more energy for your life
chronic stress and anxiety
so you can listen to your body
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction
MBSR is an effective and scientifically-researched method for reducing physical and psychological suffering whilst building resilience, balance, and peace of mind.
What is mindfulness?
Simply put, mindfulness is moment-to-moment non-judgemental awareness. It is cultivated by purposefully paying attention to things we ordinarily never give a moment’s thought to.
It is a systematic approach to developing new kinds of agency, control and wisdom in our lives, based on our inner capacity for paying attention; and on awareness, insight and compassion, that naturally arise from paying attention in specific ways.
The first step on the adventure involved in coming to our senses on any and every level, is cultivation of a particular kind of awareness, known as Mindfulness.
Mindfulness is the final common pathway of what makes us human, our capacity for awareness and for self-knowing.
Mindfulness is cultivated by paying attention and as we shall see, this paying attention is developed and refined through a practice known as Mindfulness Meditation.
MM (Mindfulness Meditation) has been spreading rapidly around the world and into the mainstream of Western culture in the past 30 years, thanks in part to an increasing number of scientific and medical studies of its various effects.
The journey towards greater health and sanity is catalyzed by mobilizing and developing resources we all already have.
The most important one is our capacity for paying attention, in particular, to those aspects of our lives that we have not been paying very much attention to, that we might say we have been ignoring, seemingly forever.
We all deal with stress on a daily basis, whether we’re old or young, large or small, lofty thinkers or practical doers.
Even the most practiced meditator and the yogi who radiates peace, experience this aspect of the human nature.
It’s inescapable, and it brings with it a host of uncomfortable and distracting symptoms. Stress isn’t just a feeling or a mental state; if you don’t address it, it seeps into every aspect of your life.
One way to cope with stress is through mindfulness-based stress reduction, or MBSR, an eight-week course that teaches how to use mindfulness in daily life. It’s a proven way to help deal with the stressors of daily life.
MBSR was founded in 1979 as an eight week course known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
There are over 720 mindful-based programs modeled on MBSR in hospitals, medical centers and clinics across the US and around the world. Since the founding of the clinic in 1979, MBSR contributed steadily to a new and growing movement within medicine, psychiatry, and psychology that might be best called participatory medicine.
Mindfulness-based programs have become an opportunity for people to engage more fully in their own movement toward greater levels of health and well-being as a complementary treatment, to whatever medical treatments they may be receiving, starting of course from where they are at the moments they decide to take up this challenge: namely, to do something for themselves that no one else on the planet can do for them.
What can I expect when enrolling in this course?
The people who embark on this journey of self-development, self-discovery, learning and healing do so in an effort to regain control of their health and to attain at least some peace of mind. They come referred by their doctors – or, increasingly now, for a wide range of life problems and medical problems ranging from headaches, high blood pressure, and back pain to heart disease, cancer and anxiety.
They are young and old and in-between. What they learn in MBSR is the “how to take care of themselves”, not as a replacement for their medical treatment but as a vitally important complement to it.
Over the years, numerous people have made inquiries about how they can learn what our patients learn in this eight-week course, which amounts to an intensive self-directed training program in the art of conscious living. This program is meant to be a practical guide for anyone, well or ill. stress or in pain, who seeks to transcend his or her limitations and move toward greater levels of health and well-being.
Dr. Estie Pieterse-Kruger
Expert Clinical Psychiatrist
Dr. HSC Pieterse-Kruger Matriculated in Springs, Gauteng in 1984 and thereafter did a pre-and postgraduate at the University of the Free State where she obtained the M.B. Ch.B. Degree in 1990 as well as a Degree in M. Med (Psych) in 2005.
She worked as a GP in Vereeniging, Gauteng for 5 Years before she started specializing in Psychiatry.
She then started her own private practice in Worcester, Western Cape and has been there for the past 19 Years as a General Adult Psychiatrist.
How I Can Help You
It’s my goal to create a comfortable, safe environment where we’ll work together to achieve your goals.
Who Will Benefit from the MBSR Program?
Anyone suffering from:
Stress
Anxiety
Depression
Relationship Difficulties
Work Stress
Family Stress
Chronic Pain
Insomnia
Fatigue
Hypertension
Headaches
Grief
Benefits of the MBSR Program
Create a selfcare plan to manage stress
Learn how to be less reactive
Improve focus
Improve relationships
Practice gratitude
Build resilience
How To Relieve Stress
Regular Exercise
Eat well and limit Alcohol and Stimulants
Connect with supportive people
Carve out hobby time
Practice meditation, Stress reduction or Yoga
Sleep Enough
Bond with a pet
Re-balance work and home
Testimonials
During my sessions with Dr. Pieterse-Kruger, I feel like I am speaking with a friend rather than a stranger. After them, I feel that I am a new person who is in charge of her life, mind and actions.
Annabelle
Social Worker
After a mindfulness course, my life has altered, and my views on many things have changed. Everything immediately fell into place. I am thankful to you for your help. I advise Estie to everyone.
Trishna
Police Officer
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