No matter where you are in your journey towards well-being,

pausing and taking a moment for meditation can be a way that we can reset our brains,

become more aware and connected to the world around us and create safe space for us to ask ourselves

the deep and challenging questions that help us to overcome trauma. Today, I'm very excited to be talking with Reverend Dr. Renee Winget

Sims about how we can take a moment to pause each day to heal ourselves so that we can heal the greater world around us.

We specifically talk about intergenerational trauma and how trauma from our ancestors

can impact us in our daily lives.

Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy.

With honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, thought leaders, creatives, and spiritual gurus,

you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks that allow you to live your

healthiest life so you can pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your mark.

Reverend Dr. Renee Oingott Sims is an ordained Baptist minister, speaker, teacher, and activist. She creates culturally relevant healing spaces for those who are working on intergenerational as well as ongoing trauma.

She is a meditation teacher for Healthy Minds Innovation as well as their Healthy Minds Program

app, a science-backed and culturally sensitive app to help people find calm in the midst of chaos in our world.

Reverend Dr. Runei Winget Sims, thank you so much for coming and being a guest today on the Lindsay Elmore show.

Lindsay, thank you so much for having me.

I just am really excited to be here.

You and I both are huge advocates of meditation because of both the perceived individual benefits as well as the benefits to the world as a whole.

Talk to us about how you got started meditating and how it became a part of your daily life because I think that so many people who

have been through religious trauma or cultural trauma may have been taught that this is not

an appropriate expression of the either religious experience or the spiritual experience or whatever it is.

But you and I both have been through some very many different expressions of what it means

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