Books

Rewire your mind

Rewire Your Mind reveals how mindfulness is scientifically proven to be good for your health, happiness, and overall well-being. It strengthens immune function, reduces stress, improves sleep, and primes the mind for joy. Weaving together ancient wisdom and rigorous science, Dr Shauna Shapiro offers a roadmap for strengthening the brain's circuitry of deep calm, contentment and clarity. Individually, these practices will help you sculpt neuropathways of clarity and calm. Collectively, they will help us live in a more connected, compassionate world. This inspiring book offers practical steps to transform your mind and your life with greater clarity, connection, and purpose.

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“Shauna Shapiro is known internationally for her outstanding contribution to research and clinical work on the very frontier of the mindfulness field. She is one those rare scientist-practitioners who contribute not only new methods but new and deeper understandings of mind - its challenges and its potential”

- Mark Williams, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford, and author of international bestseller Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world

Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness + Self-Compassion to Rewire Your Mind

Good Morning, I Love You introduces Dr. Shauna Shapiro’s groundbreaking work on mindfulness and self-compassion, weaving science, personal stories, and practical tools into a powerful guide for transformation. Blending cutting-edge research in mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and compassion science with accessible practices, Dr. Shapiro shows how simple daily habits can rewire the brain to strengthen attention, resilience, and emotional well-being. Grounded in science yet deeply practical, this book demonstrates how even small shifts -- like beginning your day with the phrase “Good morning, I love you” -- can create lasting change and transform the way you live

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“Shauna Shapiro offers us the gift of a well-proven path peace and joy in our lives.”

―Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

“Long a leading advocate and practitioner of meditation, Dr. Shauna Shapiro gives us an indispensable guide to mindfulness, through the portals of curiosity, kindness, and compassion toward self and, inevitably, toward others. A beautiful book.”  

―Gabor Maté, MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

“In this exhilarating and moving synthesis of clinical experience, science, story, and practice, Shauna Shapiro will take you on a journey to acceptance and joy. It is an absolutely fresh and insightful take on mindfulness and its many extensions. It will change how you look at the world and how you feel about your life.”

―Dacher Keltner, PhD, founder and faculty director at The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley and author of Born to Be Good and The Power Paradox

Good Morning, I Love You Violet

In this book, Dr. Shapiro helps strengthen your child’s brain circuitry of deep calm, contentment, and self-love. As a mother, when asked what she believes is the most important thing we can teach our children, her answer is always “self-love.” Learning to be on our own team, to treat ourselves with kindness is life-changing. There is no greater gift we can give our children. This book plants the seeds of kindness that will ripple out into the world.

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“If a young person can genuinely hold their own being with love, they will be happy, and they will help spread love throughout our world. Good Morning, I Love You, Violet! is a delightful gem of a book that gives children a simple, tried-and-true practice for befriending themselves. A gift to all the children you know, this book has the potential to touch and uplift countless hearts.”

―Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

“This sweet and beautifully illustrated book teaches children the most important lesson we can learn in life: how to love and support ourselves. This book draws on decades of science and weaves it into a delightful story about the power of self-compassion. I encourage all parents, teachers, and caregivers to buy this book―it has the power to transform our individual and collective lives.”

―Kristin Neff, PhD, cofounder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion

The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness Into Psychology and the Helping Professions

The Art and Science of Mindfulness is a comprehensive textbook for clinicians seeking to integrate mindfulness into their practice. Blending rigorous research with practical applications, it provides clear frameworks and evidence-based interventions for enhancing psychological well-being. Written with clarity and depth, it equips professionals with the tools to bring mindfulness into therapeutic, medical, and educational settings with confidence and skill.

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“Unreservedly recommended for professional, college, and university library Psychology/Psychiatry collections and supplemental studies reading lists.”

—Midwest Book Review

“Shapiro and Carlson offer the most clearly and cogently written description of this most remarkable convergence of an ancient spiritual practice and modern psychological science that I have read. It should be a first choice for students, clinicians, and researchers.”

—PsycCRITIQUES®

“Any clinician or researcher entering the field of mindfulness with beginning or intermediate experience will find this book of significant value. General readers will find a concise summary of the transformative features of mindful living and seeing.”

