Ep 28: Rewiring your brain through mindfulness and self compassion can change how you parent with Dr. Shauna Shapiro

Raising Good Humans

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🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Author, Clinical Psychologist and world renowned mindfulness Dr. Shauna Shapiro talks about the golden nuggets from her new book, Good Morning I Love You: mindfulness + self compassion. Practices to to rewire your brain for calm, clarity + joy.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:08.0	I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and I'm here with Professor Shauna Shapiro,
0:13.6	who you may remember, recorded an episode with me
0:16.7	about mindful discipline.
0:18.7	Well, today, she's back and here to talk to us
0:20.9	about some of the practices we can start right now from her new
0:25.1	magnificent book Good morning I love you mindfulness and self-compassion practices to
0:30.8	rewire your brain for calm, clarity, and joy.
0:35.0	And the reason this is such an important episode for parents is that we work so
0:40.4	hard to raise kids who can self-regulate, who have a sense of presence in the world, who can respond instead of react, who can experience joy, and we often do so while berating ourselves for not being good enough parents.
0:54.2	And the funny thing is that the first and most effective tool to support our kids in that
0:59.5	noble endeavor is to take the time to nurture this in ourselves.
1:04.0	And for me, having had the privilege to learn
1:07.0	mindfulness practices with Shana,
1:09.4	I'm going to just give us all a quick gift, which
1:12.2	is to ask Shana to begin this discussion with a
1:16.3	mindfulness practice if I may. Absolutely so let's begin by just softening the body 5% more. I find it's always helpful to begin
1:29.4	practicing mindfulness by letting the body be at ease while the mind starts to be clearer.
1:36.8	So we can be physiologically at rest and have this laser-like clarity of attention. So softening the body, softening the jaw, and then just
1:47.6	bring your attention to your breath and just see if you can feel the breath as it flows in and out of the body, not trying to do it perfectly, but just experiencing the breath.
2:03.7	It's pretty extraordinary that each time we inhale, we're oxygenating the body,
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