by Janet | Jan 24, 2022 | An Open Letter, Creativity & Mindfulness, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
Yes, (sigh) it’s still January. Yes, (deep sigh) it’s still a time of global pandemic. Yes, each of us is impacted in different ways, depending on our own unique circumstances, yet as I look around, I see and hear so many common signs of weariness of loss. So I just...
by Janet | Oct 27, 2021 | An Open Letter, MBSR Teacher Training, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
I recently received a master class in disorientation. My colleagues and I in the Mindfulness Teacher Training Alliance just brought our first Level 2 MBSR teacher training to a close. As we took our trainees on a deep, 9-day dive into the art form of teaching MBSR, we...
by Janet | Sep 29, 2021 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
My colleagues and I just completed teaching the first of three intensive 3-day weekends for our level 2 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training. I am still feeling the glow. After these full days of practice and of digging our hands in the “dirt” of...
by Janet | Jul 20, 2021 | An Open Letter, Creativity & Mindfulness, Mindfulness Lessons
I grew up in the ’60’s and ’70’s in the Mid-West, which had a big impact on my early taste in music. My mom loved Broadway musicals, as I soon did as well, and my first records were the Sound of Music and Fiddler on the Roof. As I grew into my early teens, an older...
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...
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