We are thrilled to share our third post in the Resilience basics series, featuring different skills and practices that can help increase resilience. 

Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 

There is consensus across researchers that...

Welcome back for our second blog post focused on resilience basics, and how to cultivate specific skills that help you build more resilience. 

Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 

As highlighted in last week’s post, there are a...

Resilience is not about avoiding difficult circumstances, or being free from obstacles, loss, or trauma. It’s about how you recover from these hardships.

Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 

Here’s the good news: skills that...

A majority of female workers (53%) say their stress levels are higher than they were a year ago, and almost half feel burned out, according to a new report from Deloitte (source). 

Women overwhelmingly carry the burden of caregiving, and the mental load of managing their families and...

The logistics of keeping a life organized can be overwhelming. Work schedules, school schedules, activities, sports, camps, meal planning, buying groceries, household essentials, cleaning, organizing, remembering registrations, doctors and dentist appointments, vet visits, planning vacations and...

Workdays can be long and stressful. For most of us, the end of the workday arrives not because we’re finished with our work and deliverables, but because we have other obligations to tackle that we need to transition to. To-do’s and action items set up camp in our mind, robbing the...

“Many employees do not take breaks because they think they will be looked down upon for doing so (Tork, 2018, p. 1).” (Source)

Do you spend your days in back to back meetings, or lunging from one task to the next without taking a break? Do you rarely take time for lunch? Do you spend...

Today’s post is guest authored by Stephanie, our retreat host and facilitator for the recent Mindfulness Incubator Digital Detox & Renewal Retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You can read more about Stephanie on our retreat page, she’ll also be hosting our upcoming September retreat....

Mindfulness is the state of being conscious or aware. It is being fully present in whatever we are doing. Mindfulness takes practice and effort, as our minds love to wander: borrowing problems from the future, reliving anxieties from the past. 

Mindfulness has become even more challenging...

Summer is almost here. What does summer mean to you? Family road trips? Camping? A day at the beach? Fun in the backyard? A little bit of everything? 

It’s always fun to learn what new items have hit the market, and to hear from friends what’s really elevated their summer fun....

The first ever Mindfulness Incubator Retreat is right around the corner, and we could not be more excited!

The vision to host retreats emerged right alongside Mindfulness Incubator. There is something so special about bringing people together in an environment that allows them to get in touch...

Have you heard the term “mental load”? 

BetterUp’s definition resonates: mental load is “the cognitive effort involved in managing your work, relationships, a family, and a household”. 

Mental load is the responsibility of keeping things running (hopefully)...