Fleur Chambers is one of Australia’s top meditation teachers, with her own app named The Happy Habit and thousands of followers on Insight Timer. She has helped many many people learn and maintain thier own meditation habit and does so with grace, warmth and humour.
In this chat, Fleur opens up about her own struggle with pain and how building a deep understanding of how her body communicates has been key in her ongoing healing. She shares with us many tips for navigating our own pain, some of these include: shifting our mindset around rest and our contribution to life, building self-compassion to sooth and support our body and getting to know our thoughts and how we speak to ourselves.
We dive deep into what meditation can really feel like when we first start (hint: it ‘aint always pretty!) and how meditation doesn’t always have to be a “quiet mind and back straight”. We explore the lighter side of our personal and spiritual development through cultivating joy, play and gratitude. She brilliantly highlights that while these things are lovely, in order to maintain and grow them, we need to first do the deep work of building our self-awareness and uncovering the “weeds” in our thinking. He motto is: “pull the weed then plant the seed”.