My Year of Living Mindfully
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Description
My Year of Living Mindfully by Shannon Harvey and Julian Harvey follows Harvey as she tries to rebuild her mental health through a year of meditation while testing the practice against neuroscience, psychology, and her own restless mind. Insomnia, stress, and skepticism give the film more tension than the usual mindfulness language. What stays in view is the grind of practice itself: sitting daily, doubting the process, noticing small shifts, and asking whether attention can be trained before life spins out again.
Director / Filmmaker
Julian Harvey, Shannon Harvey
About the Director / Filmmaker
Julian Harvey, producer, and Shannon Harvey, director, work as a long-running Australian nonfiction team whose practice combines health journalism, independent film, and audience-facing impact media. Shannon’s profile is anchored in reporting, authorship, and science-based wellbeing storytelling shaped by work for the ABC and Fairfax, while Julian comes from commercial television and feature production, with credits including The Crossing and The Tunnel, bringing entrepreneurial production craft to their joint projects.
Julian Harvey, producer, and Shannon Harvey, director, work as a long-running Australian nonfiction team whose practice combines health journalism, independent film, and audience-facing impact media. Shannon’s profile is anchored in reporting, authorship, and science-based wellbeing storytelling shaped by work for the ABC and Fairfax, while Julian comes from commercial television and feature production, with credits including The Crossing and The Tunnel, bringing entrepreneurial production craft to their joint projects.
Topic
Mindfulness, Mental Health, Limit Stress
Who It’s Best For
Someone curious about mindfulness but unwilling to accept it as a catchall answer will get the most from this. It also fits people asking what meditation can realistically change when stress, mood, and daily functioning are the real concern.
Production Company / Studio
Elemental Media
Approach
A yearlong self-experiment gives the documentary its structure, with journalistic inquiry running alongside brain scans and clinical measurements. Personal narration keeps it intimate, but the method leans experiment-based, using tracked results and expert input to ground the argument.
Duration
98 Minutes
Year
2020
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