How Can I Gently Help My Child To Meditate & Relax?
“Meditation games” are a playful way to introduce children to the practice of bringing awareness to the present moment and becoming calm. Discover ideas...
Alison SerourMental Health and Wellbeing
Meditation and mindfulness benefit our mental health in infinite ways. Trauma, anxiety, depression, and unhelpful psychological patterns are each soothed through awareness.
Learn how radical self-compassion and meditation help us conquer negative self talk. Mindfully navigate social media, a stressful workplace or interpersonal relationships. Build new habits and approach addiction recovery with awareness. Work through fears and trauma with meditation.
Explore the connection between mindfulness and psychological wellbeing with posts from leading physicians, spiritual teachers and Insight Timer staff writers.
What Is Social Mindfulness?
Does being mindful lead to becoming social engagement? This article explores the links between mindfulness and altruistic behavior.
Isabelle Pikörn
Mama Llama: Mindfulness And The Quest To Be A Good-Enough Mother
Perfectionism is a virus, and it’s a doozy. It often infects us at childhood through experiences that teach us we have to be perfect...
Dr. Candice Creasman
The Impact Of Social Media On Youth Mental Health
Social media use is regarded as a contributing factor in the recent rise in mental health problems amongst young people. Learn more about the...
Dr. Lillian Nejad
How to Stop Stress Dreams
Have you ever woken in the night with an overwhelming, palpable feeling of anxiety, worrying you have missed a flight, you’re being chased or...
Isabelle Pikörn
Why the Busyness of Life Can Be Dangerous
Stroll down the street in any major metropolitan city and you’ll see it: stressed-out, chronically overtired people running to the next obligation without stopping...
Isabelle Pikörn
How to Overcome Depression: 8 Tools to Improve Your Mental Health
This guidance to ease depression comes from a psychotherapist who doesn't shy away to share her own journey out of the grips of depression....
Andrea Wachter
Forgive & Be Mindful
Do you know that practising forgiveness has a huge impact on our ability to stay mindful? This essay explores what forgiveness is, how it...
Darren Cockburn
De-Stress At Work: Common Workplace Stressors & How To Combat Them
Work-related stress is increasingly common in today’s busy world, having far-reaching physical, mental and emotional consequences for millions of people. Thankfully, there are evidence-based...
Isabelle Pikörn
Road Rage: 7 Steps To Go From Hostile To Happy-Go-Lucky
Psychologist Dr. Lillian Nejad explores the causes for and detriments—physically, mentally and habitually— of road rage. She introduces seven steps to conquer angry and...
Dr. Lillian Nejad