I considered different titles for this piece: If I Didn’t Meditate, Would I Be a Monster? Why Even Meditate If I Still Stress Out? I Give Up on Meditation. But I don’t give up, even as I wonder, why not? As many of you know, I’ve been on a meditation…

I am on a learning spree — engaged in advanced trainings in Non-Violent Communication and Internal Family Systems. At every step of the way, I’m integrating what I learn into my work, building connections across disciplines. …

I sit down on my meditation cushion for day 999 of my current meditation streak. This particular cushion is a stack of two stained decorative pillows on a day bed in an Airbnb in Montreal, where I’m staying with my mother, the first time I’ve seen her since the beginning…

A new way to be more present and less triggered — As I approach 1000 days in my current daily meditation streak, I am trying something new — I’m doing the lovingkindness meditation in the third person AND, for good measure, I’m adding my Internal Family Systems parts into the mix. …

Meet the committee in my head who show me the way — I went on another sacred medicine journey in early May (here’s my piece about my previous two journeys). This time I voyaged in a hybrid vessel of MDMA and psilocybin, a new and powerfully interesting spaceship for my experience, a combination of psychological and psychedelic. …

The importance of a lakeminding practice — Having lunch with a friend who is going through a large-scale amount of change — new job, moving from the US to the UK, new health protocol and turning 50 — she asked about how to manage the stress and then answered her own question, “I guess I should just…

Flouranguishing: the state of simultaneously flourishing and languishing (see also: being human) Recently a number of my friends circulated an article about the blah many of us currently feel as COVID drags on. The author named the sensation as languishing. Even as we get vaccinated, so much still seems risky…

It’s spring. And like the earth, we, too, want to send out fresh tendrils of life, if only we can prepare some fertile ground. Meditation is one source of sunshine for the seedlings of our new growth opportunities. A week ago, I hit 860 consecutive days of meditation. Unlike other…

What is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Hint: Not Superman. He is a who; as in, who is faster … I’m talking about The Pause; that essential and elusive moment between thought and action where…