Dear friends, Many of you have expressed interest in updates about our pregnancy, so I’m hopping online to send a short note of celebration and gratitude. It is with a full heart, immense joy, and sleepy eyes that I share the wonderful news...

As we approach the birth of our first child, I’m at the precipice of a major transition, devoting most of my time and energy to supporting my wife and preparing to welcome our son into this complex world. (And yes, finishing the manuscript for my new...

There's no shortage of opportunities to practice patience in life. Whether you're sitting in traffic, navigating a corporate phone maze, or dealing with a difficult co-worker, we each know something about the benefits of patience.Religions and cultur...

Dear friends, I'm excited to share that I have a new audio program coming out next week, Speak your Truth with Love and Listen Deeply. Sponsored by Sounds True, the course draws on my twenty plus years of experience integrating mindfulness and N...

Some days, it feels like we move from one atrocity to the next. Today, my heart is still breaking over the recent massacres in Ethiopia—all the while knowing that the war continues in Ukraine, and more chronic conditions fester—like the structural vi...

Many of the folks I speak with these days share that they're tired. The past few years have been difficult for most of us—there seem to be too many hardships to even name them all. The latest spate of shootings here in the US have only added to the c...

I cry when I read the news periodically.Graphic details of the war in Ukraine, disturbing reports of climate chaos, the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, NY here in the USA all remind me of the ignorance, hate and violence in our world. It’s a lot to...

Today is a special Mother’s Day for me. I love my Mom, and am forever grateful to her for all that she’s given me: for the gift of this life, this mind and body; for the special memories of reading stories at bedtime; and for so much more.I'm al...

I meet a lot of people in my work, and feel so much tenderness for how much isolation so many are feeling. The war in Ukraine adds to our distress, like a shadow of grief over it all. And while the pandemic has opened up new avenues of online connect...

My heart’s been getting a workout lately. It’s easy to believe that meditation means getting calm and peaceful or feeling good. While the contemplative path includes all of that, it’s also so much more. To meditate is to be aware, to learn...