by Martha Brettschneider | May 28, 2016 | Mindfulness, Motivation, Photography
May has been a crazy month, with book events, photography shows, mindfulness (and mindful) conferences, and family graduations filling the past several weeks. I knew I already had a lot on my plate when I was considering whether to start a new photo challenge this...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 7, 2016 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness
It’s the night before Mother’s Day and I’m pretty pooped after my photography show today at the Vienna Garden Faire. The event elicited gratitude both as a mother and as a daughter, with my eldest foregoing sleep to help with set up, my...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 1, 2016 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders
“An intelligence inside us knows that blame prevents us from living free.” ~ Tara Brach I spent the past two days at the 2016 Mindful Life Conference in Washington, D.C. After a particularly full week, with my first TV interview on Wednesday and inventory...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 10, 2016 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Mindfulness, Motivation
I hadn’t planned on running this Saturday morning. I had managed to exercise in some capacity Monday through Friday and felt justified in taking a break. But late Friday night, this post popped up on my local Moms Run This Town (MRTT) running group’s...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 2, 2016 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness
If you’ve read Blooming into Mindfulness, you know that my Virginia garden became my first mindfulness mentor when we bought our house twenty-two years ago, though I didn’t have the language at the time to understand her calming effect on me. Today I...
