Setting an intention before you head into any kind of holiday situation, whether that’s a family gathering, or doing some kind of chore, or shopping, or traveling, can help you achieve those twin goals of reducing stress and enjoying more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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[Reduce Holiday Stress]: The Crucial Piece of Any Intention (that Too Many People Neglect). EP: 601

Listen, I get that there is a lot of work that goes into holiday celebrations and it is so natural and tempting to kind of groan your way through them or talk about how you hate them. You may not feel 100% at peace with all the stuff you’ve got to do all the time, but even just remembering that you could choose to accept that this is just part of it can help you get to a place where you’re not hating every minute.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Holidays that Don’t Suck]: Make Peace with the Doing. EP: 600

Today I want to talk specifically about how to navigate family gatherings. And to help with that, I’m interviewing Amy E. Smith, a life coach and communications specialist who specializes in all things self-worth and confidence. Amy has been on the show before sharing how to enforce a boundary without being a jerk. Her e-workbook is called "Stand Up for Yourself without Being a Dick," so I think you can see right there that she’s given this topic some serious thought--let’s find out what she’s got to share.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Reduce Holiday Stress]: How to Not Let Your Family Drive You Nuts. EP: 599

Today’s big idea is that you can really up your enjoyment of the holidays by getting really clear on what it is about them that you love and focusing on those things--and letting everything else recede into the background.  So at this juncture, it’s really helpful to take a moment to remember what the holidays are all about --and to be clear, there are so very many holidays that happen in December and January, I am absolutely not only talking about Christmas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Reduce Holiday Stress]: What Do You Love About the Holidays? Focus on That. EP:598

I’ve got a tool for you that will help you figure out what parts of the holiday you want to prioritize and which you might dial back on. It’s a priority-making matrix that I learned as a tool to help you figure out how to maximize your impact and reduce your stress at work, but it’s really cool to use it on your life stuff too. To make your own priority-making matrix, you need a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[Reduce Holiday Stress] Three Ways to Do Less this Season. EP: 597

When you start to look back on your daily writing over time, something really cool happens. You can start to discern patterns and insights that are deeper than your daily concerns. They help you see the arc your life is currently on. You have to do two things to discern these deeper message, which is exactly what I'm sharing today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Find the Hidden Meanings of Your Personal Writing. EP: 596

There’s nothing that can kick up resistance and self-doubt more quickly for a lot of people than to sit down and pick up a pen or open a blank document.  That’s because your inner critic is going to prick up its ears the second you decide to write something down because writing is THAT POWERFUL. In this episode, I share with you how to zoom past that inner critic and get those fingers flying. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Only Way I Ever Get Any Writing Done. EP: 595

Today I'm interviewing Kristin Manieri, a certified mindfulness teacher, host of the excellent podcast "60 Mindful Minutes" and author of several books on mindfulness, including The Mindfulness Journal: Daily Check-in. Kristen shares her insight on why written check-ins are invaluable, as well as how to build the habit of doing them, and what to actually write about when you do them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writing and Mindfulness--Combine These 2 Tools to Make Friends with Yourself. EP: 594

While, yes, writing is a great way to get to know yourself better, it can also help you be more productive. And not the whirling dervish, work on a ton of things at once and end the day in an exhausted heap, kind of productivity. But peaceful productivity, where you can get in a zone because you know you’re working on the right thing for the right reason and the right time. Yes, please! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Three-Minute Writing Prompt for Peaceful Productivity. EP: 593

Writing has this mystique, like it’s something only for certain people, and that’s just a darned shame because writing is just a magical, and powerful way to get to know, understand, and even like and appreciate yourself more. It’s a tool that you just don’t want to leave on the table simply because there’s a story in your head that you’re ‘not a writer.’  Today’s big idea is an elemental truth: which is that you ARE a writer. And I've got a quick meditation and writing prompt to help you feel that in your bones (and actually write something cool). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How You--Yes You--Can Use Writing as a Tool for Personal Growth. EP: 592

Consuming wellness content is kinda like that board game for kids Chutes and Ladders. It starts off like a ladder Take these steps to get your health to a better place. It’s cool, you’re learning things, getting ideas, trying them out in your own life, hopefully enjoying some tangible evidence of feeling better.  But you can also be moseying along and then boom, fall down a chute into some pretty hairy spaces. For example, falling pray to conspiracy thinking. Today I look at why that is and how you can keep your wits about you. More resources: Maintenance Phase, "The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline" Conspirituality podcast Dr. Timothy Caulfield Abbie Richards Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Problems with Wellness 4 Its a Slippery Slope to Rigid Thinking. EP: 591

One of the problems with wellness is that it’s freaking expensive. And for that reason, it’s also elitist. Buying organic, grass-fed, Fair Trade all costs more. Add to that supplements, like omega 3s, and probiotics, and protein powders, organic mattresses and infrared saunas and it's like an exclusive realm only for 1 percenters. Today I'm sharing five FREE and powerful ways to boost your health and helping you think of the money you do spend on your health as a worthy investment instead of chasing the latest fad. B Breathe O Open the window N Get out in nature E Eat mindfully S Sleep! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Problems with Wellness 3 Its Freaking Expensive. EP: 590

This week on the podcast we’re taking a look at some of the aspects of the health world that maybe deserve some re-thinking. And one of those things is weight. Today I’m interviewing Dr. Kara Fitzgerald, a functional medicine doctor, author of the soon-to-be-released book Younger You, and award-winning clinician and researcher who has a cutting-edge and evidence-based way to assess health and reduce the risk of disease that takes weight out of the equation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Better Barometer of Health than Weight. EP: 589

The issue with wellness that I’m taking aim at today is that it can be awfully shaming--whether that judgment is coming from your doctor, an article or podcast or book, a friend or loved one, or even yourself. Let's unpack this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Problems with Wellness, #2: It’s Shaming EP:588

This week on the podcast I’m taking a look at health and wellness and trying to help you and me and everyone navigate this super important topic that also can be, for lack of a better term, crazy-making. And the first issue I’m taking aim at is the fact that when it comes to health advice, it is confusing as hell. How in the heck can you figure out what's the right way to be healthy?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Problems with Wellness 1 Its Confusing as Hell. EP: 587

Start your day with one simple thing you can do in the next 24 hours to grow into your best self. More people than ever admit that they want to be a better person (in fact, it has recently topped the list of most popular New Year's resolution--a first!). The How to Be a Better Person podcast with Kate Hanley is based on my book of the same name, breaks this big, amorphous goal into doable daily bites. My mission is to give you one year's worth of small but mighty ways to consciously evolve into the person you know you're capable of being. Let's do this, together!

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