Author: Dr. Lauren Shaw, Ph.D.

Media Mindfulness

Media Mindfulness

The other day I was scrolling Facebook and came across a neat little infographic that a friend had posted.  It had an interesting statistic on it that I hadn’t seen anywhere else.  It was a repost, and the person who originally posted it did not cite her source.  I did a little searching, and couldn’t […]

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trauma

trauma

I had a blog post all ready to go up last week, and I couldn’t post it.  There’s too much going on for regularly scheduled programming. In the last few weeks, racial injustice has been highlighted in a major way.  It’s a centuries old problem, and recent events have brought it to the forefront of […]

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Messy

Messy

A few nights ago I woke up around 2 in the morning and could not fall back to sleep.  I felt restless and unsettled and my thoughts were racing.  Around 4:30 I decided to just get up for the day. I went downstairs and was getting myself a cup of coffee, and my tired 4:30 […]

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Anticipating

Anticipating

My son has declared that he is having “a Nerf gun moment.”  He is not new to Nerf guns, but his enthusiasm these days is at an all time high.  He just earned money to order a new one, and he counted down the hours until it arrived on our doorstep.  He made new targets […]

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Rupture, Repair

Rupture, Repair

Once upon a time I made some cookies that didn’t turn out quite right. I thought they were edible; my husband sampled one and spit it out with a dramatic gag.  I lost my marbles and he defended his reaction.  Before either of us knew what was happening, we were fighting about things that had […]

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