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Navigating Disappointments
An article by Beth Glosten | April 2025You are so excited to prepare dinner for three of your friends. You’ve planned a menu, gone grocery shopping, and spent several hours slicing and chopping, sauteing and mixing to bring forth a delightful meal. Your guests arrive to share your culinary efforts. They rave about your spinach dip, but as you taste it, you…
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The Power of Awareness
Spring Weekend Retreat 2025 – A talk by Tim Burnettby Tim Burnett, March 2025 In March 2025, Mindfulness Northwest teachers Tim Burnett and Carolyn McCarthy led a weekend retreat at the Samish Island Retreat Center with focussed on the power of awareness for healing We offer three weekend residential retreats each year. See the Multi-Day Retreats section of our Programs. Talk: The Power of […]
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Finding yourself again: a Day on Retreat
An article from Tim Burnett | March 2025Dear Friends of Mindfulness Northwest, A group of 25 people is gathering for a day of mindfulness at Semiahmoo County Park, north of Bellingham. The park is situated on a mile-long sandspit extending into the Salish Sea, with water on both sides. It’s just before 9 a.m., and the park is quiet. Some attendees […] -
The journey of Mindfulness Northwest
A letter from Tim Burnett | January 2025Dear Friends of Mindfulness Northwest, As the year turns, I find myself reflecting on the journey and adventure Mindfulness Northwest has been and thought I’d share a bit this month. Sometime in 2009 a dream started to take shape in my life. I was starting to see “mindfulness” everywhere – from friends in the Zen…
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Just What the World Needs
An article by Carolyn McCarthy | December 2024by Carolyn McCarthy On a recent morning in early November, my stomach was in knots. My head was spinning, a thought storm tumbling through. I’d managed to get myself out the door and was walking to yoga class, mat tucked under my arm. But my heart and head were so drawn into fear about the…
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Is Mindfulness Dangerous?
An article by Tim Burnett | November 2024The simple answer sounds shocking: yes, it can be.The fuller answer is more nuanced. We all know that, much as we all need safety and protection, there is nothing that’s completely safe. Even our mindfulness practice can be harmful. It can trigger difficult internal states. Probably you’ve experienced this. Difficult memories come up. Challenging moods…
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R.A.I.N. Meditation
Ellen Zocher – 32 minute audioThe R.A.I.N. practice is a 4-step process for meeting the challenges of life in a spacious, curious, reflective way. The four steps of rain are: (1) recognize, (2) accept and allow, (3) investigate, and (4) non-identification with the challenge. We’ve been amazed by how often people report a shift in their feeling and new insights […]
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On Acceptance
An article by Beth Glosten, M.D. | October 2024Meditation can help cultivate acceptance of our life’s circumstances and situations even when they are uncomfortable.
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Doing Nothing Helps
An article by Tim Burnett | September 2024Study out of England finds that only 10 minutes of mindfulness practice per day helps with anxiety and depression.
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Practicing in a Body
Roots of Mindfulness 2024 | Four Talks by Tim Burnett & Carolyn McCarthyTHE ROOTS OF MINDFULNESS 2024: Practicing in a Body In August 2024, Mindfulness Northwest teachers Tim Burnett and Carolyn McCarthy co-led a 5-day retreat on the the essentially embodied nature of our mindfulness practice. Tim and Carolyn wove in Buddhist teachings, personal experience, biology and even cosmology as they explored with the group different approaches […]
