by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 8, 2026 | Mindfulness in Nature
It’s been three weeks since my husband and I returned from our first visit to Australia. Yes, I have adorable photos of tree-hugging koalas and video of a mother kangaroo and her baby exchanging wet kisses. But the image that lodged itself into my psyche and has...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 25, 2026 | Motivation
It’s Sunday, a week since we returned from our first visit to Australia. A friend texted me a couple of days ago saying, “You must have whiplash leaving sunny Australia to come home to this weather!” “Whiplash” is the word I come back to today. Not just...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 30, 2025 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
The last few days of December always feel like a space between breaths for me. It’s that point where you have just completed your exhale but have not quite turned toward your next inhale. Perhaps you can relate? This reflection comes up every year for me between...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 11, 2025 | Life Lessons, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness
It’s that time of year again, when you might find yourself heading to the post office for holiday shipments. This two-part story about a major mindfulness failure on my part still makes me laugh out loud. Over a decade later, I’m more grateful than ever...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 6, 2025 | Antiracism, Mindful Leadership
Central to my mindfulness practice is a question I return to several times a day: “What’s most important right now? What action can I take to be part of the solution?” Sometimes the situation calling for a response is personal. Sometimes professional. Sometimes...
