Mind Transformations LLC

02/22/2026

✨ Introduction to Mindfulness – 4-Week Online Series ✨
Wednesdays, April 1 – April 22 , 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. ET

Are you feeling stretched, reactive, or running on autopilot?

This gentle and practical 4-week via Zoom series is an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and build sustainable inner resilience.

Together we’ll explore how to:

🌿 Be more present at work and home
🌿 Reduce stress reactivity
🌿 Find more ease and happiness
🌿 Deepen connection with others
🌿 Offer yourself compassion during hard moments

You don’t need any prior experience, just a willingness to pause and practice. Visit https://www.mindtransformationsllc.com/upcoming-classes to learn more or to register.

02/17/2026

There’s something many of us are feeling right now, but not naming. Collective shame.

Collective shame is the painful experience that arises when a group we belong to, whether it is a nation, institution, profession, or community, violates its own moral values or causes harm.

It’s different from guilt. Guilt says: We did something wrong.
Shame says: There is something wrong with us.

When collective shame goes unacknowledged, it often turns into:
• Defensiveness
• Blame
• Silence
• Polarization
• Numbness

But when we meet it with mindful awareness and compassion, something powerful becomes possible.

We can:
• Tell the truth
• Stay present instead of collapsing
• Grieve what has been harmed
• Take responsibility without self-annihilation
• Move toward justice and repair

This is where both soothing and fierce self-compassion matter.

Soothing compassion helps us regulate our nervous systems so we don’t shut down.

Fierce compassion helps us stand up, speak clearly, and align our actions with our deepest values.

Collective shame does not have to define us.

When we are willing to face it together, it can become a doorway to integrity, accountability, and collective healing.

02/16/2026

I’m deeply grateful to kick off Mindful Mondays and for another opportunity to offer a Mindfulness session to students at the MSU College of Law. It’s an honor to support a community that values student wellness and recognizes that caring for the mind and nervous system is foundational not only to academic success, but to ethical leadership and justice.

Kudos to the faculty, staff, and students who helped bring this session to life. And a heartfelt thank you to the students who showed up with such curiosity, openness, and a genuine commitment to practices that cultivate clarity, resilience, and well-being.

Wishing you all the very best on your exams next week!

Brenda

Brenda Lindsay, Founder
Mind Transformations LLC

02/03/2026

Anxiety often tells us to wait until we feel calm before we act. But many times, it works the other way around.

Gentle, intentional action, one small step can be an antidote to anxiety. Not rushing, not fixing everything, just moving with care.

Sending the email, taking the walk or pausing for one mindful breath and choosing what’s next.

Action gives the nervous system information: I’m not stuck. I have agency.

If anxiety is present today, what is one small, kind action you could take to support yourself?

01/31/2026

Find More Calm and Clarity This Winter ❄️ As the life slows down, winter offers us an invitation to turn inward, to rest, reflect, and renew.

Find out how to regulate your nervous system with mindfulness. Join the online Wed., Feb 18, Complimentary Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Orientation to learn about the MBSR 8-week series, a trauma-sensitive program based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s pioneering work in mindfulness and neuroscience.

To learn more or register for the MBSR Orientation and 8-Week Series, visit https://www.mindtransformationsllc.com/upcoming-classes

01/27/2026

Ego often tries to protect us by controlling, defending, or proving.

Mindfulness invites us to notice that voice with curiosity rather than believing every story it tells.

When we create a little space between our awareness and our reactions, we gain more choice and often more compassion for ourselves and others.

That gap is where growth lives.

✨ Pausing
✨ Breathing
✨ Noticing
✨ Responding instead of reacting

Daily meditation is the practice that helps us choose more wisely in life outside of practice.

01/20/2026

“Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love looks like in private.” - Cornel West

Justice isn’t separate from love, it’s love scaled to our shared life on this planet together. When we care about each other’s dignity, safety, and belonging, love becomes visible in our communities, policies, and daily choices.

Both are expressions of love.

01/19/2026

Deepen your meditation practice during uncertain times by joining us for eight days of 30 minute meditations via Zoom at 8:00 am and 8:00 pm from Sunday, Feb 1 at 8:00 pm to Sunday, Feb 8 at 8:00 am.

Join me and other teachers from the Ann Arbor Center for Mindfulness. Visit www.aacfm.org to learn more or to register.

Brenda

❄️ Embrace Winter’s Stillness ❄️

Join us for 8 days of meditation via Zoom for gentle, grounding meditation sessions twice a day, designed to support rest, reflection, and nervous system regulation during the heart of winter.

📅 Dates:
Sunday evening, Feb 1, 2026 through Sunday morning, Feb 8, 2026

🧘‍♀️ Daily Sessions:
• 8:00–8:30 am
• 8:00–8:30 pm

Whether you join once a day or twice, this retreat offers a steady rhythm of practice, an opportunity to reconnect with stillness, presence, and yourself.

To learn more or to register, visit www.aacfm.org

01/19/2026

“Darkness does not drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

These words continue to call us into practice. When we choose compassion over reactivity, curiosity over judgment, and presence over fear, we become part of what transforms the world, not by force, but by example.

May we remember that the smallest acts of love are never insignificant.

01/13/2026

In a time when division is loud, it’s easy to slip into dualistic thinking, right vs. wrong, good vs. bad, us vs. them. The mind likes this because it feels clear and safe, but it often shrinks our capacity to understand one another.

Mindfulness invites a wider lens. Not to blur differences, but to stay present with complexity. To notice our reactions, regulate our nervous system, and respond with intention instead of reactivity.

This doesn’t mean staying neutral. Part of mindful awareness is learning when to stand up, when to advocate, and when to protect what matters. It just means we can do so without dehumanizing each other.

Connection doesn’t require agreement. And compassion doesn’t eliminate accountability. Both/and is how we soften polarization without surrendering values.

01/06/2026

Gift yourself the ability to feel more grounded, calm, and connected in the new year.

Join me on Wed., Jan 21 at 6:30 p.m. for a Mindfulness 101 session to explore simple ways to reduce stress, be more present, and bring more ease into your day. No mindfulness experience needed, just bring yourself.

Learn more or find registration information here: https://www.mindtransformationsllc.com/upcoming-classes/in-person-classes

Let’s take a mindful pause together. 💛

Brenda