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marymartinphd
Sep 6, 20223 min read
Happiness: It Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
I should preface this conversation by saying something you might have heard me say in interviews: I was raised by a Buddhist and a Jesuit.
marymartinphd
Aug 29, 20223 min read
Mudita, a Practice for Our Time
You know about schadenfreude, but do you know about mudita? Get started delighting in the joy of others rather than in their failures.
marymartinphd
Aug 21, 20224 min read
On the Benefits of Suffering
The more you move toward your experience, the more you're creating a brain that predicts you'll move toward your experience.
marymartinphd
Aug 7, 20223 min read
4 Ways To Help Others Through Mindfulness
How do you bring your mindfulness practice to your clients, colleagues, and partners? Here are FOUR+ WAYS.
marymartinphd
Aug 2, 20223 min read
On Stories That No Longer Serve Us
This week was the penultimate class for one of my 8-week courses. As per the curriculum for MBSR, we talked about endings.
marymartinphd
Jul 25, 20223 min read
On Creating a Resourcing Lifestyle
You should be doing activities that reliably resource you. But how about crafting a lifestyle around them instead of constantly recovering?
marymartinphd
Jul 13, 20222 min read
Why Do Words Make Us Happy?
Words can impact our mood, and we can use that reality to hack how we're feeling. But maybe that's not such a great idea.
marymartinphd
Jul 1, 20222 min read
On Being and Beginning Again
Any moment can be sunrise, where we choose to reset and simply start over. Here's a practice variously called open awareness, choiceless
marymartinphd
Jun 13, 20224 min read
Do You Outsource Your Sensemaking?
I think a lot about how people get their information and why they believe what they believe. What's "news" and what does it mean to...
marymartinphd
Jun 6, 20223 min read
On the Importance of Vulnerability
When you're closed off to mindfulness, you cannot be vulnerable and there's nothing for you to learn. There's nothing to discover.
marymartinphd
May 30, 20222 min read
On Knowing You're Aware
When we're being mindful, we know what we are doing and we are aware that we know what we are doing. Both are necessary.
marymartinphd
May 23, 20223 min read
On Misinformation About Stress
It's somewhat-fake news when we talk about stress as if it's something that's real & objectively occurring in our bodies. That's misleading.
marymartinphd
May 16, 20224 min read
The Irony of Short Mindfulness Practices
When someone is looking for an entry point for mindfulness practice, it's easy to send them to a free app, but that's irresponsible.
marymartinphd
May 9, 20222 min read
On Interrupting
Some people's conversational style includes what linguistics professor Deborah Tannen calls "cooperative overlapping." It's not interrupting
marymartinphd
May 2, 20223 min read
What does Being feel like?
During mindfulness practice, it's easy to narrate your experience rather than be with, thereby making words the focus of your practice.
marymartinphd
Apr 25, 20224 min read
On the Importance of Reflection
Apps can be crucial to habit cultivation, and without the habit of mindfulness practice, the question of how best to practice is moot.
marymartinphd
Apr 18, 20222 min read
A Practice for Social Media
Here's a practice I created for LinkedIn, which appears to be a pretty sad space with glimmers of what it could be that keep me going back.
marymartinphd
Apr 11, 20224 min read
On the Importance of Futures Thinking
There are many benefits of learning how to think about the future, including unsticking your mind & expanding your idea of what could happen
marymartinphd
Apr 3, 20224 min read
On Doing, Being, and Listening
When you think about listening, do you think about it as something you do? Is it a skill of doing? Is it a skill of being?
marymartinphd
Mar 27, 20223 min read
On Circles of Care and Caregiving
If part of your job is to be in a state of care for those you serve, that makes you a caregiver. And that care comes from somewhere.
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