by Madeline | Jul 11, 2025 | Acceptance, Behavior Change, depression, Health, Integrative Medicine, meditation, Mindfulness, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Pain, stress
Chronic pain affects 30 to 40 million U.S. adults, costing an estimated $600 billion a year. But researchers have learned more about the physiology of pain in the past ten years than in the previous thousand. Pain is created by the brain in response to what it thinks...
by Madeline | Sep 22, 2025 | Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Behavior Change, Body Awareness, Change, Complementary Practices, depression, despair, disease, fear, Health, Healthcare, inner peace, Integrative Medicine, meditation, Mindfulness, non-judgment, Pain, Practice, stress
One of the hottest forms of stress reduction today is actually one of the oldest: meditation. But the kind making the rounds of hospitals, community centers, and even schools in increasing numbers doesn’t involve chanting “Om” while sitting on a...
by Madeline | Jul 15, 2025 | anxiety, Behavior Change, Complementary Practices, depression, despair, Health, Healthcare, Integrative Medicine, meditation, Mindfulness, Pain, Practice, sadness, science
Past Ten Years of Research Say “Yes” Chronic pain affects 30 to 40 million U.S. adults, costing an estimated $600 billion a year. But researchers have learned more about the physiology of pain in the past ten years than in the previous thousand. Pain is created by the...
by Madeline | Apr 15, 2025 | Alternative & Complementary Medicine, anxiety, depression, Health, Integrative Medicine, meditation, Mindfulness, Sleep, stress, Uncategorized
I remember when chronic pain and obsessive worry kept me awake night after night. Typically, around 2 am, my mind was scanning the horizon like a lighthouse, searching for something to worry about. When it locked on it wouldn’t let go, mentally approaching the...
by Madeline | Mar 28, 2025 | adversity, anxiety, Change, depression, despair, fear, grief, interconnection, kindness, meditation, Mindfulness, sadness
Sadness, grief, despair, and fear are probably some of the most difficult emotions to work with in meditation practice. We avoid feeling them, which can cause them to be entrenched - forever trying to work themselves out through repetitive behavior patterns in...
