Drum roll please..... YES.....IT'S HERE!!!!!! Blooming into Mindfulness: How the Universe Used a Garden, Cancer, and Carpools to Teach Me That Calm Is the New Happy is live on...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...