Stories from The Well

Stories from The Well

Finding Mindfulness After Burnout and Moral Injury: Being Sustained with Jenny Andrews

Jenny Andrews has a long list of notable achievements to her resume. Andrews graduated from Cornell University followed by Harvard Law School before pursuing her career as a public defender....

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Sit, Breathe, Connect: Integrating Mind, Body, and Soul to Heal Trauma

By: Mary Curran Hackett Most of us live in dark caves of our own making. Not intentionally. It happens imperceptibly over time. We carve out a nice groove for ourselves, rubbing...

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Hispanic Heritage Month With Adriana Prieto Quintero

Adriana Prieto Quintero is a writer and teacher. She is from Venezuela where she studied Education and received her Master’s Degree in Literature. She is incredibly passionate about teaching children...

Mindful Music Moments

'Mindful Music Moments' Spends an Afternoon at the Cincinnati Zoo for Field Recordings Project

Thanks to the Ohio Arts Council, The Well received an ArtStart grant to commission Ohio-based musicians to create 6 new Mindful Music pieces and accompanying videos for the upcoming school...

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We cannot change what we cannot see.

“You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it. Unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.” -Grace Lee Boggs This spring I participated...

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GROUNDED: Uno Lady’s Experimental Album and Film Series Offers Guided Meditations for a Busy Mind

by Christa Ebert aka UnoLady For years, I have meditated and assumed that I was bad at it. I couldn’t pay attention for long stretches and assumed I didn’t have time...

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Moving through the Pandemic with Poetry

by: Sarah Pinho Two and a half weeks after Los Angeles went into lockdown, a poet passed away. Félix had welded machines in a factory, he had taught children guitar...

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Transitory Nature: Breaking Binaries for Integrated Being

by Sue Hunt I am honored to be here with you in written word for this month's Story From The Well. Thank you Stacy for opening this space for my first book...

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Somewhere in all of this I found myself.

Note: Rowe is The Well’s Communication Coordinator and first wrote "Weaving with Intention” for Stories from The Well in September 2019.Wrapped in the arms of stillnesstime paused, indefinitely haltingthe fast...

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Healing Happens in Relationships

2014 was not my favorite year. I had just graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, but couldn’t find a job, so I worked 12-hour overnight shifts in...

True Body Project

True Body Cohort Feature: Lorena Santos

Each month we feature an individual from our True Body 2020 Leadership Training Virtual Cohort. Lorena Santos joins the True Body Cohort from Brasília. Lorena is a writer and facilitator of...

True Body Project

True Body Cohort Feature: Rana Dotson

Each month we feature an individual from our True Body 2020 Leadership Training Virtual Cohort. Rana Dotson joins the True Body Cohort from the D.C. area. Rana is a poet, policy...