Mindfulness for Pain
Reading time: 6 minutes This month, Dr Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain, delves into the complex world of coping with chronic pain and gives advice on how to manage it with mindfulness.
Tag: mindfulness
Finding Comfort When You Are Sick
Reading time: 5 minutes Covid, the flu, the ‘long cold’ – I don’t know a staff team or student class that’s not currently decimated by bugs. It feels like a good time to think about how we pace ourselves when we are unwell, and how to find a sense of comfort alongside. Illness 101 …
New Prescribe Culture events launched
Reading time: < 1 minute Prescribe Culture, the University’s social care and wellbeing initiative, has launched a new programme for 2023/24.
Seasons of mist and mellow fruitlessness
Reading time: 4 minutes Two days in a row I have woken to thick sea fog cloaking the gardens. My view from the window is foreshortened; as I return Hope from her morning amble my footsteps sound thicker than usual, a subtle quality, the sound contained by mist. As we round the corner, turrets, …
A year of Hope
Reading time: 4 minutes This month, Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain, reflects on the lessons learned from life with a dog and how such unique bonds can sustain us.
The Fallow Field
Reading time: 3 minutes This month, Kitty Wheater, Mindfulness Chaplain, reflects on seeking beauty in the midst of ugliness, and the promise of the future when all seems lost.