60 Mindful Minutes

Whether we're aware of it or not, most of us spend a lot of time in our thoughts and use our minds to navigate the world. For Sarah Blondin, there's another layer to living, a dimension we're missing when we forget to turn towards our hearts to connect with ourselves and the world around us. In her book, Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love, she invites readers to come home to themselves and uses centering practices to help us return to a place of groundedness and connection to a deep knowing within.   Guest Bio Sarah Blondin’s InsightTimer meditations have received over 7 million plays from over 600,000 listeners. She is also host of her own half-million-listener podcast Live Awake. Her work has been translated into several languages and is in use in prison, recovery, and wellness programs. Her online course, Coming Home to Yourself, released in the spring of 2018, is InsightTimer’s top seller. She lives in the quiet countryside of British Columbia, Canada, with her husband and two sons. More at sarahblondin.com.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode230    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: Heart Minded: How to Hold Yourself and Others in Love https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Minded-Hold-Yourself-Others/dp/1683643410    Guest’s website: sarahblondin.com.   Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   

Suck it up. Stuff it down. For many men, this is the extent of their emotional education. In his new book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom, Connor Beaton asks: Where is the modern-day strength training for the hearts and minds of men? Offering a tactical, self-led guide for men to explore their inner world, Connor blazes a new trail of facing fear, self-sabotage, anger and anxiety head on in order to find liberation from the limiting thoughts, emotions, and patterns men often face.    Guest Bio Connor Beaton is the founder of ManTalks, an international organization dedicated to the personal growth of men. He is a facilitator dedicated to building better men, an entrepreneur, a writer, and a keynote speaker. Connor has spoken to large corporate brands, nonprofits, schools, and international organizations such as the United Nations, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Apple, TED, and Entrepreneurs' Organization. For more, visit connorbeaton.com.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode229    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: Men's Work: A Practical Guide to Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, and Find Freedom https://www.amazon.com/Mens-Work-Practical-Darkness-Self-Sabotage/dp/1683649907    Guest’s website: www.connorbeaton.com    Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   

Most of us can relate to being addicted to something at some point in our lives, and can remember the oh so familiar negative cycle of succumbing to our addictions, feeling shame and regret, making new attempts and commitments for change, and then possibly failing again and again. This week, we welcome Rebecca Williams to share insights from her book, The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addiction, which is all about  creating in-the-moment mindfulness skills that give us the tools we need to navigate this cycle, and to transcend it completely.   Guest Bio BIO: Rebecca is an award-winning author, psychologist, and wellness expert specializing in healthy recovery from mental illness, addiction, and life’s challenges.  For the past 25 years, her work has focused on building resilience and embracing emotional well-being. She has been a program director at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an associate clinical professor at The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. A life-long yoga enthusiast, Rebecca has also been a yoga instructor for over 15 years. She was able to combine the ancient wisdom of yoga and mindfulness with compassionate recovery from addiction in her books. Rebecca has collaborated for over ten years with marriage and family therapist, Julie Kraft. Their first book together, The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress, and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors is popular with both therapists and recovering clients.  Their workbook is used in virtual counseling, group therapy, and addiction recovery centers across the country.  The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction has been translated into Korean, Japanese, Russian, and Hungarian! Their workbook is celebrating a 10th anniversary with a new, updated second edition!  Continuing their writing journey together, Rebecca and Julie created a new book, The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addiction. The Gift of Recovery is a pocket coach offering lots of in-the-moment mindfulness skills and adds powerful daily affirmations as clients continue on their personal healing journey.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode228    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: The Gift of Recovery: 52 Mindful Ways to Live Joyfully Beyond Addiction https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Recovery-Mindful-Joyfully-Addiction/dp/1684030706    Guest’s website: https://www.newharbinger.com/author/rebecca-e-williams/    Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   

