mindfulness courses testimonial

By the time I found Brahm Centre @ Tampines, I was exhausted and broken and didn’t think anything else could help me. I had walked out on my second marriage after 11 years after recognizing that my husband was never going to physically touch me. He hadn’t since our wedding night. From a state of ‘not being good enough’ I landed myself with a person who showed physical intimacy and love but who was also married to someone else. So again, I struggled with inner demons of ‘not being good enough’ for another 3 years. Then cancer came knocking on my door. And out of all the cancers, I had cancer of the womb. Within 16 days, from my first doctor’s appointment, my womb, ovaries and all my reproductive organs were removed from me. 

I was a shattered ‘woman’ who looked like she had it together. An educated woman, a teacher by profession, surrounded by children who had no chance of ever becoming a mother. I was continuously and mercilessly questioning myself about my sexuality, my identity, my morality and my decisions.  

In the MBCT course, Angie taught me how to let go. To finally let go, to finally accept myself, and my decisions. It didn’t happen overnight, but it did, slowly over time as I learned to breathe and centre myself.  

I wish Angie every success as she reaches out to people and teaches us to be kind to ourselves, to forgive and accept ourselves, to be us and to be mindful that our minds are just filled with thoughts and thoughts will pass. We don’t have to follow or believe thoughts don’t empower us. 

I wish her every success in opening a mindfulness retreat center as we need a quiet and safe centre where we can ‘be’ for a while to heal ourselves. IMH is not always the ideal place, speaking from experience. 

Thank you, Angie for saving me. For making me return from the dead where I can now smile, laugh and just be myself. And in return, be of some use to the children and people around me. 

Ms J  

I am a retired Senior Psychotherapist and have worked in the hospital and clinics in London for over 30 years. I have attended many conferences over the course of my professional life but this was just splendid. It was calming, well-paced and active without any frenzy. 

I had a stroke 7 years ago and took up yoga, meditation and relaxation becoming a Yoga teacher. However this MBSR course and Professor Angie’s Mindfulness Foundation course takes it all to another level.  These are the missing jigsaw pieces in this fretful crazy world. Peace of mind is so important and so difficult to attain. This active mind work, gives hope plus goals that are achievable.  Just thank you.  

Best wishes 

Retired psychotherapist from London

Week after week, you patiently coached, encouraged, prodded and pointed out the hard truths. And week after week, it made me question myself and ponder the way I have been living thus far. Slowly but surely, through my newfound awareness, I find myself unshackled from the chains of emotional reactions, perceptions, judgements and conditioning.

I am now better able to cope with stressful situations because I have learnt that the so-called stressors in life – need not necessarily be stressful. Armed with the 9 foundational attitudes and the mindfulness practices that I have learnt, I think, I too can roll with the punches which life has to offer.  Your guidance in this MBSR course has transformed my life and given me a sense of empowerment. This course has definitely achieved the objectives it set out to do – empowering oneself to create one’s own happiness and ability to respond with less stress to the challenges and stressors of life.

Your generosity in sharing your personal experiences through the articles you wrote and is still writing, in the Straits Times has helped me and I am sure it has also helped countless others.

Under your leadership, Brahm Centre conducting the 5 Day Retreat at Sentosa after the 7th session of MBSR, followed by the very enriching **Singapore Mindfulness Conference (I thoroughly enjoyed your enlightening opening address and the soothing mindful practice you conducted) after the 8th MBSR session, has provided me with the opportunity to be totally immersed in mindfulness these past 2 -3 months.  On top of that, the youtube videos which Brahm Centre has posted online and the Mindfulness@Sunset sessions have also helped me in this life-changing journey.

In completing this MBSR course, I am not the only person who has benefited. Indirectly, my family and people within my social circle have and will also experience its positive effects.

It never fails to amaze me how time and again, you can selflessly give so much of yourself to others.

Words will not suffice to say how grateful I am to you for making a difference in my life. But I felt that I needed to send you this letter because, as you said, “There are no guarantees about the future. We only have right now”.

Thank you very much, Angie!  You are an inspiration!

May you be well and happy!