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Mindfulness Made Easy – Practice #2 Body Scan

Here is the second of my 50 Mindful Practices. My book is being published so in the meantime I will blog one of these each week or so. Please sign up on my website if you want to get them automatically in your email box. I welcome your feedback and please pass along to your friends! MINDFULNESS MADE EASY – 50

Mindfulness Made Easy – Practice #1 Breathe

Here is the first of my 50 Mindful Practices. The manuscript of my upcoming book is off at the editors as of today! I plan to blog one of these each week, so sign up on my website if you want to get them automatically in your email box. I welcome your feedback and please pass along to your friends!

Mindful Woman Project Insight #2

How can academic women help other woman with gender issues?

I know I am supposed to support the Gender Studies department at UBC but I find it impossible to engage when the upcoming topics is: “Go Figure! Public Pedagogies, Invisible Impairments and the Performative Paradoxes of Visibility as Veracity.” This is part of the reason why I write in plain language for women. So

Mindful Woman Project #1

I have been meditating regularly and also reading a few Pema Chodron books. In order to help me remember the insights that emerge, I have been doing little sketches. Here is the first one. I plan to post one every so often. I hope you like them.

A great book on finding yourself as a woman

I strongly recommend this book. I will blog excerpts when I get a chance! It was published by Gotham in 2003.

The mother and daughter silent scream

I have often wondered (as the mother of two teen daughters) why the mother-daughter relationship is so tense and emotional. I think I am the cause of the trouble since I am writing two books on how we hold women back. But then I realized I was doing the right thing by being (brutally)