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 59 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I hope you're having a lovely and restful break over the

holidays. I've been spending lots of time with my loved ones and taking some time away from

social media. It's been really refreshing and just nice to have some time to unwind.

I was thinking about what I could chat to you about in this episode

and I thought that since the new year is just around the corner, I share some ideas on how to use

mindfulness to have a fresh start. You could use these tips as we begin the new year or whenever

you feel like you want to gain clarity and choose how to move

forward in your life. I know this is really important to do. Sometimes we can just feel a little lost

or overwhelmed and lose sight of the big picture and what matters most to us. It can be hard to let go of the less important things and

we might hold ourselves back in ways we don't even realize. Consciously choosing to let go,

be open to new experiences and have a fresh start is a wonderful way, I think, to re-energize

yourself, whether it's at the start of a new year

or not. So here are my top tips for starting fresh in meaningful and mindful ways.

Tip one is to let go of the need to compare yourself to other people. It can be easy sometimes,

especially with so much access to social media, to get caught up in where other people are at in their lives and to feel like you're not

getting there fast enough. Or maybe you've been where they are and you wish you could go back

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