About the Book
Build your calm. Work with purpose. Live your life.
The Mindfulness Habit is a practical guide to managing stress, anxiety, and uncertainty – even when you're busy, overwhelmed, or convinced you "just can’t do mindfulness.”
You’ll discover practical tools that bring this valuable skill into your everyday life, no yoga mat or silent retreat required. Lisa’s “active awareness” approach blends mindfulness with positive psychology and workplace wisdom, helping you build habits that make a real difference and that can support health and career - yes, you can have both.
This book offers an easy-to-follow, 8-week peer-reviewed mindfulness programme, paired with real-world insights into workplace wellbeing. You'll find down-to-earth support for:
Burnout and stress
Uncertainty and changeFocus, flow and productivity Anxiety and self-doubtDifficult conversations
If you’ve ever said, “I don’t have time for mindfulness”, this book is for you. Author and workplace wellbeing coach Lisa Wren specialises in helping people with full lives, full calendars, and full minds. Her methods are designed to fit into real schedules, even if you’ve only got five minutes.Whether you’re seeking focus, resilience, or just a moment of peace in a hectic day, The Mindfulness Habit offers a clear path forward.
Reviews:
Lisa Wren draws on her own experience of transforming life with mindfulness to help people work - and live - with presence and resilience. This book offers a clear and practical programme that can be of enormous benefit to anyone who engages with it wholeheartedly.
Ed Halliwell, author of Into The Heart of Mindfulness, Director of Mindfulness Sussex.
The Mindfulness Habit is like having the company of a warm, supportive friend - offering encouragement, empathy, and gentle advice for navigating the messiness of being human.
Shannon Phillips, Mindfulness Teacher and Manager, Breathworks Community of Practice.
Lisa's compassionate and creative teaching offers a way into mindfulness that's accessible, buildable, and practical for modern day life.
Vidyamala Burch OBE, Founder of Breathworks.
Lisa's gem of a book brings together her practical, compassionate, and engaging approach to mindfulness to help the reader both understand it fully and develop a meaningful daily practice.
Ashley Lodge, Head of Wellbeing, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
"In The Mindfulness Habit, Lisa has written a guide to mindfulness practice that is inviting and inspirational. She dispels myths about mindfulness and integrates novel ideas on positive habit formation and motivation that show how it is possible to blend mindfulness into even the busiest lives. I would strongly recommend The Mindfulness Habit for those new to mindfulness and to those who have struggled previously to maintain a practice."
Gerry McCarron, Clinical Lead and CBT Therapist, Onebright Mental Health
Table of Contents:
Preparing the Ground. Lesson 1, Unlocking Mindfulness
Developing Intention Making and breaking habits. Lesson 2, Boxed in and Breaking Out
The spinning wheels of worry. Lesson 3, Working with the body in mind
Working with work that never ends. Lesson 4, Stress unravelled
Frantic to flow. Lesson 5, Turning Towards
Food for your thoughts. Lesson 6, Taking the threat out of feedback
A robot took my job. Lesson 7, Bringing In, Letting Go, (the real possibility of change)
Compassion, equality, and inclusion. Lesson 8, Throwing Forward (and looking back)
About the Author :
Lisa Wren has practiced mindfulness since 2012. She began her learning journey at the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre and has been teaching since 2015. Lisa works with the internationally recognized mindfulness teaching standard MBI-TAC and meets all criteria in its competency domains; she is trained in both MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy) and MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). Lisa's teacher training and CPD is through the Mindfulness Network (accredited by Bangor University). She has a First-Class Hons. degree in Psychology with Neuroscience (University of London) and was the winner of the annual British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award for her university. She is perpetually learning and is engaged with current psychology research literature through specialist courses at City University and the British Psychological Society; she has also studied Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and is a Mental Health First Aider (MHFA England).
Lisa has a successful portfolio career, she manages the high-performing IP & Rights team as Director, R&P for Pearson and teaches internationally in her role as Global Mindfulness Lead. She provides classes and runs weekly workplace meditation groups, as well as supporting and training new mindfulness teachers; she creates and delivers learning material for her online and in-person courses and has written about workplace wellbeing, including in response to the Pearson Global Learner Survey. She is currently supporting ELL marketing campaigns with mindfulness-based wellbeing videos on social media for students, and she supports individuals through mentoring schemes and the Senior Leadership Sponsorship program. Recently Lisa has become a volunteer mindfulness teacher for the NHS, sharing this valuable skill with clinical teams to help them prepare for a busy winter period.
Review :
"Lisa Wren draws on her own experience of transforming life with mindfulness to help people work - and live - with presence and resilience. This book offers a clear and practical programme that can be of enormous benefit to anyone who engages with it wholeheartedly." Ed Halliwell, author of Into The Heart of Mindfulness, Director of Mindfulness Sussex.
"The Mindfulness Habit is like having the company of a warm, supportive friend - offering encouragement, empathy, and gentle advice for navigating the messiness of being human." Shannon Phillips, Mindfulness Teacher and Manager, Breathworks Community of Practice.
"Lisa's compassionate and creative teaching offers a way into mindfulness that's accessible, buildable, and practical for modern day life." Vidyamala Burch OBE, Founder of Breathworks.
"Lisa's gem of a book brings together her practical, compassionate, and engaging approach to mindfulness to help the reader both understand it fully and develop a meaningful daily practice." Ashley Lodge, Head of Wellbeing, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
"In The Mindfulness Habit, Lisa has written a guide to mindfulness practice that is inviting and inspirational. She dispels myths about mindfulness and integrates novel ideas on positive habit formation and motivation that show how it is possible to blend mindfulness into even the busiest lives. I would strongly recommend The Mindfulness Habit for those new to mindfulness and to those who have struggled previously to maintain a practice." Gerry McCarron, Clinical Lead and CBT Therapist, Onebright Mental Health
