Standing Up Strong with Stacy Sims

Being the best version of ourselves, so we can be upstanders for the world around us, takes time and intention. Stacy Sims, Executive Director and Founder of The Well, joins us in this episode to help us understand the importance of mindfulness in an age of distraction.

“If we don’t have practices that allow us to be sort of old school – out in nature, walking around, reading books, playing games – we’re just going to keep buying the narrative that the technology is selling us.” — Stacy Sims, on the need for people to unplug in order to foster mindfulness

Stacy is a Cincinnati-based wellness expert who walks the talk. She explains how mindfulness practices including movement, breath work, and meditation can help counterbalance the effects of the technology we consume and the disconnection from our inner selves that is so prevalent. The conversation explores the role of character strengths in mindfulness practices, and how celebrating strengths can promote harmony in our lives. Download this episode for help integrating mindfulness into your everyday life to improve mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

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Episode Resources

Learn more from Stacy and her team

https://www.thewell.world

Investigate your own character strengths for free

https://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/upstander/assess-your-character-strengths/

Dive deep on character strengths and positive psychology with our partner, the VIA Institute on Character https://www.viacharacter.org/

Learn what it means to “tow” a character strength

https://medium.com/@admin_3133/boosting-your-character-the-benefits-of-strengths-towing-f2ab2d16b8a6

The book Stacy mentioned, The Anxious Generation

https://www.amazon.com/Anxious-Generation-Rewiring-Childhood-Epidemic/dp/0593655036

The Surgeon General’s announcement on youth and social media use

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/23/surgeon-general-issues-new-advisory-about-effects-social-media-use-has-youth-mental-health.html

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