This episode will change your life. We're talking the secret to more calm, clarity, and joy,

redefining mindfulness, and self-compassion. Let's make it happen. Welcome to the feel-good effect.

I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I help people find time and create space in their lives

for what matters most by sharing simplified strategies for wellness.

This podcast is all about real talk, real wellness, and unpacking what it really means to be healthy.

Well, hey, feel good fam, I am so glad you're here for this episode that will change your life. And I don't say that lightly. Our guest today is Shana Shapiro,

Ph.D., who is a professor, author, an internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and

compassion. She's published

over 150 journal articles and co-authored three critically acclaimed books, including her most

recent, Good Morning, I Love You, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to rewire the

brain for calm, clarity, and joy. In this conversation,

Shauna is sharing her updated definition of mindfulness, which I think is so incredibly powerful,

plus why your attitude matters. Plus, we're talking about why self-compassion in itself

is so incredibly transformative and radical. Plus, we're talking about why self-compassion in itself is so incredibly transformative and radical.

Plus the misgivings, common misgivings people have about self-compassion, the way that we misunderstand it, the way that we think it's either not even important or that it actually will make us weak or try less hard.

And she's sharing some incredibly simple ways to practice

mindfulness and practice self-compassion to rewire for more calm, clarity, and joy. I think

this is so incredibly powerful, whether you're going through something personally or globally, this could not come at a better time.

I hope that you listen. I hope that you share this far and wide text email on social media.

And I hope that you'll put this into practice starting now. It doesn't have to be perfect.

It doesn't have to be all or nothing. It doesn't have to be perfect. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. It doesn't have

to look like anyone else. But all you have to do is start and watch the way that it ripples across

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