05:54 min
CLEAR ALL
Mary Ann Christie Burnside, Ed.D. is a developmental psychologist who specializes in relational health and mindfulness education.
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For many of us, the current environment, magnified by 24-hour news outlets and social media, has created a level of stress, fear and anger that impacts our lives and relationships.
Our fear management strategies - versions of fight/flight - contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.