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 65 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, I'm sharing my thoughts on hobbies, fun and enjoyment, and mindfulness. So I was looking over the episodes of this podcast just the other day,

and I noticed that quite a lot of them focus on challenges and using mindfulness to help support ourselves through things like

sadness and breakups, stressful times, fear, pain and illness, moving on from being hurt.

Those things have been really important to talk about and I've heard from so many of my listeners who have

written to me to say the podcast has helped them through some really difficult times

and personal problems and I'm so so grateful to be able to do this to create a new

episode each week and reach more people than I ever imagined reaching in my life.

But I also do want to bring a few more upbeat episodes with practical tips for not just getting

through life as mindfully as possible, but to help you make the most of the good times and

consciously bring more joy into your life.

Because living more mindfully hasn't just helped me manage stress and let go of hurtful thoughts

and improve my confidence and self-esteem and all these other things I never thought I would

be able to do. But mindfulness has helped open my mind to the

good things that are there to feel in life and to appreciate them and to allow myself to create

more of what I actually want like adventures and self-care. So today I'm talking about mindfulness and hobbies because I truly believe that

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