Below you will find articles I have written on Medium. They are broken down into two categories: Memoir and Mindful Reality. Memoir serves to show from where I have come, so that the development of this body of work, Mindful Reality, has a context in humanity, and not just intellectualism. This mindfulness practice has enabled me to manage psychological issues from my past, that I highlight in these stories. The collection of Mindful Reality articles (at the bottom of the page) are reworked posts from my blog on this website. Feel free to browse here when you are so inclined, or follow me on Medium!
Memoir
About Me — Jill Eng: Often Surprised by Life, Accepting the Flow — Link
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Fame and Shame Merged in My Psychological Heritage: How Extreme Family Circumstances Shaped My Emotional Landscape — Link
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Growing Up With a Displeased Parent: Questioning Your Behavior — Link
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Writers and Financial Shame: When Parental Fear and Judgment Turn Inward on Ourselves — Link
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Marriage, Forever, Divorce: Coming to Terms With Fantasy — Link
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Keeping Secrets: Not Being Able To Tell Yourself or Others How You Really Feel — Link
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Relationship Desperation: How a Devastating Breakup Pivoted Into Transformative Healing — Link
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I Could Have Never Imagined We Would Get Divorced: When You Really Don’t Know What’s Coming Next — Link
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A Daughter’s Tale of Setting Boundaries With a Father: Unpacking Covert Incest — Link
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Accepting Oneself as an Artist: When Parental Shaming Turns Into Self-Judgment — Link
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Mindful Reality
Life in Real Time: What We Are Doing — Link
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Permission to Live Effortlessly: Notice That Time Progresses on Its Own — Link
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Action Versus Doing: Why It Is Safe to Let Go of Muscling Up to Life — Link
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A Mirage of Imaginative Doing: The Myth of Doing — Link
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Time, Action, and the Illusion of Effort: Everything You Do Gets Done — Link
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What Should You Do?: Watch What You Do — Link
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Good Things Happen by Themselves: Why It Is Safe to Come Out of Effort — Link
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Actions Are Involuntary: Letting Go of the Pressure to Act — Link
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Eliminating Problems: Why There Is Nothing to Do — Link
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How To Find Out What You Should Be Doing: The Inside Scoop — Link
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Real Presence: You Don’t Need to Be Present to Be Present — Link
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Money and Mindfulness: How Our Actions Bring Us Our Money — Link
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Jill Eng 