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 | Jul 15, 2025 | anxiety, Behavior Change, Complementary Practices, depression, despair, Health, Healthcare, Integrative Medicine, meditation, Mindfulness, Pain, Practice, sadness, science
Past Ten Years of Research Say “Yes” Chronic pain affects 30 to 40 million U.S. adults, costing an estimated $600 billion a year. But researchers have learned more about the physiology of pain in the past ten years than in the previous thousand. Pain is created by the...
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...
