Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family: Over 100 Practices to Help Families Find Peace, Calm, and Connection [Hardcover]

Slow down, calm down, and come together with this complete guide to meditation for the whole family—featuring targeted practices for parents, teens, and kids of all ages.

As a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and host of the chart-topping podcastMindful in Minutes, Kelly Smith is no stranger to thewide-ranging health benefits of meditation. And she discovered she needed them more than ever when she became a mom for the first time. Suddenly finding herself coping with sleepless nights, disheartening physical changes, uncontrollable worries, and near constant sensory overload, Kelly found solace in the same thing she always had: her daily meditation practice. In doing so, she discovered how meditation couldhelp not only moms cope with common family challenges, but every other member of the family as well.
 
Kelly shares her hard-won wisdom with listeners across the country in her second podcastMeditation Mama, and now, in this fully illustrated book.Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Familyhelps families of all kindslearn how to use meditation to cope with the everyday struggles of being a person who is also part of a family. Covering topics ranging from quieting the mind and managing stress to handling resentment and cultivating compassion, this book offers specialized practices for each family member by age—adults, teens and older kids, and small children. Topics include:
 

• Being Present
• Finding Joy
• Anxiety
• Hyperactivity
• Worthiness
• Empathy
• Burnout
• Insomnia
• Self-Confidence
• Overstimulation
• Connecting with the True Self
• And much more

Withthree distinct, age-appropriate practices for each topic, Kelly ensures that every member of the family has access to a practical, focused meditation “toolkit” to draw on when they need a litlã