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In today’s fast-paced world, we are constantly bombarded by so many things that distract us from being in the present moment. With so much that we can access within our fingertips, whether it’s social media, our computers, or the news, it can be really tough to tune into ourselves.
Truthfully, it can sometimes feel better to distract ourselves than to really dig deep to understand how and why we feel the ways that we do. It’s time that we all learned how to be a bit more mindful.
Mindfulness is so much more than meditation. It can help us manage our stress, fears, and anxieties. While we often think that we’re too busy to practice mindfulness, we’re not. There are various strategies that can be used throughout our busy days. Our guest today, Josephine Atluri is here to show us how.
Josephine is an expert in meditation and mindfulness helping thousands of people overcome adversity to find joy. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago, and coupled her consulting background with her passion for Total Wellness to become certified as a meditation coach and teach corporate mindfulness. Plus, her experience creating her modern day family of seven children via in vitro fertilization, internal adoption and surrogacy inspires her work as a highly sought after fertility and parenting mindfulness coach.
Josephine also hosts a popular podcast called Responding to Life, talking health, fertility and parenthood, where she interviews guests on their inspiring responses to life’s challenges. Her parenting mindfulness expertise and fertility advocacy work has been featured in the LA Times, Mind Body Green, Motherly, Prevention, The Bump, Well + Good, and Women’s Day. Josephine is the author of the book Mindfulness Journal for Parents. Her new book, Five Minute Mindfulness for Pregnancy was released just a few weeks ago.
Josephine and I talk about what mindfulness is and the difference between mindfulness and meditation. We also discuss mindfulness in children and what it can look like for your day to day life.
In this episode we discuss:
- What it means to be mindful.
- The difference between mindfulness and meditation.
- Benefits one can see when using mindfulness or meditation as a practice.
- How you can fit 10 minutes of meditation into your day.
- Three tips to help you sit in meditation when you feel like you’re doing it wrong.
Resources:
- Josephine’s mindfulness books
- What are the Benefits of Mindfulness? A Practice Review of Psychotherapy-Related Research
- Read more about the benefits of mindfulness (apa.org)
- Insight Timer
- Calm
- Unplug Meditation
- Expectful
- Cosmic Kids Yoga
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Questions Asked In The Episode:
- What does mindfulness mean?
- How can busy moms practice mindfulness?
- What is the difference between mindfulness and meditation?
- What would meditation look like for someone’s very first time doing it?
- Is there a better time of day for people to practice meditation?
- What meditation apps do you recommend?
- How long does it take to see benefits from meditations?
- What are some ways we can practice mindfulness with our kids?
