Melvin McLeod: When did you start practicing meditation? Jon Kabat-Zinn: My first experience of formal practice—or even learning about it—happened one day in 1965. I was a molecular biology student in the laboratory of Salvador Luria, a soon to be Nobel Laureate, and...

Since the beginning of human history in cultures throughout the world, motherhood has been placed on a pedestal as the ultimate form of purest love. The mother is stereotyped as a nurturing caregiver, as a refuge for loved ones, as selfless and self-sacrificing.  We...

As I write this morning, children in the next yard are playing. I hear them making the sounds kids make when happy. They are not worried about the climate. Yet they will be. It’s inevitable.  In a recent survey, young people in countries around the world said they...

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.” ~Bessel A. van der Kolk It’s early morning, and I wake with an intense sensation of...