“You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output — how much you produce...
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) – an empirically-supported, 8-week, training program designed to cultivate the skill of self-compassion. MSC teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult moments in their lives with kindness, care and understanding.
Program activities include meditation, short talks, experiential exercises, group discussion, and home practices. The goal is for participants to directly experience self-compassion and learn practices that evoke self-compassion in daily life.
You can always use your breathe to settle your mind and gently change your relationship to food and your body. It takes practice and kindness. Because your mind will wander. The practice is to gently, kindly bring it back to your breathe. Observe your mind, note...
What if a poem were just for me? What if I were audience enough because I am, Because this person here is alive, is flesh, Is conscious, has feelings, counts? What if this one person mattered not just for what She can do in the world But because she is part of the...