Trudy shares about her experiences with meditation at the 2025 Art of Meditation Summit from Wisdom for Life.

In this episode, Trudy explores how trusting in the dharma and in ourselves leads to a more peaceful, present life.

Trudy talks to Dan Harris about a Buddhist secret for calm, energy, and handling obnoxious people.

Emilía sits down with leading dharma teacher and psychotherapist Trudy Goodman for an open and honest conversation about how mindfulness can support us through the real challenges of life.

In this talk, Trudy reflects on devotion, compassion, and the sacred woven through everyday life. Sharing personal stories—including her daughter’s near-death experience—she explores how mindfulness, gratitude, and presence can transform suffering into reverence, inviting us to recognize the sacred in all things.

Trudy and Jack celebrate their 80th birthdays at a fundraising event for Insight LA.

Using the five Buddhist hindrances, Trudy suggests a compassionate return to mindfulness of the senses.

Trudy and Jack discuss challenges of life after a spiritual retreat, with strategies to continue practices.

Trudy and Jack share reflections on suffering, acceptance, and practice, especially the importance of maintaining a grounded identity and integrating practice into daily life, even in small moments.

Trudy reflects on her insights from the retreat, especially the benefits of the four foundations of mindfulness and the concept of loving awareness. She stresses the importance of impermanence and the Tibetan tradition of contemplating death.

Trudy shares the story of the Buddha, Shakyamuni, and the traditional origins of Buddhist teachings, which were written down 400 years after his death. She illuminates the inclusivity of women in Buddhism. She also explains the idea of "no self" in Buddhism, stressing interdependence and meditation practice.

Trudy leads a guided meditation session focusing on loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna). She discusses the importance of self-love as a foundation for extending compassion to others. The practice involves visualizing oneself as a child, offering reassurance, and sending well wishes for safety, happiness, health, and freedom from suffering.

Trudy delves into the five hindrances—craving, aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt—showing how mindful awareness turns these obstacles into teachers. She speaks of cultivating equanimity and conscious transformation to face inner and outer challenges with wisdom and compassion.

Trudy offers a body-centered mindfulness practice, inviting participants to meet each sensation with curiosity and care. The session explored balanced posture, compassionate awareness, and closed with mindful walking and quiet reflection.

Trudy guides a session on loving kindness (metta), the first of the Brahmaviharas, exploring how this practice softens fear and anger. She invites participants to weave kindness into everyday moments, nurturing a steady, compassionate presence.

In this session, Jack guides a meditation on awakening inner freedom and awareness, inviting participants to move beyond body and mind into pure consciousness. Trudy closed the practice with a mindful walking ritual.

In an article published in Spirituality & Health in August 2025, Trudy discusses the bodhisattva vows with her cousin, the writer Myra Goodman.

Opening our hearts in practice, Trudy Goodman takes us through her Jellyroll meditation to encourage the expansion of metta from the self to others.

Vipassana teacher Trudy Goodman shares how we can alleviate suffering by holding both universal and personal truths in our awareness.

Trudy and Jack discuss Disruption and Human Relationships with Soren Gordhamer at Wisdom 2.0 2025.