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Join the 21-Day Mindfulness Meditation Challenge

Research shows that meditation increases creativity, stress resiliency, and the ability to self-regulate. You can support your capacity to access peace and calm in your personal and professional life through mindfulness practices. Join this free 21-day program to build your mindfulness "muscle" muscle. You will receive daily prompts and meditations to support your sit meditation practice plus mindfulness checks at the end of each day.



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Week 5 Meditation – Staying Present with Discomfort

Leadership rarely unfolds in perfect clarity.


More often, it requires sitting in:

  • ambiguity

  • disagreement

  • moral complexity


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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
3 days ago

This week, I've been noticing my discomfort around ambiguity and uncertainty -- particularly as it pertains to starting a new project that's a real stretch for me. I've tried to exit that discomfort quickly by applying a bunch of planning and structure and detailed goals, but the cost has been a total depletion of energy and motivation about the whole thing, along with general grumpiness towards the people around me (SO fun for them...). Staying with the discomfort feels like a whole new idea! As I've tried to practice it this week around this project, I feel motivation returning, along with patient curiousity, and a sense of calm confidence that I can move forward without figuring it all out first. Less grumpiness also means more constructive convsation and potential collaboration. This is going to be an important practice for me going forward!

In complex systems, leadership is often tested not by what we know — but by how quickly we react.


A sharp comment.An unexpected decision.A disappointing result.A political or organizational trigger.


Our nervous systems respond instantly.


But reactivity narrows choice.Awareness expands it.

This week’s meditation strengthens your capacity to notice internal activation — thoughts, emotions, physical sensations — without immediately acting on them.


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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
19 de fev.

The physical signs that tell me I'm getting activated are a tight jaw, rigidity in my facial expression, and clenching in my gut. Taking a breath, creating this space between activation and response feels like it opens up the dignity element of Independence -- where I can sense that I'm not simply chained to constant reactivity, but I am empowered to act on my own behalf and that there are possibilities in the situation for myself and for those around me. Thanks so much for this meditation and prompt!

Alexus Hensley
Alexus Hensley
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Nicole Parsons
Nicole Parsons
16 de fev.

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