2026 Spring Sidebar

A mother’s journey through her daughter’s diagnosis and the healing of their relationship. Read more.

Moving from fear and isolation into recovery introduced this attorney to a village of support from other attorneys. Read more.

The principles found in the first three steps of Alcoholics Anonymous: honesty, hope, and faith, help this attorney keep his emotional stability in a demanding practice. Read more.

Co-regulation is a process by which your nervous system “borrows” calm from another’s. Read more.

This Mindful Moment is also a featured podcast episode: Co-regulation as a Buffer Against Burnout. Listen here.

Research suggests that experiencing art and creativity, even for a few minutes a day, has tangible effects on our mental and physical health. Doing so helps slow cognitive decline, reduces the risk of heart disease and increases well-being as we age. Reading books, for example, is linked with living longer. And you don’t have to be good at any of these things to reap the health benefits. All you have to do is take part. Read more.

Creative experiences in dance, music, visual arts, and gaming are linked with delayed brain aging. Read more.

The Journey
Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice—
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do—
determined to save
the only life you could save.