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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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Creativity
The Power of Play 

Elisha and Stefanie Goldstein offer 11 ways to take time for what matters by finding your inner kid. Read More 

  • Elisha Goldstein
  • October 1, 2015
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Gratitude
What We Love, We Should Protect 

How a mindful approach to consumption can help us bridge the gap between individual efforts toward the environment and the bigger picture. Read More 

  • Carley Hauck
  • September 17, 2015
healing waters
Magazine
Healing Waters 

War veterans—who’ve seen more pain and devastation than most will see in a lifetime—struggle to find peace, and ways to fit back in and contribute all they have to offer. Three days on a roiling river bring them a step closer to feeling good in their own skin again. Read More 

  • Katherine Ellison
  • August 10, 2015
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Kids & Teens
Mindfulness in the Waiting Room 

How one question from my son's therapist helped me make crucial decisions about the course of my child’s treatment and my own mental health. Read More 

  • Diana Renn
  • July 29, 2015
howling wolf
Gratitude
Feeding Your Inner Wolves 

Positive and negative things happen every day. It’s how you choose to approach those moments—i.e. which wolf you decide to feed—that matters. Read More 

  • Mark Bertin
  • July 13, 2015
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