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When people hear the term “sobriety,” they often assume it’s just about stopping an addictive behavior. But as recovery coach Stephanie Hazard observes, sobriety is a practice that extends to every area of our lives, including our emotions—and can hold the key to long-term healing. The post Addiction, Recovery, and How Mindfulness Can Support Emotional Sobriety appeared first on Mindful.

Chronic, complex medical conditions rarely have easy answers—but as meditation teacher Juliana Sloane reminds us in this soothing practice, we can always meet our suffering with creativity, gentleness, and compassion. The post A Meditation to Bring Comfort and Kindness to Pain and Illness appeared first on Mindful.

Mindfulness teacher and hypnotherapist Juliana Sloane shares her journey with an unexpected complex medical condition—and what shifted when she had to lean even more deeply into the very skills she offers her clients. The post Mindfulness and Hypnosis: Tools for Navigating Chronic Illness appeared first on Mindful.

Guilt and shame are two of the most painful emotions—and yet, as much as we might like them to, they don’t seem to be going away. Mindful founding editor Barry Boyce looks at these troublesome companions, and what it might mean to live more peacefully with them. The post Are Shame and Guilt Bad—Or Do We Just Need a Different Relationship With Them? appeared first on Mindful.

In this practice, teacher Shalini Bahl reminds us that in its simplest form, mindfulness is just about stopping—stopping to notice, to breathe, to gently interrupt our engrained habits of thought with our quiet presence. The post A Meditation on the Art of Stopping (Extended) appeared first on Mindful.

There’s a ton of buzz around micro-practices these days—but are we missing the entire point of these mini-pauses? Dr. Shalini Bahl digs into how we can understand their purpose beyond a commodified “hack” and explains how micro-practices can actually shift how we show up in our lives. The post How Micro-Practices Can Be the Bridge Between Your Meditation and Your Choices appeared first on Mindful.

Joseph Russell is an award-winning app pioneer and digital product veteran—and as our new CEO, he brings a vision to lead Mindfulness United into our next chapter. The post Exciting News from Mindful: Please Welcome Our New CEO, Joseph Russell appeared first on Mindful.

Experiencing a season of struggle with your kid? You're not alone. This gentle practice can help reconnect you with steadiness so you can keep parenting from love. The post A Meditation on Working With Our Fear And Parenting From Love appeared first on Mindful.

Take a restorative moment to release tension and feel deeply into gratitude for your hard-working body.  The post A 12-Minute Meditation to Rest Your Body in Gratitude appeared first on Mindful.

Clinical psychologist and author Elisha Goldstein shares the wisdom behind his new book, Tiny Shifts: You don't need to add complicated techniques to an already-busy life in order to experience change. You just need to meet your life, exactly as it is, in small but intentional ways. The post Elisha Goldstein on the Power of Tiny Shifts appeared first on Mindful.

What happens when certain habits of mind remain stubbornly in place, even after years of meditation practice? Mindful contributor Angela Stubbs sits down to an interview with meditation teacher and hypnotherapist Juliana Sloane to discuss the limits of mental understanding—and what techniques can be helpful in forging new neuropathways. The post When Insight Isn’t Enough: An Interview with Juliana Sloane on Imagination, Hypnotherapy, and Deeper Transformation appeared first on Mindful.

Pushing into areas of new ideas and learning, we can be sure to encounter imperfection. Here’s how we can practice self-compassion for failure so we can keep taking creative risks. The post Building Self-Compassion for Failure in the Creative Process appeared first on Mindful.

By opening to our own moments of fear and self-doubt as parents, we can lighten the pressure on ourselves to always get it right—which lets us show up for our kids in profound ways. The post Cultivating Courage and Confidence in Motherhood appeared first on Mindful.

Our breathing often becomes shallow, tense, or restricted during the day, and we don’t even notice it. Try this Light, Slow, Deep breathing technique to soften, relax, and expand again. The post A Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation appeared first on Mindful.

The crack team at How to Adult takes on basic seated meditation. Take 5 minutes and follow the demonstration. The post Feel Like You Need Support “Adulting” These Days? Meditation Can Help. appeared first on Mindful.

Do our kids know that it's okay to feel sad? To feel whatever they're feeling? Heather Campbell Grimes explores learning to sit with her daughter’s emotions, and her own. The post On the Other Side of Sadness: Teaching Our Kids (and Ourselves) That It’s Okay to Feel Anything appeared first on Mindful.

Aging and death are inevitable. And while we know this intellectually, it is difficult to accept this particularly in a youth adoring culture. Teacher Patricia Rockman explores vanity and this tender, confusing, frustrating journey with our bodies, our attachment to the delusion of youth, and our halting interior growth towards acceptance. The post 5 Lessons on Vanity: An Invitation to Awareness and Letting Go appeared first on Mindful.

This guided walking meditation from Kazumi Igus offers an opportunity to slow down and notice the wonder of the natural world in our urban environments. The post A Guided Walking Meditation to Notice the Beauty Around Us—Even in the City appeared first on Mindful.

Exhausted with the pervasive, relentless nature of our digital lives, many people are hungry for presence, savoring, and slowing down—which is ushering in a renewed interest in analog activities. The post Mindfulness and the Rise of Analog Living appeared first on Mindful.

Professor and author Dr. Jeremy David Engels explains how the foundational tenets of mindfulness practice hold the key to healing and strengthening our fractured and fragile democracy. The post Democracy Does Not Work Without Mindfulness appeared first on Mindful.