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    Worry vs. Mindfulness: A Life Lesson

    by Judy Marano Aug 09, 2019 3 minutes
    Worry vs. Mindfulness: A Life Lesson by Judy Marano. Photograph of a storm passing over the ocean by Johanes Plenio
    Photograph by Johanes Plenio

    How a tattoo helped to connect a mother to her son by reminding her to let go of worry and embrace mindfulness instead

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    Last summer my son and I decided to get matching tattoos. 

    He was heading to graduate school ten hours away, and I was having some trouble with the distance. Instead of sharing in his excitement for the challenges and opportunities ahead of him, all I could focus on were all the potential things that could possibly go wrong that I

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