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Expanding Authenticity: Let Your Yoga Dance
by Megha Nancy Buttenheim This is the first of a three-part series on practicing authenticity in daily life. Today’s post explores authenticity through the chakra practice of Let Your Yoga Dance....
Becoming True
by Maria Sirois Each creature speaks and spells one thing and the same, "Myself," it speaks and spells, "what I do is me, for that I came." —Gerard Manley Hopkins We have but one chance in...
One Kind Day, One Kind Life
Alumni Spotlight Vikki Nicometo turned 49 a week after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012. On that birthday, she just didn’t have it in her to celebrate the way she usually...
Stand Strong, Reach High
by Megan McDonough Getting grounded on slippery ice is a challenge. Firm footing is elusive as you try to make forward movement. You skid this way and that. Your steps are small, tentative and...
Bravery: The Uncomfortable Strength
by Ruth Pearce I love working with character strengths. I have seen how cultivating them makes us happy, effective, and successful. I have seen how ignoring them leaves us frustrated and...
Prioritizing Positive Emotions, with Barbara Fredrickson
by Caren Osten When I pick up my tenth grader, Simon, after school, I ask him to tell me something good that happened during his day—this exercise being a small nugget of wisdom (among many) that I...
CiPP Tours: Feeling the Fear, and Bringing It Anyway
by Nicole Stottlemyer "Are you choosing to opt out… or are you bringing it?" Karissa Thacker asks in her blog post, “Bringing It.” Karissa is a faculty member for Wholebeing Institute, an author,...
Heaven Within Hell
by Maria Sirois Happiness after loss looks like a bone-bare tree in winter. Empty of growth, steady yet silent. We are compelled by the bareness of the thing, the rawness, and each branch points...
Experiments with Presence
by Mina Simhai “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca Amy Cuddy opens Chapter 5 of her fascinating new book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to...