Mindfully Doing What Matters

Mindfulness

Keep Cultivating Compassion for Others

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on December 7, 2023

These strategies can help us connect to our common humanity, allowing us to cultivate compassion across differences.

These strategies can help us connect to our common humanity, allowing us to cultivate compassion across differences.

Relationships

Cultivating Compassion for Others

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on November 15, 2023

Compassion for others is part of healthy living, as is compassion for ourselves. Try this.

Compassion for others is part of healthy living, as is compassion for ourselves. Try this.

Mindfulness

Keep Finding Balance in Imbalance

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on September 7, 2023

5 tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

5 tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

Self-Help

Finding Balance in Imbalance

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on September 6, 2023

Three tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

Three tools for finding balance despite relentless external demands.

Mindfulness

Cultivating Kindness for Yourself

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on July 24, 2023

These strategies can help you cultivate self-compassion even when it seems impossible to be kind to yourself.

These strategies can help you cultivate self-compassion even when it seems impossible to be kind to yourself.

Emotions

7 Questions to Help Clarify Your Emotions

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on July 12, 2023

Learn to understand when your emotions are clear and when they're muddy—and why that matters.

Learn to understand when your emotions are clear and when they're muddy—and why that matters.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness for Sickness and Pain

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on June 13, 2023

These practices can help us to suffer less, even as pain and illness persist.

These practices can help us to suffer less, even as pain and illness persist.

Attention

Choosing What We Grow

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on April 6, 2023

Are you focusing on frustration and stress? These practices can help expand your attention and improve your mood, experience, and effectiveness.

Are you focusing on frustration and stress? These practices can help expand your attention and improve your mood, experience, and effectiveness.

Attention

How Attention Shapes Experience

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on April 4, 2023

Do you find your irritation growing during your commute or while running errands? This practice can improve your mood and experience.

Do you find your irritation growing during your commute or while running errands? This practice can improve your mood and experience.

Attention

Moving Toward Values-Based Actions

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on March 21, 2023

Do you want to feel more engaged in your life? These steps can help.

Do you want to feel more engaged in your life? These steps can help.

Motivation

How to Avoid 4 Common Missteps in Clarifying Your Values

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on March 6, 2023

Recognizing and addressing these four common pitfalls in clarifying what matters to you can help you lead a more meaningful, rewarding life.

Recognizing and addressing these four common pitfalls in clarifying what matters to you can help you lead a more meaningful, rewarding life.

Anxiety

Clarifying What Matters

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on February 25, 2023

How to find more meaning and satisfaction in your life

How to find more meaning and satisfaction in your life

Education

Mindfully Making Mistakes

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on December 21, 2022

Does your fear of making mistakes narrow your life? These suggestions can help you open up again.

Does your fear of making mistakes narrow your life? These suggestions can help you open up again.

Persuasion

4 Ways to Respond Effectively to Our Intense Emotions

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on December 11, 2022

We can't make ourselves not feel what we feel. So what can we do?

We can't make ourselves not feel what we feel. So what can we do?

Stress

Breaking Free of Our Rigid Narratives

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on November 3, 2022

Allowing ourselves to notice situations and experiences as they are, rather than as we think they are, helps us to respond skillfully in the moment and learn from our experiences.

Allowing ourselves to notice situations and experiences as they are, rather than as we think they are, helps us to respond skillfully in the moment and learn from our experiences.

Anxiety

6 Questions to Ask When Worries Arise

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on February 27, 2021

Attending to thoughts about the future can be extremely helpful in some situations and distracting and draining in others. How can we tell the difference?

Attending to thoughts about the future can be extremely helpful in some situations and distracting and draining in others. How can we tell the difference?

Stress

Managing Stress in Uncertain Times

Lizabeth Roemer Ph.D. on October 29, 2020

Three small steps to take when it feels impossible to try anything new.

Three small steps to take when it feels impossible to try anything new.