Kaia Roman, LIVESTRONG.COM

Kaia Roman

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Santa Cruz, CA, United States

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Past:
  • LIVESTRONG.COM
  • Scary Mommy
  • HuffPost
  • mindbodygreen

Past articles by Kaia:

5 Ways to Train Your Brain to Be Optimistic

If you find yourself being negative more often than you’d like to, here’s something you can feel good about: Optimism can be trained! → Read More

5 Ways to Train Your Brain to Be Optimistic

If you find yourself being negative more often than you’d like to, here’s something you can feel good about: Optimism can be trained! → Read More

Can You Plan for Joy?

Have you ever thought about the difference between happiness and joy? While happiness feels exciting and stimulating, joy feels calming and soothing. → Read More

Can You Plan for Joy?

Have you ever thought about the difference between happiness and joy? While happiness feels exciting and stimulating, joy feels calming and soothing. → Read More

Ladies, Science Says: Keep Your Girlfriends Close

I didn’t need science to tell me how important my friendships were, but after a girls' week, I realized I should make time for getaways like that more often. → Read More

Bad News

Mindfulness Teacher, Author of 'The Joy Plan' (Coming July 201... → Read More

Why Daydreaming Can Make You More Productive

Daydreaming can actually beneficial in a number of ways by helping you to multitask, brainstorm and solve problems. → Read More

Why Daydreaming Can Make You More Productive

Daydreaming can actually beneficial in a number of ways by helping you to multitask, brainstorm and solve problems. → Read More

7 Fun And Effective Ways To Teach Your Kids Mindfulness

My hope for teaching kids mindfulness is to give them tools they can use anytime to calm down, slow down, and feel better when they are troubled. → Read More

Why We Should Encourage Our Daughters To Ask ‘Why?’

It may look like defiance now, but I hope my daughters’ whys will blossom into critical thinking, healthy self-care, and unwavering confidence. → Read More

How to Stay Optimistic When The World Feels Scary

Fear feels thick in the air these days. If, like me, you're watching the news or scrolling through your Facebook feed, you're probably seeing and feeling a lot of fear. And seemingly, there are a lot of things to be afraid of. I mean, the world is a crazy place right now, right? Well, here's the thing about fear. Fear activates the brain's amygdala, which is a sensor of sorts that's there in our… → Read More

How to Stay Optimistic When The World Feels Scary

Fear feels thick in the air these days. If, like me, you're watching the news or scrolling through your Facebook feed, you're probably seeing and feeling a lot of fear. And seemingly, there are a lot of things to be afraid of. I mean, the world is a crazy place right now, right? Well, here's the thing about fear. Fear activates the brain's amygdala, which is a sensor of sorts that's there in our… → Read More

A Quick and Easy Way to Use Mindfulness for Anxiety

I admit, I like to have a plan. Knowing what's going to happen next helps me feel like I'm in control of my life. Of course, this doesn't always work out. Plans change, fall through, or simply aren't possible much of the time--and that's when anxiety can rock my world. Having a mindfulness practice is really helping me these days. Mindfulness simply brings attention to the present moment without… → Read More

A Quick and Easy Way to Use Mindfulness for Anxiety

I admit, I like to have a plan. Knowing what's going to happen next helps me feel like I'm in control of my life. Of course, this doesn't always work out. Plans change, fall through, or simply aren't possible much of the time--and that's when anxiety can rock my world. Having a mindfulness practice is really helping me these days. Mindfulness simply brings attention to the present moment without… → Read More

The Difference Between Fear and Intuition

Have you ever been in the butterflies-in-your-stomach early phase of a new, emerging love? If so, then you can relate to my dear friend, who asked me for advice this week. She's just beginning a new relationship and as love blossoms, she's unsure of where it's heading. When I heard the questions on my friend's mind, I wondered, is she tapping in to her intuition--a foreshadowing of… → Read More

Kaia Roman | Huffington Post

Kaia Roman is the author of The Joy Plan, to be published in 2017. She teaches Mindfulness to elementary school students in Santa Cruz, California and works as a writer and communications consultant. For everyday mindfulness tips, check out Kaia’s blog at TheJoyPlan.com. Sign up for her newsletter to receive sneak previews from The Joy Plan, which early readers have called "engaging,"… → Read More

Election Anxiety? Try This Mindfulness Exercise

At least there's one thing we all have in common in this election: it's stressing us out. I recently wrote a segment for a prominent US television show about election anxiety, which is sweeping the country according to national Harris poll data released by The American Psychological Association. Therapists are seeing a surge in anxiety among their patients, Republicans and Democrats alike, with… → Read More

Things Aren't As Bad As They Seem

Bad news abounds these days. Violence. Hate. War. Terrorism. Environmental destruction. Political insanity. It all seems so...bad. And I don't know about you, but when my social media feed is filled with the news it has been of late, each story more disturbing than the last, I start to lose hope. I start to wonder if we're going to make it as a civilization, or if we'll soon be handing the… → Read More

7 Practices To Be A Calm, Mindful Parent (Even When Life Gets Crazy)

As a mindfulness teacher in an elementary school, I'm thrilled that mindfulness has become so popular. (It warmed my heart to see that my mindbodygreen piece, "7 Fun Ways to Teach Your Kids → Read More

Why You Can Look Forward To Your Next Argument (Seriously)

I really don’t like conflict. In fact, I try to avoid it as much as possible. But unless you’re a hermit or a monk, chances are you’ll deal with interpersonal conflict at some point. You just have to → Read More