Compassion
How to Save Your Marriage from Parenthood
Amie Gordon offers five tips to maintain (or reignite) the spark in your relationship.
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Relationships
Mindful.org's relationships category offers a treasure trove of mindfulness-based insights and strategies to enrich your connections with others. Whether it's strengthening family bonds, deepening friendships, or enhancing romantic partnerships, our resources guide you through the art of mindful communication, empathy, and compassion. Learn how to navigate the complexities of relationships with grace and intention, fostering healthier, more meaningful interactions in every area of your life.
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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Calm
The Power of Saying Sorry (When You Don’t Want To)
This short animated video suggests we should stop insisting we’re always right and say we’re sorry. An apology won’t make you weaker in your partner’s eyes.
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Compassion
How You Argue Could Make You Sick
According to a recent study, different behaviors during romantic conflict are linked to heart problems and back pain.
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Compassion
The Beautiful and the Good
What are our brains doing when we assume that someone who’s beautiful on the outside must be beautiful on the inside? Sharon Begley investigates.
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Calm
Why Self-Compassion is the New Mindfulness
When we have trouble being vulnerable, "self-compassion" can seem like "self-indulgence." But fessing up to when we fall short can bring out our best, happiest, selves.
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Compassion
Why You Shouldn’t Believe in Soulmates
Our brains can’t help but compare the imperfect human snoring beside us to the ideal hunk in our heads. But around the corner there isn’t someone better—only someone different.
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Calm
A Father’s Day Gift of Mindfulness
Try this basic mediation for allowing thoughts to roll by like clouds—A gift to us all for Father's Day.
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Calm
Touch the One You Love
The research is conclusive: Physical contact is good for both mind and body.
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Calm
Where Does Kindness Come From?
A new study fuses methods from several different branches of science to reveal the forces that shape kindness.
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