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So a panic tech is, uh, it's horrific actually. I was having one like every day. It was really bad.

It just, it would stop my day. It disrupted my life because I just could not function.

And I knew that I didn't want to live my life that way, that I had way too much to do

and offer. And I knew that I needed to make a change.

Welcome to Schimbis. You might be looking at your feet and thinking,

Schimbis, not a Monday, we're going to be candid. We're doing something a little bit different

than our normal news show today. That's because the last year has been super stressful.

Living through global pandemic, protests against systemic racism in the US,

and what felt like the longest most dramatic presidential election ever.

At some point, all of us wanted to just unplug, wait a few seconds and hope that everything

could just be normal again. Sometimes just turning on the news felt overwhelming.

But we think staying engaged is pretty important, and also kind of necessary.

So we wanted to learn about a tool that can help us do that without burning out.

That's why today, we're going to dig into something that's been generating a lot of buzz over

the last few years. Mindfulness. We'll start by hearing from a Schimmer who's used mindfulness

to get through some tough moments. Then we'll dig into the science. As in, what even is mindfulness?

Why is everyone telling me how great it is? And is there any actual evidence that it works?

Then we'll explore whether mindfulness can help us stay engaged, and we'll finish up by talking

tips, techniques, and ways to apply it. Along the way, we'll taunt to experts like clinical

psychologists Dr. Tara Brock, licensed mental health counselor B Arthur, and Jacqueline London,

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