038: How One Therapist Uses Mindfulness to Address Addiction & Healing with Lynn Jimenez

Lynn Jimenez is a mental health therapist, yoga instructor, and most importantly, a mom. As a clinician, she specializes in the activation of the stress response system (to include concerns with managing everyday stress, as well as anxiety and trauma responses). She has worked in K-12 education, creating school based programs to teach kids social emotional skills (i.e. how to manage their feelings and how to relate to others). As Lynn learned new tools through her work environment, she would bring them home and test them on her 3 boys. She was blow away by the impact and founded https://www.connectflowgrow.com/

Questions:

1. What are some of the tools that you learned in your work?
   
2. What is mindfulness?
   
3. How can we incorporate mindfulness in our everyday lives?
   
4. How can mindfulness prevent addiction?
   
5. How can mindfulness help us heal?
   
6. What are some ways that we can begin incorporating these things today?
   

Please show Lynn support by checking out her website, which again is www.connectflowgrow.com

And her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR7sqs-3qOp9S3K5y8dDC5w