Have you heard of imposter syndrome? When suddenly you have a moment of self-doubt, caving inward, maybe even cringing and questioning yourself, “who am I to be doing this?” TRUTH - You ARE enough.  T...

One book written by Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped A Nation, gave me a new perspective on motherhood. Historical...

Appreciation is a practice that transforms relationships. It can also transform your perspective of something, by focusing on what you appreciate rather than what is wrong. This week is all about show...

As we plan for the summer months, we want to ask our readers and listeners what you want from our weekly blog. Everyone who fills out this 5-question form gets our Compassion Workshop Series free (val...

How often do you feel nervous, worried, angry, or anxious? I feel these often, however they are FAR less debilitating now than they have been most of my life. Early on, I learned to suppress my health...

Journaling is a wonderful way to enrich an experience, something you learn, or a feeling you have. A significant amount of evidence shows us the healing power of writing, including emotional regulatio...

In every workshop I offer for early childhood educators and children’s librarians, I invite folks to sing several extended vowel sounds together. 

Inevitably, someone yawns.

I don’t see this a...

Setting expectations with our kids and students while also giving them space to explore, is always a tricky balance, for me anyway. I constantly toggle between wanting them to have the freedom to expr...

Kind Mind began with one practice, the Kind Mind Compass. This evidence-based compassion practice was taught to me at the Applied Compassion Training.  It was the first time I was able to truly touch ...

Kind Mind is built on a framework and understanding of compassion cultivation as the core of social-emotional learning, health, and well-being. When we take time to exercise the muscle of compassion i...

From the start, I have been personally invested in creating an impact on the short and long-term mental and emotional health of our world. Creating Kind Mind is my way of doing that, by sharing powerf...

Talk talk talk. I LOVE to talk but have learned the importance of silence, so I can listen better and really connect. Our world is getting more and more full, and stress is increasing by the minute. T...