Mar 2, 2021MBSR GraduateMBSR Graduate Spotlight: Ginny MalcomsonWhat brought you to take Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction? Not that I couldn’t have benefited from it long before I started, but my...
Feb 15, 2021MindfulnessCelebrate Single Tasking Day: Feb 22Feb 22 is Single Tasking Day! (…whodda thought, right?) We’ve conditioned ourselves as a society of multi-taskers out of necessity, just...
Feb 10, 2021MeditationWhat is it like to contemplate death on a birthday?I start my 41st year today. I’m reading “The Book of Joy” with my MBSR graduate group. One of the obstacles they describe to experiencing...
Jan 25, 2021MBSR GraduateMBSR Graduate Spotlight: Amanda Wentworth-PuentesMeet my friend and colleague, Amanda. She is a licensed mental health therapist at the Des Moines Pastoral Counseling Center. (Read her...
Jan 6, 2021MBSRMBSR Graduate Spotlight: Ann FloodAnn Flood, LMHC Ann attended and graduated from my Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) 8-week course in 2018, founded by Jon...
Nov 15, 2019MBSR7 Days with my Mind: Insights from a Silent Mindfulness RetreatAs I reflect, I experientially learned a few things that I’ll summarize below. One of my teachers, Sandy Eimers, of Balance Yoga Lounge,...