Hello and welcome to the Mindfulkind podcast.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at RachelCable.com.

Each week this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 244 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm super excited to talk about

resilience and how you can boost it using some simple mindfulness tips, so let's just dive straight into it.

I still remember how it felt to wake up in the morning with a knot of dread in my stomach.

Before I'd even hopped down of bed, I was already overwhelmed by anxiety and feeling worried about the day ahead.

My to-do list seemed never-ending.

Achieving my goals seemed a million miles away, and I felt stuck.

Stuck in my emotions of frustration, stress, and dissatisfaction.

Stuck in my Happy Later fantasy, which I talked about on episode 189 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

I felt stuck in my relationship, my job, my home, and my studies because I always wanted more,

and I struggled to feel grateful for everything that I already had.

Nothing was technically wrong with my life, but somehow it didn't feel

good. It didn't feel like enough. I felt like I was always a few steps behind where I needed to be.

I was searching for fulfillment, but I didn't know how to find it. I wasn't very resilient,

and every problem felt like a massive setback.

And I didn't want to talk about how I felt because I was ashamed of not knowing all the

answers. I was only comfortable sharing a tiny part of myself with other people, the part of me

that was perfect, friendly, happy, easygoing and confident.

Everything else, I kept behind the walls that I'd built around my real self, hidden from the

people around me, and it was incredibly lonely. There's two reasons why I'm sharing these

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