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 Wickedly Smart Women on Clubhouse The Wealthy Life Mentor The Wealthy Life Mentor on Facebook Anjel on Twitter Anjel on Instagram Email [email protected]  Leave Us A Message On Our listener line:   540-402-0043 x4343 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