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Emily Kenneally: My journey with mindfulness
Emily Kenneally, a writer for a mental health charity supporting educators, shares her journey with mindfulness and how it helps her stay grounded and self-compassionate, while living with ADHD.
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Innovations award for our work with refugees, one year on
A year after we won an award for our work with refugees and asylum seekers, we’ve come to the end of two more ten-week mindfulness courses. This time the venue was a very special ‘secret’ garden. This blog post, by Julia Powell one of the facilitators, is based on a short update for the Innovations in Mindfulness Awards. What winning the award meant to us When we won an Innovations in Mindfulness award for our work with refugees in October 2024, it meant a huge amount to us: it represented recognition of the original Mindfulness Across Borders curriculum developed by…
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Georgie Payne: My journey with mindfulness
Georgie Payne describes how mindfulness helped her get through a profound period of grief, and how she has come to use the skills she learned to help others
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Ruth Sequeira: My journey with mindfulness
Ruth Sequeira, a senior trainer, supervisor and mindfulness teacher, describes how mindfulness has helped her personally and professionally.
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My transformation with mindful self-compassion
Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, writes from the heart about her mindfulness journey and her more recent experience of Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. When I learnt how to apply self compassion, it was literally transformational for me. That’s not a word I use lightly. Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust I had done the standard eight-week mindfulness courses a number of times, getting different benefits each time. My meditation practice had been a constant, if somewhat inconsistent thread in my wellbeing recovery over a couple of decades. I’d worked…
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“How mindfulness helps me” by Robert Marx
Quite often we promote mindfulness as a way of feeling less stressed, less depressed, less anxious, less self-punishing. We gather ourselves around the breath, pause and let our parasympathetic nervous system activate, returning to being the self that we like being, the one that can be more grounded, calmer, kinder. I can breathe into that gnarly little knot I have become in that moment of aggravation and open to a bigger space – and feel better. But actually, I also appreciate the practice for opening up a space that lets me feel worse. In my haze of avoidance and reactivity,…