 ―Choice

Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience, this pioneering book redefines discipline and outlines the five essential elements necessary for children to thrive: unconditional love, space for children to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mis-takes that create learning and growth opportunities. Dr Shapiro and Dr. White share powerful parenting practices such as setting limits with love, working with difficult emotions, and compassion meditations that place discipline within a context of mindfulness. This relationship-centered approach will restore your confidence as a parent and support your children in developing emotional intelligence, self-discipline, and resilience―qualities they need for living an authentic and meaningful life.

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“I’m deeply impressed and inspired by what [Shapiro and White] are offering the world! It fills such an essential niche, and moves forward our understanding of ‘how to’ in an important way.”

―Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

“This intelligent, tender, and beautifully written book helps parents tap into their inner wisdom and create the optimal emotional environment for their child's growth and development. Loaded with powerful exercises grounded in clinical expertise and scientific theory, this book will help all of us navigate the path of parenting with greater ease, clarity, and grace.”

―Kristin Neff, PhD, associate professor of human development and culture at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Self-Compassion

“Shauna Shapiro and Chris White have created a wonderful integration of the power of mindful awareness and the insights from studies of child development and the brain to lovingly guide us to a more rewarding and effective way of being as parents. What better gift can you offer of yourself to your child, and the world?”

―Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

Selected Articles

Increased high-frequency NREM EEG power associated with mindfulness-based interventions for chronic insomnia: Preliminary findings from spectral analysis

What Is Mindfulness

In The art & science of mindfulness: Integrating mindfulness into the helping professions (3rd ed.).

Shapiro, Shauna L. | Carlson, Linda E. | Sawyer, Broderick A.

American Psychological Association (2024)

Learning to learn from positive experiences

Hanson, Rick | Shapiro, Shauna | Hutton-Thamm, Emma | Hagerty, Michael R. | Sullivan, Kevin P.

The Journal of Positive Psychology, volume 18, issue 1, pages 142-153 (2023).

Cited by (10)

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Insomnia

Mindfulness-based stress reduction effects on moral reasoning and decision making

Shapiro, Shauna L. | Jazaieri, Hooria | Goldin, Philippe R.

The Journal of Positive Psychology, volume 7, issue 6, pages 504-515 (2012).

Cited by (152)

Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research Evidence

Shapiro, Shauna L. | Brown, Kirk Warren | Astin, John

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, volume 113, issue 3, pages 493-528 (2011).10.1177/016146811111300306

Cited by (107) | Cite | Source

Mechanisms of mindfulness

The meeting of meditative disciplines and western psychology: A mutually enriching dialogue.

Walsh, Roger | Shapiro, Shauna L.

American Psychologist, volume 61, issue 3, pages 227-239 (2006).

Cited by (456)

Mental balance and well-being: Building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology.

Wallace, B. Alan | Shapiro, Shauna L.

American Psychologist, volume 61, issue 7, pages 690-701 (2006).10.1037/0003-066X.61.7.690

Cited by (383) | Cite | Source | Open Access

What is mindfulness, and why should organizations care about it?

In Mindfulness in OrganizationsShapiro, Shauna L. | Wang, Margaret C. | Peltason, Emily H.

Cambridge University Press (2015)

Cited by (29)

Contemplation in the Classroom: a New Direction for Improving Childhood Education

Increased high-frequency NREM EEG power associated with mindfulness-based interventions for chronic insomnia: Preliminary findings from spectral analysis

Paradoxes of Mindfulness

Shapiro, Shauna | Siegel, Ronald | Neff, Kristin D.

Mindfulness, volume 9, issue 6, pages 1693-1701 (2018).

Cited by (32)

Books

Rewire your mind

Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness + Self-Compassion to Rewire Your Mind

Good Morning, I Love You Violet

The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness Into Psychology and the Helping Professions

Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Selected Articles

Increased high-frequency NREM EEG power associated with mindfulness-based interventions for chronic insomnia: Preliminary findings from spectral analysis

What Is Mindfulness

Learning to learn from positive experiences

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Insomnia

Mindfulness-based stress reduction effects on moral reasoning and decision making

Toward the Integration of Meditation into Higher Education: A Review of Research Evidence

Mechanisms of mindfulness

The meeting of meditative disciplines and western psychology: A mutually enriching dialogue.

Mental balance and well-being: Building bridges between Buddhism and Western psychology.

What is mindfulness, and why should organizations care about it?

Contemplation in the Classroom: a New Direction for Improving Childhood Education

Increased high-frequency NREM EEG power associated with mindfulness-based interventions for chronic insomnia: Preliminary findings from spectral analysis

Paradoxes of Mindfulness

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