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Parker Palmer, the author of “The Courage to Teach” writes about the importance of listening for the voice of inner vocation.  Sometimes referred to as a “calling” this [...]

We have known for many years about the  benefits of mindfulness as a way to live more peacefully.  Now, recent research from the Journal of the American Medical Association reinforces mindfulness [...]

Are your health habits supporting your inner resilience or hindering it?  Resilience can be thought of as our ability to thrive and cope with life’s challenges.  Some of our coping may be [...]

As my father approached the end-of-life at the long term care home where he had spent the last few months of his life, I received a telephone call in the early hours of the morning from the head [...]

Potatoes Photo by graibeard We cannot eat raw potatoes, but we don’t throw them away just because they are raw. The following comes from one of my favourite teachers of mindfulness, the Buddhist [...]

Part one – meditation promotes relaxation The counterpart to the fight flight or freeze response, the relaxation response, occurs when the body is no longer in perceived danger, and the autonomic [...]

“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.  The artist never entirely knows.  We guess. We may be wrong, but we [...]