Author / Teacher

Elaine Smookler

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

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Articles by Elaine Smookler

Magazine

The Good News about Being Wrong

No one likes making mistakes or (even worse) admitting them. But there’s wisdom and resilience to be gleaned by learning to accept and acknowledge when you are wrong. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | FEB 4, 2019

Magazine

Let Go Of Your Labels: A Mindful Practice

When we become too certain or fixed upon any given label, we restrict our chance to experience life’s vast array of surprises and opportunities. Here’s how we can take the tiny boxes we place ourselves in a little less seriously. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | NOV 12, 2018

Magazine

How Mindful Risks Can Create Lasting Change in Your Life

In order to open yourself up and stop settling for a life that keeps you small, you actually have to be somewhat outrageous. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | AUG 21, 2018

Magazine

Don’t Vacate Your Vacation

Next time your thoughts are dragging you away from your well-earned holiday, instead try relaxing into the sensory world. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | JUL 31, 2018

Mindfulness For

How to Make a Mindful Resolution

Hard-knuckling it through our New Year’s goals can strain even the best intentions. Here’s a mindful strategy for less stress and more success in keeping your resolutions. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | JUN 5, 2018

Magazine

Look on the Bright Side…?

Optimism can seem like a dead end or even a harmful delusion. But it’s not about slapping a filter over bleak reality; it’s about allowing yourself to see life’s full range of colors. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | JUN 1, 2018

Gratitude

What Does It Mean to Be Grateful?

Gratitude isn't just in our head: It takes root in our heart and in our senses, for one beautiful moment...and then the next. Here are three ways to practice gratitude, from a.m. to p.m. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | APR 26, 2018

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How to Show Up When You Have Cancer

In this podcast, Patricia Rockman, director of education and clinical services for the Center for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto, and Mindful columnist Elaine Smookler, both cancer survivors, talk about how mindfulness factors into the cancer experience. Read More

ELAINE SMOOKLER | MAR 13, 2018