A 4-week live introduction to the Seven Mindful Questions — the practice born from one woman's "I don't want to miss my life" moment, and the simple framework that's quietly changed thousands of mornings since.
"I don't want to miss my life." — Lisa, on a hospital gurney. The sentence that became Seven Questions.
Seven Mindful Questions came out in 2021. Five years later, the world is unrecognizable — and the questions are unchanged.
If anything, the post-pandemic, AI-saturated, perpetually-distracted version of life makes "What am I doing right now? Why do I care?" more relevant, not less. We are more aware than ever that the days are precious. We are more prone than ever to spend them on autopilot.
This workshop is four Wednesdays. One full breath of the practice. Three steps down into the questions. A pause. Three steps back up. A real introduction to a real tool — taught live, in community, by the woman who wrote it.
It is meant to be the doorway. If, at the end, you want to walk further in, the more intensive course will be there. The doorway alone is enough.
The Seven Mindful Questions move like a staircase — descent into awareness, a turning point at the bottom, ascent into chosen action. Each Wednesday, we walk one stretch of those stairs together.
"I'm Aware Because I Care."
The descent. The carrot-peeling moment that started it all. We open with the origin story and walk into the first three questions — the thump on the noggin that asks: what am I actually doing, why am I doing it, and do I even care?
Aware · Because · Care
"Breathe before you decide."
The bottom of the stairs. The pivot. The most under-practiced muscle in modern life and the one most worth a full week. Walking meditation. The Value/Effort grid. Journaling as pause. What else should I be doing?
Pause and Breathe
"I Choose a Better Alternative."
The ascent. Pattern recognition. The broken record. Willingness to change. The Best Alternative — and how to actually move once you've paused. The energy shifts: decisive, forward, the way out is through.
Choose · Better · Alternative
"Don't miss your life."
Integration. Augenblick — the moments that change everything in the blink of an eye. We bring the practice off the page and into the morning rush, the dinner decision, the hard conversation. The 7MQ as a daily habit.
The Full ABC · Pause · CBA
I'm Aware Because I Care. Pause and Breathe. I Choose a Better Alternative.
Designed to find you where you are, wake or shake you up a bit, and bring you back to what matters. The whole sequence takes seconds.
Lisa was peeling carrots when an inner voice asked her, quite clearly, "How are you?" She had to put the knife down to answer. That was the first question. The other six followed.
Before she became the woman who would write Seven Mindful Questions, Lisa was a board-certified clinical pharmacist, a hospital administrator, and — by her own honest admission — someone living in her head, on four blood pressure medications, headed for a hospital gurney where her heart rate would drop into the twenties.
She survived. She woke up. She started asking better questions. Five years and three books later, she's the teacher she wishes she'd had.
Four Wednesdays. One staircase. Seven questions that have been waiting for you. Bring your coffee, your journal, and whatever you've been carrying — we'll work with all of it.