Calm
A Guided Meditation for Exploring Your Habitual Reactions
If you find you often react without thinking, explore this practice to respond with greater awareness. Read More 
Patricia Rockman, MD, CCFP, FCFP is a family physician with a focused practice in mental health. She is the Senior Director of Education and Clinical Services at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto. She is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Family Medicine, cross appointed to Psychiatry. She has extensive experience practicing individual psychotherapy, leading therapy groups, and training healthcare providers in mindfulness based interventions, cognitive behaviour therapy, and change management for stress reduction. She is a freelance writer, yoga teacher, and meditation practitioner.
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Anxiety
Tame Feelings of Shame with this 10-Minute Practice
Exploring difficult emotions and experiences may be the key to loosening their hold over us. Try this 10-minute mindfulness practice from Patricia Rockman, MD. Read More
Calm
Why It’s So Hard to Let Others Care For You
One of the hardest things to do is to admit you need help— second only to receiving that help when it’s offered. Here’s a practice to help you remember that you deserve to be cared for. Read More
Compassion
Three Ways to Raise Empathic Kids So They Become Compassionate Adults
Considering how to make the children in our lives better people helps us reflect on how we ourselves can be more compassionate. Read More
Calm
How We Learn To Observe Our Own Biases
Mindfulness is often taught to and by middle-aged white women, but some of the most intense and interesting work is being offered to diverse and disenfranchised communities—bringing our cultural and class biases out into the open. Read More
Calm
A Meditation for Decentering Your “Self” (And Why You Should Do It)
When we realize that our “self” is really a process and not a fixed thing we can make space for less self-absorption and more compassion for others. Read More