by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 13, 2017 | Mindful Photography, Photography
How do you like my newest photography award winner, Hibiscus Abstract Sepia? When I was notified a couple of weeks ago that my entry had won the “Abstracts of Nature” category in the 2017 Annual Friends of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens Photography Competition, I thought...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 6, 2017 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Mindfulness, Motivation
Have you ever collaborated with an accountability buddy? I wrote about this in a 2015 series on rebooting healthy, soul-feeding habits in my life (see How an Accountability Buddy Can Turn Work into Play). I’ve been thinking about the immense power of...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 23, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness
“What are you supposed to do if you have an itch during meditation? Should you try to ignore it or is it OK to scratch it?” When this question came up during the post-meditation discussion earlier this week in our 30-Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge, I...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 16, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation
I’ve been thinking a lot about joy lately, and particularly about joy as an indicator of living in alignment with your purpose. We dove deep into this topic earlier this week in my “Surviving and Thriving in Your Empty Nest: Mindful Tools to Keep You Fulfilled,...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 7, 2017 | Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation, Workshop
It never fails to astonish me how doing nothing for a few minutes each day (meditating) helps me do everything else better. In a 2015 interview with On Being’s Krista Tippet, social psychologist Ellen Langer, sometimes referred to as “the mother of mindfulness,”...
