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If you've spent much time around children, it's easy to see that their experience of the world is often wonder. Curiosity and questions...

Our experiences in life always come down to perspective. The beautiful thing about this is that perspective can always shift. Some might...

As the world reopens (at least that's the hope Delta scares aside), it's also speeding back up. Have you noticed in yourself the need to...

Literacy takes many forms. For most of us, 'literacy' evokes the idea of skills like reading, writing, and comprehension. Obviously these...

Over this past year of remote teaching, I have taken a series of classes on mindfulness focused on both the personal practice and on the...

When I was a kid, IQ was a big deal. Somewhere along the way, our understanding of human development yielded a deeper appreciation of...

Mental health is more than positive thinking or emotional health. Creating mental health is a process of learning how to regulate our...

Most of us know what burnout feels like, one way or another. It's common, especially for new parents, educators, entrepreneurs, mental...

Learning through play is an idea that most of us are familiar with in the context of child development, but often overlook for adults....

As we each navigate our days, neurons, or nerve cells in the brain, send and receive signals, forming our thoughts, emotions, actions and...

Rather than trying to achieve a specific state or destination, mindfulness is a practice of noticing and allowing with compassion and...

I mentioned the idea of practicing mindfulness to a client the other day and he responded with "what is mindfulness?" The question made...

Each year, I try to find new ways to redefine Valentine's Day, both for myself and my students. While I feel grateful to be in love (and...

You don't need to suffer to succeed. Read that again. Hopefully, your response is "duh," but I say it because it's a paradigm that I...

When practiced daily, intentional breathing can shift your entire outlook. Conscious breathing has been scientifically proven to improve...

We made it to a New Year, but the events of this first week have already taught us that we are still living though some wild,...