About Dr. Jenny Gumm

Jenny is passionate about bringing the power of mindfulness practices to organizations and individuals in practical, approachable ways. She leverages her personal mindfulness training and practice with her business experience to draw connections between everyday challenges in the working world and opportunities where mindfulness could help clients and businesses of any size get an edge.

Does living in the present moment make you lazy?

Having been a proponent of mindfulness for many years, I am often asked questions about my beliefs, such as: “If you are living in the present moment, how do you plan or have ambition for the future? How do you get stuff done? Doesn’t living in the moment mean you just go through life letting [...]

By |2016-10-27T19:49:52+00:00October 26th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Does living in the present moment make you lazy?

You cannot stress relief your stress away

Who doesn’t want some stress relief? Whether it’s work deadlines, traffic, or just plodding along without enough free time, a ton of people are up to their eyeballs in stress. There are many ways and methods people use to provide themselves with temporary stress relief. According to the APA 2015 Stress In America Report, the six [...]

By |2016-11-29T21:33:39+00:00October 13th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on You cannot stress relief your stress away

You are either Mindful or Mindless

Jon Kabat Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, defines mindfulness as: “The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.” Therefore, if you’re not paying attention to whatever it is you are [...]

By |2017-05-19T04:10:23+00:00September 7th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on You are either Mindful or Mindless

The Values Checklist: Are you in congruence?

One of the biggest stressors in our lives can be when we are not living in congruence with our core values. To identify your core values, choose five values from the following list. Your choices should be based on what’s important to you. There are no bad choices, only your choices. Be honest with yourself [...]

By |2016-11-29T21:37:09+00:00August 31st, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Values Checklist: Are you in congruence?

3 Stress-Management Lessons from Olympians

We all deal with stressful situations in our lives, but Olympic athletes probably have more experience with high-stakes situations than the rest of us.  From watching the Rio Olympics on TV, the athletes looked so calm that it was hard to tell they were nervous at all.  They made flips, jumps, and sprints look like [...]

By |2017-05-19T04:10:23+00:00August 29th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on 3 Stress-Management Lessons from Olympians

How to Avoid Stress Triggers

Stress is an often misunderstood word in our culture. In reality, it is simply a physiological response in reaction to a trigger, which manifests much the same in everyone. Examples of stress triggers include a traffic jam, confronting a co-worker, worrying about something you said, fear of being mugged, or imagining something bad is going [...]

By |2016-08-31T14:45:33+00:00August 17th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on How to Avoid Stress Triggers

Are you a Human Being or a Human Doer?

If you’re like most people, your life is spent working toward accomplishments. Whether it’s sending one more work email, running errands, or cooking dinner, we are constantly moving from one task to another. Mobile devices and social media make it easier for us to stay connected and accomplish even more while we rush through our [...]

By |2016-08-29T22:17:13+00:00August 10th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Are you a Human Being or a Human Doer?

Pay Attention – Notice What is Happening In the Moment

The first and often overlooked step to creating awareness is paying attention, stopping to notice what is happening right now in front of you, around you, and within you. Due to our natural preoccupation with things that have already happened and for fantasizing about what might happen in the future, you can go for long [...]

By |2017-05-19T04:10:23+00:00August 3rd, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Pay Attention – Notice What is Happening In the Moment

The way you do anything is the way you do everything

A little mindfulness can go a long way. When we start to see the thoughts and intentions that create our actions and words, we soon start to see how those patterns play out in our lives and determine our approach and mindset to just about everything we do. Are you busy, tempered, hurried, deliberate, pre-occupied, [...]

By |2017-05-19T04:10:23+00:00July 27th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The way you do anything is the way you do everything

3 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude

Why practice gratitude? I asked myself that question several years ago when my partner, Warren, and I assigned our Yoga Teacher Training students to keep a gratitude journal. I had recently read several well-researched books on the subject, so I decided to keep a journal myself to see if I could experience the benefits. I [...]

By |2017-05-19T04:10:23+00:00July 20th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on 3 Simple Ways to Practice Gratitude
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