60 Mindful Minutes

John Strelecky, #1 bestselling inspirational author, returns for his fifth visit to 60 Mindful Minutes. An annual tradition, we kick off every year with a conversation with John. This year we discuss how to create more meaning and find more purpose for 2023.    Guest Bio John Strelecky is a #1 bestselling inspirational author. His books have been translated into over forty-three languages and sold...

There is so much more to our breathing than simply our automatic inhales and exhales. In fact, our breathing has an immense hidden power to change the way we think and feel. This week I'm joined by Stuart Sandeman, breath coach, founder of Breathpod and author of Breathe In, Breathe Out: Restore Your Health, Reset Your Mind and Find Happiness Through Breathwork. Our breathing impacts our sleep, st...

If you're struggling to make sense of the role technology plays in our lives, you're not alone. Many of us are asking questions about boundaries and privacy, but also deeper questions about the purpose digital media has in our lives, and the costs and benefits of its presence. This week, we dive into questions about our digital lives with Bob Hutchins and Jenny Back, authors of Our Digital Soul: C...

What does it mean to be in touch with the heart of who we are? That question is at the core of The Heart of Who We Are. Written by Caverly Morgan, a meditation teacher, author, speaker, and nonprofit founder, the book offers a pathway to contemplate such topics as our interconnectedness, our beingness, and the things that get in the way of us feeling whole and complete. This week we look at how aw...

This week I'm joined by Seth J. Gillihan, PhD, a licensed psychologist specializing in mindfulness-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The focus of our conversation is on fostering patterns of thought that serve us well and encourage us to behave in ways that meet our goals. We will be discussing Seth's new book, Mindful Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Simple Path to Healing, Hope, and Pe...

Tara Schuster had a rough childhood. By her mid-twenties, she was checking all the boxes on the outside but she was falling apart on the inside. Once she hit rock bottom, she began the process of rebuilding herself, essentially giving herself the parenting she'd never received, in order to start becoming the person she wanted to be. Her story and her process line the pages of her runaway hit, Buy...

Any number of things can come along to mess up the order we create and topple our well-built boundaries. Such is life. The trick is to have an early warning system that sets off alarms long before we hit overwhelm. In the early 1900s, miners used to keep caged canaries with them to warn them if dangerous gases, such as carbon monoxide, reached lethal levels. If the canary keeled over, it was time...

Melissa Urban knows firsthand that boundaries are the key to feelings of contentment, confidence, and freedom in every area of life. Since launching the mega-bestselling wellness program the Whole30, she has taught millions of people how to establish healthy habits and successfully navigate pushback/pressure by learning to set clear limits that protect our energy, time, and health. Through The Boo...

Feelings of overwhelm often directly correlate with being over capacity. We have too much on our plates. How did it all get on your plate in the first place? Some of it, of course, just ended up there because it's part of the job. But some of the things on your plate you actually signed up for. Someone asked and you said "yes." Today we'll look at why you said "yes" and how to say "no" more often....

We live in a culture that values follow through and abhors quitting. But what is the hidden cost of all the things we never start because we're afraid we might not follow through? To Becky Blades, the author of Start More Than You Can Finish: A Creative Permission Slip to Unleash Your Best Ideas, the value in acting on our ideas is not measured in grand planned finishes. The value is in each and e...

It can't all matter. There's got to be a way to rank everything that's important in your life and identify the things that really aren't. This week I'm going to share some insights from five different authors about how to do less.     Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com KristenManieri.com   Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to increase b...

For those who work and also parent, it's not uncommon to feel like you're floundering at both. This is exactly how psychology professor and family therapist Yael Schonbrun felt when her two worlds of work and parenting collided. As she navigated her way through it, she learned some practical strategies from clinical psychology and social science to help her balance all of the meaningful roles in h...

Today is the first of a four-part series on overwhelm. With the holidays coming and the end of the year in our sight, this is the season for feeling completely overloaded. I thought I would share some insights and strategies to help you make it through, peacefully ad gracefully. This is part one, which is all about understanding our true capacity.   Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: K...

