Why Imagination—Not Resilience—Might Help You Heal From Heartbreak
One of the words most bandied about during challenges, even before these upside-down pandemic times, is resilience. We hear a lot about...
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The Wellness Trap: What Mindfulness Can’t Fix
If you’re a human living in 2026, you likely have a laundry list of things you’d like to have fixed. Your list might look something lik...
Reprogramming The Panic: Choosing Conscious Response Over Avoidance
Our nervous systems are made to keep us safe from danger—but what happens when they’re responding to threats that no longer exist? Writ...
Walking Grief Home: Six Companions for Living With Loss
When someone we love dies, the world doesn’t end, but it does lose its shape. The familiar becomes strange. Time stretches and collapse...
10 Subtle Micromovements That Reveal Anxiety’s Early Indicators in Adults
You’re sitting in the waiting room to go into your first big interview or give the presentation you’ve been working on for weeks. Maybe...
Embodied Compassion for Difficult Emotions
When you’re overwhelmed and feeling the urge to resist or repress painful, confusing, or distressing emotions, use this meditation from...
Are Shame and Guilt Bad—Or Do We Just Need a Different Relationship With Them?
In the new Apple TV series, Margo Has Money Problems, Michelle Pfeiffer, in a comeback performance, plays a mom, Shyanne, who got pregn...
Mindfulness and Hypnosis: Tools for Navigating Chronic Illness
Several years ago, I experienced what at the time I did not realize was the beginning of a life-changing journey into chronic illness. ...
When Insight Isn’t Enough: An Interview with Juliana Sloane on Imagination, Hypnotherapy, and Deeper Transformation
Meditation practice can bring remarkable clarity. Over time, practitioners often become more aware of their thoughts, emotions, and rec...
On the Other Side of Sadness: Teaching Our Kids (and Ourselves) That It’s Okay to Feel Anything
My six-year-old daughter, Opal, wants nothing more than to go to the Humane Society to visit the dogs that “need the most love.” So we ...