Being Dialectical: Supporting Our Youth During These Difficult Times
If your child has seen the news and wants to understand what’s happening and why, what do you say?…
Check Yourself Before You React: How to Respond from Wise Mind by Riding Your Emotional Wave
Emotions can run high in relationships and in daily life – it is part of being human. How…
Grief And Loss And Making It Through
2020 has been a year of one loss after another. We’ve lost the ability to participate in joyous…
From Mayhem To Meaning: A Dialectical Perspective
I remember the day so clearly – trauma memory tends to work that way. It felt as if…
A Bubble Bath Won’t Cure Coronavirus
All over social media and the news we find ourselves bombarded with ways we are told to cope…
Emotional Eating is Normal? Using the “How” Mindfulness Skills to Lean into your Food Experiences
Wow, does food take a lot of blame! It’s amazing how the mixed messages we receive about food…
Tune In or Tune Out? Mindfulness for Emotionally Intense Times
A friend with whom I sit for meditation said something very interesting the other day as we commiserated…
Managing Loss
Loss is a natural, inescapable part of a full life. Yet usually one can find ways to counterbalance…
Identifying and Expressing Needs during Quarantine
Stay at Home orders mean family members, roommates, and significant others are spending significantly more time together. This…
Radical Acceptance, Fear & Covid-19
Over the past month, news updates, alerts, and even memes focus on COVID-19. The world is indeed changing…