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Gold-Medal Courage

Gold-Medal Courage

by Janet | Aug 25, 2021 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

Every 4 years (in a pandemic, 5), the Olympics come around to give us a camera-close-up view of sheer athleticism, determination, and grit. Last month, perhaps like many of you, I was enthralled by the Summer Olympics. And if they weren’t enough to stir a sense of awe...
Mindfulness, Cognitive Therapy and the Robin at My Window

Mindfulness, Cognitive Therapy and the Robin at My Window

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...
Mindfulness, Pain, and Cultivating our Superpowers

Mindfulness, Pain, and Cultivating our Superpowers

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...
Mindfulness, Losing Your Marbles, & Finding Them (and Yourself) Again

Mindfulness, Losing Your Marbles, & Finding Them (and Yourself) Again

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...
Beginning Again

Beginning Again

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...
Reflections on Relating Wisely to What We Don’t Want

Reflections on Relating Wisely to What We Don’t Want

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...
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