“Where are all the good people who are supposed to stop this from happening?” This is the heart wrenching question asked by Joan Meyer shortly before she died. The 98-year-old co-owner of a Kansas newspaper died after local police raided her home and seized her...
The day of remembrance of the honorable Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. seems like a good time to deeply consider what it means to be an advocate for peace and justice, and how mindfulness and activism intersect. Dr. King was a friend and collaborator of one of my...
As I grieve the loss (or ‘continuation’ as he would say) of my beautiful teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, I remember the huge shift he catalyzed in my life. I had read a few of his books before being lucky enough to get a spot at one of his in-person retreats in...
I turned on the trial of the murder of George Floyd just as medical expert Dr. Martin Tobin was testifying. Two consecutive frames of the video were playing over and over, showing the exact moment that George Floyd died on the pavement in Minneapolis. Life Goes Out...
Throughout human history, most periods of great awakening follow periods of great unrest. We are now in a period of great unrest. We must pay attention and see clearly how we got here. We can not carry on with business as usual if we want to create a better world. If...
I am a passionate advocate of making mindfulness teachings more widely available. Recently someone reached out to me to suggest that mindfulness won’t help us solve our problems; what we need is more discipline. While I can understand why someone might think...
About Erin
Erin believes that narrow boxes are for shoes and not for people and she hopes you'll join her tribe on the mindful path to freedom!
