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How a 10-second pause can quiet the urge for more, why contentment comes through subtraction, not addition, and why a gratitude list alone can't fix the feeling. Vinny Ferraro has practiced insight meditation (vipassanā) since the mid-90s. He's the Guiding Teacher of the Big Hear ...  Show more

Why "how am I feeling?" isn't always the right question, why resilience doesn't mean what you think it means, and how rituals can steady you. Dr. Suzan Song is a Harvard- and Stanford-trained psychiatrist, humanitarian researcher, and adviser. For more than two decades, she has d ...  Show more

Kessonga explains how mindfulness helps us understand our feelings of “not being enough.” Plus, how to get to a place of non-judging. Kessonga holds a Masters degree in Social Work, and is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher. He also serves as an adjunct Mindfu ...  Show more

It can be hard to imagine a life beyond our fixed perception of what we deserve or what we’ve been given. Today, Dora shares how to broaden our perspective so we can achieve our goals. Dora Kamau holds a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Psychiatric Nursing. She is a certified Min ...  Show more

When we start to practice self-compassion, there could be underlying feelings that come to the fore. Today, Dora gives us some tips on how to work with tough emotions that can arise with a newfound self-compassion practice. Submit a question to Dear Headspace here. And if you're ...  Show more