A Walk in the park

Explored in this episode

• Moving through the state of feeling “stuck”.
• The benefits of nature on our physical and emotional well-being.
• Growing into a healthy mindfulness mindset.
• The power of the words you choose to describe yourself and your state of mind.

Voices in the conversation

Daniel Maté

Composer, Lyricist, “Mental Chiropractor”

Daniel Maté is a composer, lyricist, and playwright for musical theatre based in BC and New York. He has been active since 2007, when he graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing. He also holds a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from McGill.

Daniel received the prestigious Edward Kleban Prize for Most Promising Lyricist in American Musical Theatre, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Grant, and the ASCAP Foundation’s Cole Porter Award for Excellence in Music and Lyrics (for his song cycle The Longing and the Short of It.) He has presented his work at the historic Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and New York’s Lincoln Center, and was an invited participant in the inaugural Johnny Mercer Writers Colony.

Currently, he’s working on two books with his father, Dr. Gabor Maté, with whom he co-leads workshops on parent/adult-child relationships.

In this episode, he takes Well Now host, Meghann Shantz, on a walk through the park. Together, he explores an area in Meghann’s life where she feels stuck by applying his ‘mental chiropractic’ service: Take a Walk with Daniel. He has a deep interest in what makes human beings tick, and has a passion for helping people access their own innate freedom, clarity, creativity, and true intelligence by discovering what alignment means for them. This is what his mental chiropractic practice is all about.