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

09/02/20 • 40 min

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:

What are some of the tools that you learned in your work?
What is mindfulness?
How can we incorporate mindfulness in our everyday lives?
How can mindfulness prevent addiction?
How can mindfulness help us heal?
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

Questions:

What are some of the tools that you learned in your work?
What is mindfulness?
How can we incorporate mindfulness in our everyday lives?
How can mindfulness prevent addiction?
How can mindfulness help us heal?
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

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037: How to use the 3 pillars to self-heal with Fallon Moran

A behaviorist and avid athlete, Fallon started her coaching business in 2019. After returning home from living abroad in Prague, she was motivated to return & give back to those involved in the sport that led her to massive internal physical & mental alignment, crew. She believes every man & woman deserves to live life invigorated through a sound body & mind so that they can crush every goal and become the strongest version of themselves. Fallon is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, rowing coach and accomplished rower with a first place finish at the 2019 Masters National Championships.

Here are the questions that Fallon helps answer for us today!

Can you share with us what it means to become the strongest version of ourselves, and how you’ve become the strongest version of yourself?
I love how you’ve shared how "pulling your own weight" sets you up for success. Can you explain what this means?
What are the 3 pillars to self-heal?
How can we use these pillars to self-heal?
What are ways that we can begin self-healing today?

Please go show Fallon love & support on her Instagram & TikTok!

https://www.instagram.com/fallonkmoran/

https://www.tiktok.com/@mindsetcoachmoran

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039: Imposter Syndrome - What Is It And How To Overcome It with Dr. Gazelle

An Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, certified mindfulness teacher, and survivor of childhood abuse, Dr. Gazelle knows resilience inside out and would love to help the Found Family Podcast listeners learn more about how to build theirs. As one of the leading physician coaches in this country, she has coached over 500 physicians and has been featured on such diverse media as Bloomberg Businessweek, Medical Economics, the Physician Leadership Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, CNN, and ABC News.

Her book, Everyday Resilience. A Practical Guide to Build Inner Strength and Weather Life’s Challenges came out in August 2020.

Today Dr. Gazelle helps us answer: