Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D., is a psychologist, a mind-body medicine researcher at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and the director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She is the author of Mindful Motherhood: Practical Ways for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Year, and is co-author of Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life. She is mom to eight-year-old Indigo.