Meditate Your Face Off

Your generosity really makes a difference. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. My life is full of abundance right now. Love is everywhere. Just when I think my heart can’t possibly hold more love, my son spontaneously says “Mom? I love you.” This, as my newborn falls asleep on my breast and the smell of my husband cooking us a delicious dinner fil...

I’m 39 weeks and 6 days pregnant and I’m taking this opportunity, at one day before my due date, to re-write and re-post this one from a few months ago. I never shared this one widely since it’s a bit specific to motherhood, but here I’ve made it a bit more accessible. This guided meditation is meant to help you find your fertile void. No matter how you identify, we all have a place inside us wher...

For those of you who didn’t know, I’m approximately 39 weeks pregnant right now (traditionally that’s out of 40). Which means this baby could come at any moment, maybe even as I write this post. I don’t have a clear plan for my maternity leave, but if you find me absent, re-posting old material; or if we’re all unlucky, audio-clips from my labor— don’t be too surprised. On that note, this guided m...

A different and longer version of this meditation is available to paid subscribers here . A lot of my formal practice time is spent watching my mind grapple with things it doesn’t want to be happening, watching myself pry my own white-knuckled fingers off of myself. I’ve found lots of different ways to stop doing stuff in practice and in life, including (but not limited to): having compassion for...

This guided meditation is meant to help you let your face fall off, to get in touch with what you’re really feeling, and to be totally yourself— whether people like it or not. I have a friend who doesn’t laugh unless he actually thinks something is funny. If he doesn’t like you, he doesn’t pretend to. He smiles only when it feels worth the effort, which means most of the time he looks like he’s ki...

My husband told me that if I post this, I’m going to lose some of my audience. It seems I just can’t help myself. If you don’t want to read the word “butthole” one more time, I’d advise you not to continue. You have been warned. If you skip the main article and scroll to the bottom, you’ll find a couple upcoming events, one for parents and one for young adults and you’ll still avoid all the buttho...

This guided meditation is to help us rest deeply, embrace this moment and how we feel about it, and then be moved to act from a place of love rather than fear. We hear the words “accept” and “allow,” and we think we are being instructed to get stuck in acceptance, that we just have to come to terms with the cards we’re dealt in life, that it’s all kind of a bummer. That real freedom is being conte...

I wrote this article for the Ten Percent Happier Newsletter back in 2023, and thought I’d revive it since I’m currently teaching back-to-back retreats at Spirit Rock and this feels really relevant right now. All my homies who just made it out here for the family retreat: you know what I’m talking about…. This is my eighth or ninth attempt to sit down and write this article. Every time I go to writ...

This guided meditation came out of a recent Meditate Your Face off class. The audio dharmette from that class is available to paid subscribers here . I spent a stupid amount of time on my year-long retreat back in 2020 in a state of rage. Fury so strong that it would wake me up at 3 am, so hot and bothered that I’d have to get out of bed, pace, and scream; sometimes until the sun rose. Yes, it was...

The above is a guided meditation, meant to bring some TLC to impulsive ignorance. In our everyday understanding of the word privilege, we tend to think pejoratively. We say the privileged are ignorant. Ignorance is seen as a quality that people get to have because they are so privileged that they don’t have to consider other people’s feelings. So they turn a blind eye to pain, injustice, suffering...

Paid subscribers can hear the audio dharmette that accompanies this guided meditation. There’s an old adage in Buddhism that says “Whatever is in the way, is the way.” Essentially, whatever you think is dumb, annoying, bad, wrong, or terrible, that (sorry to say) is the way to freedom. Not around it, not away from it, but through it. This is not to be confused with making yourself love what you ha...

The woman pictured below has changed my life and my practice, and today’s audio dharmette and guided meditation was inspired by my time with her. This September, for the first time in many years, Jan Frazier will be teaching and sharing about her experience in person. For more information on that retreat, you can scroll down past the little article or click here . I read Jan Frazier’s book, “When...

This week’s guided meditation comes with an audio dharmette available to paid subscribers, from an online meditation group that I led for the Insight Meditation Society on 6/23/25. My husband told me my butt turned inside out when I was giving birth. Sorry to start with something so graphic, but I really can’t help myself sometimes, and giving birth is just one of those things that I think should...