Welcome to episode 248 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and I'd like to thank you for listening again this week.

We hear so much talk today about mindfulness that it seems sometimes the word has actually lost its meaning.

Today's guest, Dr. Shauna Shapiro, is here to help us better understand mindfulness

and explain how many of us are missing out on a critical component to make our mindfulness

practice more effective. Her new book, Good Morning, I Love You, combines brain science with easy

to implement practices to help you get more calm, clarity, and joy in your life.

And who doesn't want that?

Shana, thank you for joining us on this episode of Live Happy Now.

I'm delighted to be here.

Thank you.

Well, we wanted to talk to you because you've written a really beautiful book.

There's so much wisdom and so much

guidance and love in this book. And I wondered why it is that you decided that this was the

right time for you to write it. It's a good question. You know, I was really surprised and

touched by the response to my TED talk. It was a small TED talk and we didn't have any

kind of publicity around it. And, you know, in that first year, it just became viral and now has

almost a million and a half views. And the messages I was receiving from that talk about how powerful it was for people to learn that

shame doesn't work, that it actually harms us and shuts down our capacity to learn.

And also the message that change was possible. And it wasn't through judgment and shame,

but it was through kindness and compassion. And I realized that we all really need to

hear this, that this constant self-judgment and shame is this universal experience and that we all feel

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