Have you ever let someone who has just a few items jump in front of you in line at the grocery store? Or left an extra-generous tip for a person working in a low-paying service job? Perhaps you saw a homeless person on a street corner and offered them half a sandwich while stopped at [...]
Writing poetry has become part of my life, a branch of a tree rooted in a community of mindfulness. I’m excited and nervous to be a featured poet at an event called Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices on January 17, 2023. For me, writing poetry started when I said yes at the beginning of the lockdown to [...]
Science now verifies meditation can be as effective as medication for treating anxiety; these mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques are a SNAP! Over 15 years ago, a doctor recommended I try a course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to manage extreme stress affecting my speech and causing me to garble words. I’m lucky my brain and [...]
Are you “over” COVID, either literally (as in you got it and got well), or just done with social distancing, masks, and the pandemic in general? Then like me, you’re none too pleased to hear new variants are on the rise just as fewer people are taking precautions, such as getting updated boosters. All this [...]
I’ve been feeling like a whirling dervish lately (a sign it's time to check your life compass). My new book “SNAP! From Chaos to Calm” is now in the design phase, and I am getting ready to make an audio recording of my book “Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for [...]
Swept up in the daily cyclone of bad news? When you feel like hiding, soften your soul with this meditation instead. Do you ever wake up, check the news on your phone, and just want to crawl back into bed and pull the sheets over your head? Or worse, break down crying over the sorry [...]
Last Monday, I woke up with a fat lip — my upper lip the size of a hot dog. I assumed I got sunburned on my lip in the pool Saturday (yes, I had on sunscreen and a hat). For the past four months, I have been teaching Mindfulness and Self-Compassion as a specialty [...]
Did you know that July 12 is National Simplicity Day? I love the idea of simplicity for summertime — so natural, yet not so easy to access. “Summertime, and the livin' is easy” go the lyrics to the old jazz tune. Yet these days it’s easy to forget to take it easy, slow down, and [...]
“What are you doing for Mother’s Day?” my dear friend asked me during a long phone call last month. “Sticking my head in the oven,” I replied. “You?” She laughed out loud, the real kind of laughing, and told me she loves me. Our convo was wide ranging, as is usual when we do a [...]
Do you ever take the time to fill the bathtub, turn down the lights, light a few candles, put on some soothing music and just…relax? Do you have a nice big spa with massage jets, or a deep, old-fashioned tub on feet that’s gathering dust? Or maybe the tub you once dreamed of spending quality [...]
