Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “mindfulness”
On Monday, March 23rd, Courtney from Mission2Move shared an exercise sequence to kick off your week and break up your children’s schoolwork or just get your body moving. Click here to watch and follow along! Check back Friday for a new M2M video to close out the week! If you would like to share a video to #spreadlovenotgerms and #bemindfulnotfearful during this …
Today, Meriden McGraw, MPH, MBSR, is sharing her favorite breathing exercise for stress reduction, which is especially effective for acute stress, such as what many of us are experiencing in our current situation. Listen and watch along as she guides you through an inhale-exhale breath! We will continue sharing videos to help guide you through the stress of Coronavirus. If …
Sarah Habib, founder of Mission2Move—a chronic stress prevention program that seeks to improve academic performance and the social and emotional behavior of kids through movement and mindfulness—is sharing a meditation tool for kids to use at home to reduce stress and maintain control. Click here to follow along with the video! We will be posting Mission2Move videos every Monday and Friday for …
Canceled. Canceled. Postponed indefinitely. I feel like that’s all we are hearing now, and although I understand why and I agree with the measures being taken, I also feel and share the immense pain and sense of loss that so many others are feeling. Coronavirus has canceled all of my speaking gigs and legitimately put my career on hold. It …
I was at a restaurant called HopDoddy in California and overheard a heated conversation between a daughter and her parents. She was trying to plead with them to have just one semester that she could get all A’s and just one B. And her parents spent a while almost degrading her for getting a B, that they thought she was …
So many of us often seek out instant gratification. We want results and we want them immediately. It happens when we go to the gym to get more fit and get frustrated when we don’t see progress in a few days. It happens when we start therapy and expect to figure out our entire struggles after just one hour session, …
Thanksgiving has come and gone, and often times our practice of gratefulness has come and gone as well. With Thanksgiving, we feel thankful for what we have, no matter how big or how small. For many of us, we get to spend time with family and friends and eat lots and lots of food, so inevitably, we feel thankful. We …
Why is it so hard for us to say no to things that are not good for us? We will have one hundred and one things on our plate, and somehow find the words, “Yeah, of course I can do that”, coming out of our mouths, when we truly feel like we can barely handle the things on our plate …
You really don’t know what is going to happen. You can plan and prepare and play the best or worst scenarios over and over in your head. And you still won’t know. You won’t know if it will rain if you are planning an outdoor event. You don’t know what someone’s reaction will be when you tell them something. And …
It’s Warrior Wednesday, and John Medl is sharing his story of living with bipolar disorder, anxiety and panic attacks. Check out his story below! I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2006, and I also live with general anxiety and panic attacks. I started writing at an early age. Just very simple poems in grade school. I never knew that …
