Mindfulness
Mindful Parenting in a Messy World
INTRO I’ve spent more than 20 years as a licensed marriage and family therapist helping scores of parents become better parents and hundreds of people recover from the less-than-optimal parenting […]
Not Power Over Others, But Power Over Self
(This week’s quotes are the third in a series following up on three Resources for Recovering Resilience posts on shifting out of the mindsets of the drama triangle of victim, […]
Choosing to Choose
(The second in a series of Weekly Quotes following up on the series of three Resources for Recovering Resilience posts on shifting out of the mindsets of the drama triangle […]
Judy Collins treated her depression
Even in the busiest of lives, a few precious moments of meditation can have a profound and lasting effect. Take some time for yourself today, and ponder the wisdom of […]
Our Practice Is Essential to Dealing Skillfully with Disappointments, Difficulties, even Disasters
To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care […]
Sure-Fire Practices to Free Yourself from Your Inner Critic
In teaching people resources and practices for recovering resilience, I often teach that there is no more powerful a derailer of that resilience than the shaming of our inner critic, […]
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion and Resilience
[Ooh, I’ve been teaching/traveling a lot this fall, so this newsletter will have a very different format this month. One of those teaching opportunities was giving a keynote address at […]
Bouncing Back, Bouncing Forward, Bouncing Around
For me, it was just simply being rear-ended while driving through town, no real damage to either car, no apparent damage to me nor the very apologetic and gracious driver […]
Weekly Quotes 2016
1-4-16 Weekly Quotes: New Year’s Resolutions That Will Make You Happier (In a rare reversal (the resources posted on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve were actually more like quotes), […]
How to Change Your Brain to Change Your Mind
(My good friend and colleague Rick Hanson was recently interviewed by Beate Trueck, co-founder of the Brussels Mindfulness Institute. This excerpt is from Rick’s most recent Wise Brain Bulletin, a […]