Summer Encore: Are you looking for practice turning something sour into something sweet? Try making mindful lemonade. This episode features an exercise for letting go of anxiety, frustration, grumpiness, or any sort of tension by using your body to act out making lemonade. 🍋

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so my friend Tracy recently invited me to talk about mindfulness on her podcast, The Ten News. I’ll introduce Tracy and her podcast before sharing a clip from the show in which Tracy interviews me about mindfulness and I share mindfulness tips for when the news makes you feel anxious.

On this episode we’ll go on a mindful adventure in a hot air balloon. We will use a breathing exercise to fill the balloon, then practice letting go of difficult feelings as we imagine untying sandbags until we’re light enough to fly.

On this week’s episode, we’ll learn how to time travel in our minds, as a way to help us get through difficult moments. 🕓🚀🕢

I hope you’re ready to get weird, because on this episode we’ve got a set of mindfulness exercises designed specifically for weirdos. From silly sounds to funny faces, we’ll embrace our weirdness and learn why we should be proud of what makes us weird. 🤪

🎉 This episode marks a special milestone for our podcast, because it is our 100th episode! We’ll take a look back and a look forward as we think about how ideas grow over time, just like a tree, or even like a person. 🌱🌳 👶🧓

🌎 Special bonus encore episode! For our Earth Day episode, we’ll learn how our breathing is connected to the lives of plants, and talk about how to love yourself and love the world. Featuring affirmations from Eso Tolson, and a new song by Noah Glenn.

On this week’s episode we’ll use our imagination to create a calm, quiet world around us, we’ll place all our difficult thoughts and feelings on a train and let it pass us by. This episode features a new song: “Let It Pass.” 🚂

On this episode we’ll learn to handle our big wild feelings with a technique called name it and tame it.

On this dinosaur themed episode, we’ll stomp and stretch and roar as we imagine being dinosaurs. 🦖🦕