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I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

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Hello and welcome to episode 104 of the Mindful Kind podcast and the fourth episode in the mini series about

communication. I feel like this mini series is absolutely flying by, but I've really loved

hearing the feedback for the first couple of episodes. I'm really glad so many of you are finding

the tips interesting and practical, and I'm really looking forward to sharing more about communication. I think it's

such an important topic and can make a real difference in everyday life. Anyway, the topic for this

episode is encouraging other people to communicate. I know that for someone like me, learning to

communicate well was really difficult and it helped me to have encouragement from

others and safe spaces to talk. As an introvert who used to be really, really shy, communicating

was something I tended to avoid whenever possible and there were times when it used to isolate me.

So I think there are two really important things to learn here. One, communicating

may be really difficult, but that doesn't mean you can't become better at it. And two,

if you happen to find it quite easy to communicate, please try not to assume that everyone else

finds it easy as well. So first of all, let's talk about creating a supportive environment

to practice communicating in. Think about how you feel when you're learning something new.

You might be feeling vulnerable, self-conscious, overwhelmed, anxious. So it's really important

that the environment you practice communicating in or the environment

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