About Me
My experience with a painful childhood as an adoptee, growing up with an alcoholic parent, led me to discover healthy ways of dealing with anxiety, feelings of unworthiness, panic attacks, sadness, and anger. I recovered my natural state of well-being by practicing both traditional Buddhist techniques and modern psychotherapeutic modalities, and now lead others using the same tools, to deeply engage with all aspects of your experience for integration, wholeness, and authenticity.
Cultivate Wellness from Within
I’m a skillful and experienced meditation teacher and counselor, trained in effective mind-body techniques (mindfulness, lovingkindness, Buddhist principles, Yoga Nidra, trauma responsive embodied practices, guided visualization, depth psychology) that support deep insight and self-awareness. I can show you how to meet and welcome all aspects of yourself for healing, integration, and a freer life.
I used to believe that I would feel better when I fixed myself, and maybe you feel this way too. I thought I needed to get rid of my difficult emotions, painful stories, and unpleasant sensations. But it’s not possible to do this, no matter how hard you try. You can learn, instead, how to stop resisting, denying, or trying to hide your pain, self-doubt, vulnerabilities, and confusion. You can learn—as I did—to offer yourself mindfulness and lovingkindness, and with time and gentle effort, you’ll feel a greater sense of ease and wholeness. You’ll see that your pain and struggles can co-exist with your happiness, gratitude, and lovingness.
I can show you how to develop your inherent qualities of kindness, compassion, and good sense through Buddhist teachings and contemporary mindfulness techniques.
I’ve been a Buddhist student for many years, and I’ve led classes, workshops, and retreats with thousands of individuals and groups. I offer one-on-one meditation counseling and lead programs on grief, self-compassion, and mindfulness. In 2011, I completed a 200-hour Meditation Teacher Training Program, have spent over 2000 hours in silent retreat practice, and am a Certified Mindfulness Teacher (CMT-P).
My books Steady, Calm, and Brave and Navigating Grief And Loss are available wherever books are sold, and Happy Relationships: 25 Buddhist Practices to Transform Your Connection with your Partner, Family, and Friends will be released in February 2025. All are published by Prometheus Books. I also write a popular Substack newsletter, and you can sign up for it for free at kimberlybrown.substack.com.
As a leading voice in the contemporary meditation community, I give talks and workshops at many Buddhist and mindfulness centers, in NYC and online, including Tibet House, New York Insight Meditation Center, Shantideva Meditation Center, Insight Meditation Society, The Rubin Museum, and a monthly workshop for cancer patients at The Red Door (formerly Gilda’s Club).
Past experience includes training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at Washington Square Institute, working as a hospice volunteer with MJHS, leading meditations at Zuccotti Park as a member of the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street, teaching and mentoring meditation teachers, and guiding residential retreats at Shantigar Foundation and Appalachian Mountain Club.
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