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 164 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

So this has been a really big and exciting week because the Mindful Kind book was released.

I thought I would share my book writing journey and more about what's in the book on this episode, including my favorite chapter, the times when I used mindfulness and meditation while I was

writing and the hardest part about writing the mindful kind book. This episode will be in a Q&A

format just for fun and I've included some of the questions I've received from my lovely community

as well.

Question one.

So first of all, what is the Mindful Kind book about?

When I started planning the Mindful Kind book, I chose some important life areas like work and relationships and physical health and creativity.

Then I brainstormed all the mindfulness strategies which

could be incorporated into those life areas. It's like a practical guide to mindful living

and stress management. I also wanted to include interesting research to show exactly how

mindfulness could make a difference when it was

practiced regularly. And I wrote about lots of my personal experiences too, like the year when a lot of

my relationships broke down and the communication troubles that I've had throughout my life.

I was also really excited to write about something that I've been passionate about for a long

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