Tag: anxiety and depression

• The Mindful Life

  Last week I taught a class about “The Mindful Life” at my college.  Mindfulness is rooted in the Buddhist philosophy that only the present moment exists.  The future does not yet exist.  The past no longer exists.  Therefore, we should focus our energy and attention on that which is real, the present moment. Personally, I […]

  Teri

  March 2, 2016

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  anxiety, anxiety and depression, Buddhism, daily meditation, depression, Harvard neuroscience, meditation, meditation practice, Mindfulness, present moment, self-awareness, spirituality, stress

• Holding each Moment

  I am growing accustomed to an annual end-of-the-summer episode of the blues. I am wallowing in this place now, grieving the passage of time. Mourning the loss of the summer’s long days when I read and write and giggle with my children. All this and the summer isn’t even over yet. No stranger to anxiety […]

  Teri

  July 29, 2015

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  anxiety and depression, depression, motherhood, Parenthood, poetry, Velveteen Rabbi