by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jun 5, 2017
“Remember to breathe, now.” I smiled. Or, at least, I tried to, what with all the sharp dental objects protruding from my mouth, and my lips half-numb with Novocaine. But even in my lightly-medicated state, the irony of the dental assistant having to...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | May 8, 2017
When my daughter was born, almost eleven years ago, a friend gave me a copy of the poem “Mothers With a Baby” by Guadalupe Morfin. The poem reads, in part, Mothers with a baby need someone to sing them to sleep to tell them a story to promise them a...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Mar 27, 2017
We talk a lot these days about finding balance. But what does that even mean? For some of us, it means we want to do less and be more. Maybe we want to slow down, have more time with our families, and create more time for ourselves and our self-care. Maybe we want to...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Mar 20, 2017
As more and more adults embrace the practice of mindfulness, many of them eventually ask, “Why didn’t I learn this when I was a kid?” There is plenty of evidence available now that demonstrates the value of teaching mindfulness to young people, and...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Feb 27, 2017
A lot of people don’t realize that the Buddha had a child. In fact, I own a book called If The Buddha Had Kids. And when I first heard about mindful parenting as a new mother, I thought, “The Buddha would have felt a lot differently about this whole living in...
by Sarah Rudell Beach | Jan 23, 2017
My daughter asked me this question last weekend as we sat in the car at a particularly long red light, and I {gasp!} had pulled out my phone to check my email. The light had turned green, and my daughter noticed it before I did. “Mommy, are you paying attention?”...
