Compassion - the active wish that the object of our compassion not suffer - is a key part of mindfulness practice. It can be applied to ourselves...

As many of us know, practice shows its benefit most during times of difficulty. Here’s a practice for when you’re experiencing...

One of the things I love most about Chinese Medicine - and why it works so well - is because there’s no “one size fits all”...

Thich Nhat Hanh has said that practice is only useful if we can bring it to help us in our most difficult moments. We all experience some level of...

Ethics is an important part of living with mindfulness. Living ethically helps us to create well-being for ourselves and others - it is not just...

Many people feel that we are living in dark and confusing times these days. In recent years, people have felt waves of increasing uncertainty,...

Last month I wrote about surrender - and this month I’ll offer a real life example.

Some of you know I’ve been organizing a wedding for...

Surrender is a beautiful thing. Even though what leads us to the point of surrender is often much hardship - once we let go, we wish we had made...

A student recently asked what my personal practice looks like, and I thought it might be useful to reflect and share how it’s evolved over...

A student in my last Inner Peace Outer Peace class pointed out how “stress” is such a universal feeling these days - and it really rang...

I hope we all ask ourselves that question on occasion, and venture to answer it for ourselves.

For some there may be histories of trauma (big or...

The recent past has seen a lot of collective despair and hopelessness arising - witnessing sentiments and acts of hate and violence, seeing the...