Insight Timer

Insight Timer

Feb 19, 2016 | Mindfulness

Insight Timer is a free app for smartphones and iPads (www.insighttimer.com) designed to support meditation practice.  The app contains hundreds of guided meditations.  I encourage you to check out this app and join the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion Insight Timer...
Self-Compassion Mantra

Self-Compassion Mantra

Feb 16, 2016 | Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

This is a moment of suffering This is a moment of suffering Suffering is part of life May i be kind to myself in this moment May i give myself the kindness and caring that I need  
Good Parent Messages

Good Parent Messages

Feb 1, 2016 | Mindfulness, Uncategorized

Ideally, every child needs to hear these messages in order to grow up with confidence, self worth and an ability to form healthy intimate relationships. No one receives all of these messages perfectly. Its just part of our humanity. Our healing task is to identify...
Mid Life Woman by David Whyte

Mid Life Woman by David Whyte

Dec 12, 2015 | Health, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

Mid life woman you are not invisible to me. I seem to see beneath your face all the women you have ever been. Midlife woman I have grown with you secretly, in another parallel, breathing with you as you breathed, seeing with you as you see, lining my face with an...
Tension, Stress and Trauma Release (TRE)

Tension, Stress and Trauma Release (TRE)

Dec 10, 2015 | Mindfulness, Self-Compassion

There are many different and effective ways to support people after they have had a traumatic experience.  This technique is an interesting way for groups of people to discharge after a stressful event, based on Peter Levine’s work on trauma. Levine noticed that...