This Mindful Life

Let's check in! How was February? What is one word you could use to describe this month #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #February #Rest #exhaustion #healing #wellness #mindset #selfcare #happiness #heaviness #spirituality #peace #nap #positivity # napping  #spiritual #consciousness #mentalhealthawareness #believe #spiritualawakening #healthylifestyle #mindfulnesspratice #min...

What is your relationship to rest? Do you allow rest when you're tired or overwhelmed? Do you get to the end of the day feeling completely depleted, faced only with the prospect of doing it all over again exhausted? What can you do to create more space to rest on a daily basis? #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #impermanence #Rest #exhaustion #healing #wellness #mindset #selfc...

“In Irish when you talk about an emotion, you don’t say, ‘I am sad.’ You’d say, ‘Sadness is on me – Ta’ Bron Orm.” -P.O. Tuama What a beautiful way to both describe the way sadness feels while also giving some space to not identify with it!  So much of the suffering we deal with comes from taking something to be our identity rather than seeing it as a temporary condition, the way something is now,...

It’s a hard one…let’s talk about it.  Do you give yourself permission to feel sad?  To feel the dark and heavy emotions?  How do you nurture yourself when faced with these emotions?   #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #depression #anger #healing #wellness #mindset #sadness #happiness #heaviness #spirituality #peace #dogs #positivity #loveyourself #spiritual #consciousn...

It is possible to soften our hearts.  Even in a hurtful world.  Even through our pain.  Even when we feel powerless.  Even with difficult people…especially with difficult people.  Metta is a beautiful heart practice of cultivating loving-kindness; a softening of the hear that includes everything.  The world wants us to be hard.  But our hearts want to be soft, want to love, want to be vulnerable…s...

Let's talk about it. The negative voices in our head. The false beliefs that we are unworthy. The poison that is comparison. There are so many ways we sabotage our growth, our dreams, and make us give up on ourselves. What does this look like for you? How do you over-come it? #mindfulness #meditation #love #selflove #selfcare #motivation #selfsabotage #brenébrown #healing #wellness #mindset #l...

**Audio Only*** It is the very first thing we experience in a situation, but one that we typically aren't aware of...is it pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Being unaware of this very first experience, often sends us into reactivity and habits we don't always like, want to find helpful. In this talk we explore how to begin to discern these feelings and why pausing to notice these and the ac...

Let's Check in.  How was January?  Looking back over the month, celebrate the times you were there for yourself, the times you noticed you needed something and stopped to give that very thing.  If there were times you did not give to yourself, extend forgiveness and use this acknowledgement as an opportunity to recommit to listening and being present for yourself.  Every day and every minute i...

Forgiveness is an important piece of turning toward ourselves and growing toward embracing ourselves, just as we are. We need not continue to beat ourselves up over arbitrary ways we have not been "right". AND we can cultivate forgiveness, which will allow us to build trust with ourselves. In this talk and guided meditation we begin to understand just how to do that. The talk is followed...

When we're open to fully walking our path, open to learning and growing from all parts of our life, we find the people and situations who will help us. These people and situations are not always easy on us. In fact, I'd say the challenging ones are the most fruitful. They reflect us back to ourselves in way we can rarely ignore. They are our mirrors. Join me in exploring where these friend...

**Audio Only*** Rejection can be big and obvious. It can also be subtle, playing in the background and forming false beliefs within ourselves that don't align with our values. In this talk, we visit acceptance, one of the pillars of mindfulness, and how we change our thinking about what acceptance is. We also talk about the process of becoming familiar with when we are rejection ourselves so w...

Healing - this is my word for 2024. After a crazy year of transformation in 2023, i just feel tired. Bone tired. So the first step on my path toward embracing myself is to bring healing into every day. Through listening attentively inward, I will know exactly what it is I need in any moment to nurture myself. This act of awareness, listening, and nurturing IS healing.

Join Mindfulness Meditation teacher Michelle Marshall for talks with guided meditations, periodic reflections on how to incorporate mindfulness into everyday life, and on the journey to embracing ourselves, just as we are.

We say "Mindfulness", but what we are really talking about is Embodied Awareness. This talk is followed by a 15 minuted guided meditation.

Oh, Anger! What do we do with anger? What is our relationship to it? It can be an emotion we want nothing to do with or one we don't know how to deal with. How can we allow ourselves to be with anger in a way that is open to the learnings it has for us?

Asking ourselves this question brings curiosity to our experience. With it we can move from judgement to learning and delve deep into the beliefs and motivations beneath our behaviors. This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation. *We had a very special student join us today!*

Winter can be a beautiful time of rest. A time when we allow ourselves to slow down and sink into the calm of shorter days and softer light. This short talk is followed by a 15 minuted guided meditation.

The beauty of being present in this moment is that a space is created from which we can begin to observe what is happening instead of reacting blindly; it gives us our power back. This talk is followed by a 15 guided meditation.

How do we relate to struggle?  Do we wrestle with it, try to ignore it?  Or do we make space for it to be known?  This talk is followed by a 10 minute guided meditation.

We are born curious and, so, I would say enchantment is our birth-right. Often we lose touch with our ability to stay open to wonder, but it takes only a small effort at falling in love with the world again to rekindle it. This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.

Jon Kabat-Zinn says, "Above all, we can allow life itself to be the real meditation practice." When we approach our lives in this way, even a trip to the dentist can become fertile ground for practice and learning a little something about ourselves (other than having weak teeth). Followed by a 10 min. guided meditation.

Being trapped in a tiny seat on an airplane for nearly 13 hours will teach you something about what you can, in fact, endure. This talk is followed by a 15 minute guided meditation.

It can be as simple as noticing a drop of water of a blade of grass, the shadow of a butterfly in flight, a spiderweb on a flower. There are so many ways just stopping and noticing the smallest of things can bring us fully into the moment and fill us with joy. This talk is followed by a 10 minute guided meditation.

We can make ourselves so miserable when something or someone doesn't live up to our expectations. But we can learn that it is not the situation or even the person, necessarily, that creates the misery, but our own clinging to what things should be like. In this episode, I delve into this idea inspired by a way I reacted to a recent retreat not being what I expected. The talk is followed by a 1...

Our relationships with our bodies are often quite adversarial, negligent at best. But our body allows us pursue our dreams and goals, show affection to loved ones, and experience life in all it's fullness. In this talk, I delve into this fraught relationship, capping it off with a 10 min. guided gratitude meditation.