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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.
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Mar 21, 20223 min read
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.
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Mar 14, 20224 min read
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.
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Mar 7, 20223 min read
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.
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Feb 26, 20223 min read
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.
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Feb 6, 20225 min read
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?
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Jan 30, 20223 min read
On Online Silent Retreats
Retreat experiences in environments that already have memories attached to them become attached to the existing memories.
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Jan 24, 20224 min read
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.
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Jan 17, 20225 min read
On Skillful Silence
Silence—at least in the mindfulness world—is an awareness practice. When your nervous system is settled & regulated, you listen differently.
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Jan 9, 20222 min read
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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Jan 3, 20223 min read
Every Moment is January 1
In mindfulness, we talk a lot about beginning again. Your attention wanders during a focused attention practice? Begin again.
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Dec 28, 20212 min read
On My Terrible, No Good Holiday Mindset
My death-grip on my childhood holiday misery was just that. I was keeping the misery alive and amplifying it, both of which are optional.
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Dec 20, 20213 min read
What is Deep Listening?
In Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, we cultivate awareness by approaching the ordinary activities of our day with curious friendliness.
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Dec 12, 20214 min read
6-minute Pause Practice
As I wrote previously and spoke of previously, your brain won't predict pausing absent you practicing pausing.
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Nov 30, 20211 min read
You asked for it - More on The Pause
Here's under 5 minutes about the context and nuances of pausing. In a charged moment, pausing is unlikely to show up as an option unless you
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Nov 28, 20211 min read
Do This Before You Buy Anything
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 26, 20212 min read
When You Find Yourself Ruminating
In mindfulness, all stories are essentially the same—they're narratives you're using to keep you in a pattern or help you create a new one.
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Nov 10, 20213 min read
On the Pain of Mindfulness
Absent from most conversations about self-care seems to be the reality that mindfulness is difficult and painful.
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
On Being Uncertain But Not Unsettled
On Friday, once again I kicked off the Secular, Eclectic, Academic Homeschoolers conference, this time to 5,600 educators and parents.
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Oct 25, 20213 min read
On Lived Values and Perceived Values
Values research, like other endeavors into our motivations and identities, might yield answers and outcomes that are unexpected.
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Oct 18, 20212 min read
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