A Year of Mindfulness: 2025 Insights and Articles

2025 brought a rich collection of reflections, practices, and explorations designed to help us slow down, notice simple moments, and cultivate presence. From embracing the quiet rhythms of nature to exploring forgiveness, mindful eating, and the science of habit change, these offerings invite us to pause, reflect, and return to what truly matters.

Below is a curated list of articles and community offerings, a place to revisit your favorites, discover what you may have missed, and carry forward ideas and practices into the year ahead.

• The 9 Foundational Attitudes of Mindfulness — Exploring the guiding qualities that help support a steadiness, openness, and kindness in practice

• Science of Habit Change — Bringing kind attention to the patterns that quietly shape our lives

• An Introduction to Mindful Eating (with video) — Exploring how awareness can gently transform our relationship with food

• Thanksgiving: Embracing the Fullness of History and Heart
  Exploring the complex history of Thanksgiving, holding joy and sorrow together, and practicing awareness and compassion in the face of truth

• Beneath the Surface: How Feeling Tones Color Our Lives
  Recognizing how the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral qualities of experience can shape our moods, attention, perspectives, and reactions

• Modern Mindfulness: “Time to BE” Collage
  Offered to the community by Kara Marziali, this collage is made up of pictures and phrases that embrace the calm spirit that comes from living an unhurried life, free from the shackles of a to-do list

• Modern Mindfulness: "Fall" Poem
  A reflection offered to the community by Jenny Smith on the fall transition, inviting us to notice resistance, welcome change, and turn inward with acceptance and appreciation

• Forgiveness: A Gift of Love During the Holidays — Exploring forgiveness through compassion and common humanity, with space to soften toward ourselves as well.

• The Sanctuary Within: Why Retreating at Home Can Be Surprisingly Transformative
  Reflecting on the possibility that we don’t need to travel far to rest in presence

• From Surviving to Thriving: Flourish with Mindfulness — Practice ways to support wellbeing and find the joy in each moment

• Interpersonal Mindfulness: Rediscover the Commonality of the Human Experience — Hell is other people… or is it? Exploring how mindful presence fosters connection in relationships

• Meet Mary Beth Stern — Getting to know the instructor behind Science and Practice of Habit Change

• Finding Stillness in the Digital Age: The Rise of Live Online Silent Retreats — Exploring the modern evolution of silent mindfulness retreats, now accessible from home, where real-time guidance and shared online presence create space to deepen practice in a familiar space

• Spring Awakening: The Awe of Mother Nature — A free community event celebrating spring, nature’s rhythms, and the quiet awe in everyday life