Imagine you’ve got a glass jar filled with sugar on your kitchen counter. You are the jar, and the sugar is your energy. This week we connect with author Yasmine Cheyenne about her book, The Sugar Jar Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life. This book is about how we can get an accurate gauge of how much is in the sugar jar (how resourced we are). It’s about identifying what depletes us and what restores us so we can spend our sugar more effectively and more in line with who we are and what we need.    Guest Bio Yasmine Cheyenne is a self-healing educator, author, speaker, and mental wellness advocate who helps people learn how to cultivate daily practices to build healthy, joyful lives. Yasmine believes in “Self-healing For Everyone™” and on 2/22/22, launched The Sugar Jar Community™ app, a safe space with resources to support mental health. She has been featured on the Today show and in InStyle, Forbes, Refinery 29, The Every Girl, Poosh, and more. She lives in Washington, DC.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode227    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: The Sugar Jar Create Boundaries, Embrace Self-Healing, and Enjoy the Sweet Things in Life https://yasminecheyenne.com/books/    Guest’s website: https://yasminecheyenne.com/    Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com     

This week we connect with Becky Volmer, author of the brand new book, You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom This is a book about action. Who doesn’t feel stuck sometimes? Sometimes it’s in our jobs, our relationships, sometimes it can feel like our whole life feels stuck. Any time we feel like we can’t see better options, or we’re just not clear, or things just don’t seem to be turning out, we can become immobilized. You Are Not Stuck is about making bold choices that can sometime looks like an audacious leap; more often, though, it is a series of small, deliberate actions based on personal values that yield more clarity, alignment, and, ultimately, long-term contentment.   Guest Bio Becky Vollmer is a speaker, yoga teacher, and creator of You Are Not Stuck, a movement that empowers people to pursue the lives they most deeply desire. She guides a global community on social media that is several hundred thousand strong, teaches online courses about empowerment and choice, and leads sold-out programs that combine movement, breathwork, self-exploration, and action planning at yoga and wellness centers across the country. A former newspaper journalist, Becky writes on topics including personal growth, relationships, mental health and wellness, mindfulness, meditation, and spirituality. She also is a leading voice in the sobriety and recovery community. Becky lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband, their four children, three pets, and more flowers that one person should be allowed.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode226    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s books: You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Stuck-Soul-Guided/dp/1250864364  Guest’s website: https://www.youarenotstuck.com/    Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com     

John Strelecky, #1 bestselling inspirational author, returns for his fifth visit to 60 Mindful Minutes. An annual tradition, we kick off every year with a conversation with John. This year we discuss how to create more meaning and find more purpose for 2023.    Guest Bio John Strelecky is a #1 bestselling inspirational author. His books have been translated into over forty-three languages and sold more than eight million copies worldwide. They have won bestseller of the year awards seven times and collectively spent more than one thousand three hundred weeks on bestseller lists, including more than three hundred weeks in the #1 spot. John’s entry into the world of writing began following a life changing experience when he was thirty-three years old. From that, he was inspired to sit down and tell the story shared in his first book - The Cafe on the Edge of the World. Within a year after its release, word of mouth support from readers had spread that book across the globe - inspiring people on every continent, including Antarctica. It has been a #1 Bestseller in multiple countries.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode225    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-Strelecky/author/B001IOBII0  Guest’s website: https://www.johnstrelecky.com/  Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com     

There is so much more to our breathing than simply our automatic inhales and exhales. In fact, our breathing has an immense hidden power to change the way we think and feel. This week I’m joined by Stuart Sandeman, breath coach, founder of Breathpod and author of Breathe In, Breathe Out: Restore Your Health, Reset Your Mind and Find Happiness Through Breathwork. Our breathing impacts our sleep, stress and how we manage pain. It has potential to help us focus better, perform better and connect more deeply with ourselves, others and the world around us. We just need to begin leveraging the power of the breath, which is simple but not always easy.  Guest Bio Stuart Sandeman is the founder of Breathpod and has worked as a breath coach to award-winning artists, Olympic athletes and top business executives. He has created two series of Decompression Sessions for BBC Sounds and BBC Radio 1, and joined Brit Award winner Lewis Capaldi on his 2020 UK tour to help support anxious fans.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode224    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: Breathe In, Breathe Out: Restore Your Health, Reset Your Mind and Find Happiness Through Breathwork https://www.amazon.com/Breathe-Out-Restore-Happiness-Breathwork/dp/1335430687    Guest’s website: https://www.breathpod.com/  Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com     

