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NEW FROM THE WEDNESDAY TALK/MEDITATION: |
Bows and Vows |
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Many of us move through life reacting to circumstances without pausing to consider what we’re truly devoted to. When we lose touch with our values and deepest intentions, it’s easy to feel scattered, disconnected, or pulled in directions that don’t reflect who we want to be.
In this talk, I explore the relationship between what we bow toward and what we vow to live by. Practice isn’t just about accepting life as it is—it’s also about intentionally cultivating what is good, true, and meaningful. Together, we’ll reflect on gratitude, refuge, impermanence, and the quiet commitments that shape who we become. What might serve you most as a vow going forward? |
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NEW ON SUBSTACK: |
Can I Really Change My Own Mind? |
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So much of how we see ourselves, other people, and the world was learned a long time ago—and some of those old ways of thinking can keep us stuck today. The good news is that we really can change our minds, gradually and for the better. In this new article, I share a simple four-step practice for loosening the grip of old reactions and building wiser, more helpful ways of seeing things. |
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FREE SUMMIT: |
My Life Reimagined |
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I'm proud to be a part of the FREE My Life Reimagined Summit, taking place online August 11 - 15, 2026. It’s a 5-day event where you'll discover how imagination shapes your reality and how expanding your imagination can help you unlock new possibilities for healing, creativity, connection, purpose, and transformation. |
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ALSO NEW ON THE BEING WELL PODCAST: |
How to Heal After Loss with Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor |
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We all understand the emotional impact of grief, but its effects on the body are often overlooked. Forrest is joined by clinical psychologist and researcher Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor to explore the physiology of grief and how to heal after loss.
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Will you share some insight on how to deal with grief? |
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It seems that there are several points to balance:
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Grief has its own organic rhythm, its own waves. We just need to ride them with mindfulness and self-compassion. Over and over. There is no schedule to the end of the waves. After a while they do fade, though. Always.
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Allowing the falling apart can help. Knowing that all eddies disperse, eventually. Knowing that everything has shadows – many terrible things have happened in the past and will happen in the future; not to justify these or be complacent about them, but to regard and feel them with equanimous wisdom. As the 3rd Zen Patriarch wrote: enlightenment is having no anxiety about imperfection.
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Self-compassion is so important.
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Sometimes we just cannot bear the grief, like sometimes we just cannot keep carrying a heavy load. We have to set it down for a while. And instead take a walk in a lovely place, eat some good cookies, take a bubble bath, cuddle with a friend, watch a comedy, pet the cat, read a book, something, anything helpful besides the overwhelming grief. And being a friend to oneself to give oneself these respites and chances for rejuvenation, restoration, replenishment, is vital.
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We need to open to receiving while releasing. To the natural, non-aversive, non-grasping process of receiving fullness – love, gratitude, awe, profundity, the numinous – while experiencing loss (itself a kind of release, a letting go) and all the other losses that come with it.
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Especially important is receiving the love, kindness, compassion, inclusion, and friendliness of others.
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BOOK: Finding the Gold in Grief: What Children Teach Us about Loss and Love |
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In her beautiful new book, Finding the Gold in Grief, Nina Gorbach shares true stories from her work with grieving children, revealing the resilience, compassion, and wisdom they bring to loss, love, and healing. |
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