Self-Love Through Mindfulness and Meditation
with Staff

With Sarah Gouveia, Director of Programming, Krame Center for Mindful Living

• An exercise of reflection and journaling to examine the tone of our internal dialogue 
• A Loving-Kindness practice to begin the reframing process 
• Self-kindness in an exploration of the body
• The physiological benefits of touch and how it can relieve a moment of self-criticism or stress
• Mindful walking and an awakening of our senses to the beauty in nature while imprinting kindness with each step 
• An exploration of our values to know ourselves and give ourselves what we need
• A meditation practice of breathing with kindness and self-love
• Fostering gratitude as an expression of self-love
• Self-appreciation through a letter of kindness to ourselves

Sarah Gouveia, Director of Programming at the Krame Center for Mindful Living, earned her Master’s in Counseling Psychology and is passionate about Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, and Mind-Body practices. Sarah leads weekly meditations, workshops, retreats, and teaches the 8-Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course as well as the 8-Week Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Course.