by Janet | Mar 19, 2021 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
On Saturday the Sun inched across the equator, making its journey northward in the sky, and here in this northern hemisphere, marking the onset of Spring. In Colorado, the vernal equinox is a tease; spring plays a ‘hide-and-seek’ game that in this past week alone...
by Janet | Jan 11, 2021 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” The Buddha, circa 400 B.C. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr., 1965 At the dawn of...
by Janet | Jan 1, 2020 | An Open Letter, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Dear Friends~ I don’t know about you, but there has been plenty going on of late that I’d much prefer were otherwise. This includes struggles on the global, national, and personal front; they take turns, it seems, in weighing most heavily on my heart. I notice how...
by Janet | May 20, 2015 | An Open Letter, MBSR Teacher Training, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Late this winter, I learned that I was approved for certification as an MBSR teacher by the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness–the culmination, in one sense, of a journey that began in 2003. At that time, with a chronically ill son, a...
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