Meditation, Affirmations, and Daily Calm

Dan Harris had a panic attack on live television and went looking for a practice he could believe in. The podcast interviews scientists, monks and ordinary practitioners without the incense, and the weekly Substack continues the conversation. It is the entry point for anyone who thinks meditation is not for them. Start with any episode titled for beginners.

A clinical psychologist and meditation teacher whose guided practices are free, long, and unhurried. Her RAIN method for difficult emotions is the most useful four steps we know for a bad night. The weekly talks are posted as podcasts. If our affirmations are the words, this is the breath underneath them.

Short essays by ordinary people on getting through ordinary hard things, collected since 2009. A daily or weekly email delivers one at a time. It is simple on purpose and occasionally too simple, but on a bad day simple is the point. Good for the reader who wants one true sentence, not a course.

A free daily email of affirmations and short personal-development pieces. It is the nearest thing to our books in newsletter form: one message, every morning, before the day has a say. Not deep, not meant to be. Useful as a habit anchor.

A weekly newsletter on healthy living that reads the research on stress, sleep and habits before it tells you anything. It is calmer and better sourced than most wellness email. For the reader who wants the evidence behind the practice. Free.