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Cory Allen is an author and podcaster from Austin.

He believes the more we understand ourselves, the less we suffer. On his podcast, he discusses how to live better through teachings on mindfulness, mental clarity, and personal growth. Cory's podcast has had millions of downloads, received over a thousand five-star ratings, and been featured by The New York Times.

His first book, titled Now Is the Way, was published by Penguin Random House on September 24, 2019. His second book is scheduled to be published in the summer of 2024.

Meditation is an effective tool for adding coherence, awareness, and compassion to life. It was so helpful to him that he decided to share his approach in the online meditation courses called Release Into Now and Coming Home. Since then, Cory has taught thousands of people how to meditate with clear and concise methods.

He loves music. In fact, he's been studying, writing, and producing music for over 20 years. He's released over a dozen albums and is also a mastering engineer that has mastered hundreds of records for other artists.

This episode was NOT sponsored by Vadham tea...although they should have. :)

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Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and the author of The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering Your Natural Awareness. Called by the Los Angeles Times “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” she has taught mindfulness since 1999 in a variety of settings including hospitals, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and schools in the US and Asia. A sought-after speaker, she developed the evidence-based Mindful Awareness Practices (MAPS) curriculum and the Training in Mindfulness Facilitation, which trains mindfulness teachers worldwide. She is a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.

Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, O Magazine, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. She is also the author of Wide Awake: A Buddhist Guide for Teens, the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present: The Science, Art and Practice of Mindfulness, and has published numerous articles on mindfulness. She is considered one of the early founders of meditation programs and retreats for youth.
Diana is a member of the Teacher's Council at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Northern California where she was trained to teach by Jack Kornfield. She has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 1989, including a year as a Buddhist nun in Burma. She is a graduate of Brown University. More recently, Diana’s meditations were featured on the California governor’s Covid-19 Response website.
Currently, Diana’s most challenging and rewarding practice involves trying to mindfully parent her daughter.

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This is a concept that came from sitting next to a seat mate on an airplane. He read You're My Favorite and sent a DM after finishing saying that the story reminded him of the Japanese art form called Kintsugi.

The idea is that rather than throwing away a broken item, usually a piece of pottery, often a bowl or vase, they are repaired with gold.

So, when you apply this concept to life, we really have 3 options:

1.) You can throw the broken item away because it's garbage. Perhaps you view it as unrepairable or not worth acknowledging or fixing. You discard it.

2.) You can try to patch the pieces back together and try to camouflage or conceal the breaks as though nothing happened or as though there was nothing wrong with it to begin with.

3.) OR - what if - like in Kintsugi, you highlight and embrace the breaks, difficulties, struggles and challenges. Because what if that's what makes us whole, and a beautiful masterpiece and uniquely us.

While, the origin of Kintsugi is unknown, here are some resources.

Kintsugi definition: https://www.britannica.com/art/kintsugi-ceramics

NBC News article: https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/how-japanese-art-technique-kintsugi-can-help-you-be-more-ncna866471

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Today's special guest is Dr. Karyl McBride. This episode is focused around trauma recovery for adult children of narcissistic mothers. Being a child of a narcissist often leaves people wondering...Will I ever be good enough? And Will I Ever Be Good Enough? is the title of Dr. McBride's first book. Her most recent, Will The Drama Ever End? is out now in hardcover, audiobook and ebook formats and will be available 3.26.24 in paperback. She focuses on the recovery process and provides helpful tools and context in this episode.

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Karyl McBride, Ph.D., LMFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Denver, Colorado with thirty-nine plus years of public and private practice. She specializes in treating clients with dysfunctional family issues. For the past many years, Dr. McBride has been involved in private research regarding parental narcissism and the debilitating effects of narcissism in relationships. She has treated many adult children of narcissistic parents as well as many others involved in relationships with narcissists in her private practice. Dr. McBride is considered a pioneering and leading expert in her field. Dr. McBride also has extensive clinical experience in the fields of trauma, sexual abuse, domestic violence, divorce, and stepfamily therapy, marital and family therapy, specialized trauma treatment in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), and individual adjustment issues related to anxiety, depression, and life transitions. In her career, Dr. McBride has done forensic consulting and has served as an expert witness in numerous civil and criminal cases involving children and sexual abuse. She has nine years’ experience conducting sexual abuse investigations with law enforcement and has conducted training for law enforcement in the area of sexual abuse investigations. In 1996, she was invited to present her doctoral research at the International Police Research Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Is there something you've been procrastinating? Or what about waiting to be ready to start something? This episode is chock-full of useful and scientific information -- including the makeup of and possible contributors of the wiring of the brain -- on why we procrastinate and how to improve in this area. People may want to wait until they're ready to start something, but according to Seth Godin, if you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late. People can procrastinate for a variety of different reasons, including being fearful that they might not be good at something, or it's not an enjoyable task. Maybe they perceive that it will take too long. Usually things take less time to do than predicted! It's often not the action that is the issue, it's starting. That's why at the beginning of every workout, Peloton instructor Jess Sims says that you've completed the hardest part...showing up. Imagine if you started what you've been putting off when you thought about starting it. It's about progress and not perfection. Mel Robbins says, "Start late. Start over. Start scared. Start again. Just start."

