Creativity
To Be Happy, Fail and Try Again
Actor Nick Offerman gave up perfection in favor of "halfway decent": leaning into the mistakes you make in pursuit of a discipline or craft that makes you happy. Read More 
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.
Expert Interviews
Charting Her Own Path
It's tough when life doesn't follow a straight line—but meditation teacher and retreat leader Melissa Sutor says those bends in the road can help you discover your true calling. Have a glimpse at Mindful's featured story in the August issue. Read More
Magazine
Look on the Bright Side…?
Optimism can seem like a dead end or even a harmful delusion. But it’s not about slapping a filter over bleak reality; it’s about allowing yourself to see life’s full range of colors. Read More
Focus & Attention
Tech Yourself, Don’t Wreck Yourself
Our use of personal technologies may bring up health concerns. But tech isn’t inherently good or bad—it’s often the unconscious choices we make that get us into trouble. Read More
Magazine
The Difference Between Healing and Fixing in the Practice of Mindfulness
We often hear that mindfulness doesn’t “work” when we use it as a means to an end. Here, Genevieve Tregor explains why mindfulness loses its impact when we use it in small "bandage" doses instead of weaving the practice into our daily lives. Read More
Gratitude
How to Cultivate the Resources for Resilience
Your basic needs can be matched by the mental resources we all possess, like courage or gratitude. Grow your inner strengths with this four-step HEAL framework to make you more resilient when challenges arise. Read More
Magazine
We Don’t Need Silencing, But We Do Need Silence
Communicating in an authentic way, so that we’re not just adding noise, is going to take a lot of disrupting silence. Read More
Magazine
How Grassroots Mindfulness Fuels Mental Health Support
To make mindfulness accessible, you need to go into communities that aren't attending the conventional mindfulness classes. Editor-in-Chief Barry Boyce visits the Centre for Mindful Studies in Toronto where frontline workers train clients in mindfulness. Read More
Magazine
Constant Craving
Habits help us to survive. But they can also cause us to crave what’s unhealthy. Read More
Magazine
Embrace the Cringe of an Awkward Situation
Why awkward moments make us grind our teeth in despair and how we can train ourselves to embrace the cringe. Read More
