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Lizzy West: My journey with mindfulness
Lizzy West, a Social Prescriber, describes how writing a social prescription for herself to try a mindfulness course has helped her to find inner resilience and confidence to be there for herself.
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Hannah Rudd: My journey with mindfulness
Hannah Rudd describes how a Mindful Self-Compassion course helped her to manage shame around her autism, support herself through challenges and nurture self-compassion.
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Faith and mindfulness practice
Robert Marx initiates a day long workshop to explore mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion practices from different faith traditions. Here he explains the thinking behind the day. I’m very excited to be thinking about and planning this day. In the NHS, we frequently talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Religion is one of the protected characteristics in the Equalities Act that often gets left out of the conversation. The NHS is rightly a totally secular organisation providing evidence-based healthcare, not religious belief and practice. And yet, it’s important to acknowledge that some of the concepts and practices directly derived from religion,…
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Opening to the feel of things and deepening my practice
Bridgette O’Neill is preparing to lead the new eight-week course Deeper Mindfulness: Frame by Frame with colleague Taravajra. Here she writes about what she appreciates about this new course that was developed by Professor Mark Williams. Have you ever felt that your mindfulness practice has plateaued? I know I have. Like brushing my teeth or exercising, formal mindfulness practice is part of my daily life and has been, and is, transformational for me. However, from experience I know that with familiarity I can move into a comfortable zone where my ability to see clearly can get foggy. Of course, with…
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Tamsin Bishton: My journey with mindfulness
In the first of a series of blog posts Tamsin describes her journey with mindfulness. For Tamsin, mindfulness was a last resort as she struggled to deal with the depression and anxiety that has followed her since she was a teenager.
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Review your year with compassion: message from Robert and Clara
In their end of year message, Robert Marx and Clara Strauss (co-leads of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre) invite you to review your year with compassion. As we come towards the end of the year, it can be helpful to take some time to reflect on the year that has passed. It can be tempting to judge the things we have done or said, or not done or said. We may find we evaluate them against expectations we have, or others might have of us. Did we achieve this or that? Did we reach this or that goal? It can be…