Mindfulness mode. Practice the presence of whatever that power is in your life, through breathing,

through looking, through seeing, through being open. Just open your heart.

Reach new heights of calm, focus, and happiness. Here on mindfulness mode with me,

your host and mindfulness life coach,

Bruce Langford. Mindful tribe, I love, I love when people come up with interesting analogies.

And they're really creative in the way that they communicate. And they can help you with your

life through their talented method of communication.

And that's exactly what describes the woman who is with me today. She has taken a concept and she's

very skillfully and very creatively written a book, which is so helpful and will be so helpful to hundreds and thousands of people.

I have Hope Anderson with me today. Hope, are you in mindfulness mode today?

I am in mindfulness mode. Absolutely.

That's great. Hope is the author of this book it's called how to

remodel a life and it is really an interesting book it says on the front a guide to living well

with alcoholism and bipolar disorder so it's a book about a very serious topic, and she has connected the idea of remodeling your home,

and used that as an analogy, and has gone through and told us so much about her life and how we can improve ours.

So she's an author, a poet, a screenwriter, and a coach, and she's published novels and poetry

and her poetry has actually appeared in magazines and reviews in the U.S. and abroad.

And in 2019, get this, she was invited to share her work at the ledbury poetry festival in england wow i can't wait to

talk to you about that hope and uh she is a native of new england she lives in north carolina

with her husband of 30 years and they have three

grown children. So I'm so excited to talk to you, Hope, about this book and how it was conceived

and how you created it and about your life. But first I want to ask you, what does mindfulness

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