Embracing Compassion: A Journey through Mindfulness and Resilience - An Interview with Nick

About this episode

Nick discusses compassion and mindfulness in an interview with Jesse Spurr and Liz Crowe, exploring the relationship to suffering and the importance of meeting oneself with kindness.

Embracing Compassion: A Journey through Mindfulness and Resilience Welcome.This conversation is one I've been sitting with for a while. It was originally published in November on World Compassion Day in 2025. I had the chance to be interviewed by Jesse Spurr and Liz Crowe, from the 5 Things Podcast at Metro North, and together we explored compassion - not as a theory or a nice idea, but as something deeply practical. Something we come back to again and again when life is painful, uncertain, or overwhelming. I joined the conversation as a consumer representative and lived‑experience advocate, and also as someone who's still very much learning what it means to meet myself with kindness in the middle of real life. What unfolded was a grounded, honest exploration of what it means to be human. Noticing suffering, instead of running from it One of the things we spent time with was our relationship to suffering. So often, our instinct is to push discomfort away - to distract, override, or judge ourselves for feeling what we feel. And I get that. I do it too. But what we talked about was what happens when we pause long enough to actually notice our experience. When we let fear, anxiety…

People in this episode

Host: Nick

Guests: Jesse Spurr, Liz Crowe

Topics covered

• compassion
• mindfulness
• resilience
• suffering
• mental health

Keywords

• compassion
• mindfulness
• resilience
• suffering
• mental health
• self-kindness
• anxiety

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 5 Things Podcast

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