I’ve been practicing mindfulness meditation off and on for over five years. The operative words here are “off and on.” Though I do generally live my life with far more attention and attunement to the...
Category - Emotional Health, Etc.
Other emotional health related content.
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Shame, Fear and the Power of Truth
Motivational speaker, author, producer and talk show host, Kirsty Spraggon of KirstyTV.com reached out to me to share a video about her “deepest work around stigma, shame and secrets.” Being passionate...
Emotional Victimhood: Viewing Life Through a Lens of Injustice
Jennifer Lehr, MFT examines “emotional victimhood” as a reflection of how we see ourselves, the associated pain/consequences and the power we have to change. Sue and her husband Dave were talking in the...
Jennifer Lehr, MFT
Avoid the Expectation Trap
Craig Harper, a coach and motivational speaker in Australia, explores the many ways you can be let down by others and how changing your expectations can change your reality. Do people let you down? Have they let you...
Craig Harper, B.Ex.Sci.
The End of Life, A Shift in Perspective
B.J. Miller, M.D., is a palliative care physician at UCSF Medical Center and former executive director at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, California. He is on a heartfelt mission to “de-pathologize...
Creating Meaning and Purpose Around the End of Life
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the often challenging topic of death and dying, how we can cultivate meaning and purpose around the end of life. She explores the idea of a paradigm shift in how we (society, the medical...
Linda Graham, MFT
The Elusive Balance Between Work, Family, Intimate Relationships and Self
Life balance. A destination or way of being? It’s like some kind of mysterious creature that many of us seek. For a brief time it reveals itself, we think we’ve honored and befriended it then just when we...
Being Compassionate and Being Too Busy Often Don’t Mix
Linda Graham, MFT looks at the challenge that being “too busy” creates for maintaining a sense of kindness and compassion to others. She offers an exercise to help you slow down and practice self-compassion...
Your One Precious Life
I recently heard a poem that stopped me in my tracks with it’s visceral beauty and lesson in the power of mindfulness, or living in the moment. We all can learn to pay better attention as not to miss the magical...
Kindness is a Super-Power
Linda Graham, MFT believes that small acts of kindness can truly change the world. She explores the “super-powers of kindness” and ways to pass it on. When my friend Edith’s grandson Nick was 6 years...
