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Navigating Grief and Difficult Emotions Using Mindfulness
Aug 15, 2020
As I wrote about in a recent post, our sweet dog and my friend for the last 18 years, Peanut, passed away recently. For the last ten of those years, after my son went off to college, Peanut and I were, in the words of Forrest Gump, “like peas and carrots.” Given his age, I...
Cultivating a Kind Mind: From Self-Judgment to Self-Compassion
Dec 01, 2019
The best advice I received when learning to meditate was “Be kind to yourself.” This was challenging, since my mind drifted (a thousand times!) during meditation practice. How could I be kind to this frustrating, unruly, disobedient mind? Through mindfulness practice we become aware...
