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Episode 089 :: Willem Kuyken :: The ASPIRE Project: Accessibility of MBCT in the U.K. for Depression Relapse Prevention

Ted Meissner | June 25, 2017 | 0 Comments

Willem Kuyken Willem Kuyken joins us to speak about The ASPIRE Project, focused on accessibility of MBCT in the U.K. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, or MBCT, has promising results in studies of its efficacy as a prevention of recurrence of major depressive episodes. One of the challenges, however, isn’t so much with the program, but accessibility […]

Episode 088 :: Amy Saltzman :: A Still Quiet Place for Teens: A Mindfulness Workbook to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions

Ted Meissner | May 29, 2017 | 0 Comments

Amy Saltzman Dr. Amy Saltzman joins us to speak about A Still Quiet Place for Teens: A Mindfulness Workbook to Ease Stress and Difficult Emotions. If memory serves, being a teenager can be kinda challenging. Going through that may occur before one is introduced to any kind of contemplative practice, but more and more, a […]

Episode 087 :: David Victorson :: Mindfulness Camping Trips for Youth with Cancer

Ted Meissner | May 14, 2017 | 0 Comments

David Victorson David Victorson joins us to speak about True North Treks, which does mindfulness trips for teens and young adults with cancer. Take a moment and think about how mindfulness has influenced your life. What was that like for you, how has it changed things? If you’re like me, you probably encountered the practice […]

Episode 086 :: Linda Lehrhaupt :: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program for Enhancing Health and Vitality

Ted Meissner | May 1, 2017 | 0 Comments

Linda Lehrhaupt, PhD Linda Lehrhaupt joins us to speak about her book, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: The MBSR Program for Enhancing Health and Vitality. If you’ve taken an MBSR program, you likely learned a lot from your teachers and especially your fellow participants. And you may have been exposed to a lot more that you weren’t […]

Episode 085 :: Stephen Schettini :: Mindful Lives Podcast

Ted Meissner | April 16, 2017 | 0 Comments

Stephen Schettini Mindfulness teacher Stephen Schettini joins us to speak about his Mindful Lives Podcast. Mindfulness can have a lot of meanings. In some traditional contexts, there is a long standing history of what it meant once upon a time and still does today… within those religious institutions. But as mindfulness goes mainstream, the meaning […]

Episode 084 :: Nicole Franklin :: Mindfulness for Children with Learning Disabilities

Ted Meissner | April 9, 2017 | 0 Comments

Nicole Franklin Nicole Franklin joins us to speak about the incorporation of mindfulness into the Better Emotional and Social Times or B.E.S.T. program run by the Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara Region. Think back to what it was like being a kid in school. Some days good, some days perhaps more challenging. And as I […]

Episode 083 :: George Mumford :: The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Peak Performance

Ted Meissner | March 19, 2017 | 0 Comments

George Mumford George Mumford speaks with us about The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Peak Performance. I remember being not so good at sports growing up, to put it kindly. “Psyching myself out” was what we called at least part of that, over thinking things which took me out of the moment, strangling any flow of […]

Episode 082 :: Rose Pavlov :: Ivy Child International

Ted Meissner | March 12, 2017 | 0 Comments

Rose Pavlov As mindfulness becomes more common in contemporary society, so is its acceptance as a part of public and private school systems. Children are learning how to observe their outer environment and inner experience, widening the gap between stimulus and response, and making more intentional choices in their words and actions. Along the way, […]

Episode 081 :: Mark Coleman :: Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic

Ted Meissner | February 25, 2017 | 0 Comments

Mark Coleman Mindfulness teacher Mark Coleman joins us to speak about his book Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic. How many times has that voice inside, that inner critic, spoken louder to you than the people sitting next to you? What does the critic say, […]

Episode 080 :: Rebecca Crane :: What Defines Mindfulness-Based Programs?

Ted Meissner | February 20, 2017 | 0 Comments

Rebecca Crane Rebecca Crane returns to the podcast to speak with us about the new paper What defines mindfulness-based programs? The warp and the weft. With the proliferation of programs using the word mindfulness in their title, there comes a valid question: how does the consumer know this really is a mindfulness program? And how […]