↓ When you have low self-esteem, optimism doesn't come easy. ↓ It doesn't feel that way to everyone. It didn't feel that way to my old college roommate, who saw every rained-out Sunday as a dazzling opportunity to stay inside cleaning closets and watching old movies while eating...
Read MoreThe Mindful Editors offer up a list of books for your summer reading pleasure: Plus 5 mindful podcasts and videos worthy of your time. By Mindful Staff | June, 2018 ↓ 1) ATTENDING Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity Ronald Epstein, MD • Scribner A family physician and a professor at the University of Rochester School...
Read More↓ Achoo! Want to reduce seasonal allergies? Try these methods. Allergy reactions always remind me of a roll call of the Seven Dwarfs: Sneezy, Grumpy? Here. Dopey and Sleepy, if you need to take strong allergy medicine. Doc is here if you need an appointment with the...
Read More↓ Some days it feels like we’re in constant communication, flooded by a nonstop stream of status updates and tweets and three-word questions: “What’s ur eta?” You’d think we would be closer than ever. But more messages do not equal deeper relationships. Don’t get me wrong, my staff...
Read More↓ FitBit and Jawbone – these are two wildly popular fitness tracking devices you’ve probably heard of right? Oh and let’s not forget the Apple Watch either, or the whole slew of other brands on the market. But did you know that GPS company Garmin actually...
Read More↓ A Beautiful, Clean Home Starts at Floor Level Much of life happens on the floor. It’s the foundation of all family activity and the gateway to your home. It’s where everyone gathers for games, homework, story time, and relaxing. It’s the playground for your children and...
Read More↓ What if your self-hatred is not actually yours? ↓ Self-hatred seems so personal. What could be more about us, what could be more ours, than our opinions of ourselves? ↓ Those things we think and say to and about ourselves as we gaze into mirrors, talk, walk, work, take chances or take tests: those...
Read More↓ Help to rebalance your body’s schedule, gently. Last summer, I was dealing with a bad case of jet lag and said to a friend, “Having jet lag is like having David Lynch direct an episode of your life.” He replied, “Red room backwards talking Lynch, or...
Read More↓ Chocolate, roses, and a poem for Mother's Day What I Learned From My Mother I learned from my mother how to love the living, to have plenty of vases on hand in case you have to rush to the hospital with peonies cut from the lawn, black ants still stuck to...
Read More3 popular breathing methods to use while running. Try each one and pick your favorite. ↓ “In addition to keeping the body relaxed and tall (imagine your head being pulled gently aloft by a sky-high rope), and letting deep, controlled nasal breaths dictate the pace, the mechanics...
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