Mind & Life Podcast: Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health

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 programs;
how signals from the body help motivate action and emotion;
how mindfulness changes interoception and brain activity in depression;
Internal Family Systems and the critical role of acceptance;
and next steps for integrating mindfulness and compassion into complex healthcare systems.

Original release date: September 19, 2024
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