Resilience through Mindfulness (with Angela Lunde)

Caregivers face many struggles as they navigate the dementia journey, but there is hope out there. Angela Lunde, a co-director for the Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core in the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at Mayo Clinic, talks with us about how to identify one’s own unique struggles and create a path of resilience, not resistance, through practicing mindfulness. She shares how she was able to untangle the feeling of acceptance and how she incorporates that into mindful practices, giving our full attention to whatever is happening now, leading to many health benefits. She also teaches us a quick and easy way to practice mindfulness by paying attention to the present moment and focusing on our own breath.