Compassion
What to Do if Your Partner Won’t Meditate
It’s tempting to share your love of meditation with other people in your life. But when you become a pushy meditator, you may be doing more harm than good. Read More 
Compassion
Dive into the world of compassion through mindful practices, articles, and advice. Learn to empathize better and spread kindness in your community.
Compassion
Three Ways to Raise Empathic Kids So They Become Compassionate Adults
Considering how to make the children in our lives better people helps us reflect on how we ourselves can be more compassionate. Read More
Calm
Loving-Kindness Meditation May Protect Your Genes and Slow Aging
A new study explores how various forms of meditation affect our health at the genetic level. Read More
Calm
How We Learn To Observe Our Own Biases
Mindfulness is often taught to and by middle-aged white women, but some of the most intense and interesting work is being offered to diverse and disenfranchised communities—bringing our cultural and class biases out into the open. Read More
Compassion
5 Rules for Sharing Genuinely and Safely Online
No matter what kind of social community you find yourself in, it is important to abide by a few specific guidelines for safe sharing. Read More
Anxiety
Encouraging Meaningful Conversations about Race and Trauma
As the program innovation leader in mindfulness, trauma, and racial equity at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Jenée Johnson is developing a new way to talk about trauma, race and bias. Read More
Calm
3 Simple Ways to Strengthen Your Relationships
Knowing how to nourish our relationships and strengthen connections with others is one of the most important wellness skills we can cultivate. Read More
Compassion
A Review of McMindfulness
In his new book McMindfulness, Ron Purser contends that mindfulness dulls our social awareness and discourages us from taking action. Thought leader Andy Lee explores why Purser missed every opportunity to prove those points. Read More
Calm
A Meditation for Decentering Your “Self” (And Why You Should Do It)
When we realize that our “self” is really a process and not a fixed thing we can make space for less self-absorption and more compassion for others. Read More
Compassion
How to Train the Compassionate Brain
Research finds that training in compassion makes us more altruistic. Read More
