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...
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 | 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 | Nov 12, 2019 | Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness Lessons
Last summer, almost by accident, I flew on a trapeze. I hadn’t intended to. It wasn’t some life-long dream I’d been longing to fulfill. But for months I’d been struggling with the discomfort of change, and my husband, in his intuitive way, had likened my situation...
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