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Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Friends & Enemies 

When a sharp word turns a friend into an enemy, it’s always difficult to go back to the way things were. Sylvia Boorstein tells her own story of estrangement and healing. Read More 

  • Sylvia Boorstein
  • August 25, 2010
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Magazine
Mindful Childbirth 

Pregnancy, birth and early parenting are the most transformational time in the adult life cycle. Barry Boyce reports on a mindfulness center that teaches skills that interrupts patterns of dysfunction.  Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • August 24, 2010
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Magazine
Barbie Dolls and Bottom Lines 

Like any progressive mother, Karen Maezen Miller was torn when her daughter entered the Barbie stage. But what's worse—Barbie’s commercialism and hypersexuality, or Mom’s grown-up judgments and concepts? Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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Mindfulness For
8 Mindful Practices for Parents 

Author Karen Maezen Miller offers quick and practical guidelines for maintaining a mindfulness practice throughout your day. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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Magazine
Daughter Time 

“The time of childhood is going to go fast,” says Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be. “I’m doing what I can to slow it down.” Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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Depression & Grief
Love’s Legacy Lost 

A child of one economic crisis, he died on the eve of another. His gift of love was economic security for his family. His son James Kullander reflects on the sadness of a legacy lost. Read More 

  • Mindful Staff
  • August 24, 2010
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Magazine
Inhale, Exhale, Fight Fire 

Barry Boyce reports on a group of firefighters who are employing mindfulness techniques in the workplace, encouraging situational awareness and saving lives. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • August 24, 2010
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Magazine
The Secret of Success for MBSR 

Mindful practices alleviate pain and stress. Barry Boyce reports on a couple of doctors who are leading the way in mindful revolution and helping people along the way. Read More 

  • Barry Boyce
  • August 24, 2010
perfect love
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
The Perfect Love We Seek, the Imperfect Love We Live 

Love is what we long to receive and to give, yet our intimate relationships are conflicted and often painful. Psychologist John Welwood reveals the difference between absolute and relative love, and the wound within each of us that no other can heal. Read More 

  • John Welwood
  • August 24, 2010
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