Why Mindset Matters
About the Host
Eslana Lower is an author, speaker, resilience mindset coach, nurse, midwife, and mother of four. Through her own lived experience of profound grief, trauma, and healing following the loss of her daughter, Rylee, Eslana has developed a powerful voice and framework for helping others navigate life’s most difficult seasons with greater resilience, intention, and hope.
She is the creator of The GRACE Method and author of Resilience After Great Loss: Learning to Live and Grieve Simultaneously—work rooted in the belief that while grief may change us, it does not have to define us.
About the Podcast
Why Mindset Matters is a podcast for anyone navigating grief, loss, trauma, life transitions, or simply seeking to live with greater awareness, purpose, and emotional resilience.
Across two powerful seasons, Eslana has shared raw reflections, honest conversations, practical tools, and mindset shifts designed to help listeners reclaim their story, strengthen their inner world, and learn how to live and grieve simultaneously.
This podcast explores the intersection of resilience, gratitude, intentional living, healing, personal growth, and emotional wellbeing—offering compassionate guidance for those ready to stop simply surviving and start consciously participating in their own healing and transformation.
This podcast is for you if you’ve ever asked yourself:
• How do I keep going after life changes forever?
• Is it possible to grieve and still experience joy?
• How do I rebuild after loss, heartbreak, or trauma?
• Will I ever feel like myself again?
• How do I strengthen my mindset when life feels heavy?
• What does resilience really look like in everyday life?
• How can I create a life that feels meaningful and aligned?
• How do I move from surviving… to truly thriving?
Whether you’re in the middle of heartbreak, rebuilding after loss, or simply seeking deeper connection to yourself and your life, this space exists to remind you of something important:
You already have within you the capacity to rise.
You’re also warmly invited to join the free Resilience Mindset Community on Skool—a supportive online space for connection, reflection, and ongoing conversations around healing, growth, and resilience. It’s also where you’ll find access to The GRACE Method: Resilience Mindset Workshop, additional resources, and upcoming offerings.
Join the community here: https://www.skool.com/why-mindset-matters-6748
Trigger Warning:
This podcast may include discussions surrounding grief, suicide, trauma, and loss, as well as occasional strong language. Listener discretion is advised, especially for those who may find these topics distressing.
Why Mindset Matters
I Wrote a Book!
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Episode 18: I Wrote a Book!
In this episode, I open up about how my journey of resilience after losing my daughter, Rylee, not only shaped every part of who I am today but also led me to write a book that I believe would benefit anyone brave enough to read it.
For the longest time after losing Rylee, anytime I’d share pieces of my story people would respond by saying “How the fck are you still standing? I couldn’t. I wouldn’t.”* Hearing that on repeat made me pause and ask myself: I’m not special… so what is it that am I doing that has people convinced that they couldn't?
That question became the heartbeat of my book, Resilience After Great Loss: Learning to Live and Grieve Simultaneously.
In the book, I talk about the tools, practices, and mindset shifts that helped me not just survive unimaginable loss and trauma, but learn how to thrive and in doing so build a life where grief and joy coexist.
I talk about the power of intentional living, community, and manifestation in creating a life that still feels meaningful — even when it looks nothing like what you imagined. I provide insights on how we can use the things mentioned within the book as an insurance policy if you like, for the inevitable losses and challenges of life; and as such set ourselves up to navigate them in a way that is a little softer and kinder to soul. I also get honest about my struggles with procrastination and self-doubt as I chase my goals, and why it’s so important to honour and validate our own grief experiences without judgment, as it is by validating our grief, loss and lived experience that we open ourselves up to more joy and contentment in life.
This episode is for EVERYONE... Because none of us get out of this life unscathed. It is my love letter to world written from a place of unimaginable heartbreak intended to be your personal reminder that (like me) you are capable of so much more than you could imagine and with the right tools, supports and mindset shifts you absolutely can survive the very things you were convinced would be your destruction.
