The author shares how the memory of a healthcare worker’s kindness still sustains and empowers her, and offers a contemplation exercise to try.
Responding to a parent with memory loss, the author discovers in her reactivity the opportunity for a retake, and recommends an actor’s way of approaching such second chances.
As we face and grieve losses related to the pandemic, the author offers questions to contemplate for help in adjusting to the “new normal” and moving forward.
The experience of grief, can be physically and emotionally stressful, and that stress is compounded when we’ve experienced multiple losses. The author shares about cumulative grief and suggestions how we can take care of ourselves in such moments.
The author contemplates the death of her best friend in light of the Buddhist teachings on impermanence.
Being present at the death of a loved one, the author discovers that meditation and mind training practice transforms the experience of loss into one of tenderness and joy.
