Mind & Life

Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health


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In this episode, Wendy speaks with psychiatrist and contemplative researcher Zev Schuman-Olivier. Zev has been working for more than a decade to integrate mindfulness and compassion into health care, with a focus on addiction, depression, and chronic illness. This conversation covers many topics, including:

  • weaving mindfulness and compassion into clinical settings;
  • lessons from his own experience of chronic illness;
  • the key role of behavior change in health;
  • balancing individual responsibility for health with systemic factors;
  • mindfulness and addiction;
  • making interventions trauma-informed, inclusive, and broadly accessible;
  • how signals from the body help motivate action and emotion;
  • how mindfulness enhances trust in the body and changes the brain in depression;
  • Internal Family Systems and the critical role of acceptance;
  • and next steps for integrating mindfulness and compassion into complex healthcare systems.
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