Hi, do you dream of having intelligent, kid-free conversation with other nice moms at least one morning a month? I do! So here’s a new meetup, Not Brain Dead Moms of Austin. Who: Fun moms that want to meet new friends and have some intelligent conversation. No children, please. And don’t worry, you don’t need to be an expert on any topic or even a good public speaker; we are all learners here!! I hope to have a small group (8 moms max) that is committed to meeting regularly so that we can build …

… We experience emotions as images, conversation and body sensations. This is the good news. We can learn to have choice over these habitual feeling states with daily mindfulness practices. When we let go of our habituated feeling states we realize, in an instant, that we are not "that". In a moment of awareness we realize that we have access to a full range off feeling states that have always been here, but we've forgotten how to access them. It takes courage to let go of the thoughts and emotion …