Author / Teacher
Elaine Smookler is a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and teacher and was a founding faculty member at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto teaching clinical programs including MBCT and MBSR. She also taught Mindfulness throughout the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, was a founding teacher for the Mindfulness Thinktank at Sick Kids hospital and a longtime faculty member at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies where she taught her own program, “A Mindful Way through the Creative Process” and part of the certificate program, "Mindfulness Informed End-of-Life Care." Elaine has offered mindfulness training to every kind of participant including: parole Officers, the Catholic School Board, Summer Camp Owners, Hair Stylists, Children, Teens, Employee Assistance programs and a broad corporate audience. She is also a guide on the app "Dawn Personalized Cancer Stewardship Program." She has a focused psychotherapy practice offering clients support and precise tools to help them find the kindest, gentlest, most successful way forward to meet the difficulties, challenges and obstacles that life is constantly offering up. She also explores mindfulness themes as a key-note speaker, columnist, standup comedian, actor and singer. www.elainesmookler.com
Grief can take so much from us—including our identity. After a loss of any kind, mindfulness can help us develop the stability we need in order to explore what we might become next. Read More
This week, Elaine Smookler invites us into a practice that gently supports us in honoring and processing our feelings during these tender times. Read More
When someone you love is dying, there could be a secret moment, when things are really bad, when you hear yourself silently whisper the unimaginable thought: Please die soon. Say what??? It is with a brave heart, writes Elaine Smookler, that we look at this whole journey of death and make peace with the wild currents that threaten to pull us under. Read More
This week, Elaine Smookler invites us to explore the Mountain Meditation, where we will embody the mountain's steadfast calm amidst the swirling winds and shifting clouds of life. Read More
Once all the hubbub dies down…now what? Mindfulness can help us be with our grief, and ourselves, with self-compassion. Read More
Deathiversaries, birthdays, holidays and other notable dates can feel like menacing beasts, waiting to jump out of the bushes and snatch away any hope of well-being. How can you face those terribly-timed memories that remind you of what once was? Read More
Whether you like it or not, people and things you love will end. Here are some ways you can prepare for what you cannot bear. Read More
When you don’t know what makes you happy, you can end up chasing illusions that only make you suffer. The secret to discovering happiness might be closer than you think. Read More
Friendship can sometimes feel fraught. But if you play your cards right, there’s at least one friend who will always have your back. Read More
This movement exercise is Elaine Smookler’s foolproof way to induce laughter. It is based on the Hawaiian word “Aloha,” a nice vowel-y word that opens the mouth and throat just by saying it. Read More
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