Archive for March 2020
Being With the “Full Catastrophe”: Cultivating the Nine Attitudes of Mindfulness to Navigate These Uncertain Times ll By Michelle LaBorde, MA, LPCC
Thirty years ago, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn published his groundbreaking work “Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and illness”, outlining his work utilizing mindfulness practices to help patients. In this moment, we find ourselves grappling with a collective version of the “full catastrophe” in the form of…
Read MoreOne Air, One Breath, One Family: An Unprecedented Shared Experience ll By Dorothy Wallis
What we are experiencing on the planet is unprecedented. Never before have we had the magnitude of global interconnection and communication during a crisis that affects every human being, as we are experiencing in this moment. Much of humanity is focused on the media, the daily changes in life and the effect it is having on…
Read More5 Key Ways to Keep Calm with Mindfulness ll Kathy Hawkins
Do you often feel frustrated and anxious throughout your day? Sometimes it only takes one little thing to ruin your mood, stress you out, and tank the rest of your day. Maybe life has piled up around you making you feel overloaded. You’d like not to feel so overwhelmed and even to be able to…
Read MoreWhen Looking to get Lucky Let Your Mind Shine! ll By Brenda Bomgardner
Let your sapiosexual self out and get lucky this Saint Patty’s Day. The term sapiosexual, which is now mainstream on dating apps, such as OkCupid and Sapio, is putting a new twist on dating and takes a very different approach to partnership than the hook-ups and looks status quo. If you prefer brains over beauty…
Read MoreSpirituality: Wild Calls to Wild ll By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards, MA.
I stood on the cliffside of the Baltit Fort in Hunza, Pakistan, as the wind howled and whipped snow flurries through the peaks of the towering Hindu Kush Mountains surrounding me. It was off-season, so I had that barren rock face to myself. My family had moved on inside. The boom of an avalanche broke…
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