by Carla Naumburg | Sep 30, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“I am not OK with being with a good enough mother. I work too hard to settle for that.” One of my closest friends (and one of the most devoted mothers I know) said those words to me a couple of years ago, and I’ve never forgotten them. On a personal level, I was...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 25, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
I recently got the following question on my Twitter feed: Do you feel meditation has really changed you? More relaxing, less stress? So on? The short answer to these questions is YES! All of the above! But that answer isn’t terribly helpful, so I thought it would be...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 22, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“Water, please.” It was a small voice, but we live in a small house so I heard it instantly. It was about 3 AM, but I was having trouble sleeping. I had just been away on a mindfulness retreat for four days, during which time I had missed my daughters terribly. I...
by Carla Naumburg | Sep 16, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
“This meditation stuff is so great. You’ve got to do it. What a pain in the ass.” Jon Kabat-Zinn, one of the individuals most responsible for bringing for bringing mindfulness and meditation to western popular culture, said those words at a conference I attended last...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 26, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
I recently came across a post titled “Motherhood: The Big Fat Fuck You.” Of course I clicked on it, along with hundreds of thousands of other folks (over 91,000 of whom shared it on Facebook). And I read it, and nodded along. In it, the author talked about losing it...
by Carla Naumburg | Aug 16, 2013 | PsychCentral.com
Lately I’ve been focusing on a few important points each time my brain starts having the Lean-In vs Opt-Out debate with itself (many of which I have learned from my studies and practices in mindfulness). You can read all about it over on PsychCentral.com.
