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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
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
Have you ever thought about the difference between happiness and joy? While happiness feels exciting and stimulating, joy feels calming and soothing. → Read More
Have you ever thought about the difference between happiness and joy? While happiness feels exciting and stimulating, joy feels calming and soothing. → Read More
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
Mindfulness Teacher, Author of 'The Joy Plan' (Coming July 201... → Read More
Daydreaming can actually beneficial in a number of ways by helping you to multitask, brainstorm and solve problems. → Read More
Daydreaming can actually beneficial in a number of ways by helping you to multitask, brainstorm and solve problems. → Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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