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A Mindful Approach to Restoring Your Balance in Body, Mind and Spirit

A Mindful Approach to Restoring Your Balance in Body, Mind and Spirit, by Judy Marano. Photograph of girl on training bicycle by David Clarke
Photograph by David Clarke

Finding balance — physical and emotional — is a natural state of being at all life stages, but with age and responsibilities, it requires conscious attention

From our first steps, each memorable moment of our lives leads us to find our balance. As parents, we watch with bated breath as our child takes their first wobbly steps and then we applaud and carry on as though they just landed on the moon. We repeat our excitement when we gift them the big two-wheeler on their seventh birthday and

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