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Personal Essays

First-person stories about what mindfulness looks like in real, messy, everyday life. These essays are honest, personal, and often funny - written by people who've found that paying attention changes everything.
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Magazine
What We Get Wrong About Resilience 

True resilience isn’t about toughening up, it’s about mental suppleness, flexibility, and raw vulnerability, writes editor Anne Alexander. Read More 

  • Anne Alexander
  • August 20, 2019
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Focus & Attention
Has Mindfulness Become Too Self-Involved? 

Mindfulness isn’t all about self-improvement—It’s about remembering we’re all connected. Here are 10 ways to put compassion in action in your community. Read More 

  • Patricia Rockman
  • August 1, 2019
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Expert Interviews
How Mindfulness Can Help us Talk About the Things That Divide Us 

Mindful editor-in-chief Barry Boyce talks with writer and editor Stephanie Domet about how mindfulness helps us deepen our caring not only for ourselves, but also for others, no matter how different from us they may seem. And, we meet the Mindful Vulgarian, and talk a little about MOMing, also known as Mouthing off Mindfully. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • July 16, 2019
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Magazine
Can Mindfulness Save Democracy? 

Politics have a way of sparking anger within us. By introducing a little mindfulness, we begin to create the space we need to shift out of old patterns. Read More 

  • Nate Klemp
  • July 15, 2019
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