This 2011 conversation between mindfulness teacher Elaine Smookler and former Mindful editor Stephany Tlalka explores the relationship between mindfulness and happiness. Do you input mindfulness on one end (through meditation and mindfulness practices) and then happiness comes out the other? Why
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“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ~C. S. Lewis
I started life
If you’re feeling restless before bed or in the middle of the night, try this extended practice to soothe racing thoughts and ease tension in the body.
There are so many reasons why we might struggle to get to sleep
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“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi
I watched my son get hit by his father, and something inside me finally
I remember standing in my kitchen one morning, drawn to check my phone to find out what’s happening in the world before I’d even made my first cup of tea. A sad news story, three urgent emails, and a text
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” ~Viktor Frankl
For a while, I forgot
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“True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.” ~Brené Brown
This past year, during a
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“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” ~African Proverb
It is just past ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
Disasters don’t just test infrastructure, they test people. In a matter of hours, floods can erase homes, earthquakes can reshape entire cities, and wildfires can turn familiar landscapes into ashes.
And yet, what often stands out most is not the
