On Knowing You're Aware
When we're being mindful, we know what we are doing and we are aware that we know what we are doing. Both are necessary.
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marymartinphd
- May 23, 2022
- 3 min
On Misinformation About Stress
It's somewhat-fake news when we talk about stress as if it's something that's real & objectively occurring in our bodies. That's misleading.
marymartinphd
- May 16, 2022
- 4 min
The Irony of Short Mindfulness Practices
When someone is looking for an entry point for mindfulness practice, it's easy to send them to a free app, but that's irresponsible.
marymartinphd
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
On Interrupting
Some people's conversational style includes what linguistics professor Deborah Tannen calls "cooperative overlapping." It's not interrupting
marymartinphd
- May 2, 2022
- 3 min
What does Being feel like?
During mindfulness practice, it's easy to narrate your experience rather than be with, thereby making words the focus of your practice.
marymartinphd
- Apr 25, 2022
- 4 min
On the Importance of Reflection
Apps can be crucial to habit cultivation, and without the habit of mindfulness practice, the question of how best to practice is moot.
marymartinphd
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
A Practice for Social Media
Here's a practice I created for LinkedIn, which appears to be a pretty sad space with glimmers of what it could be that keep me going back.
marymartinphd
- Apr 11, 2022
- 4 min
On the Importance of Futures Thinking
There are many benefits of learning how to think about the future, including unsticking your mind & expanding your idea of what could happen
marymartinphd
- Apr 3, 2022
- 4 min
On Doing, Being, and Listening
When you think about listening, do you think about it as something you do? Is it a skill of doing? Is it a skill of being?
marymartinphd
- Mar 27, 2022
- 3 min
On Circles of Care and Caregiving
If part of your job is to be in a state of care for those you serve, that makes you a caregiver. And that care comes from somewhere.
marymartinphd
- Mar 21, 2022
- 3 min
A PSA About Stress
"Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness." That subtitle is crucial to the understanding of MBSR.
marymartinphd
- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
On Journaling from the Future
Future thinking helps us be less shocked by the future and more prepared. You might be surprised by how much you know about the future.
marymartinphd
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
On Intrusive Thoughts and Ruminating
Thoughts exist in our heads. But we don't treat them that way. We treat them as if they're real and out in the world. Here are 5 practices.
marymartinphd
- Feb 26, 2022
- 3 min
On Formalized Self-Care Plans, Redux
We all need to be our best for ourselves and each other, and a formal self-care plan is a way to do our best in the situation we're in.
marymartinphd
- Feb 6, 2022
- 5 min
Don't Be So Sure You Know What Will Make Your Future Self Happy
You don't know how you're going to feel about a decision, a change, or an event until you're actually experiencing it.
marymartinphd
- Jan 30, 2022
- 3 min
On the Timing of Speaking and Listening
Have you ever slowed down your part of a conversation enough to ask yourself: What is making me speak or listen?
marymartinphd
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
On Online Silent Retreats
Retreat experiences in environments that already have memories attached to them become attached to the existing memories.
marymartinphd
- Jan 17, 2022
- 5 min
On the Origin of Meaning
You know how people say "love is a verb?" What they mean is that it's not static and it's something you do; you create it and keep it alive.
marymartinphd
- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
On Skillful Silence
Silence—at least in the mindfulness world—is an awareness practice. When your nervous system is settled & regulated, you listen differently.
marymartinphd
- Jan 3, 2022
- 3 min
On Feelings and Feeling Tones
In mindfulness, we talk about feeling tones. They're always with you and are at their core a vague sense of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral
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