Mindfulness for people carrying a lot
Learning to be Here: Essays, poems, and practices to read slowly on a Sunday
I'm Beth, a writer and trauma-sensitive meditation teacher who trained with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. Before this, I spent 20 years running a PR firm, where I managed crises for a living. Striving and disaster planning can help you succeed in the corporate world, but they're hard ways to live a life.
Learning to be Here is for anyone learning to trust themselves after years of earning their place. Every other Sunday (or so), I send essays, poems, and mindfulness practices about tending to ourselves in a world of wonder and fracture: how a muddy Vermont road changed the way I look at fear, the day I stumbled into a joy-journal practice, how I learned to step away from the news so I could stay engaged.
If you're leading, caring for others, or trying to stay awake to the world without being swallowed by it, join me here.
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My Recent Work
Reading for Threats. Compassion fatigue, and knowing when to look away (9/27/26)
Do you believe in fracture? (a poem) (9/13/26)
I’d like to see you in better conditions. (8//30/26)
Art practice. Learning to trust what’s inside (8/23/26)
Still, in movement. Labyrinths and walking ourselves back home (8/9/26)
After all this time. Biometrics, the second arrow, and excuses to journal (7/26/26)
Strangers on my front porch? The stories we tell ourselves about the unfamiliar (7/12/26)
What do you do when all you feel is rage? Lovingkindness practice (6/28/26)
Gentle almost beyond reason. Bears in their country (6/14/26)
Nervous system reset. A walk alone in the woods (5/31/26)
Without instructions. We don’t have to wait to be good (5/17/26)
The transmission. What if love is intrinsic? (4/26/26)
Joy in the Midst. On joy and its unlikely companions (4/12/26)
Mud season. Notes on fear from a Vermont dirt road (3/29/26)
Call and response. And burning through oracles (3/1/26)
Spiritual practices, a list. On mindfulness in the middle of life (2/1/26)