Calm
Be Kind to Yourself—Right Now
To be kind to others, you need to start with yourself.
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Self-Compassion
Anxiety
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness
Author Toni Bernhard on how mindfulness can help with chronic pain and illness and some of the key lessons she’s learned.
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Compassion
The Secrets to Wiring a Happier Brain
Learning how to give more love to ourselves is a key practice that when turned into a habit, becomes a source of happiness and resiliency.
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Calm
The Powerful (Happiness) Side Effects of Self-Compassion
When life provides us with challenges, it’s our impulse to try and move away from them, Elisha Goldstein writes. Instead, we need to go through them.
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Calm
One Mindfulness Practice You Can Try Today: Let It Go!
Past hurts and emotional triggers have a way of keeping us stuck in our tracks. Practicing letting it all go helps us move forward.
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Anxiety
4 Simple Questions to Uncovering Happiness
Elisha Goldstein offers a short practice for building positive thoughts and dealing with negative ones.
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Calm
5 Steps to a Better Relationship With Yourself
Want to be compassionate of others? Direct some of those feelings towards yourself first.
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Compassion
The Power of Self-Compassion
As I write this, the number one most emailed article on the New York Times is a blog post by Tara Parker-Pope  on the importance of self-compassion for making a change such as losing weight or quitting smoking. Clearly the post strikes a chord among the typical…
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Compassion
Practice: Befriending Self
Saki Santorelli, director of the stress reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, offers some words of wisdom about practicing mindfulness, or "offering hospitality to ourselves."
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Calm
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.
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