When things change inside us, things change around us. Launched in 2017, 60 Mindful Minutes invites you into conversations with award-winning and best-selling authors about what it means to live a more connected, conscious and intentional life. In this fast-paced, digital-centric world, finding the time and space to tune into ourselves has become increasingly difficult. And yet, we all benefit from stillness and introspection. It’s in the white spaces that we come home to ourselves, learn to know ourselves more deeply, and begin to navigate our lives with intention. Join Certified Mindfulness Teacher Kristen Manieri for this weekly deep dive into conscious living. (Formerly, The Synced Life)
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David Gandelman has helped thousands of students look within to find their own answers to life’s big questions: Who am I? What am I here to do? How can I find happiness? In his new book, The Seven Energies of the Soul, he explores the concept that there are seven potent energies that exist within each individual soul. When any one ...
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Have you ever felt stuck, lost, uninspired, or simply bored? When we’ve left a houseplant too long in a pot that’s too small, the plant will eventually stop growing and die. We humans are not much different. In her new book, Repotting Your Life: Sense When You’re Stuck. Explore What’s Possible. Claim Room to Grow, author Frances Ed...
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For those of us who are seekers, sometimes our next move isn’t always clear. As we try to predict and plan, we can often look outside for clarity. But for Amber Rae, author of The Answers Are Within You: 108 Keys to Unlock Your Mind, Body & Soul, we are our own oracle. By simply posing deep questions, and making the space to lo...
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When it comes to aging well, we often think about increasing our health and doing what we can to lower our risk of disease. But author and researcher Becca Levy sees another aspect of aging we ought to consider: our beliefs. In her new book, Breaking the Age Code: How Your Age Beliefs Determine How Long and Well You Live, Becca out...
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If you are struggling to stay on top of your life—your to-do list, home, hygiene, meals, etc.—consider that it’s not because you’re lazy, even if this is what you’ve been told. Author KC Davis wants you to know this: messiness is not a moral failing. In her new book, How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning...
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Jovanka Ciares, author of Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom For Your Healthy, Happy, And Beautiful Life, sees wellness as a birthright we reclaim, versus something we pursue or struggle for. There are so many tools we can integrate as we travel along our own wellness path, including ancient tools like plant medicine, hypnosis, meditation and tai-chi. The key is opening up our awareness and increasing our curiosity.
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We tend to think of gratitude as something we practice once in a while. But Kristi Nelson, author of Wake Up Grateful and executive director of A Network for Grateful Living, sees it differently. To her, gratitude is about living a grateful way of life and cultivating a perspective of gratefulness that influences our entire appro...
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Not all relationships end because of one traumatic event, such as one person cheating. For author Matthew Fray, divorce is more like death by a thousand cuts. In his new book, This Is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships, Matthew looks at his personal experience in his divorce, as well as the experien...
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Self-development has many benefits but it’s interesting to notice that it’s focused on the self. That’s an insight author Gavin Seah explores in his book, True Humility: Finding Peace and Balance in Today’s Modern Society. Could it be that our growth is stunted when it’s not shared with others? Are we missing out on true happiness...
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When we look at the landscape of our lives and notice that most of our time is given to others, it can provoke feelings of unfairness, resentment or grief. In the midst of all of your commitments, obligations and relationships, there’s a “you” in there that would like his or her fair share of the pie. Being intentional about creat...
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As the saying goes, we need to look before we leap. But when we feel the nudge (or the shove) of change, how do we see clearly what’s ahead and how to navigate it? For Becca Ribbing, it’s all about go inward for the answers for moving forward. Becca is the author of The Clarity Journal, which is filled with over 100 thought-provok...
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Social media is an incredible tool… if we use it the right way. In his book, You Are What You Click, internationally acclaimed behavioral scientist and social media expert Brian Primack writes that we do not need to swear off social media, delete all our online accounts, or give up our phones to live healthier, happier lives. Inst...
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Beyond the emotional experience of loss, researchers are now discovering what happens in our brain when we grieve. In her new book, The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, shares a fascinating scientific perspective on the universal experience of grief, providing a new paradigm for understan...
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Here's a thought to consider: Challenges in life are constant, but struggle is optional. In her new book, The Awesome Human Project: Break Free from Daily Burnout, Struggle Less, and Thrive More in Work and Life, entrepreneur, speaker, and author Nataly Kogan explores the idea that while life certainly has its ups and downs, w...
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When Harvard-trained physician Dr. Annie Brewster was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, she realized firsthand that the medical system was failing her in one critical way: she didn’t feel seen or heard. Her doctors weren’t listening. This experience launched her onto a path to discover how exploring and sharing her healin...
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During a difficult time in her life, author Sheila Darcey found that the act of sketching and freestyle drawing—of giving a physical form to her thoughts, emotions and ideas—was an impactful way to process what she was feeling. Expression through the pen, she came to discover, can heal. In this episode, Sheila shares her journey a...
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Friends are not just nice to have; they make us mentally and physiologically healthy, and they add contentment, meaning and joy to our lives. But not all friendships are created equally. In her new book, How to Break Up with Your Friends: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships, author Erin Falconer invit...
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Have you ever noticed that life can be going well—we’re feeling happy and successful—and then it slowly starts to slide? Could it be that we self-sabotage our progress whenever we start to expand beyond the level of contentment and achievement we’re used to having in the past? Gay Hendricks, author of several books, including The ...
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We’ve got a brand-new year ahead of us. Forget New Year’s resolutions. Instead, consider what the year ahead would look if it was filled with everything that makes you happy, or as John Strelecky calls it, adding the most minutes of your life into your happy bank. The author of several books, including The Cafe on the Edge of the ...
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According to author Ian Morgan Cron, we each create a strategy in order to navigate our early years of life. However, at some point this strategy (or story) stops being helpful in our lives. Using the Enneagram, an ancient personality typing system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, Ian encourages us...
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