You're listening to the feel good effect.

This simple mindset shift might just change your life.

Let's make it happen.

Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel good effect will help you redefine wellness on your terms.

Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about

achieving another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you.

Drawing from cutting edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, this podcast

offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday

life and allows you to embrace the idea that gentle is the new perfect.

I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that create

huge changes in your life, thus striving, more ease. It's time to feel good. Well, hey, feel good fam, I am so glad you're here

for this episode on a simple mindset shift that might just change your life. Today we're talking

with Shauna Shapiro PhD, who is a best-selling

author, clinical psychologist, and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness,

and very importantly, self-compassion. She's a professor at Santa Clara University and has

published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books.

In this conversation, Shauna shares her updated definition of mindfulness and dives into why your attitude really does matter.

We're also talking about why self-compassion in itself is so incredibly

transformative and radical. And I don't want you to miss that part. Just how radical is shifting

your mindset towards self-compassion and also how simple it really is. We're also going into the common misgivings that people

have self-compassion about self-compassion. So typically I find in my work as well and talk to

Shawna about this, that people often think that self-compassion is selfish or lazy, or that if

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