In sharing a stressful story with my fiancé one day, he said something to me that was so simple and dead on, it lurched me quiet. I was all sorts of stressed out and worked up in the heat of my story-telling. You know how those narrations can go: you’re in the driver’s seat of a sports car, emotions blaring with the volume cranked way up, words swerving around each other left and right, and the act of listening…well, crank…

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Author: fellow Healthy Habiteer What is Mindfulness? Let me first reassure you that I don’t know the answer to this question. If I learned anything from three years of teaching English as a second language it is that words mean whatever we think they mean. A phrase could mean one thing to the person saying it and something completely different to the person listening. If you disagree, just think back to the last miscommunication you had with someone via text…

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