Mindful In Minutes: Meditation For Modern Families

Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family: Over 100 Practices to Help Families Find Peace, Calm, and Connection, by Kelly Smith 

Meditation books love to promise inner peace — this one gets specific about whose inner peace, because "the whole family, simultaneously, mid-meltdown" is a very different ask than "one calm adult on a cushion." Kelly Smith, a certified yoga and meditation teacher and host of the chart-topping podcast Mindful in Minutes, found her own practice essential when she became a mom and got hit with sleepless nights, physical changes, and near-constant sensory overload all at once — and realized the same tools that saved her could work for every person under her roof, not just the exhausted parent.

With three distinct, age-appropriate practices for each topic, every family member gets access to their own practical meditation toolkit — younger kids, older kids and teens, adults, pregnancy, and partnership each get their own lane — covering everything from quieting the mind to handling resentment to cultivating compassion. There's also a dedicated set of meditations for expectant parents, ones for strengthening partner relationships, and over 250 mantras to keep the practice going once the book's closed. Beginner-friendly, fully illustrated, and built for real family chaos rather than a quiet room that doesn't exist.

Details:

• Fully illustrated hardcover
• Published by Fair Winds Press (Quarto)