Breath as Medicine: Anthony Abbagnano on Healing Through the Breath

⁠Meditation can help us heal from trauma, but only if we feel safe while practicing. By implementing strategies for safety in meditation, we learn to be present with discomfort without becoming overw...

28 Jun 202323min

We’re often “caught up in our heads,” pushed and pulled by our thoughts. In mindfulness practice, we typically balance this thought-centered focus by directing awareness away from the head to the body...

21 Jun 202323min

Most addictions arise from an effort to mask, avoid or escape from pain and suffering. What’s more, the shame that is common to addiction increases our pain, making it challenging to seek treatment. ...

14 Jun 202331min

As thought, emotion, or sensation arises in our field of awareness, it quickly gets labeled as pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This process of classifying our likes and dislikes is not wrong or bad....

7 Jun 202312min

Mindfulness and self-compassion go hand in hand. Each enhances the other. As practitioners and as teachers, however, understanding the differences between the two can help us discern when and how to m...

31 Mai 202322min

⁠Annoyance, frustration and anger can be challenging emotions to work with. We often judge ourselves for feeling frustrated, equating this emotion with negativity or perhaps thinking it makes us a ‘ba...

24 Mai 202333min

When it comes to losing weight or overcoming addiction, which is more powerful: the ancient wisdom of mindfulness or the strength of your willpower? The answer may surprise you. In this episode, we h...

17 Mai 202331min

⁠Is traditional talk therapy as effective as it could be? If individualism and holding too tightly to a single identity is what ails us, perhaps reifying the past in a one-on-one setting is not the mo...

10 Mai 202324min