Expert Interviews

Conversations with the leading voices in mindfulness, meditation, psychology, and neuroscience. These interviews bring you insights, practical advice, and fresh perspectives from the people shaping the field.
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Expert Interviews
RICHARD GOERLING 

When did you first start practicing mindfulness and why were you motivated to do so? I began practicing several years ago as a means to cope with the acute and chronic stressors of police work, and life’s journey for that matter.  I had been reading a lot… Read More 

  • Mindful readers like you
  • July 15, 2011
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Expert Interviews
A Gift for Young Minds 

A Q&A with Brian Despard, author of You Are Not Your Thoughts, a story that originated with a newfound awareness and a newborn granddaughter. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • June 30, 2011
Depression & Grief
Linehan turned a struggle into a therapy 

Psychologist Marsha M. Linehan, who created a program to help the most severely suicidal people, has a confession: she has a history of mental illness. Read More 

  • Line Goguen-Hughes
  • June 23, 2011
Expert Interviews
Bryan Welch 

On any given day, Bryan Welch can be found spending his early morning hours tending to his cattle on his farm near Lawrence, Kan., his lunchtime polishing an essay for Utne Reader at his Topeka office, and his evening at a Hollywood cocktail reception for the launch of a… Read More 

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  • June 8, 2011
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Expert Interviews
A Way to Have Deep Conversations Online…No, Really 

Assaf Peretz has created a place online for you to have deep conversations about things that matter. Tom Morris, Ph.D. talks to him about his fascinating website and the possibilities for meaningful online discussion. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • May 31, 2011
Expert Interviews
Tom Morris, Ph.D. 

Tom Morris has become one of the most active public philosophers in the world due to his unusual ability to bring the greatest wisdom of the past into the challenges of the present. A native of Durham, North Carolina and a Distinguished Alumnus of Durham Academy, Tom was… Read More 

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  • May 31, 2011
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