10 MINUTES TO LESS SUFFERING

Feeling stressed or anxious? 10 Minutes to Less Suffering is your quick daily boost for emotional relief and peace of mind.Each episode delivers practical mindfulness techniques, effective stress management tools, and compassionate insights to help you navigate life’s challenges. Whether you’re facing anxiety, uncertainty, overwhelm, or everyday pressures, these short, inspiring episodes fit effortlessly into your busiest days. Ideal for busy professionals, parents, young adults, and anyone seeking mental wellness without the time commitment. Start your journey to less suffering today. Hosted by Allison Carmen, bestselling author, life strategist, business consultant, and coach.

How To Stay Aligned When You Feel Like Everything Is Pulling You Off Center 11/21/2025

How To Stay Aligned When You Feel Like Everything Is Pulling You Off Center Feeling pulled in a million directions? In today’s fast-paced world, it is easy to lose your center, your clarity, and your sense of who you truly are. This episode explores two powerful concepts that can help you reconnect with yourself: resonance and coherence. You will learn why certain people, ideas, and experiences resonate with you, and why resonance alone does not always mean something is healthy or aligned. You will also discover the deeper state of coherence, where your mind, heart, body, and energy move together in harmony. This is the space where grounded decision making, calm, and genuine self-connection can thrive. With relatable examples, simple practices, and a calming guided reflection, this episode will help you: • Reset when stress, relationships, or the world feel overwhelming • Recognize the difference between familiar patterns and true inner alignment • Stop chasing validation or certainty outside yourself • Return to your center with breath, awareness, and compassion • Build coherence so your actions match your true intentions If you are craving grounding, clarity, and a deeper connection to yourself, this 10 minute reset offers a supportive space to come home to who you are. Stay aligned. Stay centered. Let coherence guide the way. The more you return to yourself, the more possibilities open. Poem: Return to Center In the rush of the world where noise piles on noise and every choice feels heavier than the last, I come back to this small, quiet space. A breath. A moment. A chance to return to the center I forget I have. Here, I remember that life does not ask me to be perfect. It only asks me to be present. To notice the way my heart softens when I stop chasing what was never meant to steady me. Resonance may call me outward, but coherence brings me home. A rhythm in my chest that whispers, You are safe. You are enough. You can gently return to yourself. So I sit with the truth that peace is not far away. It is never far away. It waits beneath the noise, beneath the wanting, beneath the stories I tell to feel less afraid. In these ten minutes I choose to trust that I can suffer a little less and live a little more right here, inside this breath. Lastly, you can also follow me on , , , , and . If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, (including a new audiobook), and my new Audiobook, Also you can check out my new or my new digital Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace. /episode/index/show/tenminutestolesssuffering/id/39119760

Nice or Kind? Seeing The Difference and Living From The Heart 11/14/2025

Nice or Kind? Seeing The Difference and Living From The Heart In this episode of 10 Minutes to Less Suffering, explore how shifting from being nice to being kind can reduce stress, support emotional healing, and create more authentic and mindful relationships. Listeners learn why niceness often comes from fear and people pleasing, while true kindness grows from compassion, honesty, presence, and an open heart. What you will gain from this episode • A clear understanding of the difference between nice behavior and true heart based kindness • Insight into why some relationships feel inconsistent or disappointing during stressful moments • Support for emotional healing, self trust, and clarity after confusing interactions • Tools to stop people pleasing and reduce daily stress and anxiety • Guidance for setting healthy boundaries that protect your emotional well being • Encouragement to act with more authenticity, presence, and self compassion • A calming reflection to help you connect with your heart and choose kindness mindfully • Inspiration to create relationships that feel safe, honest, steady, and emotionally supportive • Hope to live with more peace, connection, and present moment awareness This episode is ideal for listeners searching for self help practices, self improvement tools, stress relief techniques, emotional healing support, mindful living tips, present based awareness, spiritual growth, heart centered connection, and guidance for living with more peace and clarity. You can also follow me on , , , , and . If you are interested in my work, please check out my books, (including a new audiobook), and my new Audiobook, Also you can check out my new or my new digital Above all, my heartfelt hope is that this podcast has supported your journey of personal growth, helped shift your mindset, reduce stress, built emotional resilience, and brought you less suffering and more joy, clarity, and peace. /episode/index/show/tenminutestolesssuffering/id/39032760