Difficult Emotions

Shadow of a person reaching toward an orange swirl on a speckled blue-gray background. Teacher Juliana Sloane explores how imagination is essential for healing.
Expert Interviews

When Insight Isn’t Enough: An Interview with Juliana Sloane on Imagination, Hypnotherapy, and Deeper Transformation 

What happens when certain habits of mind remain stubbornly in place, even after years of meditation practice? Mindful contributor Angela Stubbs sits down to an interview with meditation teacher and hypnotherapist Juliana Sloane to discuss the limits of mental understanding—and what techniques can be helpful in forging new neuropathways. Read More

  • Angela Stubbs
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Podcast cover featuring Shalini Bahl and the title A Meditation to Return to Ourselves When Practicing Mindfulness Feels Impossible.
Guided Meditations
A Meditation to Return to Ourselves When Practicing Feels Impossible 

If you’re burned out, discouraged, and disconnected by all the struggle and suffering in the world, you’re not alone. In times of intense upheaval, mindfulness practice can feel impossible. Try this simple, grounding meditation to pause, reconnect with compassion and clarity, and return to yourself. Read More 

  • Shalini Bahl
  • February 18, 2026
A smiling older man in a scarf beside text: Frank Ostaseski shares wisdom in a meditation on endings.
Breathing Meditations
A Meditation on Endings 

By drawing our attention to endings and our developed habits about the way we meet endings, we can learn how to step fully into our lives with appreciation and gratitude, says Frank Ostaseski. Read More 

  • Frank Ostaseski
  • January 6, 2026
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