By Liz Robbins — 2019
With her play and her talk, did the soccer star inspire us to redefine the meaning of sports? She tried.
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Despite our best-laid plans, life is difficult, and we sometimes experience anger, anxiety, frustration, and doubt. This emotional chaos can negatively affect the way we live our lives.
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How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women’s Yoga History, Stephanie Y.
How do mindfulness and compassion practices support us in the work of educating for not merely radical but revolutionary social change? In this presentation, Professor Magee identifies research and practices that support the communion of inner work, interpersonal work, and systemic change.
Watch the conversation between SIYLI's CEO Rich Fernandez and Board President Rhonda Magee, author of "The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness.
For many of us, the current environment, magnified by 24-hour news outlets and social media, has created a level of stress, fear and anger that impacts our lives and relationships.
Mindfulness is often seen as something only useful or needed among certain populations, but the practice has no real barriers, and all populations can benefit.
Transforming Justice, Lawyers, and the Practice of Law is a forthcoming anthology compiled by the editor of The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).
White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death.
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Resilience is the ability to face and handle life’s challenges, whether everyday disappointments or extraordinary disasters. While resilience is innate in the brain, over time we learn unhelpful patterns, which then become fixed in our neural circuitry.
These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.
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