BONUS EPISODE: Peace & Renewal 🕊️

BONUS Episode!
The Mindful Minute

Peace & Renewal: An Offering of Poetry and Meditation  with James Crews

 Hi Friends, 

Late last week, I found myself one early morning sitting on the couch, sipping my coffee, feeling wrung out from the latest coming from Israel & Palestine, and needing to prepare for an interview I had scheduled months ago with poet James Crews.

I picked up James' new book, The Wonder of Small Things; Poems of Peace & Renewal, and as I read I could feel my breath deepening, my shoulders softening, and my heart quieting. I was so grateful for the respite, the beauty this anthology of poetry offered me in a moment of heartache.

So, I am releasing this episode as quickly as possible in hopes that it offers you a tiny salve for your heart, a spark of okay-ness, as you continue to engage and bear witness to what is happening in the world. 

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection. James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.

You can hear more about James and the connection between poetry and meditation in our first interview which aired in 2022. Listen Here.

You can learn more about James, buy his new book {highly recommend!}, and subscribe to his Weekly Pause newsletter here.

Just The Meditation

Each week, only for newsletter subscribers {that's you!}, I will be sharing a guided meditation that you can access anytime you like.
Enjoy and keep practicing!

Sorrow is Not My Name {5 minute reflection}

Poet and Author James Crews reads Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay and offers a reflective prompt as a way to explore delight or awe even in moments of pain, heartbreak or fear. Grab your journal, close your eyes, and listen.