Inner Peace In Challenging Times - by Heather Deane

COURSE

Inner Peace In Challenging Times

With Heather Deane

Welcome to this course – an inward journey to inner peace, designed to help you reconnect with a sense of calm, stability, and inner safety - no matter what you may be experiencing in your outer world at this time. In a world that can so often feel uncertain and overwhelming, this course offers gentle, practical tools to ground you in the present moment and cultivate lasting resilience, enabling you to experience more inner peace, and ultimately joy in your life. Each day offers a short lesson that introduces mindfulness techniques to calm the nervous system, regulate emotions, and bring a sense of ease to both body and mind. Across the seven days, you’ll learn how to meet anxiety with compassion, settle into a felt sense of safety, and return to your inner sanctuary of calm, even when the world feels chaotic. Whether you're new to mindfulness or looking to deepen an existing practice, this course offers simple yet powerful ways to build emotional regulation and resilience. By listening daily, you'll begin to create a habit of turning inward for peace - building a foundation of self-trust, presence, and inner calm that can support you in everyday life. There are no particular requirements for this course - you just need to commit to a few minutes each day, find a quiet space, and be willing to explore your inner world with kind curiosity. You’ll receive support in the classroom from your teacher, Heather, to ensure that this is truly a personalised and transformational journey, back home to your own inner peace.

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Meet your Teacher

Heather Deane
Lot-et-Garonne, France

Heather is passionate about sharing the practices that supported her through trauma, severe chronic illness, and life’s many uncertainties - tools that helped guide her back to strength, vitality, and a deep reconnection with her intuition. For 27 years, she lived with the emotional weight of unresolved childhood trauma - years marked by depression, anxiety and disconnection. Everything began to shift when she experienced a profound awakening experience in 2020 that ignited her healing journey. What followed was a deep release that opened the door to trust, peace, and re-connection - with herself and with Spirit. Just six months later, in May 2021, she faced a life-altering diagnosis: secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). At times unable to walk or even stand, she battled severe fatigue that left her bedridden up to 80% of the time. With two young children to care for, her world came to a halt. In navigating this challenge, she turned again to meditation - not just as a coping tool, but as a path to transformation and physical healing. Through daily practice, along with bodywork and lifestyle changes, she began to reconnect with her body, soothe her nervous system, rebuild her inner resilience and manifest health, gradually reversing the symptoms of MS. Today, she is not only thriving but sharing what helped her on her journey. Heather is a certified hypnotherapist, RTT (Rapid Transformational Therapy), EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Reiki practitioner. Her work is grounded in compassion, lived experience, and a deep belief in the body’s capacity to heal when we feel safe, present, and supported. She is dedicated to helping others rediscover their own inner calm, strength, and wholeness - no matter what challenges they face. As a clairaudient, some of her content is channeled.

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8 Days

1.2k students

4.9 stars

7 min / day

Anxiety

English

Lesson 1

Coming Home To Safety

Welcome to the first step on this gentle journey. Today, we’ll explore the foundation of inner peace: feeling safe - emotionally and physically. You’ll learn how your nervous system responds to stress, and why that sense of safety isn’t just comforting - it’s essential for healing. This lesson invites you to begin reconnecting with calm, even in uncertain times, with kindness and compassion toward yourself.

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Lesson 2

Self-Compassion In Challenging Moments

Today, we’ll look at how to bring softness and care to moments of stress. With tools like breath work and the RAIN method - Recognise, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture - you’ll learn to meet difficult emotions with presence and patience. This is about treating yourself the way you would someone you love, creating a safe inner space where healing can begin.

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Lesson 3

Creating A Calmer Outer World

Sometimes, peace starts with small, intentional shifts in our everyday environment. Today’s lesson offers simple ways to reduce overwhelm - like limiting exposure to news, setting boundaries, and surrounding yourself with a supportive community. These gentle changes help soothe your nervous system and create space for more ease and steadiness in your daily life.

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Lesson 4

The Power Of Just Being

Today, we’ll dive into meditation and how it can gently transform how you think, feel and therefore behave. With regular practice, meditation helps you feel more grounded, resilient, and connected to your inner wisdom. It’s a powerful way to soothe stress, lift your mood, and support your body’s natural healing. This practice doesn’t need to be long - just consistent and kind.

