Ready to build your resilience and be happier?

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As your coach I will introduce you to mindfulness so you can lower stress. Stress keeps us from doing things that build resilience. Things like: staying physically active, eating healthy foods, sleeping, creating healthy relationships, and doing what we love. We can...

Ethics and mindfulness

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We practice mindfulness because we suffer from the human condition. We all possess both light and shadow. Mindfulness helps us behave ethically. We often hear today that mindfulness helps us increase our productivity. This goes against one of the fundamental...

Mindfulness helps us know what we need

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I took today off from my day job. I needed to create some space to just be. My mindfulness practice has helped me know myself better. I’ve learned to trust my instinct, intuition, inner knowing or whatever you wish to call this. I had no plan. I had some ideas about...

Mindfulness and family values

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Mindfulness helps us create and/or uphold family values. Even though we may know what our values are, it’s not so easy to live according to them. We’re constantly bombarded with messages about what we’re supposed to value by a society that for the most part no longer...

What “acceptance” really means in mindfulness practice

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I share David Brendel’s concern about businesses jumping on the mindfulness bandwagon blindly. I’m more concerned about who companies hire to teach mindfulness; their credentials and their ability to adapt mindfulness practices to the workplace....

Venting vs. dwelling

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Venting is about acknowledging when something is bothering us. This is natural and necessary. When we vent, we give ourselves permission to be real in the moment and express our feelings, thoughts, and views about something bad that happened. It’s healthy to vent for...