The Aware Mind

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In this episode, Sarah and her guest, Doctor Breese, discuss what shame feels like and sounds like, especially as relates to negative body image. Learn the differences between negative body image and body dysmorphia and how dieting is often a form of disordered eating. However, with mindfulness, we can wake up to our patterns of thinking and behaviors and lean into our emotional experiences. These mindful abilities are the antidote to body and eating challenges that affect more than half of Americans. Learn specific steps you can take to make changes and feel better as soon as the episode concludes. 

Doctor Breese Annable's website: www.livingbalanceavl.com

TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center FREE monthly meditation group meets the third Saturday of each month at 10:00 AM New York Time/3:00 PM London Time. May 20, June 17, July 15,  August 19 etc. Register at https://www.tsdmind.org/group

Online Book Club discussion TBA on a Monday at 7:00 PM Eastern Time.

Important links:
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah's current coaching client and guest, Jasmine, tells her story of healing from childhood trauma with the help of the tools provided by TSD Mindfulness practice and coaching. Jasmine grew up in a home with alcoholism and at a young age learned she needed to ignore her needs in order to "keep the peace" at home.  Even as an adult she still struggled to feel and understand her emotions, as well as, know what she needed in relationships. TSD has helped her heal from abandonment, neglect and shame that came from her childhood experiences. Listen to her story and learn how you too can use tools such as, the Emotional Clusters linked here, to begin your healing journey. 

The Emotional Clusters: https://www.tsdmind.org/_files/ugd/8bdf26_e098853c2ccd431eab2923afa955ee10.pdf

TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center FREE monthly meditation group meets the third Saturday of each month at 10:00 AM New York Time/3:00 PM London Time.  April 22, May 20, June 17, July 15,  August 19 etc. Register at https://www.tsdmind.org/group

Online Book Club discussion TBA on a Monday at 7:00 PM Eastern Time.

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and her guest, Brianna Cuthrell, discuss how mindfulness can be used to minimize anxiety caused by anxious thinking. 90% of people have intrusive thoughts but it is rare for people to share their uncomfortable thoughts with others. We often experience shame about the thoughts that our minds create, which causes even more anxiety. Not to mention the anxiety and fight or flight responses the thoughts originally cause. But there are ways to process through this experience, which will leave you calm and confident. Mindfulness is an effective method for addressing intrusive thoughts and worries because this practice helps us accept the reality of the phenomenon of our brains while at the same time supporting us to not judge ourselves or our experience. 

Brianna's Website- https://www.borntobendcounseling.com
Brianna's Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/borntobendavl
Brianna's Instagram- @borntobendavl

TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center FREE monthly meditation group meets the third Saturday of each month at 10:00 AM New York Time/3:00 PM London Time.  April 22, May 20, June 17, July 22,  August 19 etc. Register at https://www.tsdmind.org/group

Online Book Club discussion TBA on a Monday at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Email Sarah for details at [email protected]

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and her guest, Sonya Strange, discuss why fawning and people-pleasing is a survival response caused by past trauma. This fawning response can affect every aspect of our relationships including sexual encounters. There is limited information available on the topic of fawning during sex, therefore this is an important episode to listen to and become educated on why fawning can lead to discomfort and shame after sexual assault and other sexual encounters. Please share this episode with your loved ones who have endured sexual trauma. They might gain great insight and learn what steps to take to further their healing.

Sonya's website: https://www.sonyastrange.com
Sonya's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonya._.strange/
Sonya's FaceBook: www.facebook.com/SonyaStrangeConsulting

Psych Central article: https://psychcentral.com/health/fawn-response
Luis Mojica and Holistic Life Navigation: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/

Online Book Club discussion of "The Art of Living" by Thich Nhat Hahn March, 27 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Email Sarah for details at [email protected]

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and her guest, Melanie Haskell, discuss the ways learning about the Enneagram can change your life. The Enneagram is a circle of personality types that identify how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. The Enneagram describes nine personality types and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagram which helps to illustrate how the types relate to one another. Learn how the three fields (mental, gut and heart) of TSD Mindfulness line up with the three instinct centers of the Enneagram (head, gut and heart). And how awareness of what drives your behaviors is one of the best ways to understand yourself.

