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Mina Samuels

Mina Samuels

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May 6

Comparison Is the Thief of Everyone’s Joy

A few weeks ago, I shared my excitement about a longer run I’d done with a close friend, a runner and occasional running companion. Some…

Comparison Is the Thief of Everyone’s Joy

Mina Samuels

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Apr 8

No Surrender: Dancing with Resistance and Acceptance as I Approach a New Decade

Cognitive surrender is an essential new term that’s arisen to describe the abdication of our own reasoning to a machine that sounds fluent…

No Surrender: Dancing with Resistance and Acceptance as I Approach a New Decade

Mina Samuels

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Mar 4

Why Do I Meditate (almost daily)?

I can’t even remember exactly when I started meditating. It was somewhere in the early 2000s. I had a ghost-writing client who had a…

Why Do I Meditate (almost daily)?

Mina Samuels

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Feb 4

I’m Not Sick — Except I Am

I have not been flattened-out-sick since sometime before the pandemic. I’ve had covid twice and both times I was extremely lucky that the…

I’m Not Sick — Except I Am

Mina Samuels

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Dec 3, 2025

How Much of Healing Is Faith?

The foot surgery I mentioned last month has come and gone. I didn’t meltdown or freak out, except in the moment when the physician’s…

How Much of Healing Is Faith?

Mina Samuels

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Nov 5, 2025

Facing Surgery Alone

My right big toe is in pretty much constant pain, varying from low level to limp level. High heels are out of the question now. Back in…

Facing Surgery Alone

Mina Samuels

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Aug 6, 2025

Drinking Champagne Alone

I’m just back from a glorious month of playing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Trail running. Mountain biking. Hiking. And just plain…

Drinking Champagne Alone

Mina Samuels

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Jul 2, 2025

Rock and Root Therapy for Being Here Now

Last week I had a major work setback. I submitted something that was not up to snuff, and it got sent back with scathing commentary. I can…

Rock and Root Therapy for Being Here Now

Mina Samuels

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Jun 4, 2025

Saying Goodbye to My High Heels

I have a bunion on my right big toe. Also, arthritis. Same toe. Poor little digit. A first cortisone shot, disappeared the pain. For about…

Saying Goodbye to My High Heels

Mina Samuels

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May 7, 2025

What Does Less Is More Really Mean?

Lately, I’ve been receiving the same message from various quarters in my life. The message is this: I can do less, in a less is more way. I…

What Does Less Is More Really Mean?

Mina Samuels

Mina Samuels

Writer. Performer. Citizen. Traveler. Enthusiast. Author of Run Like a Girl 365 Days A Year and other books. www.minasamuels.com

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