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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Eliza, and today's episode,

I want to welcome back Dr. Shauna Shapiro, who is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology and mindfulness.

She's written a number of books. One in particular everybody could use right now. It's

called Good Morning. I Love You. Mindfulness and self-compassion practices to rewire your brain for calm clarity. mindfulness and

self-compassion practices to rewire your brain for calm clarity and joy.

I thought given what's going on in the world,

we needed a revisit with Dr. Shauna Shapiro

and check in about practices that do not take a lot of time,

that take into account that everybody is at their wits end and really heightened stress and that we want our kids to know that we can take care of them because we have the ability to take care of ourselves.

So we're going through some hands-on, I mean doing them during this episode, so if you aren't

driving, I recommend finding a spot where you can close your eyes and

practice some of the very short exercises to help cultivate emotion regulation and support your kids self-regulation at a time when that is very necessary

and we're feeling a lot of burnout.

What I really love about this episode

is that we are going right into practical strategies

and not really getting into the science

other than to make sure that you trust that this is coming from

scientists and if mindfulness doesn't feel great, think of it as the science of metacognition, or think of it as learning how to create

constructive emotions instead of destructive emotions and making sure that we are

available during this very difficult time to ourselves to support each other and to be there for our kids. And we're really

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