The chatter in our brains has a direct impact on how we feel and what we do. As Kristen Helmstetter began to tune into her self-talk, she realized she could take her ability to talk to herself and turn it into a force for good. Her discoveries and practices have made their way into ten books about self-talk, including Coffee Self-Talk: 5 Minutes a Day to Start Living Your Magical Life, which is th...

Title: EP211: Get to Know Your Neighbors   I've been thinking about the status of neighbors and our interactions with them in this fast-paced and highly digitalized world we live in. How many of us actually know our neighbors? Maybe we're missing out on a deep sense of belonging and community that could be built with the people who live right next door.     Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coa...

As an esteemed veterinary oncologist with nearly two decades of experience, Dr. Renee Alsarraf knew a lot about treating cancer, healing, and grief. Then she was given her own cancer diagnosis and she learned that our furry, four-legged, slobbering animals have so much to teach us about healing, positivity and unconditional love. Renee turned her experiences into the heartwarming book, Sit, Stay,...

Being present in the body is a homecoming, a re-inhabiting, an opportunity to return to and reengage with ourselves. Attuning to the present moment, most often through our bodily senses, we experience the delight and beauty of being alive.   Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com KristenManieri.com   Host Bio Kristen Manieri is a coach who works with teams to inc...

With all of its noise and distraction, this world we live in isn't really designed for regular personal reflection. And yet, it's in the quiet moments with ourselves that we come to listen to our thoughts, get to know who we are, and tap into our innate wisdom. In his new book, How Am I Doing?: 40 Conversations to Have with Yourself, writer and therapist Corey Yeager explores how we can use intent...

Here's the magic of the mind: when we pay attention, we have the wonderful capacity to both think our thoughts AND witness ourselves thinking them. We are the thinker and the watcher all at once, which means when the uninvited memories and unwelcome worries arrive, we can notice that they're there. This awareness allows us to (eventually) work around the land mines or render them harmless. It's si...

Tanya Dalton, author of On Purpose and The Joy of Missing Out, invites you to ask yourself this question: Are you filling your calendar or are you filling your soul? As a productivity expert, Tanya cares a lot about getting things done and achieving goals, but doing so with an unhurried purpose that we each can access when we stay true to our soul's path and design our days on purpose. With simple...

By slogging away at work, trying to cross off everything on an infinitely endless to-do list, are we really enriched by our work in the world? We lose ourselves in our doing. We create stress and lose access to the present, which is where we find our creativity, wisdom and intuition.   Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: Kristen@kristenmanieri.com KristenManieri.com   Host Bio Kristen M...

The hustle to overachieve at work and at home--all in the hopes that we can "crush it" until we finally feel fulfilled--leaves many of us feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. In her new book, Soul Solution, author and coach Vanessa Loder explores how we can recover our joy by creating our own road map for living instead of following the one that's been handed to us. By doing things like "following o...

What if at the outset of any new endeavor—a new job, a new hobby, a new book—we gave ourselves permission to just try? What if we remember going in that we can always change our minds, that trying is just trying, not committing? I think we all need to fill our lives with more no-strings-attached tries. This week I share some ways to do just that.   Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: Kr...

While it largely goes unexamined, we each have a relationship with food. Our thoughts and beliefs around what and why we eat forms the bedrock for how we nourish ourselves and, as a result, how we feel in our bodies and in our lives. This week I'm joined by Functional Nutritionist Sarah Geha for a conversation about our challenged relationship with food and eating, and ways we can rethink and rebu...

We hear a lot about mindfulness these days. In fact, I think we hear about it so much that we might have lost sight of what it actually is and what it's actually for. Mindfulness is about being present, but it's really about who we are being in the present when we consciously direct and choose how we want to show up in the world.     Learn more about Kristen Manieri and coaching: Kristen@kristenma...