Mindful

The Heart of Humility

STEPHANIE DOMET: How can mindfulness help us work with failure and shame?

VINNY FERRARO: Mindfulness can help interrupt the shame response that can overwhelm us with its historic baggage. Mindfulness brings me back to the present moment and helps me discern what I am in the presence of, so then I can learn from my mistakes, actually face them, instead of getting lost in outdated programming.

That outdated programming is really beguiling, isn’t it?

It’s amazing how effective it is. I had a

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