Unified Mindfulness (UM) is a comprehensive framework for contemplative practice developed by Shinzen Young, a pioneering mindfulness teacher known for bridging traditional meditation systems with modern science. After decades of study across Buddhist traditions, Western psychology, and neuroscience, and decades of working directly with students. Shinzen created UM as a precise, practical, and deeply informed approach to understanding how mindfulness works and how it can be taught effectively...

You might think it strange, supporting a best friend who had cancer.John was in his early forties. He knew I was an end-of-life doula and needed someone he could talk to. It was August. He was going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy, trying everything to hold back the cancer. He was hopeful. But a month later, I got a phone call, there was nothing more that could be done. The cancer was too aggressive, and he had been given until December, the end of the year to live. He had a wife and a...