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Making Meditation Work for Me
About 10 years ago, a therapist told me meditation might be helpful for my depression. I have tried it off and on during graduate school, as a chaplain, at periods of life when I hoped it would add to...
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Learning and Teaching Self-Worth
Last week, I realized that I sound like a jerk when someone asks me about my classes. Friends have been supportive and encouraging about my decision to go back to school. When asked, I usually say,...
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Emptying My Gratitude Purse, a Reflection
In 2006, one of our founding bloggers, Jana Remy, wrote a delightful post about what she finds under her bed or couch in her journal as a novel way to record our personal histories. She writes, Louise...
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#EqualAccess Series Guest Post: Embracing Disability
by EmilyCC This post is part of The Exponent’s #EqualAccess Series. Disabled voices rarely get a chance to speak for themselves, but this blog series seeks to eliminate the stigma that disabled people...
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Finding a New “Normal” and Katherine Hepburn’s Brownies #CopingWithCOVID19
This week has been full of feelings and emotions all over the world as we practice social distancing amid concerns of COVID-19. I wanted to share some of the emotional waves I have ridden with my...
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A Review on Noom or How I Learned Wisdom
Sample screenshot of Noom app, which shows a woman standing in front of a mirror and the text below the image says, “In most situations you’ll find that people aren’t throwing all the shame and...
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If They Can Learn to Say Tchaikovsky
Last week during the United States Democrats’ National Convention, I practiced all week, “Comma’ + ‘La’= Kamala. Kamala, Kamala, Kamala.” I hadn’t realized during the primaries, even as she was one of...
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#CopingWithCOVID: Activity Days Mask Lanyards Project
An adult face mask and a child face mask hang by lanyards on a door. As my family and I get used to the idea that mask wearing will be around for the time being, we’ve learned ways to adapt and how to...
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Family Home Evening: Discussion of Amanda Gorman’s Poem, “The Hill We Climb”
As Ms. Gorman’s poem focuses on unity and inclusivity, this lesson outline is meant to include all sorts of families that might gather together for a lesson, whether they be Mormon or not, friends who...
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Feeding Refugees at an IRC Welcome Center: a Just Serve Stake Service...
I am the Just Serve stake coordinator, and our stake is working on a service project to provide meals at our local International Rescue Committee’s Welcome Center. I personally love this project...
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