mindfulness – Buddhist Therapist

How to Break Through Our Neoliberal Selves

Just a quick post, I wrote something for Mental Hellth, a newsletter about mental health and capitalism. The full version

I don’t have a ton of time before my work day starts. But wanted to share a poem I reread

I’ve written ad nauseam about meditation, and you’re probably tired of hearing about it. But it is an endlessly important

In the cosmic, grand scheme of things, our lives don’t mean a whole lot. Or they are the most important

It’s been a while! I have no excuses really except that I was on vacation and tried to write a

I recently published my first piece for Tricycle magazine. To be honest, it’s been nerve-wracking as hell to have it

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I read a wonderful piece in Tricycle magazine today about what a spiritual life looks like. The timing for me

The Brahma-Viharas, translated by some as “sublime attitudes,” are the Buddha’s most important teachings of the heart. There are 4

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid

The Guest House By Rumi This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. The longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.- Stanley Kunitz

“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at

The so-called self is a construct of words and memories, of fantasies which have no existence in immediate reality. The

I started meditating when I was 21. When I was in Kathmandu, Nepal, I bought a copy of Kathleen McDonald’s

Meditation is my balance. It’s hard to fully articulate what it actually does for me, except that I am more