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I’ve been meditating daily (at least once a day) since March 2013. Sporadically since 2001. And teaching different types of meditation since 2003.

And I still find it really challenging. But I can’t imagine life without it.

I hope that by sharing some of the joys and challenges of different types of meditation and ADHD and trauma, my own history (with a deeper, more personal dive for the Sole to Soul Circle members tomorrow), that you’ll be kinder to yourself around any challenges you have in keeping your focus on the meditation.

Remember, it’s a practice.

Some days it’s easier than other days but the noticing when our attention drifts and bringing it back is the key.

Let me know how you get on! Email eve@selfcarecoaching.net or comment.

le grá (with love),

Evei

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And when I treat it like punishment, like I don't know about you, but I used to get told off a lot for talking in class, again, ADHD, for distracting other people, and of course, I distract myself. So it's figuring out what length of time would work for you. And when I'm talking about a 12-hour silence, that's not all meditative, but it does help me get quieter.

Welcome to The Feel Better Every Day Podcast. Every Tuesday, I release new episodes to help you feel better every day. They're trauma-informed and VAST/ADHD friendly, (Self with an uppercase S and lowercase s) self-care ideas designed to support you in connecting with and taking care of your Self, that highest, wisest, truest, wildest, most joyful, brilliant, and miraculous part of yourself. To create a life you don't need to retreat from. So I hope you enjoy this new episode.

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And through the book, 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, and for deeper dives into each podcast episode, there's a bonus interview with my guests, where I have guests or into the theme, as well as access to the complete archive, including the entire Love Your Whole Self chakra journey. And you can access all of that by joining the Sole to Soul Circle. So that's S-O-L-E for the Sole of your feet.

It's a fully embodied approach and soul S-O-U-L. It's a transpersonal approach. It's very holistic.

You can find out more at selfcarecoaching.net and evemc.substack.com. So thanks again for listening. And I hope you enjoy today's episode for World Meditation Day.

Today's topic is meditation. Episode 589. We're looking at the challenges and benefits of meditation for trauma survivors and VAST/ADHD brains. While I've already shared hundreds of meditations for you, I have several in the book, 365 Ways to Feel Better: Self-care Ideas for Embodied Wellbeing, as well as on my YouTube, in newsletters, blog posts, articles.

And you can access loads through the site selfcarecoaching.net or through my YouTube channel. I'm sharing shorter trauma-informed and VAST/ADHD meditations every Friday, starting soon, not this Friday. But I thought it would be a lovely way actually to show the huge degree of variation in meditations. They have different benefits, different feelings, different ways of applying them.

When my psychiatrist told me that if anyone told me I should try mindfulness to cure my ADHD, I should tell them to F off, I laughed. I agreed with her AND shuddered to even imagine the state of my brain had I not been meditating for decades and daily since 2013. And I teach mindfulness meditation as one of the forms I do teach.

It's been amazing and it remains challenging. In recent years, since 2012, understanding more about my brain and other trauma survivors’, and then more recently