Caring for Yourself as Caring for the World with Yael Shy - EP 3

Care Work with Alida Miranda-Wolff

Yael Shy’s purpose in life is to help others uncover their inherent worth and capacity for deep joy. Yael wrote the award-winning What Now? Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond and teaches mindfulness and meditation at New York University. Together, we discuss how mindfulness and meditation can help us understand ourselves and the world.
Topics Discussed:

• How Yael came to the world of mindfulness and meditation (3:41)
• The experience of helping students take on the practice of meditation (5:52)
• What students need from meditation that other people might not (8:40)
• What Yael thinks life is all about (10:27)
• Why Yael wrote her book, What Now? (12:08)
• What it looked like for Yael to put her work out into the world (18:39)
• Yael's advice for moving past suffering and pain (21:15)
• What helps Yael develop her practices (27:40)
• Who Yael goes to when she needs support (37:33)
• The book that Yael would recommend to people who live a life of care (41:31)

Resources Mentioned:

• What Now?: Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond by Yael Shy
• Yael's 12-week Flourish certification program
• You Belong: A Call for Connection by Sebene Selassie
• The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks

Where to Find Yael Shy:

• Website: mindfulnessconsulting.net
• Twitter: @YaelShy1
• Instagram: @yaelshy1
• Facebook: @yaeshy1

Fejezetek

1. Caring for Yourself as Caring for the World with Yael Shy - EP 3 (00:00:00)

2. How Yael came to the world of mindfulness and meditation (00:03:41)

3. The experience of helping students take on the practice of meditation (00:05:52)

4. What students need from meditation that other people might not (00:08:40)

5. What Yael thinks life is all about (00:10:27)

6. Why Yael wrote her book, What Now? (00:12:08)

7. What it looked like for Yael to put her work out into the world (00:18:39)

8. Yael's advice for moving past suffering and pain (00:21:15)

9. What helps Yael develop her practices (00:27:40)

10. Who Yael goes to when she needs support (00:37:33)

11. The book that Yael would recommend to people who live a life of care (00:41:31)