Death How to Face Mortality with Creativity, Humor, and Art: An Interview with Ned Buskirk Meaningful conversation about grief, death, creativity, and more with You're Going To Die founder Ned Buskirk
Death How Death Contemplation Can Illuminate and Bring Joy To Life: An Interview with Sarah Jane Shangraw Heart-driven reflections on death, impermanence, and companionate palliative care from a mindful end-of-life educator and death doula
Grief Inviting Grief In For Tea Pain is inevitable. We will all get sick at some point, and experience loss of some kind. My Buddhist meditation practice teaches me that suffering, however, is optional.
Collective Well-Being How To Grow A Capacity To Be With Whatever Arises: An Interview with Dr. Siobhan O'Neill Essential wisdom for medical professionals navigating work-related stressors from a Harvard psychiatrist and longtime meditator
Hospice An Invitation To Experience Eternal Life (Right Now) Try this gentle practice for a glimpse of the extreme comfort, light, and peace many hospice patients find at the end of life
Interdependence How To Remember That You're Not Separate From The Planet — Or One Another: An Interview with Sahera Chohan Wholehearted reflections on Indigenous wisdom, mental health, identity, and the connections that make life meaningful
Traditional Chinese Medicine Organizing Your Metal Element In Fall Turn toward the lessons of traditional Chinese medicine to nurture and strengthen the Metal element with these simple suggestions
Suffering How (Not) To Deal With The Unknown Pain is unavoidable. But when you can learn to work with it by accepting what is, the suffering eases, and your life opens up.
Impermanence Radical Gratitude for COVID-19 Working with cancer patients has shown me that nothing of this world is ever secure. COVID-19 offers us a sudden jolt into this same reality.
Death Losing someone you love can be unbearable. Here's how I learned to sit with it — and see the hidden grace. Being forced to contemplate your own death can bring your whole life into perspective. Every breath is precious.
Grief We're all grieving cancelled birthdays, graduations, and more. Here's how I pull myself out of the funk. COVID-19 has wiped our calendars clean. Sometimes it's hard to sit with the loss. Here are a few things I do to keep perspective.
Suffering Tonglen: A Practice For Your Broken Heart Heartbreak is a part of being human. We've all been there. Mindfulness can help turn our deepest moments of suffering into empathy and compassion. Try this simple Tonglen practice from Pema Chodron the next time someone you love is having a hard time.