Happy Birthday Mindfulness Incubator!!

This week, Mindfulness Incubator turns ONE! And what a year it has been! In that time, we have published 40 blog posts (41 if you include this one!), hosted two FABULOUS retreats (our second one just wrapped two weeks ago!), and created many resources to help our community (that’s you!) have a bit more space, ease, and live with intention. 

To celebrate, we are spotlighting some of our favorite posts and resources (some we’ve never featured in the blog before!)

Four Levers to Create Space in Your Life

So many of the women we’ve connected with consistently feel overwhelmed, overworked, overscheduled, and always busy. Sometimes it feels like we’re not even in the driver’s seat for where our time is going. We can get stuck giving our time in so many ways that don’t support our goals, or our wellbeing. This blog post outlines four actionable levers that anyone can implement to create more space and ease in their life, to challenge and reconsider where their time is going. It also includes a time inventory resource. It includes the five step process to follow, templates to track your time, and a guided reflection on the exercises. 

Preview: We’re currently working on creating a 4 week program focused on exploring and implementing these levers. We’re excited to share more with you about it! 

If you want to participate in shaping the concept, here are a couple of ways you can:

• Schedule a 20 minute chat and we’ll buy you coffee (only for the next few days)
• If you can’t swing a coffee chat, answer our five minute survey, and we’ll send a few of you coffee on us!
• Answer the question on our IG to be entered to win a gorgeous A&O Journal

The Resilience 101 Series 

Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Increased resilience is linked to all kinds of positive and protective outcomes, like greater longevity, better resilience to mental health conditions, better workplace engagement and productivity. All of us can cultivate greater resilience, it’s a skill that can be learned. The Resilience 101 series focuses on various capabilities that help build resilience, and how to implement them. Check out the series here:

1. Resilience 101: Journaling as a coping and inspiration tool - How journaling can boost resilience, how to start a journaling practice, and downloadable journaling prompts. 
2. Resilience 101: Meditation as a Resilience Practice - Exploring different types of meditations, and how to get started with meditation. 
3. Resilience 101: Goal Setting and Mindset - A sense of purpose and a vision for the future can help us withstand (and put in context adversity). 
4. Resilience 101: The Power of Social Connections - Exploring how to deepen existing relationships, and create new connections. 
5. Resilience 101 - Physical health: food, hydration, sleep and movement - Improving your diet, sleep, and boosting physical activity, and easy steps to get moving. 
6. Resilience 101 - Mindfulness - The impact of being fully aware of the present moment, and how to practice. 

The 3Ps of family life organization: Platforms, Products and Process that really help

In this post, we share our favorite platforms, products and processes that take the chaos out of keeping your life on the rails. They simplify and streamline the effort involved in keeping everything running smoothly, and facilitate creating shared accountability for what needs to happen in a household. 

Workplace resilience - 8 small ways to boost wellbeing in your workday

In this post, you’ll learn 8, simple, easy to implement approaches to boost resilience during your workday. Interventions include intention setting, improving the quality of your breaks, and so much more!

Work Life Balance - 7 top strategies from the collective wisdom of career women

This excellent post shares the collective wisdom of career women, and how they cope with overwhelming schedules and obligations. It shares practical tips and interventions.

Morning Routines - The magic of starting your days off with intention

In this blog post, we outline a five step process to design a morning routine that helps you start your days feeling calm, energized, and accomplished. 

Retreats at any budget, including DIY!

So many of us need a break, but it can be out of reach to participate in a multi-day retreat. This blog post outlines how to bring the retreat to you! And check out the downloadable PDF that goes along with it.

The brand new Ebook!

We premiered a brand new homepage a few weeks ago, and at the bottom there’s a new Ebook! The Mindfulness & Resilience Basics Ebook includes 50+ pages of content and worksheets, where you'll learn actionable practices to build your resilience and live a more intentional life. If you haven’t picked it up yet, check it out!

What’s ahead for Year 2

Creating these resources has been such a joy. We’re excited for what’s to come in Year 2! What are we thinking about?

• Launching targeted programs, created for (and by) career women who need support to live with more ease, space and intention. 
• Re-imagining the retreat experience for 2023.
• Continuing to create content and resources that anyone can use and implement. 

If you have suggestions, comments, feedback or requests, make sure you let us know! We love to hear from you.