by Martha Brettschneider | Dec 29, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Greetings friends! I stepped off the grid to be present with my loved ones over the holidays. We took the week before Christmas to visit family and ski at Whistler, British Columbia, returning home on Christmas Eve. Traveling before Christmas was a departure from our...
by Martha Brettschneider | Nov 2, 2017 | Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation, Workshop
What emotional response do you have when you hear the first Christmas song on the radio or find the first red and green or snowflake-patterned holiday decorations at the store? Does a delighted smile break out on your face? Or do your shoulders scrunch up to your ears...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 28, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Motivation
Playfulness is good for you. So many sources have delivered this message to me over the years that I’ve lost count. Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way, mindfulness teachers ranging from the Dalai Lama to Andy Puddicomb, and, more recently, the TED Radio Hour, which...
by Martha Brettschneider | Oct 6, 2017 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Mindfulness, Motivation
Have you ever collaborated with an accountability buddy? I wrote about this in a 2015 series on rebooting healthy, soul-feeding habits in my life (see How an Accountability Buddy Can Turn Work into Play). I’ve been thinking about the immense power of...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 16, 2017 | Life Lessons, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness, Motivation
I’ve been thinking a lot about joy lately, and particularly about joy as an indicator of living in alignment with your purpose. We dove deep into this topic earlier this week in my “Surviving and Thriving in Your Empty Nest: Mindful Tools to Keep You Fulfilled,...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 7, 2017 | Meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness Thought Leaders, Motivation, Workshop
It never fails to astonish me how doing nothing for a few minutes each day (meditating) helps me do everything else better. In a 2015 interview with On Being’s Krista Tippet, social psychologist Ellen Langer, sometimes referred to as “the mother of mindfulness,”...
