Every one of us has an ongoing inner dialogue in our head that starts the second we are conscious in the morning, to the last second before we go to sleep. For some of us that looks like looking in the mirror and shredding ourselves because we have age spots, or our body isn’t exactly the way we want it. For others it may be ruminating over that thing someone said or did yesterday. And for a lot of us it’s just simply “holy crap, Ive got a lot to do today and not enough time to do it in no wonde...
Mar 24, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 328
I have been thinking a lot about health lately because I know for me how much I’ve struggled to be the size I want to be, how hard I work to maintain and optimize my health and so much of that has to do with weight. I also see so many other women struggling the same but it always seems like an uphill battle. Like my sweet yoga instructor who is giving herself grace because the baby weight is not coming off as fast as she would like or an acquaintance who at 55 just can’t stop gaining weight and ...
Mar 20, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 327
Ive been doing a lot of design work lately and it’s been fun! The world feels right when I’m helping people create an environment that brings them joy whether it’s in their head space like I do with my podcast or their literal space like I do with design. And both have a lot to do with each other. Your literal space is a good indicator of where your heads at and your head space is deeply affected by your literal space, like if you have a lot of clutter in your environment, its probably pretty ha...
Mar 17, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 326
Have you ever been in the car and someone is on your tail driving fast and they zoom around you in a hurry only to get to the stop light and there they are. Right beside you? Happens a lot. Or maybe you speed to work trying to take shortcuts or detours and it just takes longer? Statistics show speeding if your on short trips like to work or school or grocery store isn’t very effective due to traffic lights and stops. We are talking like 10 seconds here. and when you consider the risks of acciden...
Mar 13, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 325
I was with a design client yesterday. This is one where we have worked together before so he knows he likes what I do and we have a common trust as far as our design client relationship goes. Now. We had attempted to start this project before the holidays but it sort of stalled for a few reasons, many of them being me. and it’s now March and we are picking it back up because he reached back out and asked if we could get together to move forward on it. I was relieved to get his message because I ...
Mar 10, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 324
Have you ever had something coming up, maybe a family dinner or a dinner with friends and there’s something that has been bothering you about someone that’s going to be there or maybe a bunch of someones that are going to be there and you create all this mind drama about this person or people only to get to the dinner and have a great time and maybe you find out the thing you were upset about was all created in your head? Maybe you thought they were all in on something and you were left out only...
Mar 06, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 323
Physician Payments Sunshine act (the law that lets you see how cozy your DR is with the pharmaceutical companies) Let’s just face the facts here. I’m an American. This country is amazing and the people are just the best. I truly believe that. But right now, we are in this really weird zone where the health of the people in this country has been hijacked. The people we trusted the most are literally killing us. Doctors prescribe medication like its candy, telling us our lack of health isn’t our f...
Mar 03, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 322
Measuring device I wear: #Whoop Strap Extraordinary results require extraordinary effort. It’s that way with anything we do. Not just our workouts and our nutrition. When you see someone with an extraordinary relationship, they are putting a lot of effort to be there. And just like working out and nutrition. “There” is not a destination. It’s a continuous, consistent journey. They aren’t just going through the motions. You don’t have extreme heath and fitness by just going through the motions. Y...
Feb 27, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 321
36% of Americans feel lonely when they were surveyed. That’s a lot of people. Why do you think that is? Maybe you’ve experienced being with a group of friends you love, but you still feel lonely…. It’s the way you’re thinking about it. Maybe you’ve just had a breakup and that is where your head is. Our thoughts actually cause us to feel lonely even though we are surrounded by friends that are having a good time. Now there are other times where you are all alone and you are completely happy with ...
Feb 24, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 320
Follow @drmarkhyman Follow @melrobbins Follow @drjamesdinic I have heard so many people say well Im just getting old, putting on weight, being on all this medication, or being in pain every day is just normal, that’s just how it is. But does it have to be? Or is that just the path that of least resistance? Has it become so normal to be overweight and on at least one medication that we don’t even think the alternative is an option. Commercials and corporations feed into that, it's how they make m...
