Podcasts about compassion can heal your heart

Description: Co-host Ryan Piansky, a graduate student and patient advocate living with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) and eosinophilic asthma, and co-host Holly Knotowicz, a speech-language pathologist living with EoE, who serves on APFED's Health Sciences Advisory Council, speak with Jacqueline Gaulin, the Founder of Gastro Girl, a source of information for people living with various gastrointestinal disorders. In this episode, Ryan and Holly interview Jacqueline Gaulin about her career, how she started Gastro Girl, its podcast, and the partnership between Gastro Girl, the American College of Gastroenterology, and GI on Demand.   Listen in for more information about this empowering resource for GI patients and their families. Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is designed to support, not replace the relationship that exists between listeners and their healthcare providers. Opinions, information, and recommendations shared in this podcast are not a substitute for medical advice. Decisions related to medical care should be made with your healthcare provider. Opinions and views of guests and co-hosts are their own.   Key Takeaways: [:51] Ryan Piansky and co-host Holly Knotowicz welcome Jacqueline Gaulin, Founder of Gastro Girl, a patient-centered company that focuses on empowering individuals living with digestive health conditions through evidence-based information, resources, and access to GI experts to help people make informed healthcare decisions.   [1:42] Holly thanks Jqcqueline for having APFED's Executive Director, Mary Jo Strobel, as a guest on the Gastro Girl Podcast last fall. There is a link in the show notes.   [2:07] Jacqueline started Gastro Girl as a blog, in 2007/2008 while working for a startup, trying to do great things for healthcare. She was charged with the Digestive Health channel. They needed content on living with disease and empowering patients. She created a persona, Gastro Girl, and started a blog around her.   [2:41] Gastro Girl became a popular part of the site. The company was bought but Jacqueline retained the URL, Gastro Girl, and the persona. She engaged on Twitter and then got a job at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) where she dug into GI and learned the pain points from both the provider and patient sides.   [3:09] Jacqueline saw that patients didn't have the resources, access, and champions they needed so she created a company out of Gastro Girl to meet their needs. In 2019, Gastro Girl partnered with ACG to create a provider-focused platform, GI On Demand, that provides ACG members and their patients access to multi-disciplinary GI expertise.   [4:02] Ryan tells about his experiences with APFED as a person living with Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Eosinophilic Asthma. His family is passionate about the patient experience for people with eosinophilic disorders. Ryan sees that Jacqueline is also passionate about empowering patients.   [4:39] Jacqueline loves that patients and their loved ones are involved in advocacy. There is no better voice than those who walk on that health path. Jacqueline, as a child, saw her grandmother needing laxatives to feel better. Jacqueline didn't understand. Then Jacqueline got a dog with digestive problems that needed veterinary help.   [5:51] Jacqueline was fascinated by the whole connection between the digestive system and our overall health. When she started Gastro Girl she was going through a lot of trauma and lost a lot of weight. She was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).   [6:48] Gastro Girl brings together resources and information that run the gamut of digestive-health-related topics. It has resources and partners, like APFED, that cover all the areas of GI and bring the pieces together to help patients find the information they need, when and how they need it.   [7:21] Holly tells how she searched symptoms online, was able to find Gastro Girl, and did a deep dive to navigate many areas. Holly also tells how she saw herself in patients' symptoms while she was helping in an EoE clinic before she was diagnosed with it.   [8:38] Gastro Girl has baseline content on what eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders are and how they are diagnosed. Then it points to expert partners like APFED to speak to eosinophilic disorder topics and support in-depth. Gastro Girl focuses on symptoms and identifying diseases earlier to get into care quicker. [9:25] The Gastro Girl podcast and YouTube channel have episodes on EoE. The comments that come in on the videos, like “EOE 101,” Jacqueline says are mind blowing. People say the videos help them identify what possibly could be going on and get them to seek care without alarming them.   [10:34] Gastro Girl offers evidence-based information and resources so that people know they can come to the site and find sites like APFED and the ACG that are trusted and credible, that will not send them down a rabbit hole and confuse them.   [12:07] A colleague of Jacqueline's friend emailed Jacqueline with her young son's symptoms. Jacqueline isn't a doctor and can't diagnose but the symptoms sounded like EoE. She recommended that the mother ask her son's doctor if he could be tested. Two months later she heard he had eosinophilic asthma and EoE.   [13:21] Jacqueline says the biggest message we could get out there is for patients to pay attention to credible resources. She cautions patients to be mindful and use discretion when going to the sites for their health information. Dr. Google is not great. Holly directs patients toward specific videos or episodes that offer the best information.   [14:41] There are some times when Jacqueline does not approve a comment to a podcast or video if she is concerned the comment will do more damage than good. She urges listeners and viewers to exercise caution on what comments they listen to.   [16:22] Jacqueline has interviewed many patients, caregivers, and providers in the GI space. She says patients want to be heard and feel that they are being listened to and that they're getting access to the right information so they can feel better. That can mean different things to different patients in their quality of life.   [17:47] Gastro Girl is about putting the patient at the center. Being patient-centric is seeing the patient's view first. Gastro Girl supports patients having collaborative care and shared decision-making, giving information so they are more educated and informed as they ask questions and collaborate on decisions with their providers.   [19:25] Thinking critically and asking the right questions makes you an active participant in your healthcare journey, and hopefully, gets you to a better result.   [20:26] Jacqueline learns every day from her podcast guests. She has learned that healthcare providers, gastroenterologists, dieticians, and psychologists care about their patients. They want patients to get better. Their passion and caring are overwhelming.   [21:20] Jacqueline has learned that patients are resilient and committed, not only to finding better ways to have a better quality of life but also to advocacy efforts, helping, and lifting their fellow patients. Jacqueline says together we are much stronger than to be isolated by ourselves, dealing with big healthcare issues.   [22:55] Many doctors are involved in research, speaking, webinars, and educating fellow providers and patients. It's mind blowing to Jacqueline!   [23:16] Running Gastro Girl and GI on Demand during COVID-19 was hard and stressful for Jacqueline. She was inactive and gained weight. She worried about taking care of others, but not herself. She is back on track, exercising and losing weight.   [26:08] Jacqueline says we have to be kind to ourselves; we have to have compassion and grace towards ourselves. We're very kind and compassionate to others and give them grace. Make sure you extend grace to yourself.   [26:27] Jacqueline cites Tara Cousineau, author of The Kindness Cure. Positive reinforcement is better than beating yourself up. When you feel good, you're going to do the good things next time.   [27:46] Jacqueline tells about GI on Demand. It's provider-focused with multiple disciplines available for healthcare providers. Providers and patients can search for dieticians, GI psychologists, and genetic testing and counseling. This helps GI providers and their practices to help their patients better.   [31:24] Jacqueline plans for Gastro Girl to continue to do great work for patients. She is working on an educational bus tour, “Gastro Girl to the Rescue Bus Tour!” with partners such as APFED, to bring information to individuals at home. Patients can be guided to resources, like getting a proper diagnosis or finding a provider. It's a lot of logistics!   [32:56] To check out Gastro Girl's website, visit GastroGirl.com. To learn more about eosinophilic disorders check out the resources there and also visit APFED.org. If you're looking for a specialist who treats eosinophilic disorders, you can use APFED's Specialist Finder at APFED.org/Specialist.   [33:21] If you'd like to connect with others impacted by eosinophilic diseases, please join APFED's online community on the Inspire Network at APFED.org/Connections.   [33:30] Ryan and Holly thank Jacqueline Gaulin again for joining them. Ryan would be happy to go on the Gastro Girl podcast any time to talk more! Holly thanks APFED's education partners, linked below, for supporting this episode.   Mentioned in This Episode: Jacqueline A. Gaulin Gastro GirlWhere Can I Find Resources for Eosinophilic Disorders? Special Guest Mary Jo Strobel GI on Demand Gastro Girl Channel on YouTube The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World, by Tara Cousineau American Partnership for Eosinophilic Disorders (APFED) APFED on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram Real Talk: Eosinophilic Diseases Podcast   Education Partners: This episode of APFED's podcast is brought to you thanks to the support of AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, Sanofi, and Regeneron.   Tweetables:   “I love when patients get involved in advocacy because there's no better voice for the patient than those who walk in that path, whatever their health condition or journey is, or even if they have a loved one.” — Jacqueline Gaulin   “What Gastro Girl really offers is evidence-based information and resources so that people know that they can come to our site and find sites like APFED and the ACG that are trusted and credible.” — Jacqueline Gaulin “The biggest message we could get out there is for patients to pay attention to the credible resources. I just caution patients to be mindful and use discretion when going to the sites for your health information.” — Jacqueline Gaulin   “To think critically and to ask the right questions will get you, hopefully, a better result in your healthcare journey because you're not just a passive participant, you're actively playing an important role in your healthcare with your provider.” — Jacqueline Gaulin   About Jacqueline Gaulin An early champion of a patient-centric, collaborative, and multidisciplinary approach to gastrointestinal health, I worked for several early-stage health-related start-ups, including Revolution Health. During my time with the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), I led the ACG into the digital age by creating and executing strategic communications plans and patient education campaigns around a variety of digestive health topics and related research, including IBS, IBD, Liver disease and colorectal cancer awareness.   After six years with the ACG, my passion for empowering patients inspired me to evolve my popular blog, Gastro Girl, into a digital health company in 2015, Gastro Girl, Inc., to provide patients with access to the GI expertise and evidence-based information and resources they need to follow their doctor's treatment plan and make informed health care decisions with their care team for better health outcomes.  

