Compassion
Embracing Change: What Nanalan’ Teaches Us About Saying Goodbye
When Mona loses her red balloon, she also learns some mindful lessons for navigating the sadness that can come with farewells.
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Compassion
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Compassion
How Shame Keeps Us Hostage to Racism
When we can work with shame instead of avoiding it, we open ourselves up to opportunities for growth and healing.
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Compassion
Learning to Wait: Mindful Ideas From Nanalan’Â
Most of us don’t like waiting for something we want. Is that so wrong?! Explore the mindful wisdom of Nanalan’ and we just might see the upsides of having to wait.
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Compassion
How to Give Your Full Attention
By practicing self-awareness, you can listen with greater care—not only to words, but also to the emotion and meaning that's being expressed.
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Anxiety
Please Die Soon: Finding Compassion for Unimaginable Thoughts
When someone you love is dying, there could be a secret moment, when things are really bad, when you hear yourself silently whisper the unimaginable thought: Please die soon. Say what??? It is with a brave heart, writes Elaine Smookler, that we look at this whole journey of death and make peace with the wild currents that threaten to pull us under.
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Compassion
Mad, Sad, or Glad? Nanalan’ and a Mindful Approach to Navigating Emotions
Learning to be aware of how we feel is key to emotional intelligence. In this episode of Nanalan’, Mona learns that emotions are a normal part of life, and how empathy and creativity can help us navigate difficult emotions.
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Compassion
The Whole Child Matters—What It Means to Have Mindfulness in Schools
More schools are bringing meditation to their classrooms. Writer Leslie Garrett spoke to teachers and mindfulness leaders about how it supports students, teachers, and their wider communities.
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Compassion
How Mindfulness Can Help Us Heal White Fragility
As we practice mindful awareness and communication around race, we can build our toolkit for showing up in the world with more compassion and the capacity to learn.
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Compassion
Russell Did It! What Nanalan’ Teaches About Honesty and Problem-Solving
If there’s a more endearing way than Nanalan’ to learn about the importance of telling the truth to ourselves and others, we haven’t found it yet. Check out these mindful messages embedded in the show that will resonate for all ages.
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Anxiety
After the Funeral: When Grief is Part of Daily Life
Once all the hubbub dies down…now what? Mindfulness can help us be with our grief, and ourselves, with self-compassion.
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