In this episode, I talk about all different kinds of mindfulness: eating, exercise, playing with kids, doing work, and how mindfulness has been helping me a lot during the pandemic. Also the Calm App.

This week's episode is about exercise! But not how you think. I'm not going to try to convince you that exercise is good for you (we all know that) but rather give some tips on how to make exercise POSSIBLE. I think the best tagline for this episode is "exercise is not a punishment"- do what you like!

In this episode, I talk about food, but not about how you all should eat beans and fruit and whatnot. Instead, I focus on what we should NOT do with food (other than throw it). Specifically, don't use food as a reward, and as a way to deal with boredom/emotions. (But if you do, forgive yourself!)

In this episode I talk about going outside, Anne Lamott, and not being a perfectionist. Just walk outside your door!

This episode is about practicing gratitude and getting our heads in a better place (from a completely non-professional perspective). I talk about keeping a gratitude journal and having a "grateful" dinner with your family.

In this episode, I talk about a book called Rest: Why you get more done when you work less, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, and how rest is not only helpful to make us more productive but also just in its own right, it is important to our lives (especially in a pandemic, but also all the time).

In this episode, I talk about coming up with a list (real or virtual) of things that make you feel better. Not like eating 10 cookies (not that there is anything wrong with that), but things that *actually* make you feel better.

In this episode, I talk about how to set up your ideal week calendar (idea by Cathy Mazak, academic women's writing coach extraordinaire), but with a focus on college students rather than faculty.

In this episode, I talk about the 5 vowels in Spanish (aeiou) and the (more like 11-14) vowels in English, and how they are pronounced differently. Also, I talk about the schwa sound and how we should not pronounce this sound in Spanish!