Certified life coach Kim Perone shares information from the book The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart & World, by Tara Cousineau, PhD.  There is so much we need to know about the benefits of compassion one of her favorite topics.Please leave a review of the podcast where you can!  Learn more about us at www.SlightlyUnmeditated.com or reach out to us on social media:InstagramFacebookTwitterYouTube  Also, check out us and some other great spirituality podcasts on FeedSpot's 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts You Must Follow  list.Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify TMAC Fitness. 20 Minute Home Workouts Beginner and Advanced Workouts. No equipment. Each Workout Ends with a Meditation. BrandSupport the show

Certified life coach Kim Perone shares information from the book The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart & World, by Tara Cousineau, PhD.  There is so much we need to know about the benefits of compassion one of her favorite topics.Please leave a review of the podcast where you can!  Learn more about us at www.SlightlyUnmeditated.com or reach out to us on social media:InstagramFacebookTwitterYouTube  Also, check out us and some other great spirituality podcasts on FeedSpot's 100 Best Spiritual Podcasts You Must Follow  list.Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify TMAC Fitness. 20 Minute Home Workouts Beginner and Advanced Workouts. No equipment. Each Workout Ends with a Meditation. BrandSupport the show

Tara Cousineau, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World. She currently works as a staff psychologist at Harvard University's Counseling and Mental Health Center. She is trained in mind-body medicine from Harvard Medical School, is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher, and a facilitator of the Daring Way Method™ in practices of courage and resilience, based on the research by Dr. Brene Brown. She is devoted to bringing “kindfulness” practices to individuals, schools, and workplaces. You may learn more at www.taracousineau.com Please enjoy! Please visit https://nishantgarg.me/podcasts for more info. Follow Nishant: Instagram: instagram.com/garg_nishant https://www.facebook.com/NishantMindfulnessMatters/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-garg-b7a20339/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nishant82638150

Healthy mind through Corona on the Melissa Billie Clark Show Speaker: Tara Cousineau, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and author of The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World. She currently works as a staff psychologist at Harvard University Counseling Center. She is professionally trained in mind-body medicine from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tara is a mindfulness meditation teacher trained by Drs. Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, and is trained in mindful self-compassion, based on the teachings Drs. Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff, including the adolescent and emerging adult adaptation, Making Friends with Yourself. Dr. Tara is also certified facilitator of the Daring Way Method™ in practices of courage and resilience, based on the research by Dr. Brene Brown. Previously, she was a global expert for the DOVE Self-Esteem Project, which has a social mission to encourage evidence-based practices in positive body esteem and self-confidence. She is founder of KindMinds, which is devoted to bringing “kindfulness” practices to individuals, schools and workplaces. You may learn more at www.taracousineau.com and www.kindminds.co Resource Link: https://www.taracousineau.com/spread-the-love-2020/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/melissabillieclark/support

Tara Cousineau, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and author of The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World and The Little Deck of Kindfulness. She currently works as a staff psychologist at Harvard University Counseling Center. she was a global expert for the DOVE Self-Esteem Project, which has a social mission to encourage evidence-based practices in positive body esteem and self-confidence. https://podcasts.heartatworkonline.org/tara-couisneau/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impactfullegacy/message

In this episode we talk about kindness and we touch upon the related item of respect. We discuss why kindness matters in life, your business world and more importantly, kindness to yourself. This week’s guest is Tara Cousineau, PhD and author of the book The Kindness Cure; How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World. Tara is a clinical psychologist a meditation teacher and is connected with Harvard University. In her book she talks about the many subjects related to kindness including, stress, compassion, emotions and gratitude. On the podcast we discuss The definition of kindness In 2019, is kindness is lacking in our society? She explains why kindness takes effort. What does stress have to do with kindness or lack of kindness? How do we be kind to ourselves? Despite our past experiences, etc… Is kindness being embraced in business culture?   The benefits of meditation both personally and in the business world. You can find out more about Tara and her work at: https://www.taracousineau.com/ Her book The Kindness Cure can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Kindness-Cure-Science-Compassion-Heart/dp/1626259690/   The Ted talk she refers to in our discussion with Rick Hanson can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpuDyGgIeh0

Tara Cousineau, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and researcher. Her expertise spans child and adolescent health, women’s health, mind-body medicine, and the use of innovative technologies to promote positive coping and wellbeing. Tara is a teacher and practitioner of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion.  She is author of a new book, "The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World." She has been quoted in Thrive Global, Mind Body Green, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Brides, Seventeen, as well as her own blog. She lives and works in the Boston, Massachusetts area. Her website is www.taracousineau.com

Tara Cousineau is the author of a new book, "The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal your Heart and Your World". She is also a psychologist and coach in the Boston area, a yogi and a meditation teacher. Guiding Principle, Quote, or Mantra How can I bring kindfulness to this moment? When You “Tripped Up” in Partnership When Tara was in her mid 20’s, in college, she moved to Boston from Germany where she had done a year long program. She felt lonely when she was there so she took up ballroom dancing classes while she was there. When she came back to Boston she didn’t know anyone either. She then took up dancing once again. She had a lot of fun doing it and started to get better. She even ended up becoming an amateur doing it. She ended up doing competitions with her dance instructor. She then ended up dating him and he was significantly older. Find out what happened by listening to the podcast. That “Duh” Moment in Partnership Tara relates back to that whole ballroom dancing phase. She became friendly with her coworker who was senior to her. She always had a rule that you don’t date people you work with. But she didn’t apply this to ballroom dancing. She was sort of cautious with her now husband. She held back some because he worked with her. Find out what happened next by listening to the podcast. What is the Best Partnership Advice You Give Your Clients? You have to get out of bed and get physically active so you’re not going into the addictive drone of the brain. What’s Best Partnership Advice You Have Ever Received? Don’t take things personally. Best Partnership Resource The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World - Tara Cousineau Take the Quiz - Discover Your Kindness Quotient Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar - Cheryl Strayed Interview Links - Her Website Twitter Facebook Linked In Instagram

