In this Episode Julie Potiker, Mindfulness Expert and author of Life Falls Apart, but You Don’t Have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos, shares her own experience with depression and credits the power of therapy and her commitment to mindfulness techniques to changing her life. Recognizing that it’s easy to let the stresses of daily life overwhelm and send us into unhelpful thought patterns, Julie’s goal is to empower adults, teens and kids with tools and tips that will improve their mental health. She offers parents strategies to share with the first grader with school anxiety, the teen with FOMO ( Fear of Missing out) or the friend facing workplace bullying. She even addresses ways to cope when teens ignore what you say or partners dismiss use of mindful techniques. For Julie Potiker, practices like Self-Compassion and Loving Kindness are translatable to every age and much as anxiety can spark in a moment, calming and soothing can take its place.