Magazine
10 Mindfulness Lessons for Hard Times
10 things you learn from having a mindfulness practice that help foster resilience in the face of whatever life brings. 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.
Breathing Meditations
Mountain-Climbing Mindfulness: The Power of 10 Deep Breaths
When a challenge feels insurmountable, it’s easy to lose touch with how capable we truly are. Meditation teacher Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely shares how a chance encounter—high on a French mountain—helped her tap into her own wellspring of motivation and strength. Read More
Breathing Meditations
Let Your Practice Guide You Beyond Crisis Mode
While many of us lean on mindfulness to help us through times of inner and outer chaos, we can cultivate the greatest resilience through consistency in our practice, even when it doesn’t feel urgent. Read More
Magazine
How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome
This brief animation from Ted-Ed connects self-doubt with high performance and explains three ways you can combat it. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Why Aggressions Are Not Micro and How to Avoid Them
“Microaggressions” can have a massive impact on those on the receiving end. Learning how to interrupt them from a lens of openness and curiosity for ourselves and others can help us work toward more compassionate schools, workplaces, and communities. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Values to Live By: A Cardiologist on the Importance of Wisdom
Wisdom is something we all wish to possess, but how do we actually cultivate wise qualities (or know what those are)? In this second excerpt from Just One Heart, author and cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher reveals powerful ways we can tune in to the body to develop the wisdom of our emotional heart. Read More
Magazine
A Steady Heart: A Cardiologist’s Advice for Lowering Stress
A calm, steady mindset doesn’t just protect against stress, it also supports our heart health, writes cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Fisher. In this first Mindful excerpt from Dr. Fisher’s new book, Just One Heart, we learn some of his recommended strategies for cultivating steadiness. Read More
Magazine
All the Rage: What We Can Learn From Feeling Angry
Navigating anger may not be a comfortable process—yet we can learn a great deal from examining this fiery emotion as a part of our human experience. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
How Shame Keeps Us Hostage to Racism
When we can work with shame instead of avoiding it, we open ourselves up to opportunities for growth and healing. Read More
Depression & Grief
Please Die Soon: Finding Compassion for Unimaginable Thoughts
When someone you love is dying, there could be a secret moment, when things are really bad, when you hear yourself silently whisper the unimaginable thought: Please die soon. Say what??? It is with a brave heart, writes Elaine Smookler, that we look at this whole journey of death and make peace with the wild currents that threaten to pull us under. Read More
