Find Your Sweet Spot

by | Jun 22, 2015 | Uncategorized

How we respond to life’s stress is a huge indicator of our happiness. Notice the indicator is not, having no stress, but how you deal with the stress you have (and the future stress you will have, because that’s how life goes). Some of us tend to be over responders,...

Self Care – Start Today

by | Oct 1, 2014 | Uncategorized

When thinking about self care commitments, what leads you to the well-being you are hoping for? Before one takes up a practice of self support or self healing it is essential to investigate if we are engaging in self care with a “little s, self” or “big S, Self.”  In...

Mindfulness Plain and Simple

by | Jul 30, 2014 | Uncategorized

I left the big city about 20 years past and the smaller city nearly 6 years ago. Now I live in a sleepy town that affords me many luxuries, one of which is not having to lock my car. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t; I always return to it undisturbed. This was not...

Video Blog – Mindfulness Tools for Today

by | Mar 18, 2014 | Uncategorized

Mindfulness practice can invite us to allow our experience to be as it is, opening to, accepting it. Mindfulness can also help us to take wise action, and to incline the mind away from unhelpful thoughts. Find out more about these practices with this pithy teaching....

Home for the Holidays

by | Nov 26, 2013 | Uncategorized

  One of my mindfulness teachers James Baraz sometimes says, “You think you’re making progress in your mindfulness practice until you go home.”  Ahhh, the blessings of family and the years of history we have with them, and the years of memory aka, neural habits,...