Hello and welcome to enlightened empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened

Empaths, where we discuss, explore and connect with fellow Empaths,

healers, intuitive and seekers. and Today we're discussing practical, easy to implement tips for managing your stress with

mindfulness expert Julie Potaker.

A former attorney, Julie is a certified mindful self-compassion teacher and founder of the

Balance Mind Meditation Center in California.

She created mindful methods for life which uses psychological systems and

neuroplasticity techniques to rewire the brain for less stress, more happiness, and greater resilience.

Her work has been featured by the Oprah magazine, Mindfulness Journal, NBC, CBS, and more. And in her new book, Snap from Chaos to Come, Julie shares the

Snap system which includes evidence-based mindfulness practices that are easy to

learn, remember, and do anywhere, even in the heat of the moment.

Julie, we're so excited to have you on the show, welcome.

I'd love it if you could start by telling listeners how about with a severe stress in your own life led you on this path.

Oh wow, so going back many many many many years I was sitting in a neurologist's office hoping

to rule out a brain tumor because my speech was garbled my words were

screwed up and he ruled that my brain was healthy but it was suffering from extreme stress.

He recommended mindfulness-based stress reduction, MBSR, which is an excellent, you know, kind of gold standard class that was created by John Cabavitzin in 1979 actually the year I graduated from high school.

It's that old this course.

So consequently it's been studied up and down and sideways because people in the West

want these things to be evidence-based so that they can then be taught in hospitals in pain clinics, etc, etc.

So I took that class.

I thought it was interesting enough that it put me on the neuroscience path, the brain science

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