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Jay Shetty Podcast

Gisele Bündchen ON: How to Overcome Depression and Anxiety Through Meditation

Gisele Bündchen sits down with Jay Shetty to talk about her passion for being in tune with nature.

Gisele BündchenguestJay Shettyhost

Jul 26, 202144mWatch on YouTube

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Managing fear and attention: noticing what changes your emotional state
Gisele explains how quickly consuming bad news can shift a good day into fear and anxiety. She emphasizes “witnessing” where attention and energy go, and checking in with what emotional state you’re cultivating.
- •Bad news can rapidly change mood and create a spiral of fear
- •Pay attention to where your attention and energy are going
- •Regular check-ins help you notice when you feel stuck in a negative state
- •Emotional states are influenced by what you consume and focus on
Reuniting with family after two years: gratitude, touch, and community
Jay asks Gisele about seeing her family after a long gap, and she describes the reunion as deeply emotional and gratitude-filled. She highlights how hugs, presence, and community support wellbeing and mental health.
- •Time apart makes the value of loved ones feel clearer
- •Physical affection and closeness feel essential to wellbeing
- •Being with family reinforces the importance of community
- •Gisele expresses gratitude for extended time with her parents
Learning your parents’ stories: ancestors, fragility, and deeper connection
Gisele shares how conversations with her parents deepened when her father felt inspired to write and share his life story. She reflects on how family history and ancestors shape who we are.
- •Listening to parents’ childhood stories can create deeper relationships
- •Her father feels urgency after realizing life’s fragility
- •Gisele connects identity to ancestry and generational stories
- •She learns more about why her parents—and she—are the way they are
Parents are learning too: apologizing, giving kids a voice, and emotional literacy
Gisele talks about parenting with humility—admitting mistakes, apologizing, and inviting feedback. She contrasts her childhood experience with her goal of helping her kids express feelings and understand emotions rather than repress them.
- •Parents don’t “know everything”; they’re learning as they go
- •She apologizes to her children when she isn’t fully present
- •She invites her kids to share feelings and help her improve
- •Emotions are treated as information to explore, not suppress
- •Healthy boundaries still matter alongside openness
We are nature: reconnecting with balance, service, and unity
Gisele describes nature as something humans are part of, not separate from, and says disconnection fuels today’s problems. She and Jay discuss nature’s balance and the contrast between nature’s giving and human greed.
- •Gisele says humans are not separate from nature
- •She describes nature as a “teacher” that naturally stays in balance
- •She critiques greed and control as drivers of imbalance
- •Jay frames nature as constantly giving and serving
- •They discuss shifting toward collaboration, unity, and community
Living like a child: awe, abundance, and shifting your “frequency”
Gisele explains how presence turns ordinary moments—food, sunlight, birds—into experiences of awe and gratitude. She describes people as “antennas” tuning to fear or love, and suggests building awareness of your inner “channel.”
- •Presence helps people notice nature’s gifts in everyday life
- •Gratitude transforms routine experiences like eating into wonder
- •She describes reality as influenced by the “frequency” you inhabit
- •Fear-based inputs can shift your mood quickly
- •She suggests reminders (like Post-it notes) to check your current state
Meditation as a turning point: panic attacks, depression, and daily practice
Gisele recounts experiencing severe panic attacks, depression, and anxiety in her early 20s, despite thinking her life looked “perfect.” She explains how yoga, breathwork, and meditation—practiced consistently—became essential tools that helped her feel better over time.
- •She experienced severe panic attacks, depression, and anxiety for about a year
- •Yoga came first, then pranayama (including alternate nostril breathing) and meditation
- •Her routine began with breathwork and meditation before movement (asanas)
- •She emphasizes commitment and daily practice rather than one-off attempts
- •Meditation becomes an essential part of her wellbeing and “sanity”
Motherhood as rebirth: filling your cup through early-morning meditation and yoga
Gisele describes motherhood as a “rebirth” that changes your time and identity, making self-care more important. She shares her morning routine—waking early to meditate, do yoga, and watch the sunrise—so she can show up with energy for her family and life.
- •She frames becoming a mother as a rebirth and identity shift
- •She says you can’t give from an “empty vessel”
- •She wakes around 4:00–4:30 a.m. to meditate for 20 minutes
- •She adds about 30 minutes of yoga and time in silence with the sunrise
- •Starting the day with gratitude helps her handle daily chaos more calmly
Teaching kids without forcing: leading by example with meditation and yoga
Asked how she introduces meditation to children, Gisele says force doesn’t work and example does. She describes her kids naturally joining her—sitting quietly, copying postures, and participating for a minute or ten—on their own terms.
- •She believes force is not the way; example is the way
- •Her children have been exposed since before birth and in early childhood
- •Kids sometimes sit quietly with her during meditation without speaking
- •They join yoga briefly and leave when they want
- •She’s open to doing more with them when they’re ready
Final Five rapid-fire: best advice, purpose, learning, and a “law” of giving
Jay closes with the show’s rapid-fire questions, prompting short reflections from Gisele. She shares her best advice, her current purpose, what she’s trying to learn, and a principle she’d want everyone to follow about giving and receiving.
- •Best advice: don’t take things personally
- •Worst advice: she can’t recall it and suggests she likely didn’t listen
- •Purpose: to be the best version of herself
- •She’s trying to learn the fastest, most impactful way to regenerate the planet
- •She proposes a guiding principle that receiving is found in giving from an open heart

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