by Dr. Chris Johnson | May 1, 2025 | Embodied Leadership, Mindfulness, Resilience
I awoke in the middle of the night gripped by fear, my heart racing. The gist of my dream involved a swirl of disjointed images and colors that captured my attention and left me unsettled to my core. My fear seemed to revolve around the experience of change itself....
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jan 1, 2025 | Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
Every year, as December closes, I reflect. It’s not formal—just a look back at the highlights and lowlights to guide the year ahead. But this year it hit differently. Harder. Heartbreakingly. It started in spring with the swirl of tension and “othering” in our...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Nov 1, 2024 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Doom Loop lately. We’re in a frenzied state – across the country – of collective dysregulation for many reasons, but especially the November election last week. We’re edgy, off balance, angry. Some believe that democracy is at...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | May 1, 2024 | Consciousness, Learning, Mindfulness, Resilience
Dad loved his cars. Out in the back of the barn, he had old cars he claimed he’d ‘fix up one day.’ There was a ’40 Ford Coupe, ’56 Mercury Montclair, and the ’63 Ford Falcon that he and my Mom took cross country to Nova Scotia for their 25th...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2024 | Attention, Mindfulness, Resilience
What’s the cost of overriding your natural energetic flow? Well, let me tell you! We can all get caught up in our busy lives and lose connection with flow. But if we persist in ignoring, overriding, or tuning out because our attentions are elsewhere for...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 1, 2024 | Mindfulness, Practice, Resilience
How’s your energy? When you boil it down, life’s all about energy, right? Everything we do, all that we get caught up in day-to-day, from juggling distractions to completing projects to making tough decisions, is fueled by the quality of our energy....
