Take Control of Your Mood Through Mindfulness—with Julie Potiker - 227

Is there any way to stop a bad mood from hijacking your day?

What if you could shift from emotional chaos to a sense of calm quickly and easily with a simple mindfulness practice?

Julie Potiker is the creator of Mindful Methods for Life, a teaching platform that helps people bring more peace and wellness into their lives.

Julie is also a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher and graduate of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at UC San Diego, among many other trainings and certifications.

On this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, Julie joins Anjel to discuss her new book, SNAP! From Chaos to Calm, walking us through her four-step process for taking control of your nervous system.

Julie describes the parenting crisis that led her doctor to recommend mindfulness-based stress reduction and shares her internal process for choosing to follow his guidance and try MBSR.

Listen in for Julie’s insight on rewiring your brain for resilience and learn what mindful actions you can take in the moment to shift your mood to a positive state!

What You Will Learn  

The parenting crisis that inspired Julie to study mindfulness

Why Julie’s doctor recommended mindfulness-based stress reduction

How Julie came to learn and then teach mindful self-compassion

Julie’s process of choosing to follow her doctor’s guidance and try MBSR

How to use Julie’s SNAP practice for taking control of your mood

What actions you can take to shift your mood to a positive state

How to rewire your brain for resilience and happiness

What you can do to help Julie bring more mindfulness into the world

Connect with Julie Potiker 

Mindful Methods for Life

SNAP! From Chaos to Calm by Julie Potiker

Resources  

Life Falls Apart, But You Don’t Have To by Julie Potiker

John Kabat-Zinn

Compassionate Brain

Connect with Anjel B. Hartwell

Wickedly Smart Women

Wickedly Smart Women Facebook Community

Wickedly Smart Women on TeePublic

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The Wealthy Life Mentor

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Anjel on Twitter

Anjel on Instagram

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The Mindful Self-Compassion Program

UCSD Center for Mindfulness

Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm and Confidence by Rick Hanson, PhD

Wickedly Smart Women: Trusting Intuition, Taking Action, Transforming Worlds by Anjel B. Hartwell

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