Category: mindfulness-based stress reduction
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Life is the Curriculum!
Yesterday, I was fortunate to attend A Day of Practice with master teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn in Los Angeles through Insight LA. For those who don’t know him, Jon Kabat-Zinn is the father of mindfulness in the west, as he secularized this ancient 3,000-year-old practice and integrated it into the seminal Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program and…
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Getting Your Mind Back on Track: Ending Rumination with Mindful Meditation
Check out the guest blog post I penned this week for A2Z Healing Toolbox.com . This is a GREAT resource for anyone experiencing any type of grief, loss, trauma and transition. Whatever the grief is, know that comparing your grief with someone else does not help. Making it smaller than it is, or larger than it…
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May: National Mental Health Awareness Month
So much going on this month of May. Beginning with the most important (in my book): National Mental Health Awareness Month! Why is it that our society cares more about how we look and function on the outside than how we feel and function on the inside? Just look around at the media these days…
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From Stressed to Blessed, Part 2
As we exit Stress Awareness Month, I wanted to share a specific practice may allow you to have another perspective on stress. In the Mindfulness -Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class we define stress as change, which is an inevitable part of life. We adopt the mindset that change can be helpful, allowing us to grow and…
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From Stressed to Blessed
(This blog post was adapted from a piece written for HeraHub: Co-working Space for Women– for April is STRESS AWARENESS MONTH) The demands of the business day seem to continuously pile up: the phone calls, emails, voicemails, budgets, reports, and meetings on the schedule. You are the ultimate producer, juggling multiple roles and projects to build or contribute…