A Mindful Heart’s mission is to bring essential emotional intelligence and mental resilience to youth and adults in underserved communities. Through connecting these communities with peer-reviewed mindfulness and meditation programs, we aim to provide easy access to tools that create a more stable, compassionate, and accepting mental foundation for thriving as a human being in an uncertain world. Mindfulness is a trend that has been growing in popularity over the last decade. From people seeking to change their lives, to be more connected and happier, to businesses seeking to better their work environments and increase productivity, mindfulness has become the IT thing. But at the core, mindfulness does more for the human spirit than any trend description could do justice. I started A Mindful Heart because for years I was seeking - seeking love, seeking happiness, seeking what seemed like the simple feeling of being connected to my life. After spending my youth being the typical image of success (graduated highest honors with my BS and received my thesis masters in Biochemistry from Georgia Tech while being published and on the cover of a scientific journal), I realized that nothing about being successful meant I was happy or connected in any way to the life I was living. This is a truth for so many human beings in our society, and it was mindfulness that changed me and changed my happiness, my loves, my joys, my sadness, and my life for the better. Though the growing trend of mindfulness - yoga and meditation - have meant that these tools to a happier, more connected and present life are readily available for some, they are still not for a vast majority of the people in our communities. Typical mindfulness programs cost between $300 - $600 per person, a fee that separates such programming from many of the people who need it most. People learn about mindfulness programs from therapists who are themselves financially out of reach for many at-risk populations. So though mindfulness is growing in popularity it still has little impact and reach in the communities that need it most. AMH's goal is to change that. Through our "buy one, give one" business model, we aim to connect those in Atlanta’s business environment with the communities they serve themselves. This model creates tangible partnerships between the growth aspects of Atlanta and those in-need.
