Press
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Additional Press
Podcast | Commodified: When Wellness Makes Us Unwell (WUNC)
“It can be hard to separate out true wellness from the wellness industrial complex… Real wellness is a loving, interconnected way of being with the world around us.“
Article | 3 Ways Tech Can Actually Help You Meet—and Maintain—Your Wellness Goals This Year
“The ability to take deep, slow breaths is an almost magical practice—and having technology that can remind us of that practice right when we need it can be a lovely service to our well-being.”
Podcast | Live Happy: Making Friends With Your Anxiety with Liza Kindred
“(The book) is so comprehensive. Like it addresses so many different aspects of how anxiety affects us and how we deal with it.... I was like, “Man, she just really left no stone unturned here.”
Article | The Daily: The Big, Bad, Wellness Industry
“The Wellness Industrial Complex is my name for the heady industry in which wellness and capitalism collide,’ Liza Kindred said in eff this meditation.”
Podcast | Spa It Girl: Eff This! Meditation with Liza Kindred
“Your probably haven’t met a Buddhist meditation teacher like Liza before: she swears a lot, calls bullshit on the wellness industrial complex, and had a storied career working in both fashion and technology.”
Article | Vyb Studio : 10 Practices to Help Manage Anxiety & Stress
“In [Liza Kindred’s] book, there are many different pranayama techniques and ways to meditate that will help you chill the F*&% out.”
Podcast | Conversations With a Wounded Healer : Featured Guest Liza Kindred
“If meditation’s super-precious, über-enlightened rep has put you off in the past, Sarah’s guest Liza Kindred is here to reintroduce you to the practice – using language that this wounded healer is f*cking down with!”
Podcast | Mindful Medicine: Digital Detox Plan
“Human beings need human connection. In order to strike a better balance between FaceTime and actual face time, most people are in need of a digital detox.”
Article | HerMoney: 3 Affordable Ways to Invest in Your Relationship with Yourself
“If books are more your thing, Lodro suggests Eff This Meditation by Liza Kindred, Tea and Cake with Demons by Adreanna Limbach, and Start Here Now by Susan Piver. “
Article | Hers Magazine: Meditation for People Who Hate Meditating in Only 3 Simple Steps
“Practicing meditation is like exercising a muscle. It’s a little hard at first but over time… it can become familiar and routine.”
Article | YourTeen Mag: 7 Ways For Dealing with Empty Next Syndrome
“For me, the challenge of having my child move out isn’t one of nothing to do. It’s one of a completely different cycle of life starting—and all the accompanying emotions.”
Article | Healthy Life Lessons: EFF This! Meditation: Book Review
“Given my own experiences, I was immediately excited to review the book, EFF This! Meditation and suspected that author, Liza Kindred, and I are kindred spirits. Ha ha pun intended.”
Podcast | Seek The Joy: We Are Complete, Just Not Finished: Embracing Both the Sacred and the Profane
“In this week’s new episode, we chat about Liza's meditation practice and Buddhism studies, the inspiration behind EFF This! Meditation, and the video of the Dalai Lama that changed everything.”
Article | Thrive Global: 5 One-Minute Practices to Relieve Holiday Stress
“Here are 5 practices that take just one minute (yes, really!) that can help you ground down, release tension, and become more centered. Every single one of these tips can be done anywhere, costs nothing, and can be repeated over and over again.”
Article | BestEverYou: Mindfulness Meditation 101
“Unlike how it’s depicted in popular culture, mindfulness meditation isn’t about clearing your mind of thoughts, so don’t worry if you’ve tried meditating and your mind was busy. That’s true of everyone! Meditation is simple choosing to gently refocus, over and over.”
Article | Spirituality & Health: 6 Ways to Keep Technology From Hacking Your Holidays
“Technology has changed our behavior drastically, and yet we are still humans—social beings who crave connection and affection, who eat, sleep, laugh, cry, and love. Time spent on screens can be time spent taking away from our very essence as humans.”
Article | Thrive Global: How to Have Meaningful—But Effortless—Holiday Conversations
“Let’s face it: holiday conversations can be awkward, difficult, or downright painful. And although boundary setting is important, in the end we can’t control other people. One thing we can do, though, is to come into potentially challenging situations prepared to do our part.”
Article | HuffPost: 13 Everyday Ways to Cut Back on Your Smartphone Usage
“Research has suggested that people spend an average of at least three hours on their smartphones each day. 'If you think these numbers don’t apply to you, it’s a simple thing to check,' said Liza Kindred, an author, speaker and founder of Mindful Technology… 'I’m willing to bet that your numbers will surprise you.'“
Article | Thrive Global: 3 Reasons That Self Love Is First Love
“While many people I work with agree in theory that self love is important, putting it into practice in the midst of the chaos of everyday life is a real challenge.”
Article | GenPink: Fall Book Roundup
“This is more than a self-help book. It’s a book that’s going to get us through the end of the year since the chaos of holidays and end-of-year work projects or final exams is among us.”
Article | The Gratitude Podcast: What Does Gratitude Have to Do with Stress & Anxiety?!
“There is a culturally accepted working hypothesis that there is something inherently wrong with each and every one of us, and that we are morally obligated to constantly work to improve ourselves. This might serve the wellness industrial complex, but it does not serve you.”
Article | Red Tricycle: 3 Proven Stress Relief Techniques That Take Less than Sixty Seconds
“The truth is, in the middle of life’s most stressful moments, sometimes all we have time to spare is one single minute. The good news is that even 60 seconds, when spent mindfully, can help put you on a path towards de-stressing.”
Article | Medium: The Deep Wisdom of the Hot Dog Man
“This aspiring hot dog man knew in his heart a deep truth of human existence: that a life lived in service of others offers more potential for happiness than a life lived just for ourselves.”
Article | South Florida Sun Sentinel: Hurricane Dorian Anxiety? South Floridians Find Ways to Cope with Stress
“Meditation teacher Liza Kindred, author of EFF This! Meditation: 108 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for When You’re Stressed Out, Anxious, or Overwhelmed says meditation can be done anywhere, even at your desk — or during a storm.”
Podcast | Yoke and Abundance: Eff This with Liza Kindred
“In this episode, Alisha is sharing her conversation with Liza Kindred about the lie of meditation, how meditation is real and gritty and raw and how there is no such thing as bad at meditation.”