Southsea Mindfulness

11/12/2025

✨️A gift just for you? ✨️

Join Elle for a Guided Self Compassion practice at 6pm UK time 🇬🇧 Wednesday 17th December

This last offering of the year will be online via the Self Compassion Academy

Registration in advance...

🔗https://selfcompassionacademy.com/the-compassion-collective/

06/12/2025

As we race into the busy season, remember to give yourself a brief pause and the gift of connection to compassion... join a weekly session from the Not-for-profit Self-Compassion Academy

All proceeds go towards sharing self compassion skills training to groups that need it... including our colleagues in Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛🇺🇦

Registration link here...

06/12/2025

As we race into the busy season, remember to give yourself a brief pause and the gift of connection to compassion... join a weekly session from the Not-for-profit Self-Compassion Academy

All proceeds go towards sharing self compassion skills training to groups that need it... including our colleagues in Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛🇺🇦

Registration link here...
"Join a self-compassion session - Self-Compassion Academy"
https://selfcompassionacademy.com/the-compassion-collective/

23/11/2025

THIS Wednesday at 9am (UK time) join Claire online for a nourishing 45 minute self-compassion session. Take a mindful pause, reconnect with yourself and grow your inner strength in a non-judgemental space 💛

🌿Suitable for complete beginners
🌿Small, safe groups with fully guided practices
🌿Open to everyone - only 3 euros

Sessions are offered in collaboration with the Self-Compassion Academy.

👉 Sign up via https://selfcompassionacademy.com/the-compassion-collective/?fbclid=IwVERDUAOQ-H5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR7ugmcp71FJBG6XEmpLFnWCaPgwlNjV93iF-YutN8wkOyAVeLagJavoCkNLUQ_aem_Vq2vo7f_wAPnAG8EKszQtw

16/11/2025

THIS Wednesday at 9am (UK time) join Claire online for a nourishing 45 minute self-compassion session. Take a mindful pause, reconnect with yourself and grow your inner strength in a non-judgemental space 💛

🌿Suitable for complete beginners
🌿Small, safe groups with fully guided practices
🌿Open to everyone - only 3 euros

Sessions are offered in collaboration with the Self-Compassion Academy.

👉 Sign up via https://selfcompassionacademy.com/weekly-self-compassion-sessions/

19/07/2025

Happy International Self Compassion Day!
What can you do today that is restorative in the midst of the relentless pressures?
..and let's be real... Sometimes there IS no time.

In this case - Imagine what a good friend would say to you, or what you would say to them facing the the same situation. Connect to that strength and feeling of support 💪🙏

TOMORROW is International Self-Compassion Day!

On Saturday, July 19th, people around the world will come together to celebrate the power of treating ourselves with kindness, especially when we’re struggling.

Whether you're new to self-compassion or it’s already part of your daily life, tomorrow is a special invitation to pause and reconnect with your inner ally.

✨ Join me for a free live Gathering at 11am CT—I’ll lead a guided practice and answer your questions. Let’s practice together as a global community!

RSVP for FREE: https://vist.ly/3ydyr

✨ However you choose to honor ISCD—through meditation, journaling, mindful movement, or a few kind words to yourself—you’ll be contributing to a more compassionate world, starting from within.

🔗 Find practices at https://vist.ly/3ydz3 and https://vist.ly/3ydyy

14/07/2025

What if you took a full 5 minutes to eat a single strawberry? 🍓

Acknowledging honouring our historical and cultural relationships with food.

Allowing yourself to take in the visual details - the shine, the bumps, the vivid colours.

Taking a moment to fully breathe in the scent.

Appreciating how it feels in your fingers

Reflecting on the many hands that helped bring it to your table.

Noticing before you've even it you may be salivating in anticipation.

Very slowly noticing it crossing your lips...and wow...that first splash of flavour!

Continuing to eat in this way ....slowly

Even delivering the practice, I have never enjoyed a more delicious strawberry!

🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓

This was part of our Mindful Self-Compassion 8 week course on the Silent Retreat day. A time to put down the phone and really deepen the practices.

We hired a private school so we had the full privacy to walk, rest explore.

One participant said they had been scared of silence their whole life, but they were buzzing, and they could have stayed there forever 🙏🪷✨️

05/07/2025

Highlights from our weekend in Amsterdam where Elle and Claire were helping out at the Kristin Neff event - facilitating the break out spaces and learning from the pioneer of Self Compassion research herself!

It was wonderful to catch up with our MSC teacher colleagues from around Europe and hear how self compassion "inner strength" training is being spread around the world.

Especially poignant meeting our colleagues from Ukraine who are teaching the 8 week MSC and the shorter Self Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) to Ukrainian health and social care communities on the front line.

While we eat dinner in a beautiful location, the news arrives of waves of Russian drones over their air space. This is the nightly reality. They are so tired they sometimes sleep through the air raid sirens.

If ever there was a need to cultivate inner strength it is in these times

🙏🌹⚡

20/06/2025

✨FREE Self-Compassion Session – This Wednesday 25th June at 6.30pm UK time✨

Join Claire for a relaxing and supportive hour online. The session includes:

🌿 Guided self-compassion practices
🌿 Optional small & whole group sharing
🌿 Q&A to deepen your understanding

💖 Perfect for complete beginners!

These weekly sessions are offered by the Compassion Collective which is part of The Self-Compassion Academy. Find out more and sign up for the free session here:
👉 https://selfcompassionacademy.com/the-compassion-collective/

21/05/2025

⚡️Imagine being your own greatest source of support ⚡️

Registrations are closing soon for our last Mindful Self Compassion course of 2025.

📅 Starts 2nd June
📍 In-person Victoria Park Portsmouth
🔗 https://www.southseamindfulness.co.uk/8-week-msc-course

15/05/2025

FREE IN-PERSON self-compassion session this Sunday 💚

Southsea Sangha has kindly invited Claire to lead a nourishing in-person session from 6-7pm, and you are warmly invited to join.

In the session we will explore simple ways to be kinder to ourselves - especially when life gets tough - through reflection, discussion and guided self-compassion practices which are all suitable for complete beginners.

If you’ve been curious about self-compassion or the 8-week course we are running soon, this is a lovely place to start.

Southsea Sangha are a local peer-led meditation community who Claire volunteered for from 2017 - 2023.

Free session | In person | Open to all
When: Sunday 18th May from 6 - 7pm - no need to book, just turn up! Doors open from 5.45pm.
Where: Coastguard Studio, 91 Clarendon Road, Southsea, PO4 0SA

For info on our next Mindful Self-Compassion course starting 2nd June visit https://www.southseamindfulness.co.uk/8-week-msc-course

12/05/2025

💚 Mental Health Awareness Week 💚

Let’s talk about motivation—and the surprising power of self-compassion...

Many of us believe we need to be hard on ourselves to stay motivated. But research shows the opposite: self-criticism increases anxiety and procrastination, while self-compassion helps us stay resilient, take responsibility, and move forward with courage.

It’s not about letting yourself off the hook—it’s about learning to support yourself, even when things feel hard.

That’s exactly what we explore in the 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) course. You’ll learn tools to encourage and care for yourself—not with pressure, but with kindness.

The voice you hear most is your own - imagine the power of making it your greatest source of support ✨

📅 Starts 2nd June
📍 In-person Victoria Park Portsmouth
🔗 https://www.southseamindfulness.co.uk/8-week-msc-course