mindfulness -- yeahh...

i want to give a big shout out to grace. after getting her master's degree she has completed the hours and test and is now officially licensed in her career. i could not be more happy for her as well as amazed. she really took the bull by the horns (ha.ha.) and decided what she was going to do and went for it.

ps - this is one of my favorite photos of her from our time together. 

i've recently been moved into the direction of 'mindfulness'. 

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is designed to help people who suffer repeated bouts of depression and chronic unhappiness. It combines the ideas of cognitive therapy with meditative practices and attitudes based on the cultivation of mindfulness. The heart of this work lies in becoming acquainted with the modes of mind that often characterize mood disorders while simultaneously learning to develop a new relationship to them. MBCT was developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale, based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program.

started this yesterday. there will eventually be a part 2.