Tara Cousineau, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, meditation teacher, well-being researcher, and social entrepreneur. Tara founded www.bodimojo.com, and develops digital wellness tools for youth. She is affiliated with the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, MA. She is a mindfulness trainer and chief science officer at Whil, a digital mindfulness company, and serves as a scientific advisor to www.kindness.org. Her upcoming book, The Kindness Cure will be released in February 2018. It is a peerless book on kindness that exceeds any existing work on the subject. Contact Info Website: www.TaraCousineau.com Get Tara's Book: The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and Your World Meditations and Affirmations and a Kindness Manifesto available on the above website Most Influential Person Tara Brach - Psychologist and author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge Effect on Emotions If we had longer, I would tell you what a temper tantrum kid I was. I had a very chaotic household. I think that when I came to yoga and mindfulness in my twenties, that it absolutely changed, in my emotional life, how I react, in the world, in my relationships. It fundamentally changed them. Thoughts on Breathing Breathing is essential. A definition of breath is spirit of life and I feel that's very true. So, for me, the breath is spiritual nurturing; taking that sacred pause. And that's what Tara Brock calls it; that's why I like her so much. Essentially, we are living, breathing human beings and we're all connected to each other by the very virtue that we live and breathe in the world. So let's really attend to our breath. Suggested Resources Book: The Kindness Cure by Tara Cousineau Book: The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher Germer Book: The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer App: Insight Timer App: Mind Yeti (For Children) App: Stop, Breathe and Think (For Adolescents) Bullying Story Like I mentioned, I wrote the book based on a bullying situation. It was a situation with my daughter actually. The incident was the night before senior year of high school. The kids were congregating in the woods. They’re not supposed to, but that’s where they do. It was early in the evening, 9:00 at night or something and my daughter was leaving the gathering and another girl just comes out from behind a tree and attacks my daughter. It was like a girl-on-girl fight. My daughter, Sophie had no idea where this was coming from. Then the guys got called in and it was one of those weird teenage scenes. And here’s the thing; my daughter didn’t tell me until a day later. Partly because I had actually been in my office the night before and I didn’t see her come home. The next day she came to my home office and said, mom, I have something to tell you. I was like, Oh my god; she crashed the car, she’s pregnant. What is a teenager going to tell you, you know? She sat down and she said, I know I was not supposed to be at the woods, but that’s where all the kids were just to celebrate and she named a former friend from middle school who had physically attacked her. I was just like, Oh, my god are you ok? And she showed me the cat scratches and the fingernail scratches and the whole thing. She had a picture that her friend took of her bloody nose. I said I don’t want to see the picture because I know too much about how these things get imprinted in your brain. I said I believe you. Are you ok? Do you feel safe? The next day was going to be the first day of school. I asked, are you going to be ok in the hallways, in the cafeteria. She said, yeah. And I said, why do you think this happened? She goes, I really don’t know. I think it might just be an old grudge and then she started going into this compassion mode. I’m looking at her shaking my head because I literally was going to go knock on her parents' door and really ream the mother out. I was really mad. I was really upset about it. My daughter was saying, well, she’s really had a hard life. I said, honey, you were assaulted and that’s not ok, but you know what, let’s just think about it. I literally called on every ounce of mindfulness training that I’d had, not to go into this reactive, tiger-mom mode. I might have five or six years ago. I might have gotten in my car, knocked on the door and the whole kit and caboodle. But my daughter actually really showed … I don’t know where she got this because I think she had wisdom and inner strength that I didn’t necessarily have at her age where she could see the situation from multiple angles. She also felt in this case, that talking to the school could blow it up and make it worse. I said, let’s just put that on hold because I’m the parent here and it’s ultimately the parents’ responsibility to do something. So part b of this story is that I waited a week. Then I made a meeting with the school and I just said, I know that the woods are the satellite off-campus site for these kids and that as long as they’re not on the property, there’s nothing you can do about it. I said, here’s my concern; that this is going to escalate and this could cause a rift that both girls are going to be in a sort of interpersonal war and that both of them could have an unpleasant year because what happened immediately is that a lot of the girls and guys sided with my daughter. That was going to incense the situation more. That’s what kind of informed the book, was that very incident because I just had one of those wtf moments where I just said, what happened to kindness.

On Episode 146, Leslie and Tesi fall in love with Tara Cousineau, PhD, clinical psychologist, meditation teacher, well-being researcher, and author of the new book The Kindness Cure: How the Science of Compassion Can Heal Your Heart and the World (available February 2018). Dr. Cousineau discusses her cutting-edge research in psychology and neuroscience and teaches simple practices of kindness that can dissolve our feelings of fear and habits of indifference. The women discuss with great enthusiasm and passion the belief that a practice of kindness can revolutionize our lives and just might save the world! For complete Show Notes, visit the Mama Bear Dares website! Sponsor: RXBar Kids (Promo Code: MamaBearDares)