Everyday Mindful

01/22/2026

FINDING REFUGE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
A 6-Week Online Circle for Cultivating Aliveness, Meaning, and Renewal

Finding Refuge in Uncertain times is a reflective, gentle circle for navigating life’s changes, transitions, or uncertainty and reconnecting with presence, aliveness, and renewal.
In times of change, stress, and uncertainty, many of us long not to escape life, but to feel more alive within it — steadier, more present, and quietly sustained by what still feels meaningful and beautiful.

Finding Refuge in Uncertain Times is a gentle, six-week online circle that invites you to slow down, reconnect, and cultivate inner refuge through mindfulness, reflection, and writing practice (you don’t need to be a writer to participate). Rather than focusing on what is wrong, this series turns toward what helps us meet life with greater ease, curiosity, and resilience.

See the link in the comments for more information and registration. Hope to see you there if this offering speaks to you. Feel free to share with others who may be interested.

09/02/2025

WORKSHOP :: Writing as Refuge: A Return to the Soul and the Living World is more than a class—it is a mindful writing practice, a sanctuary, and a path of return to creativity, the soul, and the living world. Amid these challenging times, this workshop is a place of refuge and renewal for writers and non-writers.

This 6-week workshop begins September 11, 2025. I hope to see you there! Link in comments 👇

08/19/2025

Challenging times are a call for a return to the soul—reconnection with both our individual soul and the soul of the living world...

Creativity and Belonging in the Living World. Exploring ways to reconnect with creativity, the soul, and the living world.

07/15/2025

Tending the Beauty of What Remains: A gathering for soul, grief, and the world.

Join us for a quiet, nourishing space where we come together to tend the tender ache of being human in a beleaguered world. Each gathering offers a gentle rhythm of poetry, reflection, writing (you don’t have to be a writer to participate), and shared presence.

We name and honor the grief we carry — for the Earth, for each other, for what has been lost and is still being lost (personal and collective losses). Through words, silence, and witness, we make space for both sorrow and beauty to be held with compassion.

This is a space where we welcome all types of grief. It is a circle where writing becomes ritual, and where grief is not something to be tended, not fixed.

NEXT SESSION DATE: Thursday July 17, 2025 TIME: 12:00 – 1:00pm EDT COST: $15 – $25 pay what you can
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06/23/2025

I've been updating some posts on the website and just posted some new content on Cultivating Joy: Mindful Practices to Reclaim Beauty and Wonder. I thought we could all use a little more joy this week... See the link in comments.

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03/20/2025

Writing as Refuge: Mindful Writing for Transformation online workshop

Writing as Refuge is a mindful writing practice that nurtures self-discovery, transformation, and resilience. This practice offers a path for meeting the inner critic with kindness, and it facilitates greater access to self-compassion and creative flow.

Mindful writing practice can help us to:
connect with our emotional and sensory lives
claim our ordinary lives as valid
embrace ourselves as we are
make meaning from our lives
discover the voice of our wise inner self

No writing experience is required. The workshop is for writers, journalers, and non-writers who would like to learn a mindfulness and writing practice for self-awareness, transformation, and resilience.

Tuesday March 25, 2025 6:30 - 8:00pm EDT
$45

Full and partial scholarships are available.

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03/19/2025

As our global circumstances become more complex, we could all benefit from some simple stress reduction techniques. I've written a short post to help us all find a greater sense of inner calm. Link in comments.

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03/11/2025

I'm hearing from a lot of people that they're struggling to feel calm amid all of the chaos. There's the global chaos, and then we all still have our personal stressors -- health challenges, death related loss, grief, job loss, chronic illness, and other concerns. How do we process so much chaos and grief and still stay grounded and connected with joy and beauty? I've written a little about that this week. Mindfulness for Chaotic Times: Holding the Sorrow and Reaching for Beauty. Link in comments.

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02/28/2025

Pause. Soften your heart. Listen.

Listening To the Body

12/07/2024

07/15/2024

Research shows that since the onset of the pandemic, many of us are still languishing. Are you languishing? Or are you flourishing? In today's post, I'm sharing some things we can all do to lean more toward flourishing.

Creating an Inspired Life. I believe that feeling inspired and living an inspired life mean that every day we make effort to be more present in our lives with aliveness, imbued with the spirit to do something that brings us meaning and purpose.

03/27/2024

"How can we activate feelings of inner calm during stressful or overwhelming times in our lives? The stories on which our minds fixate are usually focused on one thin storyline amid the rich stories of our lives. We can broaden our perspective by asking ourselves, 'What else is true?'”

This post explores ways we can find inner calm during periods of overwhelming stress,such as dealing with an extraordinarily busy work schedule, an unreasonable boss, profound loss, or health challenges.