Everyday Mindful

03/04/2026

Writing as Meditation is a restorative practice for self-discovery and renewal.

This 4-week online course introduces reflective writing as a mindfulness practice that cultivates awareness, inner calm, and resilience. Through guided mindfulness practices and gentle writing prompts, you’ll be invited to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with a sense of presence and vitality.

This is not a writing craft workshop. Instead, we’ll approach writing with curiosity and compassion — using the page as a space for emotional clarity and renewed engagement with life through present-moment experience.

No prior writing or mindfulness experience is required.

This course is offered through the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill's Program in Integrative Medicine. Let's get mindful and creative together! Open to the general public. Hope to see you there. Please share!

Online / Zoom
May 14 - June 4, 2026
9:30 - 11:00am Eastern Time

Cost: General Public $225
UNC Affiliate currently employed by the University or Hospital System $200
Currently enrolled Undergraduate and Graduate Students $175

Registration: https://apps2.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.go&key=CD7D

03/04/2026

At some point, grief touches all of us, whether we have lost a loved one, are grieving a loss of health or loss of the way the world once was.

Though loss feels disruptive, we can learn ways to process feelings of grief in ways that allow us to maintain inner steadiness and resilience. We can learn to feel and express grief without feeling so overwhelmed by the feelings or afraid to feel them. We can even learn to find our balance again by learning how to experience little glimmers of inner peace and feelings of aliveness again.

I'm teaching The Mindful Way through Grief, a 4-week online course, through University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill's Program in Integrative Medicine. It's open to the public. Please share!

Loss touches all of our lives at some point, whether we are grieving the loss of a loved one, loss related to health conditions, loss of a sense of safety and security in the world, ecological loss, or the loss of assumptions about how we believed our lives would unfold.

Although it can feel like grief disrupts our lives and sends us reeling, we can learn ways to feel grief that allow us to stay grounded and feel more in control. Mindfulness offers us a path toward being with feelings of grief in ways that feel manageable and not so overwhelming. One breath at a time.

Online - Zoom
April 2- April 23, 2026
9:30-11:00am EST

Cost: $225-General Public
$200-UNC Affiliate currently employed by the University of Hospital System
$175- Currently enrolled Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Registration: https://apps2.research.unc.edu/events/index.cfm?event=events.go&key=CD7C

02/19/2026

I'm hosting a monthly online gathering, Ecological Grief: Practice & Presence with the Living World, in collaboration with Reimagine.

We'll gather on Thursday, March 5, 2026 12:00 - 1:00pm Eastern Time.

A gentle hour to practice praise and presence with the living world through meditation, writing, and ritual.
This monthly one-hour gathering offers a gentle, welcoming space to tend ecological grief together. Through guided meditation, reflective writing, and ritual, we practice praise and presence with the living world—making room for our sorrow, beauty, and reverence for the Earth.

Cost is pay what you can, $0 - 50 USD.

See the link in the comments for more information and registration.

02/18/2026

This week I'm exploring how we can stay awake and present in a world that is filled with so much uncertainty and chaos. Everyday Mindful explores ways to create inner refuge through mindfulness, creativity, and nature connection.

Link to the post is in the comments.

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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