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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Introduction to the Revised Edition
Prologue—jkz
Prologue—mkz
PART ONE The Danger and the Promise
The Challenge of Parenting
What Is Mindful Parenting?
How Can I Do This?
PART TWO Sir Gawain and the Loathely Lady: The Story Holds the Key
Sir Gawain and the Loathely Lady
PART THREE The Foundations of Mindful Parenting
Sovereignty
Empathy
Acceptance
PART FOUR Mindfulness: A Way of Seeing
Parenting Is the Full Catastrophe
Live-in Zen Masters
An Eighteen-Year Retreat
The Importance of Practice
Breathing
Practice as Cultivation
Free Within Our Thinking
Discernment versus Judging
Formal Practice
Letters to a Young Girl Interested in Zen
The Stillness Between Two Waves
PART FIVE A Way of Being
Pregnancy
Birth
Well-Being
Nourishment
Soul Food
The Family Bed
PART SIX Resonances, Attunement, and Presence
Resonances
Attunement
Touch
Toddlers
Time
Presence
Jack and the Beanstalk
Bedtime
Gathas and Blessings
PART SEVEN Choices
Healing Moments
Who’s the Parent, Who’s the Child?
Family Values
Consuming Choices
Media Madness
Balance
PART EIGHT Realities
Boys
Pond Hockey
Wilderness Camping
Softball Breaks through the Gloom
Girls
Tatterhood—“I Will Go as I Am”
Advocacy, Assertiveness, Accountability
Mindfulness in the Classroom—Getting to Know Yourself in School
PART NINE Limits and Openings
Expectations
Surrender
Limits and Openings
Minding Our Own Business
It’s Always Your Move
Branch Points
PART TEN Darkness and Light
Impermanence
The River of Buried Grief
Hanging by a Thread
Losing It
No Guarantees
Lost
It’s Never Too Late
EPILOGUE Four Mindfulness Practices, Seven Intentions, and Twelve Exercises for Mindful Parenting
Four Mindfulness Practices for Everyday Life
Seven Intentions for Mindful Parenting
Twelve Exercises for Mindful Parenting
Also by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Praise for "Everyday Blessings"
Suggested Reading
Guided Mindfulness Meditation Practices with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Copyright Acknowledgments
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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