Magazine
The Truth About Parasocial Relationships
Founding editor Barry Boyce reflects on why some kinds of relationships are ultimately unsatisfying, and what that means for how we engage with mindfulness. Read More 
Mental Health
Guided Meditations
World Mental Health Day: 5 Guided Meditations to Help You When the World Feels Heavy
Many different mindfulness techniques can be helpful depending what emotions are present for you. Explore these practices to foster insight, curiosity, and self-compassion with your emotions, instead of fighting them. Read More
Body Scan
A Mindfulness Practice to Help Navigate Tough Moments
Powerful emotions are rooted in our body, in our physiology. Here’s a tool to help to discern what you need in difficult moments. Read More
Getting Started
It Matters Why You Meditate
Research suggests that the way you view your emotional and psychological life may influence your reasons for meditating, and how much benefit you get from the practice. Read More
Depression & Grief
Mindfulness May Improve Gun Violence Survivors’ Mental Health and Well-Being
New research indicates that a mindfulness-based intervention may offer mental and emotional support to survivors of gun violence. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
The Power of Sustainable Self-Care
Shelly Tygielski explores how consistently showing up for yourself first lays the foundation for our life’s purpose—showing up for others—and how to create your own self-care practice. Read More
Guided Meditations
A 12-Minute Meditation to Befriend Vulnerability
Learning to tune in to our own vulnerability is an act of courage that allows us to form deeper, more genuine relationships. Read More
Learn
Does Mindfulness Decrease Feelings of Guilt?
How your practice could impact making amends, a review of mindfulness-based interventions, and other new mindfulness research. Read More
Depression & Grief
6 Mindful Questions to Ask Yourself About Death and Dying
Facing the reality of death—whether our own or a loved one’s—can be deeply painful. Yet, many find more ease once they accept that death is a part of life. These prompts can help us ease in, lessen anxiety, and maybe even feel a little more prepared. Read More
Focus & Attention
A Mindfulness Practice for Changing Your Relationship to Thoughts
Thoughts (including the menacing and intrusive ones) are not facts. Here we learn to work with our thoughts in a kind way, without letting them overwhelm us. Read More
