Janet Alston Jackson

Janet Alston Jackson a USA Book News Award-winning author, is a certified Mindfulness teacher. For over 20 years she has taught Mindfulness to corporations, law enforcement, health-care workers, parents, teachers, and college students to help them release stress in their lives.

Janet’s teachings and writings are influenced as a student of several master Zen teachers, including receiving the Three Jewels and Five Mindfulness Trainings and Certification through the transmission of world-renowned Mindfulness Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. It was then that she received her Dharma name: "Compassionate Healer of the Heart."

Her writings are also influenced by her former job as a publicist promoting celebrities and shows for CBS and ABC Television Networks; the library of metaphysical books she studies, spending four years in a non-denominational ministry; her personal evolution, including raising her three children including 2 adopted and one with special needs.

She is a professional member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.

“Mindfulness is one of the highest forms of loving yourself,” says Janet. “The practice taught me how. My life mission and purpose is to teach others this beautiful ancient training to release stress, fears and worries in our challenging modern times.”