Mindfulness is a practice that can support individuals, as well as families and communities. Check out these posts for more practices and ideas that you can bring to your family or share with your kids.
Fear and Loathing on Family Vacations and How Mindfulness Can Help
A blog post which discusses the challenges of traveling with family for vacation but explores how mindfulness practices can help.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Mom.
A mom’s reflection about her daughter reaching adolescence and using mindfulness to process it and try to stay calm.
The Story Behind My First Children’s Book
A blog post sharing the story behind the founder’s new children’s book, Mommy Needs a Minute.
10 Gift Ideas to Encourage a Loved One’s Mindfulness Habit
When I teach mindfulness, I always stress that you don’t need to buy anything when you start a meditation practice. With that said, some accessories can support a practice. Beyond that, around the holidays we always need some gift ideas for those in our lives. If you have someone in your life looking to create…
Pause Patrol: How My Apple Watch Helps Me Avoid Fights with My Stubborn Child
If you are a lawyer, you may be the kind of person who doesn’t back down from a fight. I am such a lawyer and not just because I am a litigator. Rather, I think I was drawn to litigation because I am one of the most pigheaded and stubborn people to ever walk the…
Which Encanto Character Are You? Law Firm Edition
If you have small children or have just not been living under a rock for the last month, you probably know the lyrics to “We Don’t Talk about Bruno” by heart. Both of my girls are under 10, so although we don’t talk about Bruno we definitely have been singing about him, constantly, on a…
Holiday Stories Guided Meditation
Last week, we wrote about A Christmas Carol and how Ebenezer Scrooge’s miraculous change of heart can help us all examine our “selves” at the holidays. As a companion to that, I offer this guided meditation from the Brilliant Legal Mind collection. The holidays are a time for stories. They can help us connect with…
Scrooge, “Not Self”, and the Holiday Lesson It Offers Us All
If you are interested in meditation or have studied Buddhism, you may know the concept of “not self”, but I bet you’ve never considered what that has to do with Ebenezer Scrooge. Of course you haven’t, but bear with me because they are connected and there’s a holiday lesson in it for you. “Not self”…
Abundance Is Something You Can Create
This week is Thanksgiving, so it may not be all that surprising that I have the idea of “abundance” on my mind. As someone who loves to cook (and eat), Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. When I was a kid, Thanksgiving meant cooking all day for my mom’s large family and then eating…
How Mindfulness Helped Me Savor the Final Days of Summer
Even though it’s still hot outside, the days are starting to get a little shorter, kids are going back to school, and the stores are filling up with Halloween decorations. The signs are all around – summer is winding down. The sense of summer ending and the change it brings can bring anxiety and even…
Lessons from My Lawyer Dad that Could Have Come from a Meditation Teacher
My lawyer dad doesn’t know a thing about mindfulness, but he’s still one of the best meditation teachers I have ever had. He’s steady, hard-working, kind, and decent. He’s not closed off to new ideas, but he favors tradition and knows himself well enough that he generally hasn’t needed to seek out new practices and…
Joy Is Remembering Heaven Is a Place on Earth
I got to my mother’s house late to pick up my daughters. I was exhausted and had just finished a too long evening meeting. I had an early meeting the next day and felt overburdened by life. As always, it took too long and too much frustration for my daughters, one 8 and one 4,…