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Vibrant Happy Women

188: Self Compassion for Adults & Teens (with Dominique Sullivan)

Vibrant Happy Women

Jen Riday

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4.8671 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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About this Episode:

Anxiety and loneliness are at an all-time high in our society, each correlated with increased cell phone use and decreased face-to-face contact. While this truth affects all of us, perhaps no group is more strongly affected than teens. In this episode you’ll learn how teaching connection and self compassion skills is having a massive impact on teen (and adult) happiness levels.

What You'll Learn: 

  • How simplifying your space can improve mental well-being
  • How the simple exercise of placing your hand over your heart can reduce anxiety and increase self compassion
  • Why 32% of teens deal with high stress levels
  • Gain helpful tips for your teen and cell phone usage
  • Why it’s important for kids to be bored sometimes
  • How and why it’s important for the vagus nerve to be stimulated 
  • And much more!

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women podcast, episode number 188.

0:05.6

We're talking about how self-compassion is a medicine that is going to heal the world,

0:11.5

especially for anxious teens.

0:13.6

Stay tuned.

0:16.0

Hi, I'm Dr. Jen Ryday, former burned out mom of six turned happiness whisperer.

0:23.0

And I'm here to help you get off that hamster wheel and make time for yourself without the guilt.

0:30.5

So you can live a balanced, calm, heart-centered life.

0:34.6

With over 2.5 million downloads, this is the Vibrant Happy Women podcast.

0:42.7

Hey friends, Jen here. And I have a fantastic episode for you, especially if you have dealt with

0:50.8

any of the following things, anxiety, depression, feeling too busy, feeling

0:57.8

like you're overwhelmed. Maybe if you have a teenager, if any of those are true for you, then you're

1:04.2

going to love this episode featuring Dominique Sullivan, the Zen librarian. So way back back a few episodes back in episode 164, I interviewed

1:15.1

Gina Valeris and Mercedes Zedino from Nanaimo, British Columbia. I had met them at the Vibrins

1:21.1

Happy Women Retreat. And one of the things among many awesome nuggets of goodness in that episode was

1:27.1

when Mercedes shared the story

1:28.7

of her daughter giving a teacher a essentially a suicide note explaining how anxious

1:34.7

and depressed she felt. If you can't remember that story, go back now, pause this one and go

1:40.9

back and listen to episode 164 again because it's going to give you some foundational

1:46.8

information for this interview today with Dominique Sullivan. See, Dominique from today's interview

1:54.0

is the exact same teacher who Mercedes daughter, Haley, gave a note to. What a full circle picture. Now, I didn't know what to

2:03.4

expect when I was getting on the phone with Dominique. Mercedes had given me her name and I reached

2:08.7

out and she said, you have to interview this person. And so I have to tell you before you listen,

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