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Mindfulness courses

During this challenging time in our lives, it is more important than ever to find ways to support our health and well-being and to develop positive ways to navigate our constantly and increasingly changing and uncertain world. We offer this free course twice a year. It consists of 6 weekly sessions as developed by the Mindfulness Association, and each session offers a set of strategies to bring an improved sense of wellness in life. It is open to anyone with eating distress and also those caring for a loved one with ED.

Everyone struggles with trying to remain in the present moment – with non-stop social media distractions, worry and planning for the future, and memories from the past fighting for our attention.

By helping us to focus our attention on the present moment, training in Mindfulness can support us to discover: a place of inner stability: a sense of feeling grounded and a level of equanimity, where we can begin to manage life’s challenges more effectively.

Anyone living with an eating disorder or distress can be helped enormously by becoming mindful and sustained practice can also support us in developing self-esteem and self-compassion which are so important in this world.

The great thing is that scientific research too, shows us how practicing mindfulness in daily life can lead us to:

  • Cope more effectively with the pressures
  • Find a greater sense of balance and calm
  • Improve focus and concentration
  • Support physical health and emotional wellbeing
  • Nurture kindness and self-compassion.
  • Develop a greater sense of connection with ourselves and others
  • To live a happier, more fulfilled life.

All of which will contribute to improvements in levels of distress associated with food, feeling out of control around eating or not eating and diagnosed eating disorders

For more information or to book a place please e-mail enquiries@edne.org.uk

What you say

What you say

Maudsley Course Testimonials

your unerring positivity, your calmness.. your skill, your knowledge and true EMPATHY(!) lifted the darkness and I am sure made everyone feel SO much better. I feel more positive today than I have for ages.

Maudsley Course Testimonials

I would thoroughly recommend this course to other carers wherever they are on their journey of supporting a loved one with and ED. Thank you EDNE.

Maudsley Course Testimonials

The course exceeded my expectations ! ..Excellent practical examples.. Feels empowering to have these tools…

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I’ve really appreciated the help I’ve been given at EDNE, I didn’t feel like I was just there as a client who just needed to get to the end of their sessions. I actually felt heard and understood.

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I was given permission to feel. Instead of being a person with an eating disorder, I was a person who could feel feelings’

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‘It was not just putting a plaster over something, it was about healing it. I can’t describe how it feels to have switched my mindset, after 50 years it is mind-blowing’

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..entire process has been incredibly supportive and empathetic, giving me the support I needed to move forwards.

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‘I couldn’t have managed without coming here. I genuinely think this place has kept me alive. I have a sense of hope now.’

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EDNE was friendly welcoming and flexible

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EDNE started me thinking about what resilience is and how I could manage day to day and have strategies’

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‘..has given me life-changing help. They’ve helped me overcome the barriers. It’s been about unravelling decades.

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The counselling has been a big turning point and the support from EDNE has been amazing.

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Eating distress ..is such a secretive thing. This has been the first time I didn’t feel alone with it.

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It has literally changed the quality of my life.

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The EDNE counsellor’s the only person who has helped me.. the big high walls have come down

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Once I got through the door it was easy. They didn’t judge. EDNE helped me to get to be this new person. The old one never looked up and never spoke.

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I used to block out feeling with food, it’s not like that now’

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The counselling sessions were absolutely amazing and life-changing.

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You think you’re the only person in the world. Now I’ve found out I’m not the only one.

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I have had time to think. ..started being able to calm myself down and going to bed earlier to relax. I’m managing money and time better and I’m looking after myself. I’ve never done that before.’

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As a small charity, we rely on the amazing generosity of the public to allow us to continue our work. Every donation is noticed and appreciated, and allows us to really make a difference in someone’s life – by helping to provide specialised one to one counselling sessions to people who would otherwise not be able to access them, run our support groups, and provide training so people can spot the signs of eating distress and help others seek the support they need as early as possible. We use Local Giving as our donation platform, and any contribution enables us to continue providing our supportive services for people struggling with anxiety around food

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