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

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

Update: 2024-09-19
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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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Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health

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

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