Gentrification Mindfulness: The Challenge of Unwanted Change

By Irene Javors, LMHC
There is is restaurant/ bar in my Jackson Heights neighborhood that has been around for some 60 years. Everyone knows the place. The food isn’t very good but the drinks are great and the bartender knows everyone by first name. When you walk into the place, you feel that you have entered [...]

Nostalgia mindfulness: Staying present when your past creeps up on you

By Irene Javors, LMHC
I have lived in NYC my entire 60 years. I have seen whole neighborhoods undergo so much change that they have become unrecognizable to me. Usually, I do not think much about any of this and I just go on my way. But, today I felt differently. I was walking along fourteenth [...]