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Lisa Bennett

Lisa Bennett

An Invitation to Extreme Thriving

A new way to thinking about living in the age of climate change

Nov 12, 2022

An Invitation to Extreme Thriving

Nov 12, 2022

Lisa Bennett

Catching Joy by the Tail in a Pandemic

I often find helpful moments come to me this way: Some image or idea rattles around in my brain for a while, coming from who knows where…

May 18, 2020

Catching Joy by the Tail in a Pandemic

May 18, 2020

Lisa Bennett

How to Support Children’s Emotional Well-being in a Pandemic

When my son was barely a Kindergartener, he asked me over breakfast one day: “Mama, why are you alive?” It came out of the blue, right…

May 11, 2020

How to Support Children’s Emotional Well-being in a Pandemic

May 11, 2020

Lisa Bennett

How Slowing Down Now May Help Us Live Better Later

Something extraordinary may be happening amid all the more trying and traumatic things that are part of living through a global pandemic…

Apr 13, 2020

How Slowing Down Now May Help Us Live Better Later

Apr 13, 2020

Lisa Bennett

The Surprising Benefits of Falling Apart Now

What if we best help ourselves now not by trying to overcome our fears and anxities but by practicing some radical acceptance?

Apr 6, 2020

The Surprising Benefits of Falling Apart Now

Apr 6, 2020

Lisa Bennett

Fear of COVID-19?

Me, too. Here’s what’s helping.

Mar 29, 2020

Fear of COVID-19?

Mar 29, 2020

Lisa Bennett

The Best Advice I Ever Heard…That Helps Me Now

About critical things — like keeping ourselves and each other safe now — we need to listen to the experts. About many other things — like…

Mar 23, 2020

The Best Advice I Ever Heard…That Helps Me Now

Mar 23, 2020

Lisa Bennett

It’s a Good Time to Focus on Moments of Uplift

As I write this, we are in unknown terrain. Tens of millions if not more of us, across the world, are on a kind of temporary lock-down…

Mar 14, 2020

It’s a Good Time to Focus on Moments of Uplift

Mar 14, 2020

Lisa Bennett

The Most Helpful Thing to Tell Your Kids About Climate Change Now

I was driving my son home from school last month when he grabbed my phone to Google something and announced:

Oct 13, 2017

The Most Helpful Thing to Tell Your Kids About Climate Change Now

Oct 13, 2017

Lisa Bennett

How to Talk With Children About Las Vegas

First of all, let’s be real. It’s not just Las Vegas. There’s a hell of a lot going terribly wrong these days.

Oct 3, 2017

Oct 3, 2017

Lisa Bennett

Lisa Bennett

Exploring things that are helpful & true in these complex times. | Author. Writing Coach. | Newly blogging at. www.LisaBennett.net.

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