The Power of the Pause–Just Breathe

I absolutely love this short video on the power of the breath on our emotional state! The way these young children describe how strong emotions mess with their happiness is both sad and touching but it’s delightful to see how they are using what they know about their brains and how they are using simple […]

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Oliver Sacks Faces Death with the Power of Detachment

In his opinion piece in the New York Times, Oliver Sacks, a professor of neurology at the New York University School of Medicine, announced to the world that he is dying of terminal cancer and shared with us how he spending the last of his days. I was impressed by how he is able to grasp […]

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Mindfulness: It’s not just what you do, it’s who you are.

I had the privilege of sharing some of my Every Day Mindfulness tips with the readers of D.I. magazine. It’s sometimes a challenge to explain how to be mindful in 500 works or less because Mindfulness is not just what you do in the moment it is also who you are. In a state of […]

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Are you Living Life in the Default Zone?

Last week, Belinda Brown interviewed me on her Empowered Women series. The intent of the interview was to talk about my research and book on voluntary childlessness but we ended up taking most of the hour talking about the link between mindful, conscious, decision making and success. Over the course of our lives we develop habitual patterns of behavior which become […]

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