What if this year, you could step into the holidays with calm, clarity, and joy?

Join me, Rachael, for this special holiday episode of The Pausecast, where we’ll explore practical and mindful ways to navigate the season stress-free.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

1. 🌀 Design Your Vision for the New Year

   • Meet your future self in Rachael's Guided Pause

     Choose your guiding word or theme for next year to anchor your goals and aspirations.

2. ✨ Embrace the Wonder of the Holidays

   • Discover how pausing to savor the magic of the season can benefit you and positively impact those around you.

   • Practical tips to stay present and soak in moments of connection and joy.

3. ⚡ Sidestep Common Holiday Pitfalls

   • Learn how to avoid energy-draining drama and shift away from a fixed mindset.

   • Strategies for bringing more playfulness into your holiday traditions to naturally boost learning and enjoyment.

4. 🌟 The Gratitude Advantage

   • Explore how cultivating gratitude can amplify your sense of joy, wonder, and productivity both during the holidays and beyond.

This episode is your invitation to lead yourself and those around you with more ease, presence, and intention this holiday season.

Tune in to Episode 177 of The Pausecast and let’s create a season that energizes, rather than depletes, you.

Ahhh, it's breathing time, YAY! Join me for this moment to realign and get back to your optimal being (and thinking using the guided technique below.

Your Go-To Reset to Realign + Believe in Yourself ✨

In this short but powerful 10 minute Pausecast episode, you’ll join me for an integrative breathwork session designed to gently regulate your nervous system, calm your mind, and bring you back into alignment. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stuck in overthinking, or craving a reset — this one’s for you. 🌿💗

🌬️ A simple 3-part Tri-Active Breath
I’ll walk you through one of the most powerful breath patterns for clearing mental clutter, releasing stress, and reconnecting to yourself. It’s easy, grounding, and you can use it anytime you need clarity or confidence.

💆‍♀️ A shift from “to-do mode” into “to-be mode”
You’ll feel your system soften as you move out of mental overload and back into presence — the place where real confidence and self-trust live.

⚡ A 5-minute guided reset
This practice helps you realign with your natural energy, access inner steadiness, and remember what it feels like to trust yourself again.

💛 Your go-to moment of belief
Use this session anytime you need a quick emotional reset, a boost of self-belief, or a reminder that you can handle what’s in front of you — even if it doesn’t feel clear yet.

If you want a refresher on all the benefits of a quick breathwork practice, you can check out the list below 👇

https://www.healthline.com/health/breathwork

🎧 In Episode 227, you’ll discover...

This one’s a gift to your future self.

If you’ve been sprinting through Q4 feeling stretched, scattered, or secretly wondering, “Is it just me?” — this episode is your pause, your reset, and your reminder that your brain is far more trainable than your stress would have you believe.

And you’re learning from the best.
Dr. Richard Davidson — world-renowned neuroscientist, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds, TIME 100 honoree, and co-author of Altered Traits — joins us to break down the science of attention, compassion, and resilience in a way every high-achieving tech leader in the digital economy needs right now.

This episode feels like a masterclass + warm hug + brain upgrade all in one. 🍂✨

• 💛 A beautiful Loving-Kindness guided pause from Dr. Davidson himself

• 🧠 How attention training literally reshapes your brain structure

• 🤝 What the latest research reveals about compassion practices

• ⏱️ The ideal length to meditate (yes… shorter than you think)

• 🌱 What to do if you “don’t meditate” but crave real change

• 🔄 How meditation rewires emotional patterns + boosts resilience

• 🪞 Dr. Davidson’s own pause + transformation practices

• 📲 The four scientific pillars of well-being — and the app that helps you cultivate them

• 🙌 The (surprisingly high!) percentage of Americans who meditate weekly

Why you need to know Dr. Davidson: One of the most influential voices in the science of well-being:

• William James & Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at UW–Madison

• Founder & Director — Center for Healthy Minds

• PhD in Psychology from Harvard

• Author of 400+ scientific articles and 14 books

• Co-author of Altered Traits with Daniel Goleman

• Named to TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People

• Elected to the National Academy of Medicine

• Advisor to the World Economic Forum and UNESCO

• Leading global researcher on the neural basis of emotion, meditation, and human flourishing

  
  

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