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This is a great conversation about a personal journey to mindfulness, the struggle of depression, and learning the tools to help ourselves and children to process our emotions. We talk about the 4 "S" strategies:

Be Still

Scan

State emotions

Space

Jo Dodd is an author and coach. In 2020, after a 6-month furlough, she took a bold leap, stepping away from a 25-year career in Corporate America, to launch Jotopia Productions, LLC, where she writes content that focuses on the power of positive thinking, embracing diversity and crushing fear!

Jo had published three children's books in the past two years, and is currently launching a one-of-a-kind picture book for moms called 'Dear Mama Bear with the F*cked Up Hair.' This book that tells an authentic, poignant, dark, sometimes humorous story of motherhood which is based on Jo's journey of battling a decades-long depression. Jo is passionate about shining a light for any 'Mama Bears' struggling with the ever-increasing pressures of motherhood, and hopes that this book will touch their hearts and let them know that they are not alone.

To find out more about Jo's work, visit www.livinginjotopia.com and follow her on Instagram @livinginjotopia

The takeaway's 

1. You are not alone.

2. When we talk abut the fact that we are not OK, we can normalize it and bring it into the light.

3.To see the light, you experience darkness, that duality exists.

4. Until we learn to receive love and love ourself, we can not give back in the way we should.

5.When we release something we make room for more to come in.