Soothing Our Struggle
Mindful divorce may sound like a contradiction in terms, but that’s what Judge Michele Lowrance tries to practice in her courtroom. Lowrance, a former divorce lawyer who has been a domestic-relations judge in Cook County, Illinois, since 1995, doesn’t teach meditation from the bench, but she does apply her experience as a meditator in guiding the couples who play out their struggles in her courtroom. After years of watching the techniques Lowrance used to bring about better o
