Expert Interviews
Savor Your Values: Finding Strength In Compassion
Mindful Self-Compassion teacher Steve Hickman offers this powerful practice to recognize and affirm the personal values that underlie our most challenging emotions. Read More 
Difficult Emotions
Focus & Attention
The Brain Science of Attention and Overwhelm
We’re living in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous times. Neuroscientist Amishi Jha explains ten ways your brain reacts—and how mindfulness can help you survive, and even thrive. Read More
Expert Interviews
Purpose, Fear, Love: A “Real Change” Q&A with Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg offers wise, compassion-focused views on where the world is right now and the part we each have to play in being the change we wish to see. Read More
Meditation Practices
The Best Gift You Can Give Yourself Is Rest
Stress from the workweek, the weight of difficult emotions, restlessness in the body—any combination of these can interfere with sleep. Read More
Learn
Good News: Our Emotions Aren’t Set In Stone
Emotions are changeable and culturally constructed—which means we get to choose how we feel about how we feel. Read More
Depression & Grief
How to Mend a Broken Heart
When love falls apart, embracing your life as it is—agony, misfortune, and all—can help you heal. Try this three-step mindfulness practice to help you find stability and a little bit of ease. Read More
Breathing Meditations
3 Guided Practices to Find Calm and Equanimity
Resilience expert Linda Graham shares three ways to use awareness and deep breathing to ground ourselves throughout the day. Read More
Magazine
How We Can Thrive Within Discomfort
Instead of turning away from what feels difficult or painful, mindfulness teaches us that we can learn much from leaning in to any discomfort we're feeling. Read More
Expert Interviews
Turning Moments of Anguish into Moments of Action
Jonathan F. P. Rose of the Garrison Institute talks with David Simas, CEO of the Obama Foundation, on how compassion practices can support the current climate of uncertainty and change. Read More
Focus & Attention
A 6-Minute Practice to Softly Focus Our Awareness
This brief guided meditation lets us focus our attention on the sounds around us, finding bright moments of awareness even when we get distracted. Read More
