by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 6, 2019 | Mindfulness, Motivation
Apollo on New Year’s Day “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ― Mary Oliver Happy New Year! Mary Oliver has my back. She provided the perfect words to finish up 2018 (see last week’s post) and has the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 30, 2018 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” ― Mary Oliver And with another blink of the eye, the curtain is closing on 2018. These past few days after Christmas have been luxuriously unscheduled and unstructured. This takes some...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 13, 2018 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
I never had an interest in reaching a super old age. Growing up, I didn’t have anybody in my family who lived to be 100, or anything close to it. On the contrary, most of the men in our family died at unusually young ages. My vibrant maternal grandmother, who I...
by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 1, 2018 | Blooming into Mindfulness, Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
Why is it so hard to acknowledge that we have made progress of some kind? Stepping back even further, why is it so hard to even direct positive wishes towards ourselves? After practicing lovingkindness meditation this week in the 15-Day Advanced Extension to the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 21, 2018 | Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation
It’s the day before Thanksgiving. I’m sitting in my kitchen window seat with my morning ritual breakfast of steel cut oats and blueberries, steaming mug of coffee on the table beside me. The board game I played with my kids last night is packed away in its chunky box...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 15, 2018 | Mindful Photography, Mindfulness, Photography
Greetings! In my last newsletter a few weeks ago, I laid out the super busy fall I had ahead of me, adding that I wasn’t sure how my blog schedule would be impacted. As I suspected, keeping up with the series of speaking events, mindfulness trainings, my 30-Day...
