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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.
Magazine
Too Small 

A while back, I was guiding a mindful leadership session with a group of experienced leader-meditators. It was late afternoon, the ending of a work day, and we slowly moved from sitting practice to mindful yoga and then to a reflection on the following line written by David Whyte:… Read More 

  • Janice Marturano
  • December 7, 2011
Depression & Grief
Making sense of little Wang Yue’s death 

Part of the decision to become a parent involves responsibly weighing whether the world is a place you want to bring children into. I’m generally an optimist, and I’ve always believed, to put it simply, that there is more good in the world than bad. That’s what my husband and… Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • October 21, 2011
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Expert Interviews
Susan Smalley on becoming mindful in midlife 

Recently Dr. Susan Smalley, professor of psychiatry and founding director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, shared her personal story about how, at age 47, an experience with melanoma caused "a massive reorganization of [her] world view."  Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • October 18, 2011
Magazine
A Mindful Response to the Riots 

Like most people who’ve expressed a view on the English city riots this month, I wasn’t there. Having relocated last year from inner London to a small countryside town an hour’s drive away, my experience of the unrest was mediated through television, Twitter and news websites. It was also filtered… Read More 

  • Ed Halliwell
  • August 23, 2011
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Getting Started
The Mindfulness Bark 

You can use any sound in your house as a mindfulness bell—the ring of a telephone, the purr of a cat. For Toni Bernhard, it's Rusty's bark. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • August 18, 2011
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