Mindfulness Meditation
a path to healing
Hello, I'm Eve.
After four cancer diagnoses, it's the power of meditation that has sustained me. Through Mindful Meditation, I've found ways to stay steady, ease anxiety, and reconnect to life—even in the hard moments. Now, I share these practices with people living with and beyond cancer, and those who support them. This space is here for you. Take what helps. Leave what doesn't. Come back anytime.
A Path to healing
If you have days when the fog won't lift, tiredness clings, and your body just isn't bouncing back the way you'd imagined — you're not alone.
Cancer and its treatments can take a toll—not just on your body but on your mind and spirit too. Fatigue, a hazy brain, and anxiety can all linger long after treatment, leaving you wondering if you'll ever feel like yourself again.
Learning Mindful Meditation is something we can do for ourselves as an integrated and complementary element of the treatment pathway. These practices are fierce allies, proven to help settle the nervous system, ease pain and anxiety, and rebuild resilience and clear perspective to support your healing. They are enduring companions, staying with you long after treatment ends—becoming vital tools for grounded living as you reclaim your strength and reconnect to a sense of self.
Healing is not the same as curing. Healing can happen alongside treatment, after treatment, while living with ongoing illness — and when cure is not possible at all. For me, it is about learning to meet the life that is here and finding ways to live more fully within it.
I explore this more deeply in my new A Path to Healing page — coming soon.
Mindfulness
Meditation
I currently share mindful meditation through Macmillan Cancer Support and Sussex Cancer Fund, creating safe, supportive spaces for people living with and beyond cancer. Through courses, workshops and regular meditation sessions, I share practices to help people navigate the challenges of treatment, recovery and ongoing uncertainty with greater resilience and ease.
I'm continuing to develop this work with cancer charities and community groups, widening access to mindful meditation for people affected by cancer.
I'll also be sharing free guided meditations here on my website, so you can practice wherever you are.
If you're interested in learning more or exploring the possibility of bringing mindful meditation to your organisation, please feel free to get in touch.
Course Results
100%
Increased resilience
100%
More likely to pause before reacting
95%
Greater awareness of mind wandering and rumination
97%
Improved overall wellbeing
95%
Reduced stress and anxiety
Macmillan participants also reported improvements across the Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale —
feeling more optimistic, confident and relaxed, better able to deal with problems and think clearly, more interested in new things, and more cheerful.
* Combined survey results from 8-week Mindful Meditation courses with participants from Macmillan Cancer Support, the British Red Cross and the Francis Crick Institute, 2022–25.
Forest Bathing
Despite the name, there's no water — and no bath involved! Forest Bathing, originating from the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku, is an immersive sensory experience in the forest. I lead small groups through a series of guided practices that help quieten the thinking mind and attune your senses more deeply to the magnificence of the natural world.
As you slow down and begin to really see, listen, touch and breathe, you experience the forest as more texturally alive — sounds sharper, colours richer, sensations exquisitely felt. It can feel expansive, energising and deeply restorative, bringing a profound sense of connection in this more-than-human world.
I currently lead Forest Bathing experiences in a private woodland in East Sussex, including groups from Sussex Cancer Fund, and I'm continuing to develop this work with other organisations.
Explore Forest Bathing — coming soon.
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About Eve
I first learnt to meditate in 1988 — and then for a while my relationship with meditation was something of a dance. Sometimes I practised regularly; and other times, with young children, work and everything else life threw into the mix, my practice slipped into the background. But I always came back.
Then, more than 14 years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. With major surgery and months of chemotherapy ahead, I remember thinking: what can I do to help myself get through this?
Meditation was something I could do. So I decided to take it more seriously.
That decision changed the direction of my life.
Since then, I've trained professionally as a mindfulness teacher and taught in organisations including the British Red Cross, Francis Crick Institute and Cancer Research UK, alongside a senior career in government in the UK and New Zealand.
Today, as I continue to navigate my own long and complex cancer journey, I bring together almost 40 years of practice, professional training, lived experience — and everything I continue to learn from the wonderful people I teach.
I love this work. I love the communities we create together, and seeing what becomes possible when we pause, breathe, come back to the present moment — and rediscover that steady place inside ourselves, beneath all the noise.
Qualifications
- MBCT for Cancer Teacher Training — Oxford Mindfulness Foundation, 2025 | Trish Bartley & Christina Shennan
- Certified Forest Bathing Guide — Treeming, 2025 | Internationally accredited training (ICAHP & IPHM) and CPD
- Teach Mindfulness course accredited by the Complementary Medical Association (CMA)
- Workplace Mindfulness Training (CMI and Oxford University Mindfulness Centre)
- Spirit Rock – Anxiety: It's Not All in Your Mind
- Jack Kornfield – The Dynamic Art of Interactive Guided Meditation
- Extended silent meditation retreats and courses studied at Gaia House and Bodhi College
Working with Tree Sisters in Partnership
I am excited about my fundraising partnership in aid of Tree Sisters and embedding environmental restoration into my work. Tree Sisters are dedicated to replenishing the Earth's forests and have planted over 28 million trees across the planet to date.
Working With
This space is here for you.
Take what helps. Leave what doesn't. Come back anytime.
For more information, feel free to contact me at hello@evewren.co.uk. I'd love to hear from you.
Whether you're living with cancer, supporting someone who is, or simply curious about how these practices might help — you're warmly invited to get in touch.