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Meditation Coaching Explained: Your Path to Inner Calm and Outer Growth
What exactly is Meditation Coaching — and how is it different from just learning to meditate? In this post, I break down how Meditation Coaching works, who it’s for, and why it’s become such a powerful tool for those seeking inner calm, clarity, and meaningful personal growth.
My Unexpected Positive Closure: Finding Peace in the Unfinished
Sometimes closure doesn’t come with grand gestures or perfect words. In this piece, I share a moment of unexpected healing that arrived quietly — but meaningfully. A reminder that when we tend to our own inner growth, life has a way of offering the closure we didn’t know we needed.
Weather, Environment, and Wellbeing
Grief arrives like a season — uninvited, often cold, but quietly transformative. In this piece, I share what I’ve learned from weathering loss: that beneath the stillness, something shifts. And in that hush, when everything falls away, we begin to feel life differently — softer, slower, and more awake.
On Being a Student-Mother, or Simply a Woman
Motherhood and academia don’t often share the same rhythm. In this reflection, I write about the stretch and strength it took to be both a student and a mother—and how, in learning to care for my child, I also learned to care for myself. This is a story of growth, grit, and grace.
Life Lessons From My Boys
From muddy shoes to deep bedtime questions, my boys have been some of my greatest teachers. In this reflection, I share how motherhood has revealed unexpected lessons — about slowing down, softening, and growing up alongside them. These are the truths I never learned in books.
Motherhood - My Spiritual Awakening
There’s a sacred transformation that happens in motherhood — one no one prepares you for. In this piece, I reflect on the concept of spiritual matrescence: the emotional and spiritual unfolding that begins when a woman becomes a mother. It’s not just about caring for a child — it’s about being reborn, too.
My Continuation Day
What if instead of a birthday, we celebrated a Continuation Day —honoring not just life, but the lives and love that continue through us? In this reflection, I share how Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings reshaped how I hold time, death, and daily presence. A gentle meditation on living deeply and loving well.
New beginnings are not always about changing who we are. Sometimes, they are an invitation to return — to slow down, listen inward, and honor our own rhythm. In this reflection, I explore a gentler, more intentional way to begin again, especially during the in-between space of the New Year. A reminder that we don’t need to rush — presence and clarity often arrive when we soften our pace.