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Make Space Meditation + Care08.01.25 - Morning Meditation - Begin (Again)Hello and good morning, friends.As we often do at the start of a month, we’re coming back to an invitation to practice. If you’ve wandered away from meditation, been intimidated to start, or you’re not just sure what’s going on, today is especially for you.I hear often from folks that they’d love to have a steady practice but once they miss a day or feel like maybe their mind is too busy, they drop away. It’s hard to keep things going! I struggled for a long time to have a re...2025-08-0110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.28.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - StoriesHello and good morning!We’ve made it back around to a Monday. Maybe you’re off to work. Maybe you have appointments. Maybe you love Mondays. New day, new week, new possibilities are themes we often talk about on Mondays.I know that sometimes a prevailing story can be that feeling of “ugh! Monday!” But what if it was just that: a story? What if we could change the story if it isn’t working for us? Maybe we’re not changing it straight to something about how Monday is the very best, but maybe it’s j...2025-07-2810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.25.25 - Evening Meditation - Letting GoHello, hello, friends. How was your day?This evening’s meditation is a little treat from the archive. I kept thinking today about the exhale and this feeling of letting go that it can bring. Regardless of what your day or week has been like, I hope you can find a little rest with the breath tonight.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally offered 02.26.23.)✨ Walking meditation at Highbanks is this Sunday. Columbus folks, I hope to see you. Of course, I’d love to...2025-07-2613 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.21.25 - Monday Meditation - Quiet + EaseHello and good morning, friends.How are things on this Monday?Today, we’re spending some time with our friends quiet and ease.Sometimes it feels so easy (no pun intended) to make things difficult or to make them feel difficult, especially in this space of starting a new week. What if we approached it a little differently? What if we could find a little quiet, a little sense of ease, and keep those things with us as the day and week unfolds? Let’s see what might be possible.Thank you...2025-07-2110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.18.25 - Meditation - Connection to Each OtherHello and good morning, friends. How are things?As we’ve been working through lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations, I have been thinking a lot about connection with ourselves and each other.In a world that feels more and more divided, what a radical act to look at the connection instead. Today, we do just that with our little visit to the archive for this meditation.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 04.18.25. It can also be purch...2025-07-1815 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.14.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - Paying AttentionHello and good morning, friends. How are things?We’re here again at the start of the week. I thought perhaps a nice way to be together this morning is a practice of attention. We’ll spend time with the breath, but also noticing what’s here in us and around us.I hope that finding time for this practice helps whatever your day might hold. I know it’s especially easy sometimes on a Monday (or any day) to rush off to whatever seems important. But slowing down, taking it in, bringing our minds to being...2025-07-1410 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.11.25 - Meditation - Connection + BreathHello and good morning, friends. How are things?One of the things that has been really wonderful about concentrating on lovingkindness practice in the daily meditations has been returning each day to a sense of connection.My experiences in the world, especially lately, have felt like encouragement to disconnect. But every breath can be something that brings us back. When I’ve been on retreat, it’s the thing I most come away with: a sense of connection and care for everything. I don’t think it’s coincidence that theme keeps arising. I think retreat...2025-07-1110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care07.07.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello and good morning!A new day. A new week. A new moment. Some of my favorite things, as many of you know.Today, we’re focused on just being here. What is it to be here with your breath, body, mind, and heart in this very moment? What a kindness it is to yourself and to others in your life to take this time to just be.I am reminded this morning of the great Zen master Maezumi Roshi who used to say “Appreciate your life!” There is even a book of his ta...2025-07-0710 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.30.25 - Monday Breath MeditationHello, friends. Good morning.In the daily meditations, we’ve been exploring lovingkindness and so connection has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s also a new week (if you have a traditional schedule) and how do we really prepare ourselves for what’s ahead?Today’s meditation is bringing us to the breath so that we can find maybe a bit of foundation for the week ahead. There also some other themes here: connection, kindness. What is it to not just practice being with the breath, but also being kind to ourselves when our...2025-06-3011 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.27.25 - Lovingkindness Meditation - Caring for OurselvesHello hello, friends.We began talking about lovingkindness earlier this week, focusing on ourselves to start. (If you’re not part of our daily meditations and would like to be, I hope you’ll find consider subscribing.) We’re continuing that practice today.I think that beginning our practice of lovingkindness with ourselves before moving on to others helps us to do what can be so difficult in so many ways: care for ourselves. We are not talking about a selfish act, but one that helps us grow and allows us to connect more deeply with o...2025-06-2711 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.23.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - Checking InHello, friends.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.--✨ Times are available this week for reiki, mindfulness and/or support sessions. I hope you’ll find a time: https://makespacemeditation.as.me/--It means so much to me that you're here. I hope you'll consider supporting your practice and these meditations by becoming a paid subscriber (which includes benefits like daily meditations) and/or sharing this with a friend. As always, no one is turned away, just reach out. ✨ If that's not your thing, but you'd lik...2025-06-2311 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.20.25 - Friday ExhaleHello hello, friends.We’re here with the exhale today, noticing how it can help us release and relax. It’s not just because it’s Friday (if it is indeed a “Friday” to your schedule), but because times are out here being wild.I am thinking today about the Supreme Court decision on trans care in Tennessee. I’m thinking of the loss of life around the world. I am thinking of the small things every day that may feel a little harder than they used to. There are also still all our joys and laughter...2025-06-2010 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.16.25 - Monday Meditation - Quiet + EasyHello and good morning, friends.I am thinking a lot today about how so much of what we practice in our meditations can start to really impact time outside of our practice. The more that we do this, the easier it becomes to see those effects.Today, our intention is to keep things quiet and easy, two adjectives you might not always use for a Monday. But here we are: practicing with maybe what we’d like to see more of in our day. We’re keeping things flowing, allowing distractions to move on with ease...2025-06-1610 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.13.25 - Morning Meditation - Slowing DownHello and good morning, friends. How is your day?We're spending time over the next few days exploring what it is to slow down. If you feel like life has you going and going and going and… then these meditations are going to be especially for you. If you feel like your mind can’t slow down during meditation (or otherwise), I hope you’ll also explore how having this intention might help.Slowing down is not about any kind of forcefulness. Instead, it’s a steady and gentle process of feeling into it: noticing tension...2025-06-1310 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.09.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello and good morning, friends.We are indeed together again on a Monday. Today, we’re spending time with quiet and this intention of holding some ease and chill. When distractions arise, we’re keeping it easy. Maybe just knowing that for the next few minutes, all you have to be is right here with the breath brings a sense of that too.Whatever we practice in our meditation has the possibility of coming into other aspects of our lives. If finding a little more ease and chill sounds nice for your day, being with that...2025-06-0910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.06.25 - Morning Meditation - ExpectationsHello and good morning, friends!We’re spending time with our expectations today. Even already this morning, things have not gone as I planned. It seems so easy to get wrapped up in what I think should be happening and miss what’s really here, only to be annoyed later at the whole thing. Maybe you can relate in something about this morning or this week?Today, we’re exploring what it is to hold even our expectations of our meditation with a little lightness. What’s here instead of what we think should be here? Ho...2025-06-0611 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.02.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello hello, friends.Monday’s here again. How are you?For today, we’re keeping a bit of this beginning again feel to things, remembering that the breath is an excellent example of how this is done. As distractions come up, we can remember that each exhale is a letting go, each inhale the opportunity to be with the moment. So we’re in this flow of being with what arises and letting it go.I know Mondays can be especially distracting, but I hope you’ll remember to keep things easy, without judgemen...2025-06-0210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care06.01.25 - Meditation - Begin (Again)Hello hello, friends. How are you? How’s the day?As many of you know, I love a new month, day, moment. One of the things meditation practice has taught me is that we can begin (or begin again) as many times as we need, with whatever we might be doing. So today’s invitation is to meditation. If you’ve had a practice, have wanted one, have thought about it numerous times, have fallen on and off the a million times, etc, today is especially for you.Maybe you have a meditation practice already, but th...2025-06-0110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.30.25 - Friday Meditation - Being StillHello hello, friends. How has your week been? Today’s meditation is one I think I needed this morning myself. Sometimes when things are shifting either in small or big ways, getting still is the last thing that I want to do. Maybe you too? But when I don’t want to find that stillness is when I know that I need it. That’s not to say we shouldn’t move things through our bodies with actual movement, but that there is a balance we can find between stillness and wanting to run from things...2025-05-3012 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.26.25 - Morning Meditation - Monday Check-InHello and good morning, friends.We’re spending time just simply being with what’s here today. We’re checking in, breathing, and allowing ourselves to be with what is, just as it shows up.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 11.18.24.✨ A brand new week means a brand new opportunity to meet yourself and your needs. If a little care sounds nice, there’s time on my schedule for you. https://makespacemeditation.as.me/It means so much to me th...2025-05-2611 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.23.25 - Morning Meditation - Grounding + Letting GoHello and good morning, friends. How are you?We’ve been spending some time this week with an idea of letting go, clearing the air, finding the exhale. I started out this morning with nothing going as planned, so if that’s you too maybe this particular is just for you. 💗Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.This meditation is from the archive. It was first shared on 02.28.25.