So important for mindfulness practitioners and teachers! Mindfulness can be a tremendous gift, if practiced wisely. It can also cause harm, if we aren't attentive to our sensitive nervous systems.

​www.kqed.org/mindshift/53228/nine-ways-to-ensure-your-mindfulness-teaching-practice-is-trauma-informed?fbclid=IwAR0aoibL5ruVyhUwmj0JDqfFuscw39Dn63-MqM9IaGwCKz5F_RRVEuHyIcM

Check out my new guided meditation - longing for ever-present love.

Guided Meditations

I felt moved yesterday to record a new meditation! I explored the practice of listening, and how cultivating this attitude in practice can be supportive of wise effort. Hopefully more like this will be forthcoming. Enjoy!

Guided Meditations

"Overall, eating disorder treatment and diagnosis continues to be extremely white washed, excluding women of color from the unbiased care they desperately need.

- Eating disorder treatment centers need to purposely hire more counselors and mental health professionals of color.
- Nutritionists employed at treatment centers need to vastly expand their understanding of what can constitute a healthy diet.
- Eating disorder treatment programs need to find ways to certify that patients of color feel a level of community within the programming."

wearyourvoicemag.com/body-politics/bopoincolor/white-supremacy-eating-disorders-treatment?fbclid=IwAR1Zka85x257uE3UsbdOq9X1dKFTrUKQ5ylg6puqXwIcU-ffJJygN1LwHa0

So much love to every one of you, and whatever struggle you are walking with today <3

“Everyone around you; the people you share the grocery store line with, pass in traffic, sit next to at work, encounter on social media, and see across the kitchen table—are all experiencing the collateral damage of living. They are all grieving someone, missing someone, worried about someone. Their marriages are crumbling or their mortgage payment is late or they’re waiting on their child’s test results, or they’re getting bananas five years after a death and still pushing back tears because the loss feels as real as it did that first day.

Every single human being you pass by today is fighting to find peace and to push back fear; to get through their daily tasks without breaking down in front of the bananas or in the carpool line or at the post office.

Maybe they aren’t mourning the sudden, tragic passing of a parent, but wounded, exhausted, pain-ravaged people are everywhere, everyday stumbling all around us—and yet most of the time we’re fairly oblivious to them:

Parents whose children are terminally ill.
Couples in the middle of divorce.
People grieving loss of loved ones and relationships. 
Kids being bullied at school.
Teenagers who want to end their lives.
People marking the anniversary of a death.
Parents worried about their depressed teenager.
Spouses whose partners are deployed in combat.
Families with no idea how to keep the lights on.
Single parents with little help and little sleep.

Everyone is grieving and worried and fearful, and yet none of them wear the signs, none of them have labels, and none of them come with written warnings reading, I’M STRUGGLING. GO EASY.

And since they don’t, it’s up to you and me to look more closely and more deeply at everyone around us: at work or at the gas station or in the produce section, and to never assume they aren’t all just hanging by a thread. Because most people are hanging by a thread—and our simple kindness can be that thread.”

johnpavlovitz.com/2019/02/21/everyone-around-you-is-grieving-go-easy/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+Pavlovitz&fbclid=IwAR2y_BKCtgm-GNSvYPoKvWtYdkDq5arMJvb_F7OtjFXPwQwtNLbxBp6Ud40

"I had to get truly sick of dating certain people to learn to say no to these patterns and take time to work on my stuff, and it was then I realized that all along I was the emotionally unavailable person, the common denominator was me, and as long as I didn’t know how to generate love within myself I would continue to seek out people who couldn’t or didn’t know how to love me. It was me who was unwilling to give myself self-love and acceptance and therefore I went seeking for this externally.

Once we are willing to face our situation and work on finding ways to heal, love and accept ourselves, our whole life becomes a movement of a celebration of that love...

On a soul level, not one of our relationships are mistakes or accidental. Every relationship is a mirror that we can use to see where we are at, where we need to heal, where we need to create boundaries and say no, and most importantly – where we need to love ourselves more. We need to develop a relationship with our true self, not our external conditioned ego self. Our soul essence is yearning to be recognized, it is crying out to be allowed to feel what has been silenced by for years by our emotional suppression. It wants to be nurtured by our relationship with it so it can blossom into it’s fullest, most beautiful expression of itself. And no relationship will be the key to set our soul free — except the relationship we have with ourselves."

lauramatsue.com/2019/02/10/toxic-relationships-soul-mates-and-the-importance-of-finding-your-purpose/?fbclid=IwAR0AdDjh7JTG6_HP2Ddh6qPOgPhA0n7EzdSnK3KjD_WktntKGztWInw2FqE

Can't say I've read this one yet - but I'm really excited about it. If the cover is any indication it will be AMAZING.
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www.amazon.com/Body-Not-Apology-Radical-Self-Love/dp/1626569762/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549509731&sr=8-1&keywords=the+body+is+not+an+apology

This is good news for everyone (and something you probably already knew). Go play! Be silly! 

irenelyon.com/2019/02/06/play-is-not-just-for-fun/?inf_contact_key=88af8fbb5712f38cdb58d5256c205772680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1