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PRACTICING GRATITUDE

  MUSINGS ON GRATITUDE It’s December, the solstice is here and we’re coming together to celebrate in many traditions. I’m thinking about our human capacity to appreciate. We turn toward things, individuals and communities that support our well-being and resilience (a basis of trauma resolution). A friend and I talked about Hanukkah’s festival of lights…

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Mindfulness Poems: “We Are a River”

For me, reading a poem is a way for my thinking brain to pause and to shift to being in this moment.  Present moment awareness gets hi-jacked in trauma and stress. And yet we reclaim our inherent capacity to be present by practicing. A project called “A Year of being Here. daily mindfulness poetry by wordsmiths of…

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