Former Headspace Teacher Reveals How to Make Meditation Work for You

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1. Eve Lewis shares how her own struggles with anxiety and burnout in her 20s led her to a meditation class in Bethnal Green, and later to joining Headspace in 2013 as one of its earliest employees.

2. She discusses how mindfulness and practices like mindful walking helped her honour the grief of losing both parents, emphasising there is no timeline or fixed set of stages for grief.

3. Meditation is framed not as emptying the mind but as noticing distraction and returning, which is where resilience and the 'mindful muscle' are built.

4. The conversation explores moving from reactivity to response, using Viktor Frankl's idea of the space between stimulus and response, and a short 'STOP' practice (Stop, Take a breath, Observe, Proceed).

5. Eve reflects on self-compassion, the inner critic, and the mental load often carried by women, noting men and women both experience harsh self-judgement in different ways.

6. She describes her go-to practices — loving kindness and the body scan — and her new venture Meditate with Eve offering one-to-one mental health and mindfulness coaching.

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