We tend to think of mindfulness as something we do with our attention—noticing the breath, the body, the present moment....
Life isn’t waiting for us out there. It’s happening right here, right now. When the soundtrack of our minds is...
For a long time, I believed healing was supposed to look like progress. Not the quiet kind, the kind you...
In today’s fast-paced, overstimulating world, children are navigating more input than ever before—academically, socially and emotionally. While we often focus...
In a world that often rewards productivity over presence and perfection over authenticity, many of us have learned to be...
I’ve spent years exploring what it means to live with intention. Like many of you who read The Mindful Word,...
The therapeutic perks of mindfulness are indisputable. But if you’re anything like my clients (or myself), prompts like “sit mindfully”...
Using the garden and flowers as a sanctuary and catalyst for meditation and prayer isn’t a new concept or discipline....
At times, the inner landscape can feel like a storm at sea. And yet, beneath the waves, there is always...
We all have blind spots. These are aspects of ourselves we can’t see, no matter how hard we look. Maybe...
Human beings are physical creatures. Children on a playground run, jump, climb and yell (you may have fond, yet distant,...
Complications. Contradictions. Confusions. When I first jotted down these three words during a conversation with a friendly stranger, while discussing...
It was a cold December night, and the rain had been kissing the Earth for hours. A wintry wind was...
Accountability is a beautiful thing. The gym buddy who’s always psyched for weights at 6 a.m. can passively change your life with their presence, obliging...
It was about 2 a.m., phone glowing on my face, when I typed four words that would change everything: “how...
If you look closely, there is a kind of seeing that happens before the eyes open. Before recognition, before the...
Around 10 years ago, I spent a weekend reliving my teenage times by renting a couple of ’90s World Wrestling...
Step One: Sink like the lotus The first step in the Lotus Effect is to sink. This involves sinking into...
How often can we say that we just walked 15 miles, or 24 kilometres, to our destination? Not often, in...
“We do not simply give birth to a child. We give birth to new versions of ourselves.” – Dr. Shefali...
In today’s world, we’re living though times of treating others as objects and not as people with needs and feelings....
The morning sun filters through the blinds, casting golden patterns on the living room floor. My five-year-old, still in pajamas,...
How do we identify emptiness and use that insight about it to cultivate a new relationship with our laptop, our...
Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest conclusions to things is one impossibility. – Stephen King “Denial” doesn’t exist...