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Lesson 5

Rewiring With Affirmations

In this session, you’ll learn how simple, loving words can reshape the way you think and feel. Affirmations, when repeated with care, help rewire your brain so that you feel safer, more secure, and more empowered. With daily practice, these words begin to sink in - gently shifting old patterns and helping you step into a more peaceful mindset.

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Lesson 6

Choosing Gratitude

Today, we explore how gratitude can shift your whole perspective. Even in tough times, turning your attention to what’s good can bring surprising peace. Whether you write it down, say it out loud, or simply feel it in your heart, a daily gratitude practice can lift your energy and remind you that joy is always within reach.

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Lesson 7

Finding Strength In Purpose

As we close this journey, we reflect on how caring for yourself can awaken a deeper sense of purpose. When you feel safe and supported, it becomes easier to share that energy with others. Whether through creativity, connection, or kindness, you can be a force for good—starting from the inside out.

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Lesson 8

Daily Affirmation Meditation

This bonus track is a gentle, grounding meditation you can return to anytime. Filled with affirmations for safety, stability, and peace, it’s designed to help calm anxiety and reconnect you with your centre. Practiced daily, it can gently reshape your inner world - one peaceful breath at a time. Music: ‘Serenetude for Mindfulness’ by MaJiKer, who is also a teacher here on Insight Timer.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 16 community questions and 11 audio replies from Heather Deane. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Shawnell

Shawnell

February 16, 2026

Such a beautiful and grounding practice that I will revisit often!

Sally-Ann

January 29, 2026

Brilliant - peace inducing and definitely listener friendly- thank you x

saphia

saphia

January 24, 2026

Thank you. I am looking forward to the benefits of establishing my gratitude practice again.

Rosalyn

January 2, 2026

Thank you for this! It was just what I needed to start this New Year off with.

Melanie

December 22, 2025

Your wisdom is so deep I will be following you xx

Jana

Jana

November 11, 2025

I really enjoyed this program! Heather has a beautiful and calming voice and I am currently doing another of her courses…. I have a friend that suffers from anxiety so I sent this to him and I hope it helps him as well… Thank you Jana

Jeff

November 6, 2025

Very calming introduction to gaining peace of mind

julia

julia

November 1, 2025

this was well worth the listen. i especially love the affirmations at the end,

cindy

cindy

October 23, 2025

This came at just the right time for me as I am terrified and distraught about the authoritarian takeover in the US as well as all of the suffering in the world. Heather has provided supportive, evidence-based, and practical resources. I will be listening daily to her affirmations to help me me feel more safe and secure within myself. Thank you for this course!

Alyssa

Alyssa

October 8, 2025

Thank you for this beautiful, uplifting course. I look forward to using what I learned to help bring peace to my daily life.

Joseph

Joseph

October 4, 2025

This series was wonderful. Heather’s voucr and energy is so grounded and peaceful.

Kurt

September 14, 2025

Very helpful - thank you!!!

Lila

September 8, 2025

Great course and very helpful

Cec

Cec

September 8, 2025

I saw this Course, at the right time! I met an old friend for brunch, and over expose myself to their anxiety. I came home and was in a terrible mood and could not figure out why I was so depressed. I started listening to this course, and listen to every day in one sitting. It was extremely helpful. I got triggered by my friend and listening to Heather helped me to regroup and make a plan. I will listen again now and will contemplate on each day’s actions. Thank you, Heather

Line

July 21, 2025

Very helpful

Karen

Karen

July 16, 2025

I loved the last practice, most of all the affirmations about being safe in my body! Also references to other meditations is very helpful. Heather provides snippet of practices that can help everyone on the journey to feeling more safe in this world in your own body and regulating the nervous system. Thank you, Heather and I hope that you will continue to bring more meditations that also support nervous system regulation.

Paul

July 9, 2025

Beautiful wisdom. Thank you!

paul

paul

May 29, 2025

Short and easy listen with great tools for the day .

Sarah

May 29, 2025

Excellent practical advice and a great course

andrea

andrea

May 24, 2025

Great course! I am grateful 🙏🥰🙌

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