by Vanessa Potter As I started to wake, and sleep loosened its grip on me I stretched out my body feeling the warmth of the morning sun caress my face. A heartbeat later the crushing reality of where I was hit me like a high-speed train. I was not at home lying within the safety […]
How Mindfulness And Self-Compassion Transformed My Life
Posted on April 24, 2017 //
by Mike Fitzgerald When you live with a rare, poorly understood, and progressive health condition, there are a number of difficulties you are faced with. For example, no one can clearly tell you what you should do to successfully manage your condition, and there’s no clear advice in relation to what you can do to […]
Discovering Mindfulness – The Journey
Posted on April 10, 2017 //
by Abby McPhee It only took about fifteen minutes of the first mindfulness class before I started to wonder whether I’d made a big mistake. It seemed like I was being told not to think. Was I really being told not to have goals and not to have hopes for the future? This went against […]
Wise Resistance: The Role of Mindfulness in the Trump Era
Posted on February 22, 2017 //
by Joel Groover Helen Barnes Vantine is seeing a new syndrome of sorts among her psychotherapy patients in Atlanta—an upwelling of anger, anxiety and sadness stirred by thoughts of President Donald Trump. “A number of my patients just cannot stop talking about how upset they are, their outrage and what they’re going to do about […]
Finding Quiet: Why I Meditate
Posted on February 21, 2017 //
By Allie Carmichael Stress has ruled my life. Anxiety has dominated my time. Worry has controlled my decisions. I thought this was normal, that stress was an inevitable part of life. Every day, there is always something to be stressed about. My job, my appearance, my family, my finances, my health. On and on. This […]
One Of The Worst Days
Posted on January 12, 2017 //
By Ana V. Ramirez I have much more experience with loss than I wish I had. This is the story of one of those losses, my heartbreak and how mindfulness helped me to get through it. It was my birthday, and I was planning the sort of afternoon that makes me happy: a trip to […]
How To Be Grateful For Depression
Posted on November 24, 2016 //
By Frances Trussell I can look back on my episode in the depths of despair with gratitude. Without that period of madness, my mindfulness practice would have remained in the ‘should do’ pile alongside many other I’ll-get-round-to-it-when-I-have-the-time projects. Broken into a million pieces, you tend to only pick up the bits that are truly important […]
Shame and Fear in Thailand
Posted on October 28, 2016 //
How could I look at my wife and son when I was about to let them down in one of the worst ways possible? Shame and fear so overwhelmed me that even the sound of my child’s laugh was a reminder of my failure. I hid away in the bedroom desperately waiting for some miracle […]