# Zev Schuman-Olivier – Mindfulness, Behavior Change, and Health

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Podcast: [Mind & Life](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mind-life-594422)
Published: 2024-09-19T08:12:00+00:00
Episode link: https://mindandlife.podbean.com/e/zev-schuman-olivier-%e2%80%93-mindfulness-behavior-change-and-health/
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## Resource

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; how signals from the body help motivate action and emotion; how mindfulness enhances trust in the body and changes the brain in depression; Internal Family Systems and the critical role of acceptance; and next steps for integrating mindfulness and compassion into complex healthcare systems. Full show notes and resources

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