When my therapist recommended the therapist Richard Schwartz’s book, “You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For,” I felt it’s truth in my body, like someone playing a G major chord on a perfectly tuned acoustic guitar inside my chest.
Learning the Difference Between Pain and Suffering
Want to stop holding back?
Want to stop holding back?
How Mindfulness Helps Me Feel a Little Less Lonely
That’s what mindfulness is — allowing everything into our awareness equally and fully.
That’s what mindfulness is — allowing everything into our awareness equally and fully.
Gratitude Isn’t Just Some Soft, Snowflake B.S.
Gratitude actually serves the person who feels it.
Gratitude actually serves the person who feels it.
So, You Want to Be a Writer? Here’s How to Practice
The mind, according to Zen meditation teacher and writer Natalie Goldberg, is the “writer’s landscape.”
The mind, according to Zen meditation teacher and writer Natalie Goldberg, is the “writer’s landscape.”
Using Social Media Mindfully Is Almost Impossible — but Here’s How to Try
A multibillion-dollar industry is invested in trying to distract you in increasingly seductive ways.
A multibillion-dollar industry is invested in trying to distract you in increasingly seductive ways.
Making Big Life Decisions Involves Being Confused. And Meditation Can Help.
You have to be willing to be confused. You have to be willing to admit: I don’t know.
You have to be willing to be confused. You have to be willing to admit: I don’t know.
How the Phrase ‘Real but Not True’ Can Help You Understand Your Emotions, and Even Racism
Race is socially constructed in our minds — it has no biological basis.
Race is socially constructed in our minds — it has no biological basis.
Social Anxiety Cheat Code: Be Willing to Ask “Dumb” Questions
Asking questions is becoming my ticket out of ego, which, for me, sometimes feels like a straitjacket of shyness and cartoon masculinity.
Asking questions is becoming my ticket out of ego, which, for me, sometimes feels like a straitjacket of shyness and cartoon masculinity.
3 Books That Will Help You Start Meditating Daily
Books have been crucial to inspiring and deepening my practice, so I’d like to share three that will help you along “on the path,” as they say.
Books have been crucial to inspiring and deepening my practice, so I’d like to share three that will help you along “on the path,” as they say.
Making Morning Meditation My ‘Keystone Habit’ Is Transforming My Days
Before I look at my phone, before I talk to anyone, before I eat breakfast or start working, I sit and listen—to my mind, to the silence, to what’s going on my body, to the birds and cars outside.
Before I look at my phone, before I talk to anyone, before I eat breakfast or start working, I sit and listen—to my mind, to the silence, to what’s going on my body, to the birds and cars outside.
How to Know When You Should Go to Therapy
There are many reasons to get help from a therapist, from navigating mental health issues to changing patterns and behaviors that get in the way of the life that you want.
There are many reasons to get help from a therapist, from navigating mental health issues to changing patterns and behaviors that get in the way of the life that you want.
Learn These Mindfulness Skills Now Before a Lonely Winter
Mindfulness can help us make better decisions.
Mindfulness can help us make better decisions.
Your Partner Just Told You To Go to Therapy. She’s Right.
My ex-girlfriend didn’t mean it as an ultimatum — but it might as well have been.
My ex-girlfriend didn’t mean it as an ultimatum — but it might as well have been.
How to Know if You Are Experiencing Burnout
By noticing our emotions and bodily sensations related to burnout, and changing how we relate to ourselves, we can find a little ease, connect to our creativity, and better manage whatever life throws at us, even pandemics.
By noticing our emotions and bodily sensations related to burnout, and changing how we relate to ourselves, we can find a little ease, connect to our creativity, and better manage whatever life throws at us, even pandemics.
‘Toxic Masculinity’ Doesn’t Mean That All Men Are Bad
It’s simply an idea that describes certain behaviors many men have been taught make a “real man.”
It’s simply an idea that describes certain behaviors many men have been taught make a “real man.”