Our mission is to collaborate with hospital maternity wards nationwide to bring the award-winning, celebrity-endorsed children's book M is for Mindful to new parents & babies—to help support a mindful path in life.

Author Robin L. Flanigan wrote the nature-based ABC/poetry book M is for Mindful to help her young daughter cultivate self-awareness, compassion, respect for diversity, and other intentional practices. Artist Heather Jones spent 26 weeks—one week for each letter of the alphabet—on 52 beautiful, hand-painted canvases for the book.

With your donation, we can get M is for Mindful into the hands of new families right in the hospital, shortly after delivery. Thank you!

—Robin & Heather

Hospital collaborations to date:

Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York

Book endorsements include:

"This book must be read by every child." —Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence

"Beautiful illustrations and wise, compassionate messages. M is for Mindful is one of those books both you and your children will fondly remember long after they are grown." —Sharon Salzberg, New York Times bestselling author & meditation pioneer

"M is for Mindful will teach children values and attitudes that will give them a positive direction to live their lives." —Temple Grandin, PhD, autism spokesperson and National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

"This book should be in every elementary classroom and school library!" —Lynn Gatto, director of elementary education at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education

Other endorsements have come from Golden Globe-winning actress Andie MacDowell, Pushcart prize-winning poet Maggie Smith, and many others in education and meditation spaces.

M is for Mindful is also used in schools and therapy offices around the U.S. and other countries.