Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a

hypnotologist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all

about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Hello, hello and welcome to this episode of the Karma

You podcast. Thanks so much for joining me. I am talking to Dr. Greg Hammer today on the podcast,

and I loved this episode. He is really cool. He has written this book called Gain Without Pain, which he wrote for

health providers, but actually anyone could benefit from this book. He's a medical doctor. He's a

professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. He's a mindfulness expert. And I loved

this conversation. It felt very, it felt very kind of spiritual

speaking to him, actually. He seems like somebody that's actually very, yeah, very in tune, very

connected, a very loving person. And he shares about why we all need more resilience. He shares a bit

about his own story and he shares quite a bit about this in the book about how he lost his son at the age of 29 when his son was 29 and, you know, how he's had

to deal with that and develop a lot of resilience and how mindfulness and a lot of the approaches

that he shares in this book have really helped. And it's really interesting. I think when

when an author, you know, self-help author has really been through it themselves, had to dig very deep

and really gone through it. You know, I think losing a child is probably, you know, the worst

thing that can happen to a person in many ways. And so just hearing how he's been able to come out of the other side and connect

to gratitude and connect to, you know, a deeper, a deeper meaning behind things behind life.

He's really, really inspiring. And he shares concrete mindfulness steps that you can take in less

than four minutes each morning to slow down,

decompress and feel more positive. And he literally takes us through this process that he does every

day. And yeah, I find it so, so helpful. It's something that's easy to do and he's really generously

sharing, you know, that whole process with us in this episode. And we talk about why suffering is optional and how to suffer

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