12 Minute Convos W/ Engel Jones

Bonnie O'Brien Jonsson teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through the University of California at San Francisco's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. She has taught mindfulness courses in person at Google, the University of California Berkeley School of Law, and in federal prison for incarcerated women. She has taught daylong and multiple-day workshop/retreats called Living Mindfully Now! And is a Buddhist Ritual Minister through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Bonnie is a founding supporter of the Compassion Coalition and a member of an international community of MBSR teachers. She a member of The Author's Guild, Women's National Book Association, and the Coalition of POW/MIA Families. Bonnie would like to discuss her life journey of absence/presence and life/death detailed in her in-process memoir, tentatively titled "Bone, Breath and Fire: A Daughter's Search for her Missing Father," and offer tips for reducing stress and anxiety. Bonnie's intense but diffuse grief for her Missing-in-Actio