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  • When I Fight my Dopamine

    The dopamine always wins! Ever since I visited India, I have appreciated Indian cuisine as the most flavourful food you can find. Add some spicy chutney to that and I’m in heaven! So, is it any wonder that when I go to my favourite Indian Buffet, I come away feeling like I ate too much? Read more

  • Know when to Quit

    This will be my last post on the mindful coach blog. It’s been a wonderful experience to write one blog post a week for nearly a year – I never knew I had so much to say! I had two reasons for starting this blog. Firstly, I wanted to share some of what I’ve learned Read more

  • The upside of my injury

    I tore my ACL and I can’t walk! I may need surgery! How is this a good thing?!? I don’t write much in here about what’s happening in my life. I prefer to write about ways that you,  dear reader,  can bring more presence into your life.  This week,  however,  I will get personal. Two Read more

  • The “Other” Magic Question

    In a post a few months back, I introduced the “Magic Mindfulness Question”. That question was “What’s happening?” I truly love that question for its power, its ability to focus the attention on what’s happening now, inside of us (our thoughts and feelings), around us, and by us, what we’re up to. Now, I would Read more

  • The Easiest Way Out of Rabbit Holes

    Whether or not you’ve read Alice in Wonderland, you’re almost certainly familiar with the expression, and the experience, of going down a rabbit hole. Generally, it means that you’ve become engrossed in a line of thinking or research to such an extent that you’re not able to come back to familiar territory – you’re a Read more

  • The Most Important “WHY”

    If the title of this post intrigued you, you’re not alone. In my decades of teaching mindfulness, the most common preoccupation of my students was the question “Why?” Let’s be honest – training attention takes time, is sometimes really challenging, and is not a lot of fun. So why on earth would anyone start down Read more

  • The Inner Game

    In my nearly 20 years as a coach who integrated mindfulness and coaching, I frequently made reference to a concept that I learned as a teenager: the inner game. I’d learned about the inner game from a wonderful, wonderful book called “The Inner Game of Tennis” by Timothy Gallwey. Published in 1974, exactly as I Read more

  • Loving What Is

    It’s Valentine’s Day and every newsletter I’ve received has a headline involving love. Why buck the trend? But the love I want to write about today is not so-called romantic love, but rather love of reality, just as you find it. The Stoics called this Amor Fati, loving your Fate. I think of it as Read more

  • My Now, Right Now, Mindfully Witnessed

    This is my now, right now, mindfully witnessed. There are thoughts of what the content should be. About 75% of the field of awareness of trained on these thoughts., putting them into words and typing the words. There are sensations of fingers tapping keys. There is also peripheral awareness of sensations of a sore back Read more

  • The four Apps Practice

    First, a metaphor: You know how your cell phone can tell you how much energy each of your apps is consuming at any point in time, even though some of them are running in the background? This gives valuable information about what’s happening in your phone. This is a good metaphor for our minds and Read more