In this episode I talk to Gabrielle Treanor, a mindfulness coach, author, and podcaster about being present, self care, being kind to yourself, and how those topics intersect with making.

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Interview Notes:

• Gabrielle’s Website & her Instagram


• Pressing Pause


• Gabrielle’s dog


• Positive Psychology


• Kate O’Sullivan (of A Playful Day)’s Conversations From Our Days.Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction


• Sympathetic Magic


• Bullet Journaling  (I use a Plus Sized Baron Fig Confidant and colored pens, I very rarely decorate it, don’t let all the aspirational bullet journals on instagram throw you off!)


• Morning Pages 


• Free Mindfulness Apps (my fav meditation app is Buddhify. Not free, but worth it)


• The flow chart website You Feel Like Shit


• Parasympathetic Nervous System


• Adult Coloring Books (affiliate link)


• Papercutting and Kirigami


• Granny Stripe Afghan


• Afghans… why the name?


• The easy worsted weight socks that I loved knitting when I first started knitting socks.


• Cal Patch


• Crocheted socks


• Kim Werker’s on Stories We Tell Ourselves about Failure


• Gabrielle’s “Yet” Podcast Episode


• Finger Monsters (affiliate link)


• Tara Mohr about Your Inner Critic


• Yumi Sakugawa‘s Book I talked about – Your Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With The Universe (affiliate link)


• Gabrielle’s Facebook Group – Worry Less and Enjoy Life More with Gabrielle Treanor

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This podcast was produced in Salt Lake City UT, with production help from Sid Fallon. Music is by the ever illusive Breakmaster Cylinder.

I’ll be back in two weeks having a chat with Woolly Wormhead.