Expert Interviews
Savor Your Values: Finding Strength In Compassion
Mindful Self-Compassion teacher Steve Hickman offers this powerful practice to recognize and affirm the personal values that underlie our most challenging emotions. Read More 
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Loving-kindness and compassion practices train you to extend warmth and care - first to yourself, then to others. These meditations can shift how you relate to difficult emotions, tough relationships, and your own inner critic.
Guided Meditations
A 3-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Forgiveness
It can be difficult to forgive past wrongs, but we are the ones who hurt most when we don’t. Follow this guided practice from Elisha Goldstein to find your way forward. Read More
Guided Meditations
A Loving-Kindness Meditation to Expand Your Perspective
Mark Bertin offers this twist on loving-kindness meditation where we practice taking small steps toward cultivating well-wishes even for the people we find challenging. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Calming a Rush of Reactivity with Compassion
During moments (or days) when everything seems impossibly complicated, we can still return to one place of simplicity: our innate capacity for presence and kindness. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Empathy Fatigue is All Too Real
Feeling empathy for others’ pain is innately human, but it can be stretched too thin. Here’s why we get numbed to horrific events—and how to preserve our tenderness and our desire to help. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Be Kind to Yourself
Mindful’s editor-in-chief Heather Hurlock offers a gentle reminder to celebrate our connection, our diversity, and our essential humanity. Read More
Expert Interviews
Purpose, Fear, Love: A “Real Change” Q&A with Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg offers wise, compassion-focused views on where the world is right now and the part we each have to play in being the change we wish to see. Read More
Expert Interviews
Why Meditation is a Key Part of Anti-Racism Work
Meditation teachers and lifelong friends Iman Gibson and Tori Lund on their album of anti-racism meditations, and how mindfulness can lead to allyship. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Why We Need to Practice Self-Compassion
This five-minute video offers an easy self-compassion practice for moments when we’re feeling critical of ourselves. Read More
Creativity
Taking Your Practice Off the Meditation Cushion with Improv
An unlikely tool for cultivating compassion lies well beyond the meditation cushion. We find it, instead, in improv communities. Read More
