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Expert Interviews
A Gift for Young Minds 

A Q&A with Brian Despard, author of You Are Not Your Thoughts, a story that originated with a newfound awareness and a newborn granddaughter. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • June 30, 2011
Depression & Grief
Linehan turned a struggle into a therapy 

Psychologist Marsha M. Linehan, who created a program to help the most severely suicidal people, has a confession: she has a history of mental illness. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • June 23, 2011
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Getting Started
Waking Up to Mindfulness 

Ten years ago last March, I decided to seek help for my mind. It was near the beginning of a third (and most crippling) episode of anxiety and depression, and I realized that whatever the outer circumstances behind my despair, the resolution had to come from within. Swamped by distressing… Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • June 13, 2011
Expert Interviews
Bryan Welch 

On any given day, Bryan Welch can be found spending his early morning hours tending to his cattle on his farm near Lawrence, Kan., his lunchtime polishing an essay for Utne Reader at his Topeka office, and his evening at a Hollywood cocktail reception for the launch of a… Read More 

  • julymcom
  • June 8, 2011
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Expert Interviews
A Way to Have Deep Conversations Online…No, Really 

Assaf Peretz has created a place online for you to have deep conversations about things that matter. Tom Morris, Ph.D. talks to him about his fascinating website and the possibilities for meaningful online discussion. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • May 31, 2011
Expert Interviews
Tom Morris, Ph.D. 

Tom Morris has become one of the most active public philosophers in the world due to his unusual ability to bring the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges of the present. A native of Durham, North Carolina and a Distinguished Alumnus of Durham Academy, Tom was… Read More 

  • andrewhoang
  • May 31, 2011
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