Type A Nun, Mindful Parenting, and Natural Awareness, Diana Winston

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Diana Winston first learned about meditation as a kid, but it wasn't until she traveled to Asia following college that her practice really took off. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma! Thankfully for us, she has returned to mainstream society where we can learn from her teachings. She's been called one of the nation's best-known teachers of mindfulness and has taught mindfulness for 20 years at hospitals, universities, corporations, non-profits, and schools in the US and Asia. Currently she is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA Semel Institute's Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and the co-author of Fully…