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,”...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 31, 2017 | Mindful Photography, Motivation, Photography
This past Saturday, I stood in Wheaton, Maryland’s Brookside Gardens waiting to take butterfly photographs. Joy flooded through me to such an extent that I was almost moved to tears. Though it was only 7:00 in the morning, hummingbirds and bumble bees were...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 19, 2017 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Mindfulness
I’m writing this morning from Seattle’s Whidbey Island. In just a few hours, my niece Elizabeth (Lizzie) will marry the love of her life. Although I have been planted on the East Coast for close to thirty years, the Northwest has always been my touchstone,...
by Martha Brettschneider | Aug 10, 2017 | Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation, Workshop
Our family’s Beginning of Empty Nest Day (BEND???? as in bend in the road?) is August 12, 2017, two days from the time of this writing. After months of feeling excited and prepared for our youngest’s departure, the harder emotions have finally bubbled to the surface...
