Holiday Stress? Nope!

Cultivating it, letting it grow

In this Episode, Host JG Larochette. explores the importance of giving everything we cultivate time to grow fully. Often, because of the wiring of the brain, we are looking for the quick fix or quick results and when those don't occur we stop cultivating and let it go. JG shares ways to actually keep the consistent cultivation going so that what grows does so consistently and also in a lifetime approach. If we cultivate a garden often and give the right conditions, the plants and trees will grow so beautifully. This same approach is what we can take when realize it will be the small minuscule growths through consistent cultivation of the inner experience that will grow so deeply that we will live a more mindful life.

New Year, Authentic YOU!

In Episode 11 of Here and the Now Podcast: An Educator Wellness Experience, host JG Larochette at Mindful Life Project, discusses the importance of cultivating a strong and loving connection to our purest authentic nature. With this time of year being often about trying to become all that we feel like we are not. What if we actually worked more on unbecoming all that we have been conditioned to be that isn't our authentic selves in the first place? This episode digs in on what is being authentic, how we often get pushed away from our authentic self and how to work on getting in touch and growing our truest self. A must listen to podcast as it is key for educators to be fully authentic to mirror how important it is for our youth to be the same and live into full confidence of being just that!

Prioritizing what Matters, but What Matters?

In episode 10 of Here in the Now Podcast, host JG Larochette from Mindful Life Project, drops into prioritizing what matters. Often with the stress response, or the naturally wiring of the brain for negative bias, we get lost in these cycles of thoughts and emotions that take us away from the present moment and what really matters most. So what matters? Find out by checking out the episode and the practice!

Holiday Stress? Nope!

Episode 9 is out! This episode is all about how to use the Holiday Season (if you celebrate it or not) as a great teacher and practice of mindfulness. Many people can't wait for the Holidays and wish it were the holidays all year long, while others despise this time of year and wish it never existed. And on both spectrums stress seems to grow this time of year. This episode breaks down the deep relevance of how to build present moment awareness through a lens of compassion on both sides. Wanting things to always be like this, or wishing things were never like this have similar results. The Wheel of Skills practice episode will help build the stress reduction because that you might be feeling during this time of year. Got Skills? Yup!

Roots Vs. Symptoms: How to understand the causes to create healthier effects

Episode 8 of Here in the Now Podcast goes into seeing our internal and external behaviors as symptoms connected to deeper root causes. This is explored on both the individual level as people, and then in the context of working with youth. As humans we can create unhealthy internal patterns caused by different lived experiences that often come up as our needs were met or not. For example, if we felt not heard, valued or a sense of belonging while growing up, we can create patterns of behavior (both internally and externally) that are based on trying to overcome those points that might have caused suffering and are part of our stress response now. By diving into looking for the "Roots" of our own behavior or our students (or anyone actually) we can begin to support healing and changing the patterns of behaviors. With mindfulness we are able to really unravel the many complex layers as well as literally help a whole new architecture of the brain (the neurons that fire together wire together). Don't miss this weeks mindful sit as it will go to the "roots"!