Mindfulness For Emotional Resilience - by Rachel Atkins

COURSE

Mindfulness For Emotional Resilience

With Rachel Atkins

In this gentle and accessible series, you’ll learn how to navigate stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm using simple mindfulness tools you can return to anytime you need. Each session blends short teachings with easy to follow meditations designed to help you stay grounded in your body, regulate difficult emotions, and connect with an inner sense of calm and strength even during everyday challenges. Whether you’re brand new to mindfulness or looking for grounded ways to deepen your emotional resilience, these practices are here to support you wherever you are, without pressure or complexity. What You’ll Learn: *How to ground yourself in the present moment when emotions feel overwhelming *A simple practice for riding the “waves” of emotional intensity without getting swept away *How to transform self-criticism into compassion using mindful awareness *Tools to sit with discomfort instead of numbing out or reacting *How to stay centered around other people’s emotions and protect your energetic space *Ways to carry mindfulness into daily life for sustainable, lasting resilience These short guided practices can be revisited any time you need a pause, a breath, or a safe place to land within yourself. You don’t need to get it perfect; you just need to show up. Your presence is enough. Your awareness is already the beginning of your healing.


Meet your Teacher

Rachel's journey with yoga and mindfulness started more than 20 years ago after a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. The wonderful benefits she experienced with the practices influenced her to become a yoga and mindfulness instructor. Rachel is dedicated to helping people with arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions feel and move better in their bodies again. Using mindfulness techniques in her life along with yoga, Rachel knows firsthand the positive effects simple mindfulness practices can have on the body and mind. And with mindfulness being such a broad topic, Rachel is passionate about teaching people in a simple but effective way how to implement these techniques into their daily lives.

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6 Days

242 students

4.8 stars

9 min / day

Grounded

English


Lesson 1

Grounding Through Awareness

In this session, learn how to create a calm, centered space within yourself and understand how mindfulness builds resilience. Learn grounding techniques to calm your nervous system and practice "Safe Anchor" - a guided breath and body grounding meditation.

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Lesson 2

The Wave Of Emotions

In this session, we will look at how emotions are just energies that want to move, not be suppressed. We explore the "wave model" of emotions (rise, peak, fall) and learn how to feel without fusing with difficult states. Then we will practice "riding the emotional wave" meditation, labelling and breathing through sensations.

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Lesson 3

The Inner Critic And The Voice Of Compassion

In this session, we learn how to transform harsh self-talk with mindful self-compassion. Learn to identify your inner critic's tone vs. your inner nurturer, and we look at the neuroscience behind self-compassion. We will practice "from critic to compassion meditation, allowing loving kindness for yourself during stress.

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Lesson 4

Sitting With Discomfort (With Shutting Down)

In this session, we learn how to stay present when things feel intense, exploring the natural human impulse to avoid discomfort and practicing "turning inward" instead of "turning away". Our meditation practice will allow us to sit with strong emotions.

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Lesson 5

Emotional Boundaries & Centering The Self

In this session, we look at being present with others without losing yourself. We learn to recognise emotional entanglement and empathic burnout, and how to stay with your experience even when others are upset. Our meditation practice uses the "Bubble of Clarity", boundary-building visualisation with breath awareness.

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Lesson 6

Integrating Emotional Resilience In Daily Life

In this session, we look at making emotional mindfulness a way of being. We will review the key techniques we have learned and discuss continuing the practices within your daily life. In our final meditation practice, we will honor emotions as guides and not our enemies.

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4.8 (29)

Recent Reviews

Mike

July 27, 2025

Great course

Marika

July 26, 2025

Very nice course with good content. I will return to different sessions. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom ❤️

Cindy

July 23, 2025

I will definitely return to this course when I need to! Thank you Rachel for each lesson, and I will take time to just breathe before I react!

Fiona

July 15, 2025

Really worthwhile course. I learned a lot throughout. I will probably listen to the meditations again to ensure I have the full benefit from each day. Thank you for creating such an invaluable course.🫶🙏

Michelle

July 12, 2025

Thank you for this beautiful course! I feel inner peace after completing it 🙏✨and equipped with tools that I can implement daily.

Michael

July 9, 2025

I loved this course. Thank you so very much. 🙏. Namaste.

Lynn

July 3, 2025

Thanks Rachel you put each part so simply I'll return to it 🙏

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