A book review of The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter and what I learned from it. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter is a travel book about how we, as a society…

We hear a lot about mindfulness and how great it is for our mental health, but what does it really mean to be mindful? How do you be mindful? Mindfulness is about being in the present moment, which is exactly where our senses live. I often think about the impact…

Observing ourselves and noticing what we are sensing, thinking and experiencing is the key to mindfulness. It can be difficult to understand what mindfulness really means. Often we hear it defined as “being present” but what does that even mean? …

Finding your guide. What are Values: Values are the things that truly matter to us. They are the directions we want to go towards in life and the type of qualities we want to have. Often, when I ask people what is most important to them they will answer, “family”…

The easiest way to get rid of pesky, negative and difficult thoughts is not to get rid of them at all. “You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” Jon Kabat-Zinn We all have thoughts that return to our minds over and over again. These thoughts are…