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Author Sherri Griffin
Sherri Griffin
JoinedOctober 20, 2025
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Sherri Griffin is an expressive writing and mindfulness teacher who writes about healing, perception and creative awareness on Substack at Aesthetic Mindfulness (aestheticmindfulness.substack.com) and Lyrical Mind: Poetry and Page (thelyricalmind.substack.com). Her work explores the meeting point between contemplative practice and artful living.
Young woman with eyes closed meditatively - Attunement: Quiet Seeing That Occurs Before the Eyes Open

THE QUIET INTELLIGENCE OF ATTENTION: Not intellect but attunement

Sherri Griffin·November 11, 2025
If you look closely, there is a kind of seeing that happens before the eyes open. Before recognition, before the...
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Woman sitting peacefully outdoors with book in lap - Your Narrative: 3 Powerful Ways Meditation Can Reframe It

WHEN THE MIND WANDERS HOME: Meditation as narrative repair

Sherri Griffin·October 22, 2025
The stories we tell about ourselves can become cages. Mine were lined with perfectionism and survival logic—a looping narrative that...
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