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Happy belated Father's Day to all the dad's out there. It's extra special for me with the recent birth of our son. This week I share a note to my son and reflect on the current state of the podcast. . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events  mindfulness journal . It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers a...

It was another difficult week. Unfortunately there's further need to hit the pause button. A family member of mine passed from COVID-19. See you next week! . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events  mindfulness journal . It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over...

Black Lives Matter. A note to self. . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events  mindfulness journal . It's dedicated to examining the workability of the mind's proposed solutions to problems, and offers an opportunity to step back from giving over your life to negative thoughts. . Wanting to integrate mindfulness into your life? Sign up to receive my six-day  At Ea...

Like you, this past week I saw images and videos of the senseless killing of George Floyd. This week, putting a podcast out there didn't feel right. So I'm taking a break from regularly scheduled programming to do the right thing, pause, reflect, and honor George. Stay safe, and take care.   . Looking to further your mindfulness practice? Check out the Mental Events  mindfulness journal . It's ded...

Memorial Day is a special day! It's a day of remembrance for all the men and women who died while serving in the military. Today's episode is about the power of remembrance and how important people from our lives not only shape us, but can continue to guide us. In this episode I'll take you through a perspective taking, values-facing exercise to connect with people who've touched our lives. . Look...

Good Vibes Only - is a saying and a belief that, "life can only be lived well by having good feelings." Unfortunately, living by this strategy makes people feel worse off in the long run. What if the problem of painful emotions and difficult thoughts you experience isn't actually the problem? Toxic Positivity is a strategy we all mindlessly engage in from time to time. It's a stance of non-accepta...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month! Sometimes we don't know what questions we should be asking ourselves. We leave it to the mind to help us get by. And when has that ever gone awry? Jokes aside, slowing down to ask ourselves the larger questions is often avoided. Considering the "bigger questions" can help us begin to regain some control in life. . To guide your journey along, I've compiled a l...

To honor Mental Health Awareness Month, I'll be sharing different insights and approaches to help you cultivate greater mental and emotional awareness. Because it's not what we think and feel that's necessarily troublesome, it's how we relate to what we think and feel. In this week's episode I talk about the importance of incorporating mindfulness into our day-to-day life, and offer you a framewor...

Often we think of hope as having a specific outcome in mind. But when our hopes don't come to fruition, our dreams are dashed. We may feel helpless - and hopeless - and potentially give up on what matters. . In this episode I share a few thoughts on how to re-orient yourself to a more expansive, and less restrictive version of hope. My hope (pun intended) is that you'll be able to see past specifi...

What gets in the way of seeing and speaking from your heart? What keeps you from saying what you need? Throughout our lifetimes, we're repeatedly confronted with solving the problem of how to overcome our loneliness. Going inward to solve the problem of feeling alone, we may find ourselves withdrawing from others, and giving up on cultivating deep connections. With the heart in mind, we can recali...

Most of our lives we pay attention to what's physically present in front of us. But there's something essential that's invisible to the eye that we forget about. In this episode I take you through a life-saving mindfulness practice that I used one year ago while in the hospital. By the end of this episode, you'll know how to re-orient yourself to a life of compassion, courage, and love even when i...

One Year Later! Recovering from a traumatic, near-death experience feels like a long and winding road. In this episode I speak from my experience of what it feels like to grieve a near fatal accident one year ago, and the physical and emotional difficulties of a one month hospitalization. I share lessons learned, what I've struggled with, and what I'm thankful for. .  Looking to further your mindf...

Often we don't see the value in acceptance. We think of acceptance as giving up, or giving in to the things we don't like. But that's not the case! .  Think of acceptance as a skill that'll help you keep your feet moving through life's difficulties. You don't have to like what's upsetting you, but you do have a choice with how you'll be with what you don't like. When we accept the reality of what'...

Feeling uncertain? Not sure what to do about it? Remember that in times like these we have to live our way into a new way of thinking and being. We don't think our way into a new way of living.  . Uncertainty is the only certainty guaranteed in our lives! "Making friends with uncertainty," is allowing one's self to feel the discomfort of not knowing, while getting active in our own recovery. In th...

During times like these we need to slow down and check in with what matters. In this podcast I share five thoughts on how to cope with emotional contagion from a mindfulness perspective: 1. Welcome everything, reject nothing. 2. There is always more than one way to see a situation. 3. Everything and every person are connected in some way. 4. Change is the only constant. In each new moment, reality...

Your Mind is Not Your Friend! It's not your enemy either. Think of it as a constant companion. It's something you live with. There are plenty of benefits of having a mind. It problem solves, makes plans, and uses logic and judgment to help you navigate your world. But the mind also judges us harshly too! . Often, we make no distinction between ourselves and what we're thinking. From that viewpoint...

Values are extremely important. They help us make choices among many alternatives. When we feel lost, disconnected, or confused, values can reorient us back to what matters. By clarifying our core values, we have a clearer sense of who we truly want to be, and what we want to stand for. Values are the selection criteria for action.  . In this episode I walk us through a values clarification exerci...

For many of us, managing our emotions (anxiety, depression, fear, doubt, shame, anger) is rarely viewed as a choice; we jump right into giving reasons to justify why we need to avoid them without realizing we have other options. . For many of us, the choice to change our lives for the better is never easy. When we fuse with the thoughts happening within our mind and the reasons we give for our min...

What might happen if you believed each thought you had over the course of one day to be true?  . Automatic Pilot Mode is the human experience of being lost in thought, and not realizing that you're in the process of thinking about thoughts. While on Automatic Pilot Mode, our lives become narrow and cage-like, and inflexible patterns of behavior are the unavoidable result. Often, when someone defin...

How present were you with yourself and surroundings yesterday? When we purposely choose to make contact with the present moment, we offer ourselves a way to be fluid with the world and with ourselves, versus nailing ourselves down to the contents of our thoughts and feelings. Building a mindfulness practice that lasts starts by simply remembering to remember to make contact with what is presently...

Thoughts aren't facts, they're MENTAL EVENTS! Here one moment, and gone the next.  . If you've ever found yourself caught up in unpleasant thoughts and feel powerless then you've come to the right place. This podcast is dedicated to helping you reshape your relationship to how you relate to your mind. Instead of viewing the world as something that happens to you, it's beginning to realize in the m...