60 Mindful Minutes

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode150/     Description We think a lot about being happy and ways to achieve lasting happiness. In fact, research has found that we often see sadness as a weakness and that many of us are, in a way, afraid to be sad. But Helen Russell, author of How to Be Sad: Everything I've Learned About Getting Happier by Being Sad...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode149/   Description When we embark on a spiritual path, one that aims to have us understand life, ourselves and each other at a deeper level, we may start to see that we have a deep intelligence that offers a bigger perspective and wisdom. It's something beyond our rational, logical and thinking mind. This is the hi...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode148/   Description To author and coach Becky Hall, finding a space between the poles of scarcity and excess is the challenge of our age. For decades, her work has aimed to help us each explore our own version of enough so that we can find the balance and boundaries we all need for ourselves and for our world. In he...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode147/   Description Sleep impacts everything. In addition to being a foundational aspect of our wellbeing, it also underpins how we bring our best selves to the world. In essence, it contributes to our thriving and flourishing. And yet, we can so easily shortchange it with bad habits or in order to achieve more or d...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode146/     Description As a professional concert pianist, Jeeyoon Kim has built a career on the foundation of daily practice and unwavering persistence. Along the way, she's learned how to transcend her feelings and whims in order to commit to her work. In her new book, Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode111/     Description In our busy, high-stress lives, sometimes we all need to slow down, breathe, and just be. In her new book, A Moment for Me: 52 Simple Mindfulness Practices to Slow Down, Relieve Stress, and Nourish the Spirit, author Catherine Polan Orzech, MA, LMFT, offers simple, take-anywhere...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode110/     Description Over worked, over connected and inundated with toxicity, many of us live a frantic, frazzled life with very little room for true wellness. Through her book, Clean Mind, Clean Body , author and wellness expert Tara Stiles offers a blueprint for how we can hit the reset button and...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode100/   Description There's something powerful that happens when we give up screens one day a week. In her book, 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week, author and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain shares how her family have gained more time, productivity, connection, and presence by adopting the ancient...

For episode homepage, resources, free download and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/2020/08/04/how-to-wander-with-intention-with-erika-owen/     Description Have you ever been walking home from work and unexpectedly took a different path just to learn more about your neighborhood? Or have you been on a vacation and walked around a new city just to take it all in? Then chances are, you're a...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode141/     Description Mindful living can include formal meditation but it's mostly about how we pay attention to life as it's happening in the everyday moments of our everyday lives. In her new book, Still Life: The Myths and Magic of Mindful Living, renowned yogi meditation teacher Rebecca Pacheco offers insights a...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode140/     Description John V. Petrocelli, an experimental social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at Wake Forest University, thinks a lot about contaminated thinking and bad decision-making. In his new book, The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit , he looks at why we're all susceptible to bullshit (...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode139/   Description The subconscious mind has enormous influence over the day-to-day living of our lives. We each have patterns that were formed at the very early stages of our lives, but these continue to still play out decades later, and not always in healthy ways. In her book, The Seven Gates: Seven Steps Beyond...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode138/   Description Most of us have asked the question: what am I going to be when I grow up? Richard Leider asks, WHO do you want to be when you grow up? In his new book, Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?: The Path of Purposeful Aging , he invites us to explore the difference between living a default life ve...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode137/     Description Mindfulness is a powerful tool for staying calm, centered, and steady―but it can be challenging to remember to stay mindful. Meditation is helpful, but real change happens when we can integrate mindfulness into the everyday living of our lives through habits. In this episode, I'm interviewed by...

  For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode136/     Description Gay Hendricks, author of the new book, The Genius Zone, and the bestselling classic, The Big Leap, thinks a lot about how we thrive. For over four decades, he's narrowed his focus on the life-altering practice of helping people reach their potential through discovering their Genius Zone. When...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode135/     Description Kristi Nelson, author of Wake Up Grateful and executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, thinks a lot about gratitude. To her, gratitude is about living a grateful way of life and cultivating a perspective of gratefulness that influences our entire approach to how we show up in life....

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode134/     Description If you've been trying to empty your mind during meditation, you may have experienced a lot of frustration and disappointment in your practice. In his book, Modern Meditations: 101 Ways to Slow Down & Connect to Spirit, author and meditation teacher Murray du Plessis encourages a different appro...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode133/   Description Regina Louise is fierce. You'd have to be to have gotten through what she's experienced in her lifetime. But she's turned her adversity into fuel and turned the insights from her life experiences into wisdom. Along the way, she's learned to live unapologetically and fearlessly. Through her book,...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode132/   Description Some people never stop learning. They are endlessly curious about the world and all the ways we can understand and experience it more fully. As someone who identifies as a lifelong learner, I'm interested and invested in ways to learn better and retain more. Turns out there is a ton of neuroscien...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode131/   Description When we're not really thinking about it, we might define kindness as being nice, polite and agreeable. But Bruce Reyes-Chow, author of In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World, looks a few layers deeper. To Bruce, kindness is a decision to us...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit:   Description These days, disengaging, even briefly, is seen by many as self-indulgent and unproductive. Yet creating space for solitude, reflection and deliberate restoration and rejuvenation is a basic human need. Everyone can benefit, whether it's for a weekend, a month, or a lifetime. Through her book, In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode129/     Description Becoming a mother is a joyful rite of passage, but it can also bring overwhelming emotional upheaval, exhaustion, and self-doubt. And is it any wonder? Motherhood changes everything, right down to a woman's brain chemistry. In her new book, Mom Brain: Proven Strategies to Fight the Anxiety, Gui...

  For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode128/   Description Neuroimaging clearly shows that the female brain has many unique strengths. Whether it's related to decision-making, leadership or relationships, the female brain has exceptional competencies. And yet, women often believe disempowering myths about themselves. In her new book, Think Like a Girl:...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode127/     Description Growing takes work. When we choose to take on our personal evolution with intention but also effort, that's when we start to truly grow, stretch and strengthen ourselves. In The Full Spirit Workout, author Kate Eckman draws from her multifaceted training (as an athlete, executive leadership coa...

For episode homepage, resources and links, visit: https://kristenmanieri.com/episode126/   Description Creativity is not limited to artists. In fact, every human being is creative, and having a regular creative practice is a vital key to a happy and fulfilling life. But, if we don't exercise our creativity regularly, our lives can feel dull, stagnant, and colorless. In his powerful book, The Creat...