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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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...
When the Therapy Room Becomes Another Closed Door: Why Traditional Western Mental Health Care Fails Survivors of Torture and State Violence
A woman sits in a therapist’s office in a Western city. She fled her country after surviving months of detention, interrogation, and to...
A 12 Minute Meditation to Unhook from Negativity and Savor Joy
Perhaps it seems strange to be investigating what we consider to be a positive emotion, but I think we often miss joy. We don’t actuall...
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...
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...
Addiction, Recovery, and How Mindfulness Can Support Emotional Sobriety
As someone who has been sober for 26 years, and in my work as a recovery coach, I’ve come to understand there is more to recovery and w...
What Helped Me When My Life Felt Uncertain and Unstable
“Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly ...
A Meditation to Bring Comfort and Kindness to Pain and Illness
Chronic, complex medical conditions rarely have easy answers—but as meditation teacher Juliana Sloane reminds us in this soothing pract...
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. ...