What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation? Or are they the same thing? These questions regularly come up in my classes and workshops. Listening to a radio interview recently, I heard traditional meditation being described as, ‘just another thing we have to do’ with a range of less time-consuming […]

Since I began a daily practice of mindfulness meditation, I know that we can begin over again at any moment in time, during the year, the week, the day, or the hour by pausing and taking a new breath. But I’ve always loved new beginnings and, perhaps because of all […]

The deepening of the season offers us a chance to turn towards ourselves and our lives and perhaps reflect over the highs and lows, the gains and losses, the joys, and the sorrows that the year has held for us. As we approach the year end, our focus may turn […]

Being a mindfulness practitioner, I notice little separation between the values and principles of my life and work, the personal and professional are very much interwoven. And, in life or work, mindfulness and compassion practices can help us get in touch with our own vulnerability, as we are encouraged to […]

What is mindfulness if not the ability to notice what’s happening as it’s happening and to notice how we’re feeling as we’re feeling it, no matter what it is? As a mindfulness teacher integrity is woven into my practice, so in alignment with my values, including self-compassion, I am “practicing […]