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Before the year turns: resources for the road ahead
Before the year turns: resources for the road ahead
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🍂Welcoming Our New Facilitators This Autumn
🍂Welcoming Our New Facilitators This Autumn

We invite you to join us in welcoming Sara, Maura, JaTorra, Melissa, and Chris — and to experience their wisdom in our upcoming programs.

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Hope and Resilience in Every Season
Hope and Resilience in Every Season

Under the trees, we reflected on how they’d weathered the seasons since January — and how the same resilience that lives in nature lives in them, too. As we admired the strength of the trees towering over us, staff shared that this practice helped them remember their own inner strength — the steady, resilient core they draw on to support the individuals and families they serve every day.

This is what mindfulness can open.

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Celebrating the Life of Jackie Carrizo Campos, CMP Facilitator
Celebrating the Life of Jackie Carrizo Campos, CMP Facilitator
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Norwalk Celebrates Mental Health Awareness with Walk, Fair, and Festivities
Norwalk Celebrates Mental Health Awareness with Walk, Fair, and Festivities

We're grateful to be recognized in Nancy on Norwalk for our role in the Fourth Annual “NorWALK for Mental Health: Walk + Wellness Fair.” As part of the Community Mindfulness Project, we’re proud to support events that bring awareness, connection, and healing to our community.

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Julia's Top 10 Practices for Mindfulness and Meditation
Julia's Top 10 Practices for Mindfulness and Meditation

From morning walks to spinal surgery recovery, CMP’s Julia Hepfer shares her Top 10 ways mindfulness has transformed her life—with humor, heart, and wisdom. This list is part Letterman, part life manual—don’t miss it.

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Found your superpower 👉
Found your superpower 👉
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A Day of Rest: William's Mindfulness Journey
A Day of Rest: William's Mindfulness Journey
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We shouldn't meditate.
We shouldn't meditate.
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The Science of Mindfulness
The Science of Mindfulness
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Before the year turns: resources for the road ahead
Before the year turns: resources for the road ahead
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🎥 “The only thing that can slow my traumatized brain down.”
🎥 “The only thing that can slow my traumatized brain down.”
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“Gratitude is my litmus test for recovery.” 🎥
“Gratitude is my litmus test for recovery.” 🎥
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“I realized I haven’t breathed since I was 16 years old.”
“I realized I haven’t breathed since I was 16 years old.”
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Free guided gratitude practices for you! 🥧🧘
Free guided gratitude practices for you! 🥧🧘
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Where mindfulness takes root 🌱 Join us this holiday season
Where mindfulness takes root 🌱 Join us this holiday season
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You should've seen what happened Monday 👀
You should've seen what happened Monday 👀
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🍂Welcoming Our New Facilitators This Autumn
🍂Welcoming Our New Facilitators This Autumn

We invite you to join us in welcoming Sara, Maura, JaTorra, Melissa, and Chris — and to experience their wisdom in our upcoming programs.

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Mental Mac-and-Cheese
Mental Mac-and-Cheese

I'm sneaking this missive in before November 1 because once we hit the month of Thanksgiving there is what my grandfather would call a "superfluency" of emails with the word Gratitude in them.  I don't mean to sound like a curmudgeon but this is a literal example of too much of a good thing!

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Hope and Resilience in Every Season
Hope and Resilience in Every Season

Under the trees, we reflected on how they’d weathered the seasons since January — and how the same resilience that lives in nature lives in them, too. As we admired the strength of the trees towering over us, staff shared that this practice helped them remember their own inner strength — the steady, resilient core they draw on to support the individuals and families they serve every day.

This is what mindfulness can open.

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When I couldn't take one more story
When I couldn't take one more story
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Your mindful moment for the week
Your mindful moment for the week
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The Best Time to Buy an Umbrella Is on a Sunny Day 🌂
The Best Time to Buy an Umbrella Is on a Sunny Day 🌂
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This one fact changed how I move through the day
This one fact changed how I move through the day
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Meet Jouvanna ‘JoJo’ Brame: CMP’s Summer Intern!
Meet Jouvanna ‘JoJo’ Brame: CMP’s Summer Intern!
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You are not what you produce
You are not what you produce
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Celebrating the Life of Jackie Carrizo Campos, CMP Facilitator
Celebrating the Life of Jackie Carrizo Campos, CMP Facilitator
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You’re not alone in this
You’re not alone in this
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Restless at 4:30am?
Restless at 4:30am?
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Norwalk Celebrates Mental Health Awareness with Walk, Fair, and Festivities
Norwalk Celebrates Mental Health Awareness with Walk, Fair, and Festivities

We're grateful to be recognized in Nancy on Norwalk for our role in the Fourth Annual “NorWALK for Mental Health: Walk + Wellness Fair.” As part of the Community Mindfulness Project, we’re proud to support events that bring awareness, connection, and healing to our community.

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You’re Invited: 5 Minutes a Day in the Month of May
You’re Invited: 5 Minutes a Day in the Month of May

Join us this May to practice 5 minutes a day all month.

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Two local change catalysts join Community Mindfulness Board, Will Heins retires after 10 years of service, joins as Advisor.
Two local change catalysts join Community Mindfulness Board, Will Heins retires after 10 years of service, joins as Advisor.

The Community Mindfulness Project (CMP) is proud to announce the appointment of Chrissy Cacace Mahanna and Kathy Hodge to its Board of Directors. These two dynamic community leaders bring a rich blend of nonprofit leadership and board expertise, strategic vision, and a deep commitment to well-being and equity. As CMP welcomes this exciting new chapter, it also celebrates a bittersweet milestone: Co-Founder Will Heins, who has served on CMP’s Board since its founding, is transitioning into a new role as Strategic Advisor after a remarkable 10 years of service.

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1.5 Minutes to Make Habits - and Impact - Stick
1.5 Minutes to Make Habits - and Impact - Stick
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Case Study: Jackie’s Story
Case Study: Jackie’s Story

Jackie Carizzo (top right), is a doula, CMP program participant turned Facilitator. Read her story.

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Case Study: Chrissy’s Story
Case Study: Chrissy’s Story

Chrissy Cacace Mahanna, LCSW is Vice Chair of Community Mindfulness Project’s board.

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Case Study: Marjorie’s Story [Video]
Case Study: Marjorie’s Story [Video]

Children learn from the adults around them, so when we give adults tools to handle anxiety, stress and difficult emotions, they pass those tools along to the children in their lives. 

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Case Study: Mary’s Story [Video]
Case Study: Mary’s Story [Video]

Mary is a Senior Care Coordinator leading the Project Longevity program partnership at Career Resources. As a justice-impacted member of the recovery community, she is proof that individuals can change and find a way out of the systems that inequitably marginalize many. Through our training and sessions over more than a year, she has witnessed her clients' lives transform, as has her own.

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What’s On Our Bookshelf: Research-Backed Reads on Mindfulness
What’s On Our Bookshelf: Research-Backed Reads on Mindfulness
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Joy in ‘ginormous’ proportions
Joy in ‘ginormous’ proportions
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Thought Leaders: New Caanan Residents Create Community Mindfulness For All
Thought Leaders: New Caanan Residents Create Community Mindfulness For All

We're honored to be featured in Moffley Media, highlighting how our work brings mindfulness tools to underserved communities across Fairfield County.

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