Mindfully Doing What Matters

Altruism

Acts of Kindness Can Counter Disconnection and Distress

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on November 4, 2024

These kindness practices can help you strengthen your sense of connection to others—and yourself—even while you also respond to difficult circumstances.

These kindness practices can help you strengthen your sense of connection to others—and yourself—even while you also respond to difficult circumstances.

Mindfulness

4 Simple Practices to Increase Awareness of Interconnection

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on October 8, 2024

Try out these micro-practices during your busy days to increase your sense of being connected to others and watch your stress decrease and well-being increase.

Try out these micro-practices during your busy days to increase your sense of being connected to others and watch your stress decrease and well-being increase.

Motivation

More Well-Being Lessons From Birding

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on September 16, 2024

Birding teaches us that flexible goals can motivate us without setting us up for disappointment. Here's what else we can learn.

Birding teaches us that flexible goals can motivate us without setting us up for disappointment. Here's what else we can learn.

Fear

Working With Fear Rather Than Letting It Control You

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on August 22, 2024

These suggestions can help us determine when fear is providing important information and when it is instead constraining and dividing us.

These suggestions can help us determine when fear is providing important information and when it is instead constraining and dividing us.

Anxiety

You Don’t Need to Banish Parts of Yourself

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on July 8, 2024

How to move beyond self-affirmations to an expansive sense of self and true thriving in any circumstance.

How to move beyond self-affirmations to an expansive sense of self and true thriving in any circumstance.

Anxiety

The Difference Between Planning and Worrying

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on June 12, 2024

Personal Perspective: Our minds can help us live more fully or get in our way. These suggestions can help us determine which thing is happening in the moment.

Personal Perspective: Our minds can help us live more fully or get in our way. These suggestions can help us determine which thing is happening in the moment.

Awe

Birding Your Way to Well-Being

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on May 23, 2024

Reduce stress, boost attention, and find transcendence.

Reduce stress, boost attention, and find transcendence.

Empathy

Humanizing Others, Humanizing Ourselves

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on May 11, 2024

Recognizing our shared humanity can counter injustice and harm and help bring peace to our hearts.

Recognizing our shared humanity can counter injustice and harm and help bring peace to our hearts.

Anxiety

Finding Possibility in Uncertainty

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on March 25, 2024

Discover how ancient wisdom can transform your approach to challenges and uncertainties. Get ready to embrace life's twists and turns with a new perspective!

Discover how ancient wisdom can transform your approach to challenges and uncertainties. Get ready to embrace life's twists and turns with a new perspective!

Attention

How to Work With a Busy Mind

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on March 12, 2024

These suggestions can help us reorient ourselves to more satisfying uses of our minds and bodies.

These suggestions can help us reorient ourselves to more satisfying uses of our minds and bodies.

Habit Formation

Intentions, Resolutions, Failures, and Starting Again

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on January 23, 2024

Successfully make meaningful, rewarding changes at any time of year.

Successfully make meaningful, rewarding changes at any time of year.

Mindfulness

Practicing Mindfulness Informally

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on December 28, 2023

So many of us find it difficult to sit down for meditation practice—fortunately for us, practicing mindfulness informally can be just as effective. Here are some things to try.

So many of us find it difficult to sit down for meditation practice—fortunately for us, practicing mindfulness informally can be just as effective. Here are some things to try.

Mindfulness

Keep Cultivating Compassion for Others

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on December 7, 2023

These strategies can help us connect to our common humanity, allowing us to cultivate compassion across differences.

These strategies can help us connect to our common humanity, allowing us to cultivate compassion across differences.

Relationships

Cultivating Compassion for Others

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on November 15, 2023

Compassion for others is part of healthy living, as is compassion for ourselves. Try this.

Compassion for others is part of healthy living, as is compassion for ourselves. Try this.

Mindfulness

Keep Finding Balance in Imbalance

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on September 7, 2023

5 tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

5 tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

Self-Help

Finding Balance in Imbalance

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on September 6, 2023

Three tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

Three tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

Mindfulness

Cultivating Kindness for Yourself

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on July 24, 2023

These strategies can help you cultivate self-compassion even when it seems impossible to be kind to yourself.

These strategies can help you cultivate self-compassion even when it seems impossible to be kind to yourself.

Emotions

7 Questions to Help Clarify Your Emotions

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on July 12, 2023

Learn to understand when your emotions are clear and when they're muddy—and why that matters.

Learn to understand when your emotions are clear and when they're muddy—and why that matters.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness for Sickness and Pain

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on June 13, 2023

These practices can help us to suffer less, even as pain and illness persist.

These practices can help us to suffer less, even as pain and illness persist.

Attention

Choosing What We Grow

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on April 6, 2023

Are you focusing on frustration and stress? These practices can help expand your attention and improve your mood, experience, and effectiveness.

Are you focusing on frustration and stress? These practices can help expand your attention and improve your mood, experience, and effectiveness.