Start your journey into a more mindful life. This site provides resources and effective processes to assist with life's difficulties.
Rooted in a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy approach and immersed with contemplative and meditative practices, these skills assist in finding the middle ground where peaceful solutions are available.
Susan is a licensed independent mental health practitioner, mindfulness coach and teacher who specializes in helping clients engage in third way thinking to manage the conflicts within themselves and with the world.
A compendium of authors, sites, podcasts, videos and more to assist in life’s journey. Learn practical valuable skills that can last a lifetime. Enjoy mindfulness videos from leading experts, get free meditations and read value packed articles on mindful living.
The Middle Ground posts provide support for your practice. It’s a collection of thoughts and experiences on the journey toward deepening mindfulness and contemplative practices in life.
THE COST OF WITHHOLDING
Ever wonder why we withhold the good that is within us? As though extending it outward is going to cost us something. Yes, a little something indeed, the price – our ego. That part of us formed early on in childhood which keeps us separate…
FINDING BALANCE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Currently we find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, COVID-19, causing widespread fear,
anxiety and panic arising to levels unseen before for numerous people. Living through this crisis is going to require us to act effectively with skillful means…
FIELDS OF FORGIVENESS
American author, Mark Twain, poignantly said, “Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” To truly understand forgiveness is to be the heel as well as the violet…
FEAR LESS
The author Marianne Williamson explains that according to The Course in Miracles, “A miracle is just a shift in perception from fear to love.
THE ART OF UNDER REACTIVITY
When we’re practicing mindfulness of our emotions in this way we’re creating the environment for “neurons that fire together wire together” and we’re literally changing the structure of our brains.
ALIGNMENT APRIL
Spiritual alignment for me is asking the question, “What can I do to connect with God?” – and it’s all about connecting with source. This life is always showing me ways to be with the divine through my interconnectedness with everything and everyone.
GIFTS OF RADICAL ACCEPTANCE
Pause and just observe, refocus – perhaps choose radical acceptance in that moment – and then observe again, this time through a slightly different lens. The more I practice this the clearer my lens becomes.
THE IMPORTANCE OF INTENTION
Intention lays the groundwork and paves the road. It keeps me on the path and whenever I acknowledge my intention I am more inclined to stay the course, but only if I’m mindful.
Start your journey into a more mindful life. Join with others and enjoy high quality articles, podcasts, videos and teachings on mindful living delivered directly to your inbox.