This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen Rider.

Hi friends, in this episode I'm chatting with my friend Andrea Debink, who's been on the show

before and since then has become actually the

managing editor for The Art of Simple.

She is fantastic.

If you like any of the changes you've seen in the past few weeks, they're largely to blame on Andrea.

Well, here, she and I are talking about what we both wrote about this week.

For her, that's her journey with anxiety and how learning a practice called Mind meditation has helped her learn how to float through

anxiety as opposed to the usual reactions of fight or flight.

And then since I wrote about the books I read this past month, five and a half books to be specific,

I'm talking here about the simple ways I'm reading more books and how you can too.

And then at the end, since it's the start of a new month, I'm talking once more to

Haley Stewart, as I learned from her about what's on the liturgical calendar for us

in February. Good stuff here. So let's get right to it. First up here's Andrea and me talking about anxiety

Mindfulness meditation and how to add more reading to your life.

Okay Andrea, I am really, really curious what you have to say about this topic because

mindfulness is such a broad word these days

and I feel like I'm seeing it all over the place

almost like it's a buzzword now,

but I know it means something really specific.

So why don't you dive right in and tell me some of your thoughts?

Yeah, so kind of as I go into in the blog post, mindfulness itself is just kind of just

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