Heather’s Books
Mindfulness Based Living Course
Mindfulness is an innate capacity of the mind that can be trained to alleviate stress and low mood, to reduce the power of rumination and self-criticism, and to promote emotional wellbeing and proactivity. The Mindfulness Based Living Course is a practical guide to the development of a mindful approach to living in the modern world. It’s distinctive feature is a compassionate approach to mindfulness that is based on may years of experience in the practice and delivery of mindfulness training.
“This user-friendly workbook connects mindfulness, warm-heartedness, and insight – plus offers many practical tools for daily life. Reading it feels like being with a wise and encouraging friend. The writing is clear and direct, and comes from world-class mindfulness teachers. A wonderful resource!”
Rick Hanson, PhD., Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love
Compassion Based Living Course
This book is a practice-based approach to compassion meditation training that equips readers with skills to bring compassion directly into their everyday lives. It sits within the secular mindfulness tradition and is a unique fusion of Buddhist, evolutionary and psychological approaches to compassion and includes insights from neuroscience. It is based on the authors’ experiences over the last decade of training hundreds of people in compassion meditation, including at Masters degree level. It proceeds gradually, building capacity in spages. It starts with mindfulness and proceeds to self-compassion and then compassion for others, with a final chapter focussing on socially engaged compassion.
“This is a practical D.I.Y. for those who might be interested in the Compassion Based Living Course. I know that hundreds of people have done and benefitted from this course so feel confident in suggesting that many more, including you, will benefit from it.”
Rob Nairn, Diamond Mind
From Mindfulness To Insight
Discover joy within yourself and heartfelt connection with others by releasing the habitual patterns that cause suffering and alienation. Drawing on Buddhist wisdom as well as the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, this book provides you with the tools needed to recognise the habits of thinking that fuel anger, desire, jealousy and pride. Building on mindfulness and self-compassion practice it offers a step-by-step series of guided meditations that create the conditions for liberating insight and wisdom to naturally arise. Thousands of people over the last decade have benefitted from practicing the exercises in this book.
“This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to understand mindfulness from a traditional Buddhist perspective and how to go beyond it and harness the transformative powers of insight meditation. There are lots of great tools and strategies in here for anyone who wants to wake up, live more consciously and actively build a richer and more fulfilling life.”
Dr. Russ Harris, The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple