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Make Space Meditation + Care02.06.26 - Friday Morning Meditation - Letting GoHello, hello, friends. How are you? How’s your week been?We often spend time with the exhale on Fridays and sometimes we talk about letting go. I wonder if there’s something that’s come up over the week that you’d like to shift, something that could better serve you in the letting go than the holding on. Or maybe there’s some built up tension in your body from all that life is in this moment and the exhale can be that pressure release.However you are today, whatever you may be carrying o...
2026-02-0610 min
Make Space Meditation + Care02.02.26 - Invitation to Begin AgainHello and good morning, friends. How are you?To settle into this new month, we’re talking about something that I think is a really special feature of meditation practice: beginning again. We do it every time we wander away from the breath and come back. We do it every time we even sit down to meditate.I hear often about people being “bad” at meditation and something happens where trying again feels impossible. I know I’ve said it so many times here, but just showing up is what matters: showing up to meditate, showing...
2026-02-0210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.26.26 - Monday Morning Check InHello and good morning, friends.Perhaps you (like me) are in a place that has closed the roads due to just having had a major snow storm and you’re like “What else is this week going to bring?” Or maybe you’re free to roam as you choose and there’s a little feeling of “Ugh. What is this week going to bring?” Or even still, maybe “What is this week going to bring?” has a curious or excited vibe to it.However this week’s arrival has found you, we are checking in on it today. What’s...
2026-01-2611 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.24.26 - Sitting with Difficult ThingsHi, friends. As so much of the United States is dealing with a monstrous storm at their doorstep, as the news breaks of another death in Minneapolis, as we hold any number of other personal or collective heartbreak, I thought of this meditation. I’ve been a bit quiet over the last couple of days. I think sometimes I need an extra minute to sort ourselves out when the world and life is as it is. Maybe you too? But today, I am here to offer you a space to help hold that which is ha...
2026-01-2415 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.19.26 - Monday Morning Meditation - Checking InGood morning, friends. How are you?The daily meditation subscribers might be sensing a theme forming, which is the question of “what’s here?” Because what is here? What is going on? Sometimes it takes being still for a minute and looking deeply to find the answer.So today, we sit with the breath, ourselves, all that’s here.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 06.23.25.)--✨ A small reminder that reiki, mindfulness, and support sessions are here for...
2026-01-1911 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.16.26 - Meditation to RelaxHello and good evening, friends.I’ve had a hard time finding words today. There’s so much going on in the world, in our collective and separate lives. It’s hard to know where to begin.I know there’s a lot to do in our day to day lives and also with the wider issues at hand. It can be exhausting to simply keep up with the news. So what do we do when that’s the case? I think we have to find ourselves where we are and find ways to resource ourselves...
2026-01-1612 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.12.26 - Monday Morning PossibilityHello and good morning. How are you?We are spending time this morning with possibility. In the rush of Monday (or any day), sometimes it feels hard to not just be with what we expect.Maybe we’re expecting it to be a Monday sort of day. Maybe we’re expecting work to be this or an appointment to be like that. What if we let go of the expectation and let what’s possible unfold?To me, that feels more spacious than the “knowing” of expectation. It feels more open and a place to b...
2026-01-1210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.09.26 - Friday ExhaleHi, friends.To say it’s been a week is perhaps the understatement of the year thus far. If you’re feeling the stress of the news, work, life, whatever it might be, I hope this meditation helps you to find a way to breathe a little freer. There’s no way to attend to any of the things that are going on in this world if we can’t find ourselves where we are.So let’s take some breaths, find our exhale, and give ourselves a few moments just to be.Thank you...
2026-01-0910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.05.26 - Monday Morning Breath BreakHello and good morning, friends.Our meditation today is a short one, intended to be able to fit into the smallest of time windows if you need.I know many folks are returning to their “usual” Mondays and usual weeks after the haze of the holidays. I hope this meditation can give you a foundation for the day, a chance to find center and your breath.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.✨ Sessions are available to support you this week, whatever might be calling you. https://makespacemeditation.as.me/ ...
2026-01-0505 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.02.26 - Friday Morning MeditationHello and good morning!As we wrap up the holidays, I thought perhaps a little something to help us land might be nice.Today’s invitation is to find a soft place in this meditation that holds something you might need. Maybe it’s just some quiet space, some stillness, something else that might arise while we’re here together… I hope you find what you need for your day.Daily subscribers, I suspect my voice will be recovered enough for new meditations starting this weekend. Thank you for taking a trip through the arch...
2026-01-0210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care01.01.26 - New Year's IntentionsHello friends.We’ve made it. 2026. How wild. I never would have expected this year. I have a hard time imagining what the future holds, so it never fails to amaze me where I land. How about you? How do you feel today, at this start of something new?Our meditation to start the year is one from the archive, as my voice is not yet ready to create. While I’m not grateful to have been sick this past week, I am grateful for the chance to slow down and be still and think abou...
2026-01-0115 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.29.25 - Monday Morning FocusHello and good morning, friends.We are in that liminal space at the end of the year where I feel as if no one quite knows what day it is and if it is the day you think it is, it’s still not your usual day. Perhaps this is not your usual Monday.I have found myself in both that weird end of year feeling and also the time dictated by an end of the year cold. I don’t know what time it is. I’m waking up at odd hours. It’s a weird...
2025-12-2910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.26.25 - Evening Breath BreakHello, friends.I hope your day yesterday was a good one and that maybe you’ve been able to find some rest, away from the usual things on your schedule and with more of the folks and animals who are special to you.Our meditation tonight is a short one to help you find some quiet from the last couple of days, whatever they may have held for you.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared on 08.14.25.)--✨ S...
2025-12-2705 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.22.25 - Morning Meditation - Turning to the LightHello and good morning, friends.We’ve made it. Today starts the return of the sun, each day a little brighter. I’m thinking today about what we’re bringing with us into the light, what we’re planting. How can we hold those things gently and with the space they need to grow?We’re practicing a little bit of that with the breath today, not getting too caught up in our distractions, but letting them go with ease, staying open and gentle as the breath itself can be.Thank you for being here...
2025-12-2210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.19.25 - Friday RestHello, friends. How are you? How has your week been?Whether you’re feeling that push and rush of the end of the year and the holidays or you’re feeling chill about it all, I invite you to these few moments to breathe and take a rest. Sometimes it’s hard to find the time or hard to give ourselves the permission to rest, but I hope you’ll take these moments and know that you don’t have to be anywhere else, doing anything else. Being right here is important too.Thank you for being...
2025-12-1910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.12.25 - Friday ExhaleHello and good morning. How has your week been?Our meditation today invites you to tune into the breath and let it out. Maybe there are things in your life that also need that feeling of letting go, moving through, shifting… something like the exhale. Maybe you feel like you’re waiting for the new year or the holidays… Let’s come back to now and see what’s here if we just take a breath.Thank you for being here today, friends. 💗 Take care.(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally sh...
2025-12-1210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.08.25 - Morning Meditation - Quiet + CalmHello hello. Good morning!Today, we find ourselves together on a most auspicious day. In the Zen tradition, this is Bodhi Day, or the day we recognize as when the Buddha became enlightened.Meditation existed before the Buddha, but his enlightenment was something new. It is said that he sat all through the night, as many practitioners do on this day and then… “At dawn, looking at the morning star, he exclaimed: ‘How wonderful! I and all beings have simultaneously realized the Way.’”There is, of course, much that came before this day in Buddha’...
2025-12-0810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.05.25 - Meditation - Quiet + StillnessHello and good morning, friends. As I was trying to record for you today, I realized something that was happening: the sitting was getting to me. 😜 I’ve been talking a bit this week about Rohatsu, the time leading up to the Buddha’s enlightenment in the Zen tradition. Normally, I would be on retreat, but this year finds me at home and sitting with community online. It’s been quite a bit more meditation each day than is my usual and I fear that this morning I am struck by so many things at once: the...
2025-12-0510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care12.01.25 - Morning Meditation - Quiet + IntentionHello and good morning! How are you, friends?It is hard to believe that we are here at the beginning of December. What a wild year it’s been. I have been thinking a lot obver the last day or so about what I’d like the end of the year to hold, in feeling, in activity, etc.I started to put together the class schedule for this month and just really thought about what my heart wanted to do. I tried to listen. In the next couple of days, you’ll receive a more proper...
2025-12-0110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.28.25 - Morning Meditation - Steady CenterHello and good morning, friends. How have you been?For many of us, yesterday may have held what felt like a lot. Even if we didn’t take part in the holiday or if it wasn’t hectic, there can be a lot of lead up. The collective energy has a way of impacting us whether we’re engaging in certain activities or not.Whatever your day might have held yesterday or what today might hold as well, we’re here together for a little breath and to find some sense of centeredness. We’re connecting...
2025-11-2810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.24.25 - Quiet Morning MeditationHello and good morning, friends. How are you?I thought that it might be nice to start this holiday week off with a little time to just find some quiet. Even if it feels like your mind is going going going, maybe there’s a little space there between the breaths or the thoughts. There’s no judgment here for how busy (or not) your mind or body might feel. I hope you’ll allow these moments together to be easy and gentle, a flow that you can take with you into the day and rest of the we...
2025-11-2410 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.22.25 - Morning MeditationHello and good morning to you. How are you?We’re starting our day and our meditation off a little differently this morning.The invitation today is to find a little happiness before we settle in and to let that feeling be with us in this meditation. It’s easy to get sort of sucked up into the things that bring us down, especially in the world today.I know that my struggles with chronic migraine lately have brought a lot of unhappy times. Maybe you’ve got something in your life that has le...
2025-11-2210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.17.25 - Monday Morning + a Quiet LakeHello and good morning, friends.When I received jukai in March of 2022 from Roshi Joan Halifax, she gave me the dharma name Joko. So much was happening in that moment that things feel fuzzy, but I remember so clearly the mental image as she described its meaning as a quiet lake.This morning, that image of the quiet lake is here with me. The calm waters, barely believable in their stillness. We’re not so different from that lake, which inevitably will start to have waves and unexpected visitors. Meditation can help us return to th...
2025-11-1710 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.10.25 - Monday Meditation - Quiet + EaseHello and good morning!I’m thinking this morning about what it is to find this idea of quiet or ease in our wild world. To me right now, it feels like letting my shoulders relax, taking a few minutes to breath. It’s breathing deeply and being with the breath. It’s taking a moment to notice the sky. Maybe these sound right to you too or maybe there’s something else that comes to mind that might help your Monday be a little more calm and easy. Whatever you might need this Monday or this week, I...
2025-11-1010 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.08.25 - Morning Meditation - MomentsHello hello. How are you, friends?In thinking about what to share with you this morning, I was reminded of this moment that I had while making coffee earlier. The little moments are always the one that get me the most, the ordinary and every day things. It’s the care with the water, the coffee, the filter. I felt like I was noticing the texture of the mug differently today. There was a bit of slowing down to notice. It wasn’t about my actions slowing, but my mind.This seems to me what we p...
2025-11-0810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.03.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello and good morning. Welcome to Monday, friends.For our meditation today, we’re spending time being quiet, maybe finding a little calm. I know that Mondays can often bring a rush or maybe it’s a more subtle shift for you. Either way, I hope today’s meditation can begin the week ahead helping you to cultivate a quiet, calm space you can return to when you need it, whenver that might be.In this wild world in this wild time, that cultivation of calm can make a big difference in both your experiences and th...
2025-11-0310 min
Make Space Meditation + Care11.01.25 - Morning Meditation - Beginning AgainHello and good morning, friends. How are you?Here we are at the start of November. It’s so hard to believe how the year has gone by.As we often do at the start of a new month, we’re talking about beginning again. Whether you’ve been away from meditation or you’re brand new, what a time to start fresh!Maybe you’ve felt too distracted or there’s something else that keeps you from sitting down to practice. Each time you find yourself here is a chance to begin again. No re...
2025-11-0110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.27.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - Checking InHello and good morning, friends.Whenever I pull something from the archive for you, I like to write something new, bringing the meditation forward into what’s happening now. Today, as I was deciding what to share with you, I thought that what was already here feels applicable and worth sharing again.I hope you find what you need for your Monday…I know that to say it has been an eventful year so far would be an understatement. Maybe even just for the last few days alone.To star...
2025-10-2711 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.20.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - Tension + Letting GoHello and good morning, friends. Ah, Monday. Here we are again. Last night, this morning, and other times recently, I’ve been thinking about the feeling of tension and how we can find a space to let some of that go. I even recognized that I was tensing my shoulders while laying in bed last night, asking myself what is that even about? I have my suspicions. Maybe you feel something similar. Maybe just Mondays bring out a sense of something like getting tense. Maybe your week is holding a lot. Even when we...
2025-10-2010 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.17.25 - Friday Morning MeditationHello and good morning, friends.Shoo. What a week. I’m not sure what yours has looked like, but mine has included a lot of unexpected things. Maybe yours as well?Today’s invitation is to find a soft place in this meditation that holds something you might need. Maybe it’s just some quiet space, some stillness, something else that might arise while we’re here together… I hope you find what you need for your day.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.✨ Times are a little more limited this coming wee...
2025-10-1710 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.13.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello and good morning, friends. How are you?I’ve been awake for some time, but it still feels like a slow and sleepy start to the day. I’m noticing the quiet of the morning (well, aside from the tiny dog snores), allowing it to sink in, something I can take with me for the day.I’m hoping that if you need it, you’ll find a little quiet here too: something that feels like a good start to whatever your day might hold.Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.
2025-10-1310 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.10.25 - Morning Meditation - Friday ExhaleHello and good morning, friends. Welcome to Friday.As we often do on Fridays, we’re spending a little time with the exhale. I know that I often find myself holding my breath or maybe not breathing fully. Whatever it is, there’s some sort of feedback happening with the breath. Maybe you have found this happens to you too? Today, we’re just allowing ourselves to spend some time with the exhale, sensing in to how it feels to let things go, to reset. Or maybe there’s something else here for you in the quiet today.
2025-10-1010 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.06.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - Quiet + StillHello and good morning, friends.We’ve arrived back together on this Monday. I thought it might be nice to take a little time before the week gets going to find a little quiet, maybe a feeling of stillness.Perhaps you’re wondering why we talk about quiet so much or practice being in it. There are a lot of reasons for this, but the one I’m thinking about today is that the world and our days can be so, so busy. To be able to sit in the quiet, collect ourselves, find a little...
2025-10-0610 min
Make Space Meditation + Care10.03.25 - New Month Meditation - ChoicesGood morning, friends.First, my apologies to the daily subscribers for a late start to the month. I think the delay is most aptly summed up by: what a time to be alive. 😜We are here now though, a couple of days into this new month. When we find ourselves at a beginning of some sort, I do love to feel into that new energy and what it might hold. For us together, does it hold consistently showing up to meditation? Does it hold something else you’ve been starting/stopping/starting?For Octob...
2025-10-0311 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.29.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - IntentionsHello and good morning, friends. Today’s meditation is a little breath and quiet, a little intention, or maybe a whole lot of both? We’ll see how things go. We’re winding down the month and so maybe intentions are on my mind. I have a lot of ideas for October and what I’d like it to hold. But that’s still a couple of days away, so I find myself asking what I’d like today to be like? Not just what I’d like to or need to get done, but what would I l...
2025-09-2910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.26.25 - Friday Morning Meditation - Letting GoHello, hello, friends. How are you? How’s your week been?Letting go is one of those themes that we come back to regularly. I know in my life, I could use a reminder to take the exhale and let something go. So I offer that as a reminder to you today also.We carry so many things in our days and lives. Sometimes we don’t need to. I remember talking with my teacher last year about this idea of holding something (witnessing it, holding space for it, etc) versus carrying it. I do not...
2025-09-2610 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.22.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - PossibilityHello and good morning! How is your day so far?We often come back around to the idea of possibility at the beginning of the week or month, even the day. I know that it can be really easy to get sort of stuck in our expectations of what things will be like rather than being open to what they could be like.And what’s the fuss about being open? Even if things do happen exactly as you expect, I think we leave behind a lot of possibilities that way. We so often find wh...
2025-09-2210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.19.25 - Morning Meditation - Calm PresenceHello and good morning!I find myself thinking often about the changes that can happen from just one person. Even the difference that you can make in a person’s day by seeing them. It’s easy sometimes to not really look at the parking attendant or not engage with the person at the store’s register. Lots of people don’t. If you’ve ever worked jobs like these, you know.I had an interaction with a nurse at the doctor’s office the other day that got me thinking a bit about this. She had to h...
2025-09-1910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.15.25 - Monday Morning FocusHello and good morning and a happy Monday to you.I was truly surprised to find it was Monday today, despite knowing yesterday was Sunday. I lost track of time around last Thursday and I think I’m only just arriving back to the present.Time is a funny thing, as is our focus. We can get so distracted and lose ourselves in the many things going on: the to do lists, the urgent calls, the pleasant naps, the time with friends. No harm in it, but sometimes it seems nice to arrive where we ar...
2025-09-1510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.12.25 - Friday ExhaleHello, friends. How has your week been?We’re spending time sort of decompressing at the end of the week (if it as such for you). This is a great meditation for after your work week ends or maybe taking some time as you shift into your nighttime routine.This week has been a lot for a lot of reasons and I hope that this practice of the exhale will help you to take a little time away from All The Things and find rest for your mind and body.Thank you for be...
2025-09-1210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.08.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - EaseHello and good morning, friends. Welcome back to Monday.Whether your day has started out just as you expected or things have already gone off the rails, we’re sitting with ease today.I often think about how our expectations really influence both our experiences and the outcomes. If I’m expecting a Monday to be a real “case of the Mondays,” that’s probably what I’m going to find. But if I find myself already in this day that feels wild, what difference can it make to sit quietly and find some ease in it all? L...
2025-09-0810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.05.25 - Relaxing Body ScanHello, friends.The day is winding down (perhaps your week is too) and today’s offering is a little chance to relax.Whatever your day has held, I hope you’re able to let it drop away for these few minutes and really be with the breath and body.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.(This meditation is from the archive. It was originally shared 04.07.24.)✨ If you’re looking for a chance for a little more rest or other care this weekend, I hope you’ll find time for a session...
2025-09-0617 min
Make Space Meditation + Care09.01.25 - Meditation - Beginning AgainHello, friends. How are you?Welcome to September. I’m so happy we’re here together.Today’s meditation is holding this idea of beginning again along with our intentions for the month. Perhaps more meditation is your intention. Perhaps finding more presence in the every day. Maybe it’s something entirely different.However you approach today’s meditation, we’re staying with the breath, letting our intentions hold in the background, and practicing this incredible act of beginning again with each breath.Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care.✨ If part...
2025-09-0110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.29.25 - Morning Breath BreakHello and good morning, friends.Before anything else, I want to say that I am deeply grateful for to the daily subscribers who have been so understanding while I took a couple of days away this week following the passing of my beloved cat, Maus. It makes a big difference to be able to step away.To ease back into our regular schedule, today’s offering is one of our shorter breath breaks. Let’s take a couple of minutes to just breathe and be to end the week.Thank you for being here...
2025-08-2905 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.25.25 - Morning Meditation - Slowing DownHello and good morning, friends.I know on a Monday morning you might be like “slowing down? No… I gotta go!” And if that’s the case, I hope you will especially take these ten minutes to be with the breath today.It’s one of my favorite things to be reminded to notice how you’re holding the coffee mug or to take a look at the sky. You may indeed be running late or feel like there’s a need to be quick about something, but even in that can part of you feel steady in...
2025-08-2510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.22.25 - Morning Meditation - ExpectationsHello and good morning, friends. How are you?Sometimes I find myself believing that I know something. I know what comes next or I know what this person is going to do or I know what the day is going to be like. Then it turns out I don’t know anything and things have gone awry. Have you had this experience of thinking that you know? Today, we’re working with expectations and letting them go. It’s not an easy thing. It seems like the world around us really pushes us to know. We sho...
2025-08-2210 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.18.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - Breathing through TransitionsHello and good morning, friends.I’m thinking a lot today about the changing times we’re in and the shifts of late summer. Maybe you’ve got your own things happening that are leaving you feeling a little ungrounded. Maybe the world feels a little ungrounded. Whether you’re feeling a little of that or not, finding a kind of steadiness at any point in the day I think feels nice.Today, that’s what we’re holding in our practice: finding a little steadiness, finding that still point in the breath that can act as an an...
2025-08-1810 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.15.25 - Morning Meditation - Right HereHello and good morning, friends.While I was thinking about what to share with you this morning, the idea that kept coming up was just how special it is that you’re here, that we’re all here.It is a radical act to even attempt to be really here with what is in this moment. There are so many things that take us away from ourselves, from each other. Meditation is a path back, I think, back from the scrolling and the busybusybusy of life. Finding ourselves with the breath and the openness of the...
2025-08-1510 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.14.25 - Evening Breath BreakHello hello hello. Do you ever have those days or weeks where time just passes so quickly that you can barely believe it? This meditation is here to help us slow down for the night, take some breaths, and maybe find a little rest. Thank you for being here, friends. 💗 Take care. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit makespacemeditation.substack.com/subscribe
2025-08-1505 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.11.25 - Monday Morning Meditation - OpennessHello and good morning, friends.We’ve made it here together to a brand new week. Folks I’ve been talking with lately have been bringing up this sense of transition and change. Summer is starting to wind down, kids are going back to school, there’s a shift in the air… And how do we greet those things?Today’s practice is one of finding a little openness and possibility where we might otherwise have felt closed off.Thank you for being here. 💗 Take care.(This meditation is from the archive. It w...
2025-08-1110 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.08.25 - Evening MeditationHello friends. How was your day?For tonight’s meditation, I hope you will find your way to being as comfortable as you’re able. The name of the game this evening is rest and relaxation. You don’t have to have had a hard week or day to deserve a little rest.However you might be arriving to tonight’s meditation, let’s find that quiet place to rest the body and the mind.Thank you for spending a little time with the breath tonight. 💗 Take care.--✨ Need a little m...
2025-08-0910 min
Make Space Meditation + Care08.04.25 - Monday Morning MeditationHello and good morning, friends. How are you?This morning I’m thinking about what kind of day and week I’d like to have. What do I want things to feel like?My usual answer is some form of quiet and ease, which are two things we hold a bit of in our meditation today. When I say that, I don’t mean that things are just quiet and easy the whole time (though sometimes that is nice). What I really mean is that I can meet the day, the week, the moment, with an int...
2025-08-0410 min
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