✨ Individual sessions, including breath and reiki, are available this weekend: https://makespacemeditation.as.me/It means so much to me t...2025-05-2310 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.19.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello, friends. Good morning. How are you?We have made it to Monday once more. Today’s meditation is hopefully supportive to the start of your week, this new day. I know that especially on days like a traditional Monday, we’re often ready to rush off to whatever is on our list, but I hope you’ll take today’s meditation as an invitation to pause, connect to the breath, to maybe find a little ease before that rushing or whatever else your day might hold.Thanks for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.✨ If you’...2025-05-1910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.15.25 - Morning QuietHello and good morning, friends. How are you?Our time together today is focused on the quiet and stillness we find, even in the noise. It’s a little bit of holding both things, not one or the other. Whether there’s a lot of noise in or around you, there is the possibility of quiet also. I always think of this quiet center that exists in each of us, that we can always go back to if we need it. It’s a place I want to live from more and more, a place where...2025-05-1510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.12.25 - Monday Meditation - Quiet + EaseHello and good morning, friends. How are you?Starting off a day, a week, a moment with the intention of finding the easy points always feels like a little bit of relief to me. As if the breath in these moments could guide us to a place where the tension in our bodies relaxes and we can go with the flow of what is here in this moment. I do think it can do that, even if for a moment.I hope you’ll let this meditation be easy and light today.Thank yo...2025-05-1210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.05.25 - Invitation to Slow DownHello and good morning, friends. Happy Monday.We started bringing in this sense of invitation last week with the idea of beginning a meditation practice or beginning again. We’ve moved through a couple of other invitations, all to help you explore the practice a little bit.Today, we’re focused on slowing down. You might think about your day and the week ahead and think maybe there’s a lot to do or a feeling of being behind already. Whether you’re in that space or an entirely different one, I really hope that these te...2025-05-0510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.02.25 - Invitation to Begin AgainHello and good morning, friends. We’re still in this place of meditation practice invitation. One of the things about meditation that can feel like opportunity or very much the opposite is when we get distracted. I know from my own experience how discouraging it can feel to find out just how loud or busy our minds can be. It doesn’t have to be a negative though.The very act of beginning again with each distraction we discover is full of possibility. I really believe that. It’s the possibility to know ourselves and our mi...2025-05-0210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care05.01.25 - Invitation to MeditationHello and good morning, friends.We’ve found this new month together and in it an invitation.Whether your meditation practice has fallen away or perhaps you’ve never quite gotten around to really giving it a try, the beginning of the month is especially for you.I hear often about how people want to meditate or have this sense that they “should.” In this invitation, there’s no shoulds or pushes or forcing. We’re not shoving ourselves down this path, dragging our feet. I mean, maybe we do need a little encouragemen...2025-05-0110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.28.25 - Monday Breath Break (+ A Peek at May)Hello and good morning, friends.We’re spending just a few minutes together to start our week. If you’ve been here for a little bit, you know I love the start of new week.I also love the start of a new month, which is coming up quickly.By May 1, there will be new classes added to the schedule, both online and in person. We’ll have walking and seated meditations as well as the return of lovingkindness class.On May 1, we’ll also start a little bit of time focused...2025-04-2805 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.25.25 - Meditation - Friday ExhaleHello hello hello.I’ve spent most of this week a little confused on the date. For instance, I thought yesterday was today. There’s been a lot of sudden news and changes which only adds to the sense of confusion in place and time. Maybe you’ve had a similar week or something entirely different. Whatever the last few days of held for you, maybe finding a little shift sounds nice.Today, the exhale is our practice. You can take this meditation any time to help bring you into your weekend or otherwise move some e...2025-04-2510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.21.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - OpennessHello and good morning, friends.We’re here together on a Monday again and for today’s meditation, we’re finding a little bit of openness.On Mondays in particular, it seems easy to just jump into things and not find time to breathe. This is your invitation to take a couple of moments, explore the breath, and maybe find a little bit of openness to what’s here before moving into (or back into) your day.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.