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 180 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

So I went out to a couple of libraries last week to talk about mindfulness,

meditation, stress management and self-care.

I had such an incredible time.

I felt the most confident I've ever felt during a public speaking presentation.

Everyone I met was incredibly friendly. My partner

deck was with me and he was such an amazing support and of all the books I took along

hoping to sell, at the end of the day I only had one left. I felt energized and aligned and purposeful.

I think back to how terrified I used to be of public speaking and how

much I dreaded it and how every second seemed to drag on forever, while my skin got hotter and redder,

and my hands and voice got shakier. It's hard for me to believe how much the experience has changed,

and I genuinely feel like mindfulness has played a huge role in

that. I practice mindfulness to help manage nerves and I use it during my speaking presentations

to breathe and collect myself. But I'm also talking about mindfulness and stress management

and topics I'm really passionate about. So I feel excited about doing that as well.

So I absolutely loved visiting the libraries and doing these talks. However, the start of my day was

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