• Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health

  • Sep 19 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
  • Podcast

Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health

  • Summary

  • In this episode, Wendy speaks with psychiatrist and contemplative researcher Zev Schuman-Olivier. Zev has been working for more than a decade to integrate mindfulness and compassion into health care, with a focus on addiction, depression, and chronic illness. This conversation covers many topics, including:

    • weaving mindfulness and compassion into clinical settings;
    • lessons from his own experience of chronic illness;
    • the key role of behavior change in health;
    • balancing individual responsibility for health with systemic factors;
    • mindfulness and addiction;
    • making interventions trauma-informed, inclusive, and broadly accessible;
    • how signals from the body help motivate action and emotion;
    • how mindfulness enhances trust in the body and changes the brain in depression;
    • Internal Family Systems and the critical role of acceptance;
    • and next steps for integrating mindfulness and compassion into complex healthcare systems.

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