--This meditation is from the archive...2025-04-2110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.18.25 - Meditation - Connection to Each OtherHello, friends. How is your day?We’ve spent the week looking at connection and today we’re focused on one that can be a bit tricky: other people. I went searching this morning for a quote or bit of wisdom to offer you to go along with our meditation. I landed on a simple classic from Father Greg Boyle. You may have heard me talk about Father Greg before or know of him yourself. He’s a Jesuit priest who founded Homeboy Industries, the largest gang rehabilitation program in the world. He talks a lot ab...2025-04-1815 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.14.25 - Meditation - Connection with the MindHello hello. How are you?We’re continuing our theme of connection today, focusing on the mind.I am thinking of a podcast from Michael Stone that I listened to recently where he shares that it’s a “fascinating thing to watch when you’re sitting… how the breath really responds to the state of the mind.” He goes on to say “if you try to work with your mind to relax your mind, you tend to just create more mind loops…” but if you move to working with your breath and “you really start to settle your breat...2025-04-1411 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.11.25 - Morning Meditation - ConnectionHello friends. How are you?We’re working with connection in all the places that it shows up today. I’m going to let this meditation speak for itself as there’s a little bit more talking up front, but I want to be clear that maybe connection isn’t what resonates with you today. Maybe there is something adjacent or maybe just finding the openness to see if something is here you didn’t expect.Some of meditation’s most impactful benefits sort of sneak up on us sometimes, I think. We find them at the groce...2025-04-1111 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.07.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello and good morning, friends. Happy Monday.Today’s meditation is an invitation of sorts. I know many people drop away from meditation or feel intimidated in starting.Our meditation today holds quiet and this invitation to begin or begin again. It’s a time to lay judgment and commentary aside and just be with the breath, knowing that we can return as many times as we need. It feels sometimes like there’s a lot of barriers to meditation in terms of expectations, so we lay those aside too as much as we’re able. Wh...2025-04-0710 min
Make Space Meditation + Care04.04.25 - Morning Meditation - PossibilitiesHello and good morning, friends.As the week comes to an end, maybe the idea of that there is a great wide world of possibility is not the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe what’s needed is the quiet of the breath or the stillness of just sitting. These things are all here for you in today’s meditation. If you’re struggling with current events or things in your life that are difficult, I hope you’ll consider the story of the stars I share today. We have a lot of encouragement to ignor...2025-04-0410 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.31.25 - Monday Morning QuietHello and good morning, friends.We’ve made it back to the start of a new week. Today’s meditation greets the day with quiet and curiosity. Even in our times of quiet, allowing that curiosity to greet each distraction as we move our attention back to the breath.I hope this little bit of quiet is just what the day needs.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.✨ Walking meditations and Sunday evening sits (online and in person) are back in April! Find a time to join a class or schedule...2025-03-3110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.28.25 - Morning Meditation - StillnessHello, friends. How are you? I’m finding myself a little speechless this morning. I’ve had a weird week. How’s your week been? Busy? Maybe also weird? Today, we’re finding the possibility of stillness and quiet in the middle of all that’s happening around us. I like this sense of a still point because I think it allows us to take in more of what’s going on. It can also help leave space to check in with ourselves. There’s so much to take in and to do, what is it to stop mov...2025-03-2810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.24.25 - Monday Morning QuietHello and good morning, friends. How are you?We’re spending some time in the quiet this morning, allowing ourselves to settle in maybe before the busyness of the day or week sets in.I know especially in the morning, our minds can be flooded with all the things about things that are happening, things to do, things things things. But I really invite you to find a little bit of space here to breathe and be quiet, letting all the things rest for just a few minutes. You can pick them back up again af...2025-03-2410 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.21.25 - Friday Exhale - Letting Go of PerfectWelcome to Friday. I hope that whatever today holds for you, it is only good things.We’re spending time with the exhale today, feeling into the sense of letting go. What is there to let go of? Maybe it’s something like perfectionism (which we talk about here) or maybe there’s something else, something that needs the shift an exhale can bring.When I hear people talk about meditation, sometimes I hear the drive for perfect in their questions or thoughts. There’s so much “I’m bad at meditation” sentiment when really the showing up...2025-03-2110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.18.25 - Morning Meditation - Quiet in the Middle of EverythingHello friends. Good morning.This morning, I can’t help but find myself thinking about everything. You know, the everything going on. Maybe it’s not just the everything in the world, but also in your life. More and more, I find myself having a difficult time being in a reactionary space. There’s a lot of immediate gratification in the social media cycle of outrage, for instance. And while I don’t suggest we aren’t outraged, don’t react, or that an emotion you feel about a particular thing isn’t valid, I do think about...2025-03-1810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.17.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - EaseHello and good morning, friends.There is an irony to our theme today because truly this morning has not felt like it's had much ease in it to me. Maybe this is you or maybe you've had a chill morning. Whatever your experience of the morning might be, there is something to bringing an intention of ease into times that feel just the opposite. Even in meditation, I know it can feel difficult to sit or difficult to be with what's here, but allowing even the intention to sort of infiltrate might change things up a little.2025-03-1710 min
Make Space Meditation + Care03.14.25 - Meditation - Slowing DownHello, friends.Our time together today is about one of the themes we talk about often: slowing down. A little over ten years ago, I had a break up that left me feeling some kind of way (as they do, I'm sure you know). I remember the weekend that it happened, I just stared at my phone playing games for hours. I started to stack my schedule full of activities. I was the busiest I could be. And that trend lasted a long time. There's always more to do or learn, always a place to be.2025-03-1410 min