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John Quill

I provide everyday practical support, and spiritual perspectives, using the resources of mindfulness and compassion. I teach Mindful Self-compassion. I also write poems.

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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 31, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Mindful Self-compassion (opens the original)

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    Much of my approach to life, and the poems I write, come from a place that I discovered through practicing mindfulness and compassion. There are other influences too, not least MKP, but primarily the Mindful Self-compassion that I now teach.I begin my next course on Monday 12th October and for the following seven Monday evenings ending on 30th November. It’s online and each session starts at 7pm UK and finishes by 9.30. It’s a big commitment, and I know from my own experience and from the feedba

  2. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    Letting Anger In (opens the original)

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    Welcome to some new subscribers who’ve recently arrived thanks to . I hope you and everyone here get something valuable from at least some of these posts.This time, after my “Letting Grief In” poem last week, I thought I’d move on to Anger; then I’ll look at Fear and Joy. These are the four “big” emotions that I find it helpful to navigate as, between them, they cover many other emotions we might name such as worry, anxiety, irritation, sadness, happiness and so on.As last week there are two par

  3. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Letting Grief in (opens the original)

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    <img alt="man hugging his knee statue" class="sizing-normal" height="3545" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1574254706427-213d446e2f2b?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxfHxncmllZnxlbnwwfHx8fDE

  4. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Mindful Walk (opens the original)

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    I hope you enjoy this post and the invitation to be mindful with me. A couple of WhatsApp “dings” come in during it. I acknowledge one, not the other, and I’ve left them there to remind us that being mindful is not about somehow separating ourselves, rather it’s about mindfully being with whatever happens.

  5. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    My Brilliant Career (2)/Grief for the Sorrows of the World (opens the original)

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    You may know Francis Weller’s Five Gates of Grief.<img alt="Day 235 and Grief – Julie Fredrickson" class="sizing-normal" height="410" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fCQr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/ht

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