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https://jamesclear.com/procrastination

https://www.narcissisticabuserehab.com/the-long-term-consequences-of-narcissistic-abuse/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-do-we-procrastinate-experts-explain-the-science

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It's a one on one chat with Ginny this week. And it's a good one! This week is all about diving into how we think about and talk to ourselves.

Do you engage in negative self-talk? Well, data shows that we have up to 60,000 thoughts per day and up 80% -- EIGHT PERCENT -- of those thoughts are negative.

Imagine the changes you can create when you start doing this one thing?! When you start speaking to and treating yourself with more kindness. Imagine the transformation you can cultivate for yourself. This is one thing that we have so much control over, but we have to be completely honest with ourselves in order to be able to make this shift and see the impact it can have on our lives.

It's time to start building yourself up and stop beating yourself up. Our thoughts create our feelings, our feelings shape our mood and our mood creates our reality. Woah!

Ginny is offering newsletter subscribers and podcast listeners first access to a new downloadable that can help you make this shift.

It's called The KindKey Mindshift Workbook and you can download it here. https://www.ginnypriem.com/products/p/o6tpaa4kkrbceecmb7usmq2oht549y

It's a 14-page workbook that provides context and data to support this concept as well as a quick quiz to provide you with a baseline. You'll also learn how to make this shift in an easy to follow step-by-step guide. There are monthly, weekly and other meaningful worksheets that you can print out as many times as you'd like so you can track your progress and see what you're proud of in changing your old thoughts into new thoughts.

She shares the 4 main types of negative self-talk according to Mayo Clinic -- catastrophizing, personalizing, filtering and polarizing -- with examples and how you can shift these to more positive thoughts in an easy to follow 3-step process.

We can't change the past or our previous thoughts, but we can cultivate the future ones starting right now. It's not just about downloading the workbook. You have to commit to doing the work and unlocking your secret power that you already have within you: The KindKey.

Positive self-talk and thoughts can help you improve longevity, decrease stress, improve overall well-being and much more, according to Mayo Clinic.

Think about your life and reality today. And then think about if tomorrow, next week, next month, next year -- do you want your life to be the same, worse or better. If you said better, the KindKey Mindshift Workbook will help you track your progress and how your thoughts, feelings and mood contribute to your overall wellbeing. Download it today and get started.

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Mayo Clinic article: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-depth/positive-thinking/art-20043950

Fast Company article: https://www.fastcompany.com/90645945/4-science-backed-ways-to-identify-and-stop-negative-self-talk

Dr. Elizabeth Scott article: https://www.verywellmind.com/negative-self-talk-and-how-it-affects-us-4161304

Mindset Mentor "Do The Thing" podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aHh5JEjizNkVKYFgpszCN?si=FsjcqcAmTlCCJwfTAImlow

Have you ever wondered why someone is so sensitive? Or perhaps you've wondered if you're being sensitive or even overly sensitive. What if there was data that supported that there may be reasons behind feeling things more, both physically and emotionally, than the average person. Maybe you can sense someone else's feelings, or are deeply moved by music or the beauty of nature. Sensitive to crowds, loud sounds, itchy fabrics? These are just a few things that could be indicators of being an HSP. In the 1990s Dr. Elaine Aron pioneered research on the topic of what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP.) Dr. Elizabeth Scott provides her expertise on this topic and dives deep on what it means to be an HSP, how to cope with it, and sheds light on how being an HSP may be linked to being a child of a narcissist! You can take a quiz that is linked through Dr. Scott's Verywell Mind article that is linked below.

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About Dr. Scott:

Dr. Elizabeth Scott is an author, personal coach, and speaker, who has over two decades of experience educating and working with others on issues related to stress, emotional wellbeing, health, relationships, and overall life satisfaction. She is the author of 8 Keys to Stress Management and has published thousands of articles on stress and its effects, as well as relationship issues, happiness, gratitude, personality, and much more. She offers online courses, workshops, stress relief tools, coaching, and a free newsletter to help people build resilience, increase productivity, and create the meaningful lives they’ve always imagined. Elizabeth Scott has a Ph.D. in Psychology, an M.S. in Counseling focused marriage and family therapy, and a B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University. She is a PCC-certified coach and author of 8 Keys to Stress Management. She has been featured in Verywell Mind, the American Institute of Stress, Business Insider, CNN, Glamour, and several other news outlets, and is releasing an app for stress relief and productivity in 2024.

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Verywell Mind Article: https://www.verywellmind.com/highly-sensitive-persons-traits-that-create-more-stress-4126393

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