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The Audacity of Mindfulness
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...
Gold-Medal Courage
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...
Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, and Being Who You Already Are
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...
Mindfulness, Cognitive Therapy and the Robin at My Window
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
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 be...
Spring, and the Upside of Change
On Saturday the Sun inched across the equator, making its journey northward in the sky, and here in this northern hemisphere, marking the onset of Spring. In Colorado, the vernal equinox is a tease; spring plays a ‘hide-and-seek’ game that in this past week alone...