Press for Liza Kindred
Previous coverage includes:
Podcasts and Articles Featuring Liza:
🎤 Podcast | Commodified: When Wellness Makes Us Unwell (WUNC)
“It can be hard to separate out true wellness from the wellness industrial complex… Real wellness is a loving, interconnected way of being with the world around us.“
📚 Article | On Meditation + Chronic Illness, Community and Parenthood (The Laundry)
“So to me, being in community is kind of like a radical act. And it is basically saying like, I refuse to be subjugated to the individuality of late stage capitalism and the systems of oppression that want to keep us apart.”
📚 Article | All About Reiki (The Well)
“From a scientific perspective, reiki falls under the category of “biofield therapy,” during which practitioners work with the receiver’s subtle energetic field surrounding the body to stimulate a healing response, explains Kindred.”
📚 Article | The Damaging Fiction of the Wellness Industrial Complex (Big Medium)
“Liza puts her finger on something that has always felt off-putting to me about aspects of mindfulness as an industry. While mindfulness (and yoga and meditation and its other many cousins) have real and evident benefits, they’re often wrapped in a superficial commercial culture that broadcasts a smug kind of judgment, superiority, and shame to those “not in the club.”’
📚 Article | Meet Liza Kindred: A Spiritual Friend to the Meditation Community (Maloka)
“The path to enlightenment runs through the body. The Buddha tried to deny his body food, water, and comfort but it only made him realize that he needed to reconnect with his physical body to reach enlightenment. In today’s hectic world, it can be so easy to ignore the messages in our bodies.”
📚 Article | 3 Ways Tech Can Actually Help You Meet—and Maintain—Your Wellness Goals This Year (Well + Good)
“The ability to take deep, slow breaths is an almost magical practice—and having technology that can remind us of that practice right when we need it can be a lovely service to our well-being.”
🎤 Podcast | Making Friends With Your Anxiety with Liza Kindred (Live Happy)
“(The book) is so comprehensive. Like it addresses so many different aspects of how anxiety affects us and how we deal with it.... I was like, “Man, she just really left no stone unturned here.”
📚 Article | The Big, Bad, Wellness Industry (The Daily / University of Washington)
“The Wellness Industrial Complex is my name for the heady industry in which wellness and capitalism collide,’ Liza Kindred said in eff this meditation.”
🎤 Podcast | Eff This! Meditation with Liza Kindred (Spa It Girl)
“Your probably haven’t met a Buddhist meditation teacher like Liza before: she swears a lot, calls bullshit on the wellness industrial complex, and had a storied career working in both fashion and technology.”
🎤 Podcast | Digital Detox Plan (Mindful Medicine)
“Human beings need human connection. In order to strike a better balance between FaceTime and actual face time, most people are in need of a digital detox.”
📚 Article | Three Affordable Ways to Invest in Your Relationship with Yourself (HerMoney)
“If books are more your thing, Lodro suggests Eff This Meditation by Liza Kindred, Tea and Cake with Demons by Adreanna Limbach, and Start Here Now by Susan Piver. “
📚 Article | Meditation for People Who Hate Meditating in Only 3 Simple Steps (Hers Magazine, print edition)
“Practicing meditation is like exercising a muscle. It’s a little hard at first but over time… it can become familiar and routine.”
📚 Article | Seven Ways For Dealing with Empty Next Syndrome (YourTeen Magazine)
“For me, the challenge of having my child move out isn’t one of nothing to do. It’s one of a completely different cycle of life starting—and all the accompanying emotions.”
📚 Article | EFF This! Meditation: Book Review (Healthy Life Lessons)
“Given my own experiences, I was immediately excited to review the book, EFF This! Meditation and suspected that author, Liza Kindred, and I are kindred spirits. Ha ha pun intended.”
📚 Article | 5 One-Minute Practices to Relieve Holiday Stress (Thrive Global)
“Here are 5 practices that take just one minute (yes, really!) that can help you ground down, release tension, and become more centered. Every single one of these tips can be done anywhere, costs nothing, and can be repeated over and over again.”
📚 Article | Mindfulness Meditation 101 (Best Ever You)
“Unlike how it’s depicted in popular culture, mindfulness meditation isn’t about clearing your mind of thoughts, so don’t worry if you’ve tried meditating and your mind was busy. That’s true of everyone! Meditation is simple choosing to gently refocus, over and over.”
📚 Article | Six Ways to Keep Technology From Hacking Your Holidays (Spirituality & Health: )
“Technology has changed our behavior drastically, and yet we are still humans—social beings who crave connection and affection, who eat, sleep, laugh, cry, and love. Time spent on screens can be time spent taking away from our very essence as humans.”
📚 Article | How to Have Meaningful—But Effortless—Holiday Conversations (Thrive Global)
“Let’s face it: holiday conversations can be awkward, difficult, or downright painful. And although boundary setting is important, in the end we can’t control other people. One thing we can do, though, is to come into potentially challenging situations prepared to do our part.”
📚 Article | 13 Everyday Ways to Cut Back on Your Smartphone Usage (HuffPost)
“Research has suggested that people spend an average of at least three hours on their smartphones each day. 'If you think these numbers don’t apply to you, it’s a simple thing to check,' said Liza Kindred, an author, speaker and founder of Mindful Technology… 'I’m willing to bet that your numbers will surprise you.'“
📚 Article | Three Reasons That Self Love Is First Love (Thrive Global)
“While many people I work with agree in theory that self love is important, putting it into practice in the midst of the chaos of everyday life is a real challenge.”
📚 Article | Fall Book Roundup (GenPink)
“This is more than a self-help book. It’s a book that’s going to get us through the end of the year since the chaos of holidays and end-of-year work projects or final exams is among us.”
📚 Article | What Does Gratitude Have to Do with Stress & Anxiety?! (The Gratitude Podcast)
“There is a culturally accepted working hypothesis that there is something inherently wrong with each and every one of us, and that we are morally obligated to constantly work to improve ourselves. This might serve the wellness industrial complex, but it does not serve you.”
📚 Article | Three Proven Stress Relief Techniques That Take Less than Sixty Seconds (Tiny Beans)
“The truth is, in the middle of life’s most stressful moments, sometimes all we have time to spare is one single minute. The good news is that even 60 seconds, when spent mindfully, can help put you on a path towards de-stressing.”
📚 Article | Hurricane Dorian Anxiety? South Floridians Find Ways to Cope with Stress ( South Florida Sun Sentinel)
“Meditation teacher Liza Kindred, author of EFF This! Meditation: 108 Tips, Tricks, and Ideas for When You’re Stressed Out, Anxious, or Overwhelmed says meditation can be done anywhere, even at your desk — or during a storm.”
🎤 Podcast | Eff This with Liza Kindred (Yoke and Abundance)
“In this episode, Alisha is sharing her conversation with Liza Kindred about the lie of meditation, how meditation is real and gritty and raw and how there is no such thing as bad at meditation.”