Difficult Experiences & Emotions

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Anxiety
Let Your Practice Guide You Beyond Crisis Mode 

While many of us lean on mindfulness to help us through times of inner and outer chaos, we can cultivate the greatest resilience through consistency in our practice, even when it doesn’t feel urgent. Read More 

  • Georgina Miranda
  • July 23, 2024
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Anxiety
Why Aggressions Are Not Micro and How to Avoid Them 

“Microaggressions” can have a massive impact on those on the receiving end. Learning how to interrupt them from a lens of openness and curiosity for ourselves and others can help us work toward more compassionate schools, workplaces, and communities. Read More 

  • Tovi Scruggs-Hussein
  • July 2, 2024
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Anxiety
Please Die Soon: Finding Compassion for Unimaginable Thoughts 

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 

  • Elaine Smookler
  • May 15, 2024
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Anxiety
It’s Comin’ Around Again 

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 

  • Elaine Smookler
  • March 19, 2024
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