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Be in Silence for 10 Minutes
Anything that brings us together helps. Spending time in solitude helps you see your own humanity more clearly and is a window into others.
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Jul 20, 20232 min read
How We Create Our Realities Matters
Your brain is constantly creating your reality from the data your body sends it. This includes your interoception and your feeling tone.
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Jun 21, 20233 min read
Well-Being is a Skill
When we talk about the neuroplasticity of well-being we're referring to the reality that well-being isn't static. And you can improve it.
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Jun 5, 20234 min read
Please Stop Glorifying Empathy
I see so much focus on empathy, and I ask everyone who advocates for it to sit with precisely what it is they think they're advocating for.
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May 30, 20232 min read
Listen to Your Body, But Be Careful Interpreting What It's Saying
If you don't have a practice for noticing your body's sensations and your brain's interpretations, you'll do what you've always done.
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May 22, 20232 min read
For Today, Don't Make Assumptions
Jumping to like one person over another is often the result of taking faulty, silly, or even harmful mental shortcuts. Pause and look inward
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May 15, 20232 min read
On Free Will, Neurolaw, and Tiny Habits
Your brain has decided what you're going to do before you do it. Free will, in neuroscientific terms, doesn't exist. But all is not lost.
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Apr 27, 20233 min read
On Learning, Habits, and Snowballs
When was the last time you learned a new skill or acquired a new habit? How did that happen? Odds are there were a bunch of ingredients...
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Mar 16, 20232 min read
On the Feeling of Vulnerability
There's a feeling that accompanies vulnerability. You don't have to say a thing. You don't have to do a thing.
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Feb 27, 20232 min read
On Creating Time Spaciousness
Mindfulness can result in time spaciousness, where you have the mental time and space to think and reflect, clearly, and into the future.
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Feb 6, 20233 min read
If Andrew Huberman Doesn't Understand Mindfulness, You Might Not Either
A neuroscientist with one of the most popular podcasts, who has instructed people in "perceptual exercises," discovers mindfulness.
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Jan 5, 20234 min read
Tell Me Something Good. Or Don't.
At any given moment, greeting people and asking them to tell you something good is helpful for some people, but not for everyone.
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Dec 19, 20223 min read
Big News
Thought leader, genius, and overall-awesome human being, Julie Fortin and I are partnering on The Future of Financial Advice.
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Dec 12, 20222 min read
Don't Shop for ANYTHING When Hungry
The next time the idea pops into/out of your head to buy something—that you "need" it or want it or as a gift or whatever—pause.
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Nov 22, 20222 min read
Let me hold the door for you on Nov 19
Whatever you're carrying, and whatever is coming up for the rest of the year that might be weighing on you, let me hold the door for you.
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Nov 9, 20221 min read
7 Steps to Healthier Social Media Use
Awareness practices apply to everything. Here's a handy guide for your social media behavior.
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Oct 19, 20222 min read
THE Soft Skill for Hard Times
When you're in a moment where you're not having an emotion but the emotion is having you, guess what you don't think of?
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Oct 6, 20223 min read
Wanna say something? Do this first.
I created a nifty guide to, well, talking. Here it is . . . It involves breathing more and talking a lot less. Try it!
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Sep 27, 20222 min read
On Inquiry-Based Learning and Conversations
Inquiry-based learning is social, it's relational, and it's experiential. It's the way humans learn. Why not use it in your practice?
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Sep 20, 20223 min read
On Self-Compassion and Shame
Shame and self-hatred are remarkably common, and not all shame is negative as it can be part of healthy socialization and enculturation.
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Sep 11, 20223 min read
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