Nobody Prepares You For This: Will Schneider On Caregiving, Grief, And Finding Your Calm Center
From Men Talking Mindfulness · 45:31
Show by Jon Macaskill & Will Schneider
Will is going through it. His father is seriously ill, his brother is badly injured, and he is hours from home running between hospitals while trying not to torch a business he spent fifteen years building.Jon asks the questions nobody asks the fixer: what it costs, what he puts down, and what he actually leans on when staying calm stops being a slogan and becomes the only place he can work from.IN THIS EPISODE, YOU WILL LEARN:What the role of family fixer actually costs — and what it feels like when the thing in front of you cannot be fixedThe difference between regulating an emotion and suppressing one, and how to tell which you are doing in the momentThe practices Will leans on hardest right now: moving the body until the pressure drops, breath, morning sun, meditation, and time with people who love himWhy apologizing is a practice, not a failure — and what to say when you have taken your frustration out on someoneHow to ask a friend for help, and the difference between someone saying “let me know what you need” and someone just showing upSTAY CONNECTED WITH MTMJoin the MTM community — text MTM to 33777Website: mentalkingmindfulness.comTake our Free Assessment - https://focusnowtraining.com/assessment-pageAwareness to Action program: focusnowtraining.com/a2aFocus Now Training: focusnowtraining.comWork with us / speaking inquiries: focusnowtraining.com/contactProduced by Robert Lopez: https://cratesaudio.com
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