Proactive Mindfulness
Proactive Mindfulness
Serge Prengel
Exploring personal growth as a living process of mindful change. Talks and thoughtful conversations with therapists and mindfulness practitioners.
Procrastination can be a freeze response (not laziness) | Jennifer Tantia
Many of us treat procrastination as laziness or a personal failing. But what if it’s your nervous system doing exactly what it’s designed to do?
Jul 29
21 min
Beyond Phone Addiction: Mindfulness In The Attention Economy
This episode puts screen addiction within a larger context and draws practical conclusions. The environment in which human attention evolved has changed so dramatically that mindfulness is becoming an essential human capacity rather than an optional spiritual practice.
Jul 8
18 min
Practicing meditation as a living process
We invite you to discover meditation as a living process that helps us navigate the pressures of life. We describe how this process involves engaging with our experience in a fundamentally different way.
Jun 11
20 min
Systemic shame & trauma healing — from isolation to connection: Merete Holm Brantbjerg
Merete Holm Brantbjerg talks about trauma, systemic shame, and the body’s hidden survival responses, starting from her own experience of female-to-female sexual perpetration at age 14.
May 18
50 min
Janina Fisher on healing your trauma: Embracing our fragmented selves
Janina Fisher explains what it means to heal your trauma. She describes her trauma-informed parts approach, where these reactions are understood as parts of ourselves that once helped us survive, not as problems to eliminate.
Apr 26
41 min
Scary Does Not Mean Powerful: Mindfulness & Politics
A mindful reflection on power, vulnerability, and our shared humanity. What happens when we truly pay attention and see the complexity of what is in front of us.
Apr 15
13 min
Gentle presence with John Amodeo: The practice of welcoming what you feel
This talk with therapist and mindfulness explorer John Amodeo is about gentle presence. We don't just talk about it, we practice it in real time. The conversation unfolds into a deeper exploration of how noticing anxiety, defensiveness, and shame, without judgment, can shift our inner experience and transform how we relate to others.
Apr 5
29 min
Memory reconsolidation: What makes therapy work
Many clients in therapy understand their patterns and still feel stuck. We explore simple ways to foster the corrective emotional experiences that make lasting change possible.
Feb 27
21 min
Meditation & beyond: Mindfulness is not a spectator sport
This expands our definition of mindfulness as an embodied practice of active engagement in life. I describe how it plays out in my meditation practice, in therapy, and in other activities.
Feb 14
11 min
Where do you feel it in your body? Embodied Therapy When the Body Doesn’t Answer
How to practice embodied therapy when the body doesn’t answer. A relational approach to somatic psychotherapy for therapists who want a practical way to stay present without forcing awareness.
Jan 28
23 min
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