Lori Granger LMFT -- Mind, Body Awareness Specialist and Psychotherapist

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.”

---------------------------------------------------------------------Mary Oliver

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC # 46228) and adjunct faculty at California State University, Fresno. I began a meditation practice during intercontinental trips as an international broadcast consultant. My broadcast consulting career was interrupted by Sept. 11, 2001 and the obstacles to travel that ensued.

Mindfulness meditation provided the perfect vehicle for authentic self-discovery and purpose which led to the unlikely career transition from broadcasting to Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy.

I have personally trained with these teachers and authors:

• Jon Kabat-Zinn, the father of mainstream mindfulness and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and author of numerous books including Wherever You Go, There You Are
  

• Jack Kornfield, teacher and author of seminal books integrating Eastern and Western psychotherapy including his newest, The Wise Heart: The Art and Science of Buddhist Psychology
  

• John Welwood, author of numerous books on Eastern and Western psychotherapy including Toward a Psychology of Awakening.

• Tara Brach, teacher and author of Radical Acceptance

I attended the UCLA Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Conference, June 07 and I was fortunate enough to walk in meditation behind Vietnamese Zen author and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh along with 1800 other mental health advocates. The sold-out conference was a testament to the growing numbers of practitioners who integrate mindfulness approaches into their work with clients.

Bringing mindfulness practices consistently and under one roof to Central California and establishing The Center for Mindfulness is a deeply personal and passionate pursuit of mine and the culmination of years of study and practice.

Amazement surrounds us, but we’re mostly too dazed by our over-loaded, multi-tasked days that we’re blind to it. Countless riches in the form of simple perfection go lost every moment.

I spent half of my life missing-in-action and rushing through, to get on to what’s next.

This next half, I’m settling. Opening to amazement. Acknowledging the inherent beauty of experience as it unfolds.

Mindfulness has given me back the moments of my life.

My belief, which research is proving, is that we all would benefit from the enrichment mindfulness offers.

I invite you to join me on the path to mindful living at The Center for Mindfulness.