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  • Running Can Teach Us A Lot About Courage, Resilience, and Mindfulness

    Facing challenges doesn’t mean you have to fight with yourself. Physician and ultrarunner Christiane Wolf shares how she uses mindfulness skills both on and off the trails to tame anxiety and uncover resilience.

  • The ABCs of STOP: Three Short Mindful Breaks for Your Day

    A new take on a well-known mindfulness practice that helps you foster compassion and kind awareness when you need to come down from stress. The STOP acronym is one of the most well-known and cherished brief mindfulness practices to use during the day. It’s super simple: S – Stop T – Take a breath O – Observe what’s…

  • A Guided Meditation to Welcome Forgiveness

    For those feeling the pain of anger and resentment, this practice by Dr. Christiane Wolf guides us through the gentle process of starting to forgive. Rage and bitterness toward those we see as causing our pain can tear us apart. It takes time, writes Christiane Wolf, but the brave and gentle practice of forgiveness can…

  • Caregivers, Let’s Talk About Caring for Yourself

    As the caregiver of a loved one with chronic pain, you may experience painful emotions like grief, anger, or feeling stuck. Christiane Wolf explores how you can create the space to extend compassion to yourself, while building resilience to meet the challenges you face. Suffering from chronic pain isn’t hard for just the person going through it;…

  • Why Do Resolutions Fail? 5 Ways to Invite Positive and Lasting Change

    Pressure to succeed and misunderstanding discipline often lead to giving up on resolutions. Learn how to achieve the goals you set for yourself with self-kindness and acceptance. Is 2022 the year you finally meditate every day? Or do online yoga sessions three times per week for sure? You might be asking, “What should my New Year’s resolutions…

  • How To Practice Sympathetic Joy

    Imagine you have just received wonderful news. What’s one of your very first thoughts? Probably you’re thinking about whom to call to share your joy with. Knowing that your loved ones will be happy for you and with you makes the joy even greater and more real. As the German proverb says, “Shared pain is…

  • Finding A Better Balance

    Equanimity protects us from emotional overreaction and allows us to rest in a bigger perspective. Christiane Wolf on how to cultivate it. “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.” With this sentence, the German-American writer Max Ehrmann began “Desiderata.” My mother appreciated this poem so…

  • Take A Mindful Approach to Covid-19

    From NPR to CNN, we’re hearing calls for us to bring mindfulness to bear to avoid the risk of infection with COVID-19. Mindfulness is the practice to intentionally bring awareness to the present moment so we can choose our response to what is happening, instead of acting on autopilot. For example, we are being counseled to not habitually…

  • Stay sane, centered and kind during the holidays

    Happy Solstice! What an interesting time of year. The days are so short and the nights long so that it feels like a natural time for rest, reflection and introspection. At the same time many of us are pretty stressed around the holidays with preparation and maybe one too many social gathering. I want to…

  • Don’t B*tch – Mindfulness, Reactivity and Social Media

    We can use social media to connect and support each other. Or be reactive. We get to choose. If you are active on any social media platform you are very aware how crazy, heated and hyperbole things have gotten. It’s understandable that people feel passionate about their views and that they share that with their…