by Madeline | May 15, 2025 | anxiety, Behavior Change, Body Awareness, Connection, fear, grief, Health, Mindfulness, stress
If you’ve ever had a panic attack, or remember a close call when driving on a busy highway, then you’re familiar with the effects of the stress hormone cortisol flooding the body. It’s a horrible feeling! But cortisol isn’t concerned with how you feel. It’s concerned...
by Madeline | Jul 23, 2025 | Acceptance, adversity, Change, Connection, despair, grief, Practice, relationships, sadness
I’ll be sending my only child, my son Jordan, off to college in a few weeks. The moment I’ve dreaded since he was born will soon be upon me. I don’t know what the actual moment of “Good-bye” will be like. At orientation the college...
by Madeline | Jun 30, 2025 | adversity, Blame, fear, forgiveness, freedom, grief, personal growth, relationships
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” ~Jean Paul Sartre Does this article by Kate Swoboda speak to you? She shares this discovery: when you decide to forgive, you get to decide who you are. Image: crismatos
by Madeline | Apr 7, 2025 | adversity, Change, Connection, despair, grief, Mindfulness, relationships, sadness
This Saturday morning my husband and I were sitting outside enjoying the beautiful weather. I had wrapped myself in a quilt as it was a little chilly, and my dog, Peanut, was snuggled up close in my lap. As my husband read the paper, he read aloud to me the Ask the...
by Madeline | Mar 28, 2025 | adversity, anxiety, Change, depression, despair, fear, grief, interconnection, kindness, meditation, Mindfulness, sadness
Sadness, grief, despair, and fear are probably some of the most difficult emotions to work with in meditation practice. We avoid feeling them, which can cause them to be entrenched - forever trying to work themselves out through repetitive behavior patterns in...
