Easing Holiday Anxiety: How to Find Calm Amid the Chaos
With Thanksgiving behind us and the new year just around the corner, we are officially in the holiday season! And while the holidays are about gifts and cheer it can also bring about anxiety. I personally have flashbacks to the days when I was navigating the kids’ 3 week vacation with a full time job! […]
Your Joy Toolkit: Building Mental Strength and Resilience With Daily Doses of Joy
Last Sunday, I spent the day with my dad. As he got into my car, Tom Petty came on my Spotify. My kids call my music depressing, but melancholy music fills my soul. I felt an urge to blast the volume far louder than I knew he could tolerate, pull back the roof of my […]
Your Joy Toolkit: Building Mental Strength and Resilience With Daily Doses of Joy
Last Sunday, I spent the day with my dad. As he got into my car, Tom Petty came on my Spotify. My kids call my music depressing, but melancholy music fills my soul. I felt an urge to blast the volume far louder than I knew he could tolerate, pull back the roof of my […]
Breaking Barriers: Matt Scott on Disability, Sport, and Empowerment
“Disability is not a bad word.” This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Matt Scott, a five-time Paralympian, 3x medalist and wheelchair basketball champion on his journey of triumph and disability. Before we started recording, I asked Matt how he would like me to refer to his community. To which he answered, “People with […]
One Step, One Win: How Small Moves Fuel Big Success
“The number one predictor of success is not intelligence, not good looks, not health, but grit.” This week, I re-listened to the famous TED talk by Angela Duckworth, psychologist and author of the book Grit. In it she shares her research the number one predictor of success. She goes on to say, “Grit is […]
🍁Fall into Mindfulness: Harnessing Autumn’s Wisdom for Personal Growth
A few Octobers ago I had the opportunity to give a keynote in Boise Idaho. It was beautiful to experience the change in seasons – colorful trees, leaves blanketing the ground and cool crisp weather. Even in LA where we don’t get this stark seasonal change, (we had a couple days of cooler weather ) and our […]
A Feast for the Senses: The Psychological Art of Eating Well with Jared Gleaton
We all know that there is an emotional or psychological aspect to our consumption. Whether that is the consumption of social media, substances and of course of food. As I frequently say, our relationship with food is a mirror into how we relate in other ways in our lives, be it our work, with people, and how we show […]
Heart Health Essentials: What Everyone Should Know About Cholesterol with Dr. Margo B. Minissian
Living a vibrant life is a composite of good physical health, good emotional health and good professional health and this week we are tackling the body, specifically the heart. I love discussing preventive cardiology because heart disease is so prevalent in this country and because prevention of cardiac disease and death is so possible! This week I […]
#ListenerLoveNotes: Self-Love Strategies: Nurturing Your Mental Well-Being
This week I dropped in to respond to a listener love note: What a great example of what so many of us are experiencing right now, and what a perfect description, the monkey mind. It is said that we have, on average, 80 thousand thoughts per day! And we experience them like a restless […]
Defeat Loneliness: One Psychologist Connection Strategy with Patricia Bathory
What nourishes you? We think of “nutrition,” in terms of macros, vitamins and calories, but nutrition is so much more than the food that you eat. It encompasses all that nourishes you. When I think of being nourished, my mind goes to connection. Connection nourishes your soul, but you might be surprised to know that it also nourishes your […]