Healing Trauma and Addiction Through Mindfulness with Fernando Ruiz

Welcome to the Mindful You Podcast. In this episode, listeners are introduced to Fernando Ruiz, a spiritual guide who shares his powerful story of overcoming adversity—from traumatic experiences and incarceration to finding healing and purpose through spirituality.

The discussion explored how practices like meditation, journaling, taking responsibility, and letting go can support anyone on their healing journey. Several points were raised, including the challenges of managing thoughts and emotions, the value of developing presence, and the importance of forgiveness in personal development. A key theme that emerged was the reminder to approach spiritual practice with patience and self-compassion, recognizing growth as an ongoing process.

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Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.

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