by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 18, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
Listening, listening, listening. What do You want me to hear? Bird song? Mower at work at 7:42 am on a Saturday? My chest constricting with the story of that? The fan over the eggs boiling on the stove. The clink of my spoon against my bowl of oatmeal. The feel of the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Apr 1, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindful Photography, Mindfulness, Workshop
Out of such transparency of the human heart, things of value are created and we are created. Such openness requires two ongoing devotions: the risk to be, to slow to the pace of creation, where all things join; and the courage not just to let through whatever comes...
by Martha Brettschneider | Feb 14, 2021 | Fitness, Mindful Eating
Note: I revised this piece to provide a little more context to the graph below. The timing of this post — landing on Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day — may feel a little weird. It’s not about burning off chocolate calories. It’s...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 31, 2021 | Mindfulness, Motivation
The thrill of life is not about who we are but about who we are in the process of becoming. Similarly, the magic of our brain lies not in its constituent elements but in the way those elements unceasingly reweave themselves to form a dynamic, electric, living...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jan 1, 2021 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness
A ginko was the first tree to grow back after the bombing of Hiroshima. That’s resilience! Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I woke up this morning feeling just a little bit lighter energetically. We still have many difficult days ahead while the...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 26, 2020 | Mindfulness
Gratitude, the spirit of Thanksgiving, whacked me upside the head recently in the midst of a literal storm. Yup, 2020 has felt like one big storm engulfing the world, keeping our internal weather patterns riled up as well. But this was a real storm with real rain and...
