As a registered dietitian and mindfulness meditation teacher trained in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I’ve spent over two decades helping people build intentional, compassionate relationships with food and helped countless of them find freedom from rigid diet rules, reconnect with […]

Grounding Psychotherapy in Self-Compassion is the title of a book just published by Guilford Press in March of 2025. It is an edited work with chapters on key aspects of how compassion can facilitate the practice of psychotherapy and increase […]

Dear friends, As the year draws to a close, we are grateful for what we have done together and we take some time to reflect on our mission and commitment. DCMC was created by a group of like-minded teachers who […]

Greetings Fellow Travelers and Happy November! November may very well be my favorite month of the year, and not just because I was born in November. Living in Texas for most of my life, the weather is usually feeling like […]

Understanding Compassion in a Polarized World It’s presidential election season here in the United States, and it’s difficult to escape the finger-pointing, angry ads and social media posts about the candidates. It’s no secret that the country has become so […]

Narcissism is a hot topic these days. The term has nearly become a household word and it seems many people have discovered narcissistic people in their work, in their friends and in their homes. A search for narcissism on any […]

It happens always more or less in the same way: someone says something or does something – it can be a word, it can be an image, or a driver on the highway, or a hurtful comment, a memory from […]

About 10 years ago, I received the best birthday present my wife has ever given me. She surprised me with a golden doodle puppy we named Bailey. We were a bit surprised by his tremendous energy, but we found it […]

Debunking Five Myths of Mindfulness Meditation. With the unfamiliar and untried, sometimes we need to hear what something is NOT before we can be open to hearing what it actually is.  This can be true for the word meditation.  It […]

Ever noticed that as you begin to establish a regular meditation practice or compassion practice, the mind seems to rebel and get even louder and more unruly sometimes? This is a natural part of the process. It takes us time […]