A Mindful Heart

A Mindful Heart AMHs mission is grow Atlanta from our roots by bringing mindfulness & meditation to our most in-need communities. We serve w/ love of eachother & our city.

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.

Started recording again with no intention of stopping! NEW EPISODE - Suffering Connects Us ALL
08/09/2022

Started recording again with no intention of stopping!

NEW EPISODE - Suffering Connects Us ALL

We live in a society that tells us we are worthy, we have made it, we are successful when we experience less and less suffering, hurting, moments of pain. Though this is a quiet undercurrent, social m

Just got a beautiful pack of quotes on parchment, which had such a distinct feeling (reading from parchment…it just enli...
08/03/2021

Just got a beautiful pack of quotes on parchment, which had such a distinct feeling (reading from parchment…it just enlivens my heart.)
This quote speaks so much truth to me! The illusion of control in life is so powerful - I’m beginning to recognize how much I’m trying to control. Myself, others’ perception of me, relationships, my career, and of course the every day circumstances of my days (I mean, who wants to deal with crap?! No one. Duh.) But the reality is, we are NOT in control, y’all….of the STUFF…but we can work with our attitude: the eyes through which we see the world. SO, what would your life feel like to you if your eyes, your attitude, received each experience with openness and even some subtle sense of enoughness?

Reflection.A shimmer.An image of “self” once held, once believed to be…truth, real.What am I?This last month has been on...
07/26/2021

Reflection.
A shimmer.
An image of “self” once held, once believed to be…truth, real.
What am I?
This last month has been one of deep, often painful explorations of who I am, how I’m seen, and what I mean in the world. I was recently reminded that to truly and profoundly accept the true nature of all things to change means letting go of this preconceived idea of a “me,” an “I,” a “self” that carries meaning and value for not just myself (no pun intended) but also those I love.
I already knew this, but alas, to be human, I forgot.
In many moments this awakening has felt scary. I can’t control what doesn’t exist. I can’t define who I am to the people I love. I can’t guarantee that my intentions will match how I’m seen. I can’t even guarantee that showing up with an open heart: naked in my love and vulnerabilities, will mean ANYTHING to ANYONE. For a long time these knowings were my security, the sense of my own manifesting of reality - I create the meaning in my world. “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Both worlds are the same.” I’ve spent the last month or so living in the painful acknowledgment that that’s equally true for others as it is for me, which literally makes me powerless to affect the beauty in the world that I desire, to express love and know love will be seen, to be tender and know tenderness is written on my skin. It’s not up to me. It’s up to whoever is on the other side to see me in that moment through their own eyes of love and tenderness.
The last month as seen me as a soft reflection of myself. I dug my way into a hole of quiet exploration, sadness….that I am only now discovering is a beautiful death…a death of an old self, another mask, a belief system burned and returned to the Earth.
I am learning life is not about control. Not about controlling the outcome, someone else’s experience, or the trajectory of what’s to come. It’s about letting every single act, choice, vulnerability, tenderness be sufficient unto itself. It’s about being in love with every ugly, raw moment this life has to offer because GD it feels good just to be alive and to feel. Who am I? Who knows? What you see does not exist.

We live in a time where life is anything but simple. Every day seems to be chalk full of work hours, life management tas...
05/06/2021

We live in a time where life is anything but simple. Every day seems to be chalk full of work hours, life management tasks (food prep, dishes), & all the added tasks that come from owning more (car registrations, mowing the lawn.) You get the idea. Yet it's been encultured into us that to really live a meaningful life we must HAVE more. This episode explores this social construction & that the capacity for joy in having very little may actually be at the core of our happiness. - https://mailchi.mp/c83edf66bd8e/wake-the-fck-up-podcast-launch-5243376

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!At the beginning of any journey, it's so important to clarify our intentions and goals, yet sometime...
04/17/2021

NEW PODCAST EPISODE!

At the beginning of any journey, it's so important to clarify our intentions and goals, yet sometimes even with the best intentions we miss the actual purpose of our endeavor. In this episode I share my own confusion around the goal of a meditation and mindfulness practice: what are we really aiming/hoping for? Who are we really trying to be? And how do these goals change our experience of ourselves and our lives?

https://soundcloud.com/wtfupodcast/episode-12-perfect-is-not-the-goal

02/06/2021

From deep seated stretches to soft, strengthening flow, this practice will open body, mind, and spirit in a way that honors the "yoke" of our yoga practice. Breathe. Connect. Open.

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