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Mind Over Meal
Restrictive diets and food fads are not the way to good nutrition. A healthy dose of attention is what’s called for instead.
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Mark Bertin, MD., is a pediatrician, author, professor, and mindfulness teacher specializing in neurodevelopmental behavioral pediatrics. He’s a regular contributor to Mindful.org and Psychology Today. He is the author of How Children Thrive: The Practical Science of Raising Independent, Resilient, and Happy Kids (Sounds True, 2018). Dr. Bertin resides in Pleasantville, New York. For more, visit developmentaldoctor.com.
Anxiety
A 20-Minute Body Scan to Cultivate Attention
Tuning in to the body gives us a chance to notice where we need to make changes—it's an opportunity to practice responsiveness. Wind down from a busy day with this guided meditation from Mark Bertin, MD.
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Calm
Getting Kids Unhooked from Their Smartphones
Setting guidelines around kids' tech use starts with the habits and conscious choices of parents. Mark Bertin, MD, shares tips on how families can be mindful with their tech.
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Audio
A Guided Breathing Meditation to Cultivate Awareness
A 15-minute breathing meditation that builds awareness of thoughts, feelings, and sensations in the body.
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Anxiety
Mental Meteorology: How Noticing Your Thoughts Leads to Healthier Habits of Mind
Our mental habits can be both useful and far from useful—to start sorting out the difference we first have to notice them.
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Audio
Body Scan for Kids
An 11-minute body scan for children to help bring calmness, attention, and appreciation to hectic daytime routines and marathon bedtime rituals.
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Calm
Living with, and Loving, Your Imperfect Life
Mice in your kitchen, ants at the picnic, screaming children, losing your temper, grouchy boss—life is full of imperfections. And yet it’s uncanny how hard we try to keep everything tidy and together. In fact, when we start to loosen up our habits of perfectionism we discover strength and resilience within.
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Compassion
Let Go of Being the Ideal Role Model
Our thoughts and images of what an ideal parent or lover or leader should be can get in the way of just being the best we can be in any given moment.
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Anxiety
Searching for Happiness and Finding Yard Work
It can be a fleeting fleeing, especially if we're chasing a need to be happy. An anxious bachelor gets out of his head and into the streets to meet friends and neighbors, in hopes of rescuing his weekend—and his outlook on life.
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Calm
3 Ways to Escape the “Perfect Meditator” Trap
Thinking things should be a certain way, every time, can get us in trouble. Same goes with meditation. Try practicing with the following tips in mind.
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