by Utku Ucay 8pm. It is one of these freezing Montreal nights. The cold wind blowing in my face makes me shiver. I just left the café in tears and now I am asking myself a question that I have never asked before and maybe no one should ever ask: is life really worth living? […]
How Mindfulness Helped Me Survive Postpartum Depression
Posted on January 25, 2018 //
by Isabel William Along with my twins came postpartum depression and the most difficult period of my life. I knew that my life would greatly change after giving birth, but I had never expected to be so overwhelmed by sadness and feelings of hopelessness. Never before had I felt so detached from the world like […]
How To Be Grateful For Depression
Posted on November 24, 2016 //
By Frances Trussell I can look back on my episode in the depths of despair with gratitude. Without that period of madness, my mindfulness practice would have remained in the ‘should do’ pile alongside many other I’ll-get-round-to-it-when-I-have-the-time projects. Broken into a million pieces, you tend to only pick up the bits that are truly important […]
Mindfulness saved my life: How a few simple tips helped me beat depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Posted on December 1, 2015 //
by Laura P Depression crept into my life. Like a glacier; steady and powerful, it hollowed out everything in its path. The force of it consumed me; it swallowed up my social life and stole all that I enjoyed. It dragged me down into addiction and self-harm, and ended up threatening my existence. For a […]
A Solitary Raisin: The Transformative Power of Mindfulness
Posted on May 20, 2015 //
by Piers McEwan It will be good for you, they said. It will relax you, they said. It will bring you out of that hole, they said. Perhaps it would, perhaps it wouldn’t, I thought. My judgement was cloudy and non-existent, the numbing effect of the SSRIs the doctor had said. Those minuscule pink pills […]
The Mindfulness Habit: From Mindlessness To Mindfulness
Posted on July 16, 2014 //
By Sharon Bull “Transformation is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end” ~ Robin Sharma I liken mindfulness to any other new activity or skill we wish to embrace. Just as learning to play an instrument requires practice and dedication, so does a change in our thought process. In whatever […]
Let It Be: Using Mindfulness to Overcome Anxiety and Depression
Posted on December 18, 2013 //
By Lucy Roleff “Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke When I was twelve years old, I figured out how to get out of things. It was a rainy Saturday morning and I was […]
My Mindfulness Experience
Posted on April 17, 2013 //
By Mick I suppose that I should start at the beginning, with my accident at work in a joiners shop in 1985, when my hand went into a spindle moulder. I had comparatively minor injuries of broken and badly cut fingers and thumb. When I went back to work I had anxiety problems, followed by […]