Kids & Teens
How to Make Mindfulness Part of Your Family Routine
Space Between mindfulness educators share five tips for incorporating mindfulness into day-to-day life with kids. 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.
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
12 Minute Meditation: Connect With Compassion
Loving-kindness is not a mystical quality reserved for sages and saints. In fact, you likely already experience it often. With practice, you can learn to recognize loving-kindness in yourself and others. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
12-Minute Meditation: Directing Compassion Toward Ourselves
Vinny Ferraro guides a meditation to meet yourself and whatever you're holding in the moment with kindness and understanding. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
12-Minute Meditation: A Guided Practice to Cultivate Kinder Self-Talk
When we notice our inner voice, and notice when we’re focusing on negative thoughts, we can cultivate a habit of self-compassion. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
12 Minute Meditation: A Loving-Kindness Practice to Anchor in Compassion
Learning to love ourselves and others when our expectations aren’t being met is hard, but with practice we can open our hearts and learn to love what’s challenging. Read More
Expert Interviews
Celebrating Mindfulness Day: A Q&A With Leading Meditation Teachers
Mindfulness teachers Vidyamala Burch, Brother Ngộ "Freedom" Không, Shauna Shapiro, and Shamash Alidina answer questions about how mindfulness can support well-being. Read More
Guided Meditations
Take-What-You-Need Meditations to Support Kids, Teens, and Young Adults
Mindful partnered with WholeSchool Mindfulness to create a special collection of guided meditations designed to support young people in finding more calm, compassion, and joy in daily life. Read More
Focus & Attention
What Swimming Taught Me About Self-Compassion and Letting Go
Finding “easy speed” in the pool helped writer and meditation teacher Kelly Barron heal the wound of overachieving and stay loose in the face of resistance. Read More
Kids & Teens
How Self-Compassion Can Improve Teen Mental Health
Research has demonstrated that cultivating self-compassion—learning how to be kind and supportive to oneself—can act as a shield for teenagers against the negative impacts of social media, trauma, depression, and various other challenges. While self-compassion is not a magical solution, it can help alleviate some of the difficulties that adolescents encounter on a daily basis. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Finding Compassion Behind Bars: A Transformative Encounter in Maximum Security
One young man's encounter with compassion and self-reflection behind bars leads to a journey of personal growth, healing, and an unexpected twist in the courtroom. Read More
