Beginnings

Published by Maya

Dr Maya Campbell is a research scientist, psychologist, mindfulness teacher and supervisor living and working in the UK. Having initially trained as a research scientist in chemistry and physics, Maya became interested in psychology and mindfulness after having experienced exhaustion and burnout, leading to years of depression and ultimately a heart attack and cardiac arrest. After having been resuscitated, and spending two months in a coma, Maya began years of personal physical and mental rehabilitation. Along this journey she became more and more interested in how people experienced mental distress and did a Master’s in Psychology and trained as a Mindfulness teacher. In her work, Maya brings her professional training and expertise to her teachings as well as the lived experience of having gone through major traumas and illnesses and has flourished despite currently living with the life-threatening disease of heart failure. Maya brings kindness and compassion to her teaching and is especially interested in the teaching of self-compassion to people. In 2016 she co-designed and developed the Heartfulness Project which brings an integrative mind-body approach in which people with heart conditions learn new skills and techniques which can help with their emotions and physical illness. View more posts