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STOP HEALING WRONG: Why Mindfulness, Not Hustle, Ends Toxic Cycles with Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat
If you’ve been trying to heal by doing more—reading more, achieving more, fixing more—this episode will feel like a breath of truth.
Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat, Registered Psychologist, Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher, and Founder of the Center for Mindfulness Canada, joins Anita Sandoval to unravel one of the biggest misconceptions in healing: you can’t hustle your way out of pain.
Together they explore how mindfulness invites you to slow down, reconnect to your body, and end the toxic cycles of people-pleasing, burnout, and emotional self-abandonment.
🪞 In This Episode You’ll Learn:
📍 Why “doing more” can actually deepen emotional burnout
📍 How mindfulness helps you notice when old people-pleasing patterns return
📍 The power of non-judgmental awareness and self-compassion
📍 Why curiosity is a superpower in your healing journey
📍 How to tell when you’re safe to trust again after trauma
📍 Practical tools to ground yourself when emotions feel overwhelming
🧘♂️ Connect With Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat:
🌐 Website → centreformindfulness.ca
🌐 Personal Site → drkasimalmashat.com
📱 Instagram → @dr.kasimalmashat
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Chapters
1. Stop Healing Wrong: Why Mindfulness, Not Hustle, Ends Toxic Cycles — with Dr. Kasim Al-Mashat (00:00:00)
2. When Trauma Starts the Journey,Therapy made it safe to feel; there’s a way through (00:03:31)
3. The Mountain Metaphor,What’s in front of you will be behind you. (00:08:01)
4. What Mindfulness Really Is,Kabat-Zinn’s definition: attention, purpose, present, nonjudgment. (00:12:29)
5. Nonjudgment + Self-Compassion,Recover kindly instead of self-punishing. (00:18:00)
6. Compassion Isn’t a Doormat,Say no from love—for them and for you. (00:20:21)
7. Love & Awareness,Two things that save us. (00:24:39)
8. Not Crisis Meditation,The 5-second feet check. (00:30:21)
9. Befriending Emotions,Sit with anxiety like you’d comfort a child. (00:33:00)
10. You Are Not Broken,You’re whole and complete. (00:36:23)
11. Curiosity Is a Superpower,Judd Brewer’s insight. (00:41:27)
12. The S.T.O.P. Tool,Stop–Breathe–Observe–Proceed with wisdom. (00:47:41)
13. Empowered Woman Definition,Courage + authenticity + wise action. (00:53:05)
14. Legacy Letter,Wholeness, compassion, joy. (00:54:16)
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