Meditation is the practice of doing nothing, but the skills it builds can have important benefits when you bring them into your life and work. These posts feature stories, ideas, and practices to help you envision the practical benefits that mindfulness can offer to you off the cushion and in the world.
How to Recover When Your Meditation Habit Gets Sloppy
Did your meditation practice get a bit sloppy? Welcome to the club. This post shares tips and resources to get it back on track.
Mindfulness in Crisis: How Titration Helps Lawyers Manage News Stress
Many lawyers are struggling with the news right now. This post explains how the mindfulness practice, titration, can help.
Why Skepticism Can Enhance Your Meditation Practice
Some lawyers don’t try meditation because they are skeptical. This post explains why skepticism actually supports mindfulness practice.
5 Years of Blogging: Lessons Learned for Mindful Lawyers
Five years of blogging is no easy feat. This post explains what lessons that imparts for mindful lawyers.
How Lawyers Can Use Self-Compassion for Growth
Self-compassion is essential for reviewing progress in good times and bad. This post explains why and how to use it.
Why Lawyers Need Support in Tough Cases
Difficult cases and people are a reality for most lawyers. This post explains why getting help is an essential mental health strategy.
Five Reasons Kindness Is Essential for Lawyers
Kind lawyers are the best lawyers. If you are unconvinced, read on to learn why kindness is essential for lawyers.
How Mindfulness Helps Break Mental Patterns
Mental patterns can be hard to spot and harder to break. This post explains how mindfulness practice can help.
Five Steps to Help Lawyers Handle Hopelessness
Hopelessness is a problem for lawyers especially during turbulent times. This post shares steps that can help you restore motivation.
Mindfulness vs. Ego: Finding Balance in a Digital World
Think mindfulness is about getting rid of the ego? Read this post to learn the truth about this common misconception.
Tips for Lawyers: Manage Stress Getting Back to School
Feeling stress this back to school season? This post offers some strategies to help lawyers and professionals regain control.
The Connection Between Mindfulness and Personal Boundaries
Setting personal boundaries can be tough. This post explains four ways that mindfulness and compassion can help.
Mindfulness for Job Seekers: Transforming Adversity into Opportunity
This post shares resources and support for job seekers. It also explains why mindfulness and compassion can help people looking for work.
How to Handle Emotions of Overwhelm in Five Mindful Steps
Overwhelm is one of the worst emotions to experience. The only good news? Mindfulness and self-compassion can help. This blog post shares how.
The Connection Between Mindfulness and Writing Success
Writing may not be the first goal for people new to mindfulness but enhanced creativity may be a great side effect of practice. Read this post to learn more.
How to Stop Doomscrolling: 5 Essential Steps
Struggling with doomscrolling? It happens to the best of us. But this post has some steps to help you stop.
Cultivating Motivation: A Mindful Approach for 2025
Do your aspirations for crushing goals in 2025 outpace your motivation ? This post has tips for cultivating motivation with mindfulness and self-compassion.
How to Practice Gratitude without Being Fake
A blog post explaining how to practice and cultivate gratitude in an authentic way and sharing a meditation practice that can help.
Strong Lawyers Know When to Ask for Help
Think asking for help is weak? Thing again. This post explains why asking for help is a sign of strength for lawyers.
Mindfulness: A Force for Balancing Ego and Recognition
Meditation is not about ridding yourself of your ego, but mindfulness may help you balance it when recognition comes.
How to Respond Mindfully to Nasty Emails
Nasty emails and texts are an unfortunate part of work for lawyers and professionals. This blog post offers 5 mindful tips that can help.
It’s Okay If You Meditate Just to Rest
Rest is important for all of us. This post explains why meditation for rest is a great and arguably noble use of the practice.
Mindfulness and the Life-Changing Magic of Opening Up
A reflection on the power of mindfulness to forge connections to oneself and others and a celebration of 200 posts.
