Listen to this awesome meditation story. "How awesome can a meditation story possibly be?" you might ask. Well, listen up. So last Friday, as we were trying to finalize the design and...
How Meditation Nurtures Creativity
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Back to Basics: How a Simple Mindfulness Practice Supplemented Meditation
This morning my coffee mug is my mindfulness mentor. A polish pottery piece, the mug is round—seemingly custom-made for my cupped hands—and decorated in a blue floral pattern. The lip...
Diving into 2016 With A Dash of Fear And A Big Dose of Purpose
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. ~ Natalie Goldberg The sun just rose on 2016. Never have I felt such intense anticipation at the...
How The Compassion Collective Lifted My Spirits on Christmas Eve
Not exactly sure why, but I've been sort of sad, or at least down the past few days. Maybe it's because I haven't exercised enough the past week and it's affecting my brain chemistry....
Taking Words Out of the Way to Protest the NRA
I hadn't set out to write a rhyming title. It just happened. And when I asked if anybody would come with me to my first gun control rally in front of NRA headquarters on December 14th, the...
Embracing the Light More Than Ever This Holiday Season
Reposting this piece, which I wrote just a few days after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It's been three long years since that terrible day, with...
Sunlit Mindful Morning in My Dormant Garden
For many of us, December offers little time for breathing room. I know that's the case for me. This past week was particularly packed as we prepared for a neighborhood holiday gathering at...
Thanksgiving Real-Time
It's Thanksgiving morning, 5:30 a.m. The world outside my kitchen window is still swathed in darkness, no hint of sunrise yet on the horizon. The utter stillness of the house this time of...
How to Use Mindfulness Techniques to Manage Holiday Stress
I don't know about you, but the holidays are one of my biggest sources of mindfulness failure. My husband and I are both products of Jewish/Christian marriages. We enjoy celebrating...
My Book Cover Revealed (And How Mindfulness Helped Me Follow My Instincts)
I'm thrilled to be able to unveil my book cover for Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden, Cancer, and Carpools to Teach Me That Calm Is the New Happy. What do you...
What Is Mindfulness?
Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, defines mindfulness as "paying attention in a particular way;...
Newsletter Experiment: Topping off Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Book Progress, and My Upcoming Photography Show
Greetings from Atlanta! I'm on the road again this weekend, attending soccer parents weekend at Emory University. We've been lucky enough to attend Emory soccer games in Chicago,...