Recommended Enneagram test to get started:  https://tests.enneagraminstitute.com/

Online Book Club discussion of "The Art of Living" by Thich Nhat Hahn March, 27 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Email Sarah for details at [email protected]

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and her guests, Ali Sweeney and Marzia Bosi, discuss the ways mindfulness can break down perfectionism into its various parts so you can better manage stress caused by perfectionism. Perfectionism can result in physical symptoms, relationship stress, anxiety and depression. TSD Mindfulness provides tools for healing through perfectionism, including naming your thinking, identifying your patterns of overextension, acknowledging your shame cycles, validating your experience, and giving yourself compassion. Listen and learn where perfectionism comes from and how five minutes a day can help break the cycle.

Ali Sweeney's website: http://www.alightinsight.com

Online Book Club discussion of "The Art of Living" by Thich Nhat Hahn March, 27 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Email Sarah for details at [email protected]

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog 
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org 
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com 
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and her guest, Emelda De Coteau, discuss the ways mindfulness can reduce overwhelm, feelings of shame and disconnection. They talk about the importance of taking a pause instead of simply pushing through every single moment. What are we missing when we do not acknowledge our difficulty and simply power through instead?  Emelda shares true stories of three of her mindfulness clients and how she used the tools and exercises of TSD Mindfulness to guide them to calm and peace in spite of their various life challenges.

Follow Emelda De Coteau on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whenmotherhoodlooksdifferent/
Listen to Emelda's podcast "Pray With Our Feet": https://www.praywithourfeet.org/

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog  
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org  
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com  
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and her guest, Heather Liv Melver, discuss the ways mindfulness can reduce, and sometimes even eliminate, experiences of anxiety. Heather shares her personal story of how she learned to accept the realness of what she was feeling in the present moment and trust that life will unfold in a way she can feel good about. Heather was formally diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and also had many of the markers of PTSD, due to exposure to bombings and shootings overseas and in the US. Listen and hear how Heather has found calmness, peace and healing with the help of her new mindfulness practice. 

Heather's website: https://minding-the-gaps.org/

Online Book Club: February 6 @ 7:00 PM (New York time). This month we are reading "What Happened to You" by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perr.

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog  
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org  
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com  
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TSD_Mindfulness/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and Jacob talk about the three doorways of liberation in the Buddhist teachings,  emptiness, signlessness and aimlessness. Kinda sounds like a wondering fool doesn't it? Could it be that forgetting the details of who you are, giving less meaning to your circumstances and reducing your goal-setting are actually all the things that contribute to happiness? Sarah isn't completely convinced but Jacob does a good job convincing her otherwise. 

Article about the Doors of Liberation:
https://www.lionsroar.com/the-doors-of-liberation-may-2014/

ONLINE RETREAT: January 21,  9AM - 2 PM EST.  The topic of this retreat is "Building Worthiness and Understanding Codependence".  https://www.tsdmind.org/retreats

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog  
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org  
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com  
Jacob's Personal Training website http://www.jacobderossett.com 
Jacob's YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/9yykwne9
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aware_mind_podcast/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).

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In this episode, Sarah and Jacob talk about their personal struggles and triumphs with worthiness. A lack of worthiness can show up in our lives as packed schedules, lack of boundaries with difficult people, a need to be successful, fear of failure or not capable of feeling difficult emotions in a healthy way. Take the "Worthiness Test" with Sarah and Jacob and find out which of these categories you have great worthiness and which you could strengthen your worthiness. This episode is especially helpful for anyone who has experienced childhood trauma. 

Access the Worthiness Test here:
https://www.tsdmind.org/_files/ugd/8bdf26_0c70819c44b8427eb5aea47eab98e489.pdf

ONLINE RETREAT: January 21,  9AM - 2 PM EST.  The topic of this retreat is "Building Worthiness and Understanding Codependence".  https://www.tsdmind.org/retreats

Important links:
The Aware Mind blog: http://www.tsdmind.org/blog  
TSD Mindfulness Virtual Meditation Center http://www.tsdmind.org  
Sarah's Mindfulness Coaching website: http://www.sarahvallely.com  
Jacob's Personal Training website http://www.jacobderossett.com 
Jacob's YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/9yykwne9
The Aware Mind on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/aware_mind_podcast/

This episode is a meditation for beginners, and mindfulness for beginners resource. Intermediate and advanced meditators will also benefit. The Aware Mind produces content that supports stress reduction, anxiety relief, better concentration and focus, and trauma healing.

The Aware Mind is produced by TSD Mindfulness, a virtual meditation center, offering mindfulness classes, certifications and private coaching for people with past trauma, anxiety and depression disorders, business leaders, and people who work in the helping professions (i.e. counselors, healers and yoga and meditation teachers).