“Deep listening is a great revealer, and brings compassion to this ongoing investigation of healing our relationship with the self, with one another, and with our planet.
Eden’s relational mindfulness work has transformed my life and allowed me to connect to my inner voice with fierce compassion.
The guiding reflection and the lessons we engaged with as a community brought forward my voice as a strength.
As a survivor of sex trafficking and as an indigenous leader, this program also brought forth acknowledgment of resources and supported my commitment to serving the collective.”
- Cari Herthel, Vice Chair Woman, Esselen Tribe of Monterey County
“Relational Mindfulness has the potential to touch every aspect of our lives and affect the quality of each moment we spend with family, friends, colleagues, loved ones, and in nature. Relational Mindfulness has changed the quality of the relationship that I have with myself. The teachings have invited me to explore all of my relationships with skills that led me to living a life of kindness, love, and a greater awareness.
One of the greatest gifts is that Eden creates an environment and experience that is inclusive and welcoming to all. As a woman of color, I feel emboldened and more inspired to live from my core with pride unapologetically and skillfully.
Eden, the gift you offer the world is a timeless, colorful, and necessary life-changer.”
- Tonya Vetter, Educator and Mindful Being Intern
“As a young person, this work has helped me find my voice, and allowed me to unleash the authority within myself. These deeply wise and compassionate teachings have inspired me to accept myself as whole, and to use self-love as a means of regenerating myself and the world. The new paradigm that this work brings helps create a space for radical self-acceptance, modeling the type of transformation we need in our world.”
- Lucy London, 18
"The work we have done with Eden at Tender Greens has been culturally transformative. Simple profound practices in presence, vulnerability, gratitude, and mindful eating, have been stitched into the fabric of our culture. Her wisdom and daily practices help us grow into better humans driving towards a kinder future.”
- Erik Oberholtzer, Co-founder and CEO of Tender Greens
“Everyone has experienced trauma to some degree, and I was able to begin accepting and healing what has ached inside for so long through my work with Eden. It was a powerful experience that melted mental walls and emotional survival mechanisms I had developed throughout the years. I could feel the parts of me that felt left behind — despite having haunted me for decades. Eden and her practices in compassion are what I’ve sought my entire life. I’ve read many books by many famous sages, and for me, Eden knows the language to guide me to compassionate awareness that has resided in myself all along. My hope is that you find it for yourself, too.
Thank you for this gift of who you are and for sharing it with me and everyone in your path. I've deepened my practice and gotten to know myself every day since I first sat with you in May 2014. It's not like I wasn't getting to know myself prior to that month/year. But I've gotten to know myself in a kinder way and I've adopted a more regular practice of self-love and compassion that I always return to, even on the darkest days. It reminds me of that Zen proverb:
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
- Tommy Tung, Writer
“I have spent so much of my life running from myself. Emotions were something to be wrapped up in problem-solving and action - not felt. Because of Eden, I now want to step into those emotions and feel them as they occur - not run. I want to love my whole self through this journey, not bury my true self in expectation and conditioned mindsets. I want to sit in stillness, not anger and self-deprecation. I want to truly begin to heal myself by being present in the now.
In my high-powered corporate job, I have all but stopped being moved to action by conditional thinking. I am practicing active listening every single minute. I am listening without judgement. I am also working on compassionate awareness and action.
Life. Changing.
Many people have told me that I “feel” different in a great way.
Eden’s book is slowly becoming my touch point to continue to build and grow in my practice while maintaining my beginners mind. I am exploring ways to share this in my community.”
- Stephanie Walton, Coach, Author, Speaker, Passion Architect
“Thank you for enriching my life in such a powerful way. My ability to listen closely, while staying grounded, during charged conversations with community leaders in underserved and underrepresented areas has been completely transformed thanks to Eden.”
- Lean Kim, Creator, Mindful EPA Program; Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
“Deborah Eden Tull is a world-class teacher and communicator, and I do not say that lightly, having curated remarkable leaders and teachers for 30 years through Bioneers. I find her content among the most relevant, dimensionally delectable and accessible of any I’ve encountered. (She’s the first teacher ever to inspire me to begin practicing Relational Mindfulness, and I’m so thankful that she did, as it’s among the most useful tools in my toolkit.)
Her presence, voice, messages, and energy combine to create an invitation towards greater freedom, joy and love - in all its forms - that’s nearly irresistible. Her ways of being convey a depth of respect and a quality of connection that serve as inspiring evidence of the value of practice, and are compelling. The body of work she’s relaying is not only incredibly timely and useful, but also serves as a kind of ’trim tab’ to help shift our culture toward one that’s Earth-honoring, kind, regenerative and peaceful.”
- Nina Simons, Bioneers co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist
