OUR ROLE AS WOMEN: The sad truth about celebrity women who deny aging
I speak on behalf of young girls and women as I write these words about what I see happening in the world today. Every cell in my being objects to the condition...
Category: mindful living
BETWEEN THE MILESTONES: 10 small but important ways to celebrate your children before they’re grown
As parents and even parents-to-be, we become trained to watch and wait for important milestones with our children. From the time a baby enters the world (and ev...
CHILD’S PLAY: The loss of imagination and the dangers of over-stimulation
Why are there so many buttons? How many ways are there to hold this? Is this even pointing the right way? These were but a few of the questions that crossed my ...
MEANINGFUL PARENTING: 5 steps to developing a deeper relationship with your children
There’s a saying that goes something like this: The days are long but the years are short. When it comes to parenting, truer words have never been spoken.As...
EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED: An evening with mindfulness teacher Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness for everyone
Last April, I spent an evening with Jon Kabat-Zinn, the biologist and mindfulness teacher who gave a public speech at the Facultad d...
TIMELESS AWARENESS: Two universal truths about time and awareness
Two universal truths: There is no time outside of this moment, and there is nothing that exists outside of awareness. Everything is timeless awareness.
The nat...
MINDFUL LIVING: Want to get out of your reactive thoughts and live mindfully? Read this.
What is awareness?
Adyashanti tells us that awareness is that part of us that perceives, observes and witnesses our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and body—th...
TRIPLE EMPTY NEST: Empowering exercises to find your way back to self
We were known as the Sandwich Generation—taking care of teens as well as taking care of our elderly parents. Then most of us ‘Baby Boomer’ women started experiencing Empty Nest in a big way as our children went off to college or out to work or travel.
DAYENU: Mindfully and critically examining the mindless status quo
The inheritances we carry
Just like any mother, I didn't want to make any mistakes—minor or crippling. So when it came down to the big and small decisions as...