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The Difference Between Healing and Fixing in the Practice of Mindfulness

We often hear that mindfulness doesn’t “work” when we use it as a means to an end. Here, Genevieve Tregor explains why mindfulness loses its impact when we use it in small "bandage" doses instead of weaving the practice into our daily lives.

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The psychological community has wholeheartedly embraced mindfulness in response to the many mental h

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Genevieve Tregor

Genevieve Tregor, MS, a mindfulness instructor and health educator, has been a committed mindfulness practitioner since 2008 with extensive long-term retreat experience. She teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and other mindfulness courses and workshops — with a trauma-informed approach — through Solution Mindfulness, and serves as an adjunct instructor at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix where she teaches Cultural Aspects of Health and Illness. Genevieve is also the founding teacher for Insight Meditation Scottsdale.

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