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I teach mindfulness techniques to children (5+) and teens to help them live more thoughtful, focused, and joyful lives.

I believe everyone has the capacity to learn to live with more compassion and mindfulness.

02/14/2023

Hi! It's been a while since I've posted here. But I thought you might be interested to know that next month I'll be offering an online mindfulness course with my friend Rochelle Calvert . Here's a newsletter I wrote to announce it. :)

It’s been years since many of you signed up for this mailing list! So, hello again… or for the first time. :) I don’t mean to surprise you with a seemingly unsolicited email, but since you did at one point want to know about what I was up to, I thought you might like to know about an upcoming ...

06/15/2020

When those big angry feelings bubble up, how do you take care of yourself?
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I don’t know about you, but I find it is realllllly challenging to hear a certain leader speak without getting consumed with anger. Like, every time I see him, I just want to reach through the screen and smack him! When I have the presence of mind to breathe with my anger, I often think to myself, ‘I’ve been practicing mindfulness and compassion for over 15 years, how is he triggering me so much?!’ ...

A couple of years ago I took a hiatus from Facebook and also stopped actively reading / watching the news. I kept finding myself feeling overwhelmed with anger, frustration and hopelessness each time I’d scroll through the day’s news. I was grateful to my husband who would fill me in each day on...

06/08/2020

This week has been a time for learning. With that in mind, here are some resources about mindfulness and racism.

This week’s blog space is offered as a list of resources on racism and mindfulness that have helped shape my understanding of our current events specifically in relation to mindfulness. Even if we are anti-racist, racial bias is something that just about all of us carry unconsciously. Thanks to ne...

05/31/2020

A drop in the ocean.
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Just as the pain I ignore in my body will not go away and will only be exacerbated by my resistance and willful ignorance, the collective pain felt by non-white people in America will only continue to worsen and grow if we as a society continue to fail to acknowledge and get to know it. Once we can stop ignoring, invalidating, and denying this pain, maybe then we can all begin to move towards some sort of compassionate response.
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I didn’t post last week because it was my birthday week and I wanted to give myself some time off. But that was just part of it. At the heart of it was that I was feeling grumpy and down for a couple of days, and when it was time to write a new post I felt like I needed to have digested that grump...

05/18/2020

Maybe you've been contemplating this lately too?
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While we’ve been staying at home, countless fears and worries bounce around my thoughts throughout the day. Most of them have something to do with the thought of someone I know getting sick and dying. Death feels so much more in my face, and if I hadn’t spent the last 15 years of my meditation practice preparing for it in some way, I think my own death would feel so much scarier. It certainly still has an anxiety producing quality about it, but with practice, it’s become far less unfathomable. What is it about life that makes us think we’ll be here forever, or that we’ll at least live to see our grandchildren? ..

The other night my toddler put his on jammies by himself for the first time. And the next evening he read me a book all on his own. Who is this kid, some sort of teenager?! Throughout this time of intense togetherness I feel like I’ve watched him transform from toddler to little boy. There’s a p...

05/09/2020

What to do with wanting mind. Hope you are well!
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Just by planting the seed of desire I’d unconsciously brought to life so much drama and internal struggle. That evening I actually laughed with my husband as we recounted how we’d convinced ourselves to be unhappy for a week....

As these months have passed by and the initial uncertainty and fear about how this would play out has dissipated, things around our home have settled into a relatively pleasant routine of cuddles, dance parties, and evening runs around the “trails” we’ve cut into our overgrown backyard. Daily ...

05/03/2020

New blog and guided meditation for you.

As we continue to stay here, suspended in the jelly of uncertainty, unsure of when our lives can start back up again, when we’ll be able to hug our friends and family again, what things will look like when we can peek our heads outside, it’s easy for me to become overwhelmed with the enormity of...

04/26/2020

Here's what I've been thinking about this week. I hope you enjoy!
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I’ve been comparing this time for our family to an unexpected and somewhat involuntary meditation retreat. During a retreat there are a handful of practices established to help us sharpen our awareness and support us in our efforts to wake up and see past the delusion of our everyday lives. On retreat we limit social contact - no speaking and minimal eye contact, we often dress and eat more simply, and we limit our daily activities to just those necessary for the task at hand - in this case, doing little more than sitting and walking meditation. We voluntarily renounce much of the busy-ness of everyday life that keeps our heads full of ‘stuff’ and foggy, obscuring the view to our heart’s love. ..

Last night as we reviewed the items to include in our next farm box delivery, I was struck by how excited I was to see that we’d be getting a dozen eggs and a loaf of wheat bread. Sure, we could don our masks and gloves and make our way to the grocery store to get these items. But as we’ve not g...

04/23/2020

Join me and New Mindful Life - San Diego Mindful Meditation Studio tomorrow morning for an online guided meditation. :) 7am pacific time. We'll sit for a bit then talk together for a bit.

Learn to practice mindfulness in support of physical/mental/emotional challenges arising in this time. We will practice mindfulness in nature and heart meditations of loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. There will be time for discussion and sharing in community after we sit together. ht...

04/18/2020

Here's something to read and a guided body scan to do if you feel like it. :)

Sending my love.

The other night in one of his pre-bedtime philosophy sessions, my son started asking me about love. I explained to him how love makes everything and is always around us, within us, and holding us. He was surprised by this idea at first, sharing with me that he felt like love was when I hugged him or

04/11/2020

New stuff here:
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What happens when I drop the ‘should’ and just let myself feel what I feel without needing it to be more or less of anything? And in my ‘work’ of writing these blogs and recording guided meditations, what happens when I remove the imperative and just trust and allow them to come to fruition more naturally and not out of stress?..

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been aware of a slow creeping shoulder tension that starts on about Monday or Tuesday, around when I feel like I should be coming up with new content for this blog. Without a topic planned ahead of time I start to stress and fill my mind with possible topics and i...

04/09/2020

Tomorrow morning at 7am pacific, Rochelle Calvert of New Mindful Life - San Diego Mindful Meditation Studio, and I will be offering an hour of heart practice. This will be a recurring weekly offering. If you can't make it to tomorrow's sitting, please join us next week. :)

Click here to register ahead of time:

We will practice heart meditations of loving kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity- specifically geared to be offering it to the suffering/challenges associated with COVID-19- ourselves, family, community, people on frontlines, sick individuals/their families, global community https://zoom.us/web...

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