Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

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

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 138 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

This episode is going to be a bit of a celebration

because I submitted the first draft of my book to my publisher today. It feels kind of surreal actually,

but I'm so excited and really proud of what I created. I thought I would share a little bit of a

behind-the-scenes look at how my book

journey unfolded and how I've written a book in just over eight months whilst working part

time, building a business and moving house. I definitely feel that mindfulness and meditation and all

of my other self-care practices have been so important during this journey

and I want to talk about exactly how I used those practices to my advantage.

So this all started on the 15th of September in 2017 when I received an email with the subject

line, possible print book. My heart was raising before I even

opened to the email and after I read it I was even more excited. The email was from a publisher

who had heard my podcast and then visited my website to find my two e-books. She said that if I was

interested in writing a book, she'd love to hear

from me. I know it sounds really cliche, but it honestly was a dream come true. When I launched my

business, I created a vision board of all the things I wanted to achieve and writing a book was my

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