Your Calm Is Your Child's Best Drug, with Hunter Clarke-Fields
About this episode
Hunter Clarke-Fields discusses her journey into mindfulness and its impact on parenting and mental health.
This is from Hopestream: Parenting Kids Through Addiction & Mental Health with Brenda Zane. Hunter Clarke-Fields was a painter. She had a graduate degree in art education, a high school teaching job, and what looked from the outside like a creative life. What nobody could see was that she was white-knuckling her way through it, cycling between intense highs and pits of despair she could not explain, having panic attacks in the hallways before she had any tools to handle them. She reached for yoga, then for books on mindfulness, and read about it for years before she finally, at 27, sat down and actually tried. She set a timer for 10 minutes and sat there thinking the whole time. She was certain she was doing it wrong. But two months in, she looked back and realized she had not fallen into a single pit. Not one. For someone who had been cycling into darkness every couple of weeks for most of her adult life, that was not a small thing. It was everything. And it sent her down a path she never expected, one that eventually turned her into the Mindful Mama Mentor, a podcast host, a mindfulness teacher, and the bestselling author of Raising Good Humans. Hunter now teaches mindfulness…
People in this episode
Host: Hunter Clarke-Fields
Guest: Brenda Zane
Topics covered
- mindfulness
- parenting
- mental health
- addiction
- emotional regulation
Keywords
- mindfulness
- parenting
- mental health
- panic attacks
- yoga
- emotional regulation
- addiction
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Raising Good Humans
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