Why I Love Meditation Retreats
A blog post explaining why meditation retreats can offer benefits for lawyers and professionals
New Download: Stress Management Workbook
A blog post sharing a new and free resource for lawyers and professionals, the stress management workbook.
Self-Compassion Can Make Weight Loss Less Painful
This post explains the value and benefits of employing self-compassion to craft a plan for healthy weight loss. Self-compassion is associated with goal attainment and grit in handling setbacks. Learn how it helped our founder manage her weight without beating herself up.
How to Meditate When You’re Too Busy to Breathe
A blog post with 5 tips that may help you continue a meditation habit even when your life is very busy.
How to Manage Anxiety about Public Speaking
A post sharing tips about how mindfulness and self-compassion practices can help calm anxiety about public speaking.
How to Become a Thought Leader When You Have No Followers
This post shares a Ted-style talk I gave about thought leadership for the FDCC. It traces how my meditation practice helped me start writing and how that improved my life and law practice.
How to Train Your Mind While Training Your Heart
A blog post exploring some informal practices to incorporate mindfulness and compassion into your physical exercise routine.
1 Simple Thing You Can Do to Promote Mental Health
This post shares information about three training programs to help individuals respond to mental health challenges in in their communities, families, and workplaces.
Reading for Reflection on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A post collecting past blog posts on the topics of mindfulness and racial justice, social change, and courageous action.
How Mindfulness Helped Me Discover My Word of the Year
A post explaining a process for identifying a word or theme of the year using mindfulness as a guide.
I’m Skeptical of Resolutions but Love New Year’s Reflections
A post explaining why we set resolutions in January and why reflections are important to personal growth.
If You Are Thinking about Dry January, You’ll Love This
A blog post sharing resources to help anyone considering or trying Dry January.
Don’t Let a Crappy Year Ruin Your Happy Holidays
A blog post with tips about enjoying the holidays even if the rest of the year left you feeling like a Grinch.
How Mindfulness Can Help Lawyers Make Social Change
An interview with Christopher Punongbayan, the Executive Director of California ChangeLawyers and yoga teacher, about mindfulness and social change.
Mindfulness Can Make Litigation Suck a Little Bit Less: New Podcast Interview
A blog post sharing an interview of founder, Claire E. Parsons, on the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property Podcast.
3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help in Troubled Times
Have you ever had doubts about meditation practice in the midst of troubled time? If so, you aren’t alone. In this post, we share some thoughts to help you get clarity on the issue for yourself.
Trick or Treat: Why the Scary Concept Not-Self May Offer Lawyers Freedom
A blog post explaining the concept not-self, what it offers, and ways to get started exploring it in mindfulness practice.
Lawyers Need to Drop the Shame and Blame Routine
How lawyers can avoid shame and blame with opposing counsel for better relationships, results, and mental health.
Writing About Your Darkest Moments Feels So Damn Good
A blog post exploring why writing about dark times can be a transformative mental health practice.
Zen in the Art of Yard Maintenance
A blog post discussing the mental and physical health benefits of getting outside.
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.
When It Comes to Mindfulness for Lawyers, Self-Discipline Is Overrated
A blog post that explains why lawyers may rely too much on self-discipline in mindfulness practice and tips for learning a new way to practice.
What Does Lawyer Well-Being Mean? For Me, It’s a Process.
A blog post with a mindfulness-based framework on personal well-being for lawyers and professionals.
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.
3 Ways Mindfulness Can Help Lawyers Prepare a Witness Who Is Afraid to Testify
A post with three tips for lawyers to calm a nervous witness in order to prepare them to testify in a litigation matter.
Why I Feel Good about Turning 40
A brief reflection about the good parts about turning 40 and how mindfulness can help you to relax as life changes.
What Is Confidence Really and How Can Mindfulness and Compassion Support It?
A post sharing our founder’s guest post about confidence and mindfulness for Attorney at Law magazine.
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