A Life Audit, like a financial one, is a process of reviewing “assets and liabilities” across various areas of your life. Here are 5 steps to guide you through this process of checking in with yourself along your journey. 

Consider how your anxiety may be serving you….

This 6 minute practice of loving kindness is a wonderful way to foster a sense of well-being and connectedness to others.

Regular relaxation practice can have a profound, positive effect on our mental and physical health, and on our general sense of well-being….try this 15-minute passive muscle relaxation to start your practice.

This traditional Hawaiian practice helps us to heal with simple intentions with repentance, gratitude, and love.

Go ahead and set some behavioral goals if you feel like it. But I’m not going to focus too much on those things for 2021…….For me, this year, it’s hard to think too much about doing when merely being in the world asks a lot of us.

Have you ever noticed the way your mood and outlook can spiral quickly downward after one bad thing happens? Before psychologists started talking about primary and secondary emotional responses, the Buddha noticed this human tendency, which he talked about in terms of arrows. The “first arrow” hits us when a painful event occurs, and...it hurts. The “second arrow,” which is our reaction to the event, only adds to our pain.

With all this talk about it - and some would say too much talk about it - you may find yourself wondering if the concept of mindfulness has been overdone, and what it even means at this point? At the risk of adding to the pile of materials on the topic, I’m writing about it today, because I think simple strategies for presence and self-care are essential during stressful times (like in a pandemic), and mindfulness fits the bill.

During these uncertain times of wide-spread social upheaval and quarantine, it is especially important to know what gives us comfort and a sense of belonging. For many people, one such grounding “place” is the Book Club.