The Mindful Kind

Welcome to episode 63 of The Mindful Kind podcast about money and mindfulness. This episode is all about exploring your relationship with money and understanding more about your beliefs and reactions when it comes to spending money.

Discovering more about money:

If you received $50, what would you immediately want to do with it?

If you received $1000, what would you immediately want to do with it?

What can you learn about your relationship with money from these two questions?

More journal prompts:

How do you actually feel about money?

What do you think about other people who have a lot of money (or very little)?

Do you spend money often and later regret it?

I'll be back next week with more practical tips about being more mindful with money!

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Hello and welcome to episode 62 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll discover more about how mindfulness can support us on our journeys towards enhanced health and wellbeing!

Tip 1 // Be more mindful and aware as you go about implementing your goals

Tip 2 // Know and understand yourself to help make goal achievement easier

Tip 3 // Recognise your efforts and celebrate what you've done well

Tip 4 // Set small, achievable goals

I hope you enjoy the episode:)

In episode 61 of The Mindful Kind podcast, hear about why I decided to set my first New Year's resolution in years!

Situations to practice noticing the beauty in people:

- Social media. Take a moment to stop and notice something genuinely beautiful about each person you see.

- Day to day life. Send compliments in your thoughts to people you interact with or see every day.

- Look at yourself in the mirror. Gently replace your self-criticisms with beautiful things about yourself.

The beautiful book I mention is "Be Mindful and Simplify Your Life" by Kate James and I'll be posting a review on my blog soon at www.rachaelkable.com/blog

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

Welcome to episode 60 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll discover what it means to be an introvert and how mindfulness can be useful for both introverts and extroverts (and everyone in between!) when it comes to communication.

Mindful communication tips:

1 // Practice communicating! Write down your thoughts and feelings if you need to, so you can clearly communicate more authentically.

2 // Mindfully reassure yourself if someone disagrees with you.

3 // Create space for someone else to talk so they feel heard, supported and validated.

To hear more about introversion, you might like to check out a wonderful podcast called 'The League of Extraordinary Introverts' by Katherine Mackenzie-Smith.

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

Welcome to episode 59 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll discover how to start fresh in meaningful and mindful ways.

Tip 1 // Let go of comparing yourself to others.

Tip 2 // Become more accepting of change.

Tip 3 // Check in with your values and create goals to help you be more mindful in every day life.

I hope you have a wonderful start to the New Year, Mindful Kind!

Welcome to episode 58 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, discover more about non-judgement and mindfulness, pertaining to illness and pain.

How can we use mindfulness to be less judgemental of pain, illness and challenging emotions?

Here are a few ideas:

- Experience something which may feel unpleasant or uncomfortable

- Try not to judge it as bad, or wrong

- Allow yourself to move forward

Please remember, these tips are not meant to replace medical advice, nor substitute for pain management. I simply hope they will help you cope with your difficult experiences, once you've done all you can do to manage them properly.

I hope you enjoy the episode and have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

In episode 57 of The Mindful Kind podcast, learn how to remove judgement and shame from your emotions with four meaningful tips;

One // Create a safe space to experience challenging emotions

Two // Talk about the experience out loud to normalise your emotions

Three // Let yourself move on from all emotions

Four // Try not to judge yourself for feeling the way you feel

You'll also hear my little story about scary movies, including why I used to avoid them and how I taught myself not to be afraid of my own fear.

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I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

In episode 56 of The Mindful Kind podcast, learn more about what mindfulness is and how my own practice has changed over the last year.

Specifically, find out how often I practice mindfulness and which techniques I use, how it empowers me to slow down my racing thoughts, and whether or not I find it easy to practice.

I'm also very excited to announce that I've been included in the latest feature of the Calm app, called Sleep Stories! You can find out more about this feature at www.calm.com/sleep

Over on the blog this week, I also wrote an epic blog post about how to have the best sleep of your life! Head to www.rachaelkable.com/blog for all my articles.

And finally, I'd love to have you join me on my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rachaelkable for regular mindfulness inspiration.

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!

In episode 55 of The Mindful Kind podcast, discover my thoughts on confidence and mindfulness- particularly, how we can un-learn our beliefs about not being enough.

Find out examples from my own life about how not being enough has held me back and discover some tips for overcoming these thoughts.

If you would like another actionable ten tips for growing your confidence, head to www.rachaelkable.com/blog/mindful-and-powerful-confidence-tips

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Welcome to episode 54 of The Mindful Kind podcast!

In this episode, you'll hear an honest and open story about my own fear and stress and how un-mindful I was in a very recent situation.

I hope this episode will show you how difficult it can be to practice mindfulness sometimes and how easy it can be to slip into stress.

A few things I learned:

Lean in to supports.

Do research or prepare for challenging situations to make yourself feel safer.

Listen to your body.

Be open to the positives in challenging situations.

Learn from your stressful situation about how you could be more mindful next time.

Most importantly, be forgiving and kind towards yourself and practice not feeling ashamed for the way you feel. This is a gentle reminder that we're human and things happen and we're all just doing the best we can.

I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind!