by Janet | May 18, 2021 | Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Lessons
For the past few years, a harbinger of spring at our house has been a troubling thump-thump-thump at the living room window. A red-breasted Robin—the same one each year?—flies the not more than 2 feet from its branch on the lilac bush directly into the window. Because...
by Janet | Apr 14, 2021 | Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
Last week I had the honor of presenting to the New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council’s Spring Conference on: “Mindfulness: Working with Chronic Pain from the Inside Out.” It was an opportunity for me to reflect again on the fact that, on this planet at least, to...
by Janet | Feb 15, 2021 | Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
When all hell is breaking loose, and the proverbial stuff is hitting the fan, do you want to have access to 20, 40, 80, or 100% of your marbles? This is the question Jon Kabat-Zinn regularly asked his MBSR participants while teaching at the UMASS Stress Reduction...
by Janet | Jan 11, 2021 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” The Buddha, circa 400 B.C. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr., 1965 At the dawn of...
by Janet | Dec 28, 2020 | Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
When my son was 5, he came home from preschool one day and asked if Emily could come over to play. “Emily?” I inquired, surprised. I had heard about Emily before—how she intruded on his games at recess, ran through forts he’d made in trees, demanded he get off the...
by Janet | Jan 1, 2020 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Dear Friends~ I don’t know about you, but there has been plenty going on of late that I’d much prefer were otherwise. This includes struggles on the global, national, and personal front; they take turns, it seems, in weighing most heavily on my heart. I notice how...
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