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Brenda Lindsay is the founder of Mind Transformations LLC and a mindfulness, self-compassion, and resilience teacher, coach, speaker, and writer. Her work grew from both professional experience and a deeply personal journey of discovering how meaningful change happens, not through fixing ourselves, but through meeting ourselves with greater awareness, compassion, and choice.
Brenda has maintained a mindfulness practice since 2013 and has taught trauma-sensitive Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) since 2021, following her training through Brown University. She is a Personal Resilience Practitioner and Neuroscience Coach and holds a graduate certificate in Integrative Holistic Health and Wellness from Western Michigan University. Brenda leads mindfulness, self-compassion, and resilience programs, retreats, and meditation sessions for individuals, organizations, and community groups.
Brenda has shared mindfulness practices with thousands of people, including students, faculty, and staff at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. She also leads weekly meditation sessions for the Cancer Support Community of Greater Ann Arbor and serves on the board of the Ann Arbor Center for Mindfulness.
Before dedicating herself to mindfulness and well-being, Brenda spent nearly 20 years in leadership roles at the Michigan Department of Treasury, including serving as Assistant Deputy Treasurer and Administrator of the Office of Privacy and Security. In that work, she helped transform the organization’s security culture through education and engagement involving more than 1,500 employees and contractors.
Despite her professional success, Brenda struggled with a paralyzing fear of public speaking, painful relationship patterns, and a persistent sense that she was not enough. Through meditation, self-compassion, silent retreats, and years of mindfulness study, she discovered that lasting change could begin by relating to herself with greater awareness, kindness, and trust.
Today, Brenda brings together her professional expertise, personal experience, mindfulness training to help people recognize patterns, navigate challenges, and respond to themselves and their lives with greater clarity, compassion, and choice. Through her work, Brenda supports individuals and organizations in cultivating resilience, well-being, and meaningful change.
"Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude." A.A. Milne
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