A Supreme Halloween Pizza Party Ok folks, Halloween is in FULL swing! And I don’t know about you, but I am JUST as excited as my kiddos!!! Fall weather, fabulous treats, and fun holiday parties! Woohoo! Today, we partnered up with Home Run Inn Pizza to bring you the ULTIMATE Halloween Pizza Party the whole family will love! One thing we love about the Holidays is how it brings people together....

What’s the difference between these two outcomes? A new paper by researchers at UC Berkeley suggests that it might be self-compassion. The researchers recruited 400 adults and invited a group of them to identify their biggest regret, then write about it with self-compassion and understanding. Some wrote about cheating on their partner; others wrote about becoming estranged from their parents. As a comparison, other participants journaled about their regrets from a perspective of self-esteem—focusing on their positive qualities, rather than their negative ones—and others described a hobby they enjoy (the control group)....

As for me, my house has never been cleaner, because there’s nothing like a pandemic to pep up an otherwise sleepy cleaning regimen. Awareness has helped me notice myself feverishly cooking and stress-baking (because I am pretty sure we’re going to be OK if we have enough lentil soup frozen.) As a mindfulness teacher, my students are sharing their concerns about having strong emotions, like fear, as if they shouldn’t. They seem surprised that mindfulness is not always working to keep them from feeling unbalanced and overwhelmed in the face of an unprecedented global crisis....

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First, an exercise instructor I knew started talking about his friend’s newly opened East Village yoga studio, called Jivamukti. My wife went to check it out, but I was not ready to alter my routines. Then my meditation instructors, Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, began to make reference to their nascent yoga practices. I took notice because of how much I trust them. Then a yoga teacher named John Friend came to New York and, at Sharon’s suggestion, I signed up for his workshop....