Mindful podcasts to help you take a pause – and reflect

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Stressed? Here’s some relief for the soul in audio-form.


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    As an actor and a new mom, Catherine Reitman felt pulled between two competing identities. To capture her frustration, her sadness, her truth, she wrote it all down. In sharing her darkness, she found...Show More

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    This one made us teary, but not in a sad way; more in a “wow, that’s touching and inspiring” way. A story about motherhood and how powerful we can be when we stop questioning ourselves.

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    1: The End

    Julie: The Unwinding of the Miracle

    27:35 | Jan 25th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    “But you’re not gone yet, mommy.”Meet Julie.This series is a companion to Julie Yip-Williams’ posthumous memoir, The Unwinding of the Miracle, published by Random House.Artwork by Dadu Shin.If Julie’s...Show More

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    Julie Yip-Williams lets us into her world as she’s preparing to leave it. A deeply moving reflection on mortality, the show is described as “an immigrant story, a love story and a ghost story.”

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    Acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton collects sounds from around the world. He’s recorded inside Sitka spruce logs in the Pacific Northwest, thunder in the Kalahari Desert, and dawn breaking across six c...Show More

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    Gordon Hampton is a “silence activist” who invites us to reimagine our relationship to the natural world. He defines real quiet as presence – not an absence of sound, but an absence of noise.

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    #26 Beverley and Van

    Heavyweight

    47:45 | Oct 10th, 2019

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    Ashley’s grandmother, Beverley, had a hard life and an unhappy marriage. But she spoke frequently of a man named Van. Ashley believes Van was the great unfulfilled love of her grandmother’s life. And ...Show More

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    The podcast known for helping people deal with regret investigates a lost love. What happens when you dig into past relationships? This is the kind of story that will leave you feeling sweeter and a l...Show More

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    #201: Doing "The Work," Byron Katie

    Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris

    1:10:09 | Aug 21st, 2019

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    At 43 years old, Byron Katie was unhappily married, suffered from depression and agoraphobia and was addicted to codeine and alcohol. In fact, she felt so much self-hatred, she slept on the floor bel...Show More

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    Byron Katie believes that your own thoughts are (needlessly) causing just about all of your emotional suffering. Here, she explains “The Work,” her innovative process for embracing change, and freeing...Show More

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    Walk of the Rising Sun

    The WALKING podcast

    47:47 | Feb 5th, 2019

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    It was one of those Saturday mornings when the wide, blue sky begged to be walked under. So out I went. And I wasn’t alone. This episode features several salutary exchanges with other walkers—or, as I...Show More

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    Literally just someone walking through the woods in the Pacific Northwest. This unusual podcast isn’t for everyone – but it can be profoundly meditative.

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    How do you rebuild a life after it very nearly ends? Entrepreneur Keith Yamashita tells his own story of how he learned to live again after a devastating stroke, to nourish himself and the world, and ...Show More

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    How do you rebuild your life after it very nearly ends? Entrepreneur Keith Yamashita tells his own story of how he learned to live again after a devastating stroke, to nourish himself and the world, a...Show More

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