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Patterns & Practice: Tools to Shape How we Live and Love

Patterns & Practice is a podcast dedicated to sharing real life practices to help you reshape patterns for living and loving — turning these into habits that support real, sustainable change.

Hosted by Jillian Eichel-Dobray, a licensed therapist and credentialed professional life and relationship coach with 25 years of experience working with people individually, as couples, and on transformational retreats and workshops.

This show explores the emotional and relational patterns that influence our lives. Each episode slows things down to look beneath what’s happening on the surface, offering insight, practical frameworks, and grounded ways to think about - and meet - life differently.

Every episode closes with a simple practice you can bring into your week, because change doesn’t happen through awareness alone — it happens through what we practice in real life.

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Patterns & Practice: Tools to Shape How we Live and Love

Episode 1: Reclaiming Your Attention in a Distracted World

April 15, 2026 • Season 1 • Episode 1

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Do you have time and energy for what matters most—or is your attention getting pulled elsewhere?

In this first episode, Jillian explores how easily distraction becomes part of daily life—and the impact constant scrolling has on our attention and presence.

Part of The Unscrolling Series, this episode invites you to reflect on your values and your purpose in using social media.

Jillian offers a few simple practices to help you engage more consciously and intentionally—and reclaim control of who or what you’re giving your attention to.

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Recommended reading: "10 Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now" by Jaron Lanier

This episode is dedicated to my 17-year-old friend Max, whose love of the analog leaves me feeling hopeful about future generations.

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