With the start of a new year, many are setting goals or resolutions. Do you struggle to be consistent or make progress towards those goals? Perhaps you don’t set any because you never reach them? Whether you’re setting goals because it’s the new year or perhaps you’re just setting goals because you want to make improvements, this episode will provide some tips and suggestions to help you be more successful in reaching the goals you set for yourself!

We all experience frustration, stress, anger, and to some extent, anxiety.  When that happens, it is not just a fluke, rather, there is something going on inside the body.  This episode will discuss some of that through a better understand of a nerve in the body called the "Wandering Nerve."  As you better understand how this nerve operates and impacts our bodies, it can help us implement more effective and targeted coping mechanisms, one of which will be introduced in this episode as well!

Going to a counselor or having someone in your personal life who listens to you and validates you can be such a great thing! What if no one is readily available to do that or you don’t feel like there’s someone in your life who could do that for you right now? Take a listen to learn a tool or strategy that you can do on your own!

This episode will introduce some initial ways to cope with, challenge, and work through the most common thinking errors that we all engage in.

Do you Magnify and Catastrophize things? Do you self-label, blame, or unnecessarily personalize? Let’s work on growing our self awareness muscles! We all do these! As we increase understanding of what thinking errors look like, we can cope more effectively and increase our likelihood and ability to be able to prevent them in the future! This episode will introduce the last 5 most common cognitive distortions.

Let’s work on growing our self awareness muscles! We all do these! As we increase understanding of what thinking errors look like, we can cope more effectively and increase our likelihood and ability to be able to prevent them in the future! This episode will introduce the first 5 most common cognitive distortions.

Have you ever looked back on something you did and thought, “I was so not ready for that….” Have you ever taken the time after to acknowledge that you got through it? If you haven’t done that or done it very much, have a listen to this brief episode and give it a try!

14.4 minutes each day spent in careful self-reflection or personal inventory has so many benefits when it comes to productivity, habit-change, alignment, focus, progress. This episode introduces an effective strategy or technique for you to utilize as a method for doing a personal inventory.

This episode briefly discusses how mental health diagnoses came to be and what goes into a diagnosis. You’ll then learn a new way to think about what a mental health diagnosis even means and why making this shift can be a really positive and significant step towards healthier coping.

Making changes or adjustments is hindered by a focus on what we might have to sacrifice or give up. Today’s podcast will address a subtle shift we can make to overcome the sense of loss one might experience when we give up a habit that is holding us back, but that has also become so comfortable and desirable for us to be doing and therefore making it so difficult to make a change.