A Meditation on Working With Our Fear And Parenting From Love
Experiencing a season of struggle with your kid? You're not alone. This gentle practice can help reconnect you with steadiness so you can keep parenting from love. Read More
Articles by Wendy O’Leary
Guided Meditations
Guided Meditations
A Meditation to Allow Genuine Happiness, Even In Hard Times
Accessing real happiness when we are struggling can feel impossible—but it’s also a key to our recovery, healing, and well-being. Read More
Guided Meditations
A Meditation For When the Suffering In the World Feels Heavy
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the pain, uncertainty, and suffering in the world right now, here is a practice to find courage, peace, acceptance, and connection. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Where To Start When There Is So Much Suffering
When everything feels like it’s in total chaos, it can be difficult to know where to even begin addressing the overwhelm. Wendy O’Leary offers tender and practical wisdom for facing personal and collective suffering, starting with self-compassion. Read More
Guided Meditations
Get to Know Your Monsters: A Playful Mindfulness Practice to Work With Difficult Emotions
Playfulness isn’t only for children. Incorporating some lightness in our mindfulness practice can help us address difficulty. Wendy O’Leary shows us how with this visualization exercise that inspired her new children’s book. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
7 Self-Compassion Reminders for Parents of Kids Who Are Struggling
When your child is having a hard time, it can be isolating, confusing, even exhausting. One way to help both parent and child is by practicing self-kindness and grounding in the knowledge that you’re not alone. Read More
Guided Meditations
A 4-Step Practice to Awaken Your Intention
A strong intention is like a rudder to navigate us through stormy seas. Wendy O’Leary offers a practice to reflect and return to our personal intention, no matter the weather. Read More
Guided Meditations
Taking Our Seat: Cultivating Strength and Stability
Wendy O’Leary offers three gentle practices to touch in with ourselves, finding a strong foundation within a sense of equanimity. Read More
Kids & Teens
Helping Children Embrace Big Emotions
What we wish most for our children is that they may be happy. When facing times of crisis, or simply life’s regular ups and downs, what can we do to support our children’s search for sustainable happiness? Read More
