My Year of Living Mindfully, Shannon Harvey
My Year of Living Mindfully, Shannon Harvey
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My Year of Living Mindfully

Author: Shannon Harvey

Narrator: Shannon Harvey

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/08/2020


Synopsis

Overwhelmed with insomnia and an incurable autoimmune disease, Shannon Harvey needed to make a change. But while the award-winning health journalist found plenty of recommendations on diet, sleep and exercise, when she looked for the equivalent of a 30-minute workout for her mental wellbeing, there was nothing.

Also worried for the future mental health of her kids, who were growing up amidst critical levels of stress, anxiety, depression and addiction, Shannon enlisted a team of scientists to put meditation to the test. Could learning to quiet our busy minds be the simple solution the world so desperately needs?

During her year of living mindfully Shannon is poked, prodded, scanned and screened. After a 30,000 kilometre journey from Australia to the bright lights of Manhattan and the dusty refugee camps of the Middle East - interviewing the world's leading mindfulness experts along the way - what begins as a quest for answers transforms into a life-changing experience.

Featuring original interviews and exclusive audiobook-only content from the director of the internationally acclaimed documentary of the same name, MY YEAR OF LIVING MINDFULLY is filled with compelling stories, groundbreaking science, and unexpected insights that go to the heart of what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

About Shannon Harvey

Prior to starting Elemental Media, Shannon Harvey has worked as a TV, radio and online journalist for organisations such as the ABC and Fairfax. She is the director of the internationally acclaimed documentary, The Connection, which is about the link between our mind, body, and health. She's also been invited to speak at Google in Silicon Valley and has been featured in Wellbeing Magazine, Women's Health, on ABC Radio, WNBC, and PBS. Her book The Whole Health Life earned her the National Press Club of Australia's 'Health Journalist of the Year' award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bernard on February 23, 2021

Shannon's movie has been an important influence on my life. It came out just as I was developing an interest in meditation and it was like strapping a rocket to my waist. Following on from the movie, I read her blogs and have been following her advice about beginning a practice. The book is at least......more

Goodreads review by Sammi on April 23, 2021

I really enjoyed the humour Harvey brought to this, specifically the meditation journal entries narrating her thoughts during various meditation sessions. As someone who has read plenty on the benefits of meditation, but has so far been unsuccessful with the practice itself, I found her early entrie......more

Goodreads review by Norrie on January 21, 2021

Shannon Harvey’s book is firmly rooted in evidence, supplemented by direct experience. She sets out to examine the science around mindfulness – even describing it as a “self experiment”. The method is not intended to have the legitimacy of a scientific trial, but her careful experimental design resu......more

Goodreads review by Lyn on June 18, 2022

Shannon Harvey is a health journalist who bases all her writing on scientific evidence. The book tells the story of her quest to discover whether her mental wellbeing could be improved by learning and practising "caring" mindfulness on a daily basis. Her one year journey is an interesting and at tim......more

Goodreads review by Mr on January 28, 2021

As a long term meditation practitioner and mindfulness researcher, I really enjoyed this book! Shannon has done a superb job of distilling the nuiance and complexity of over 8000 scientific articles on mindfulness meditation (and broader literature) and weaving this into a deeply personal, relatable......more