If you’re struggling to make sense of the role technology plays in our lives, you’re not alone. Many of us are asking questions about boundaries and privacy, but also deeper questions about the purpose digital media has in our lives, and the costs and benefits of its presence. This week, we dive into questions about our digital lives with Bob Hutchins and Jenny Back, authors of Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma and A Path Toward Recovery.    Guest Bio Bob Hutchins is an accomplished and dynamic marketing executive with a 20+ year comprehensive background in marketing in both corporate and small to medium environments across various industries. He is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in digital marketing, consumer psychology, and organizational marketing direction. As a digital marketing expert, author, and cultural interpreter, Bob is uniquely positioned to help brands understand how to communicate and integrate marketing efforts in a style that is human and relatable. His latest book, Finally Human, explores ways brands can use technology and social media to communicate in styles that are human, impactful, and restorative.   Jenny Black is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in Media Trauma—the ways that media impacts our mental health, creativity and productivity. She is the co-author of Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma and A Path Toward Recovery. She hosts the podcast, LOST+FOUND: Lose the Phone. Find the Flow where we follow the journey of one artist as they see how losing their smart phone for 30 days changes their creativity. In 2022, she delivered a Tedx Talk on The Slow Drip of Media Trauma.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode223    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com    Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: Our Digital Soul: Collective Anxiety, Media Trauma and A Path Toward Recovery https://www.amazon.com/Our-Digital-Soul-Collective-Recovery/dp/B0BK4WYLGB/   Guest’s website: https://www.ourdigitalsoul.com/  Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com  Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com     

What does it mean to be in touch with the heart of who we are? That question is at the core of The Heart of Who We Are. Written by Caverly Morgan, a meditation teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder, the book offers a pathway to contemplate such topics as our interconnectedness, our beingness, and the things that get in the way of us feeling whole and complete. This week we look at how awareness practices and contemplative technologies can transform our understanding of ourselves and the world.   Guest Bio Caverly Morgan is a meditation teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder. She is the founder and Lead Contemplative of Peace in Schools—a nonprofit which created the nation's first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools. She is also the founder of Presence Collective, a community of cross-cultural contemplatives committed to personal and collective transformation, creating spaces for wisdom exchange and belonging. Caverly blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual approach. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001. Caverly is the author of A Kid’s Book About Mindfulness. Her new book for adults, The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together, through Sounds True is available here. Caverly speaks publicly at conferences on topics including contemplative practice, personal and collective transformation, social entrepreneurship, authentic leadership, and mindfulness education, and has been featured in publications such as Mindful magazine (as a cover subject) and The New York Times.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode222   Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Who-We-Are-Realizing/dp/1683649222/   Guest’s website: https://www.caverlymorgan.org/     Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com Connect with the 60 Mindful Minutes podcast   Web: https://kristenmanieri.com  Email: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   

This week I’m joined by Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, a licensed psychologist specializing in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The focus of our conversation is on fostering patterns of thought that serve us well and encourage us to behave in ways that meet our goals. We will be discussing Seth’s new book, Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace, and exploring how we can all have more peace in our minds.   Guest Bio Licensed psychologist Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, specializes in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and other conditions. Dr. Gillihan has written and lectured nationally and internationally on CBT and how the brain is involved in regulating our moods. Dr. Gillihan is a Fellow of the Center for Neuroscience and Society at Penn. He hosts the weekly Think Act Be podcast, which features conversations on living more fully, and is author of the free guide, "10 Ways to Manage Stress and Anxiety Every Day," available at sethgillihan.com. Dr. Gillihan completed his BA in French and biology at Indiana University, his MA in community counseling at The George Washington University, and his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. You can find Dr. Gillihan on the web at sethgillihan.com and on his PsychologyToday.com blog, Think Act Be. He lives in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife and three children.   For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode221   Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com   Mentioned in this Episode Guest’s book: Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Peace https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Cognitive-Behavioral-Therapy-Healing/dp/0063075717   Guest’s website: https://sethgillihan.com/     Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase both productivity and wellbeing. She also helps individuals navigate transition with clarity and confidence. Her areas of focus are: stress reduction, energy management, mindset, resilience, habit formation, rest rituals, and self-care. As the host of the weekly 60 Mindful Minutes podcast, an Apple top 100 social science podcast, Kristen has interviewed over 200 authors about what it means to live a more conscious, connected, intentional and joyful life. Learn more at kristenmanieri.com/work-with-me.    Learn more about coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com