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My last post mentioned the Three Minute Breathing Space as an easy way to begin a mindfulness practice.  Try introducing this on a daily basis, when your thoughts take a…

The word meditation can sound so intimidating. How do I do it? What if I do it wrong? How much time does it take? What does it really do for…

The other day, on the way home from work, I happened to catch the end of the song Turn! Turn! Turn! by The Byrds.  For the remainder of the night,…

If only there was a manual for this, right? As a parent, I am constantly thinking about my children and their happiness. Finding the balance between raising smart, polite, kind…

Talk of mindfulness is everywhere these days. It seems that courses, books, and talk of mindfulness abound. But, you may be asking, “What exactly is it?” and “How can it…

Today is a new day. Today is a beautiful day. As we move more into summer, leaving behind the month of may – mental health awareness month, let us not…

“How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there,…

Today, at the moms group I facilitated with Nicole Uzendoski, MSW, LICSW, we focused on an important part of being a mom in this day and age, well actually, just…

Secret keeping is such a common occurrence that we rarely think of it as a sickness. While we don’t want to over-pathologize normal human behaviors, it’s important to recognize what’s…

Some people are amazing at saying ‘No.’ I am not one of these people. Saying ‘No’ to someone stirs up so many things in me – I don’t want to…