both simple.

Your friend is never charged and is never added to any mailing list — if they want to hear from us, that stays their decision.

Rather send something bigger? The 28-Day Kit is the full practice, and it comes with a 30-Day ‘Peace of Mind’ Guarantee.

We would love to hear from you!