A reflection on the birth of MLP: 9 Years ago!

By JG Larochette, Founder and Director, Mindful Life Project It feels like yesterday, I remember so vividly my first mindfulness experience, and then just a few weeks later bringing it to my 3rd graders at Coronado Elementary School in Richmond, CA. In 2011 I went through an internal suffering that I never could have imagined possible. Anxiety and depression riddled …

What should schools be more focused on: Academic learning loss or “social emotional learning loss”?

While academic learning loss is real, and something we should be trying to mitigate as much as possible, the biggest and most important focus in schools should be on “social-emotional learning loss”. We are facing what many mental health experts are expressing as the biggest mental health crisis since World War 2. The ripple effect (more like tidal waves) that …