Feb 20, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 319
Why can't we just be happy however we are? Why are we constantly trying to distract ourselves? The answer is in this episode! Are you thriving? Are you consistently growing? And do you have close meaningful relationships? Check out episode 318 to find out how you can create your own version of a wildly successful life.... I love you guys! www.heididawson.com
Feb 17, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 318
Have you ever felt like your life is so hard and everyone else is just flowing through life happily with no rough patches? In the past, when I was younger, I would look at some peoples lives and just think wow, they have a perfect family, perfect job, perfect life, things just seem to always go well for them. And as Ive grown, I realize no-one gets through life without the natural ebbs and flows, the ups and downs, the good and the not so good. If you’re human, sometimes life is good and sometim...
Feb 13, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 317
As I’ve grown and worked on myself I realize I’m not and cannot be responsible for anyone else’s feelings but my own. This trait though has made me very considerate of other people almost to the point where it doesn’t make sense. Like I’ll be laying down in the sauna and someone will come in, and it’s a big sauna but someone will come in and I will sit up to give them more room or even consider leaving early if it starts filling up so that someone else can have my spot. But here’s the thing. I’m...
Feb 10, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 316
I love to get up early. 5 am is my favorite. So it’s dark and it’s quiet and I turn my lights on just the way I want them so that the back yard is lit up and my back deck lights are on and it all looks like a beautiful 5 star resort. It really does and I appreciate every moment of early mornings, I look around and was just so grateful. So this morning i sit down to have my coffee in my favorite spot overlooking the back and there’s a light shining in my eye not just one but two blue white spot l...
Feb 06, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 315
I had this weird thing when I was a kid where I wouldn’t let my hand hang over the edge of my bed in case something was under there and grabbed it. When you were a kid, did you ever worry about some kind of something being in the closet or under your bed? But here’s the thing. I never had any reason to think something was under my bed. I didn’t have ptsd from something being in my past that had happened so it was something completely made up. Once the morning came, it was clear there was nothing...
Feb 03, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 314
Everything I do matters and it matters a lot TO ME. What this means is that my time matters. The amount of time I a lot to different activities matters. The amount of time I spend with my friends and family, the amount of time I allow for exercise, for meditation, for creating content for my podcast. The amount of time I allow myself to be distracted by other peoples content. I have become pretty strategic about that especially. Because some of it can really move you forward. But in order for it...
Jan 30, 2023•7 min•Season 1Ep. 313
If I told you to think of a leaf. You would all picture a leaf. If you lived in the south you might think of a magnolia leaf if you lived in California you may think of a palm leaf. Both of you would be perfectly correct. Same question, totally different answer, but both correct. Your brain uses your point of reference to come to an idea of a leaf. That’s what we do with everything. We use our point of reference to attach meaning to anything going on around us. We bring meaning to things based o...
Jan 27, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 312
I always say every single one of us came out of the womb with an agenda. And some will ignore that agenda to please others and some won’t. Those that won’t walk and create their own path which leads to the life you were meant for, it’s not easy to do but the other option of following someone else’s path for you isn’t easy either for a lot of different reasons. Stop trying to fit yourself into someone else’s dream for you. It’s not your job to fulfill someone else’s dream, it’s their job. Love th...
Jan 23, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 311
Our body is quite manipulative when it is in a craving mode. Which if your diet consists of mainly processed foods That’s a lot of the time. Those foods are addictive by design. They want you to keep eating it, how better than to make it addictive. So when this is happening, your body will scream out for sugar bad fats and salt in whatever form that looks like for you. So we think we are hungry when it’s really our body craving and slipping a note to our brain to get us to think we MUST have thi...
Jan 20, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 310
Good food follows: Instagram @drcaseyskitchen, @drosborne @drmarkhyman We love to think about food, talk about food, smell food, eat food. Food is kind of an addiction. Especially if you live in America. No snarky comments if you don’t live in America. We know we love food. And we also know it has become a HUGE problem in more than one way. We’re bigger than ever. We’re unhealthier than ever. Our food in a lot of cases doesn’t even constitute as food, it’s designed to look and taste like food bu...
Jan 16, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 309
Have you ever noticed for all practical purposes, there are really 2 versions of you. One that really wants to do the things that you know will make your life better and one that really wants to just say “life is short”, “I’m going to do whatever I want, eat whatever I want, drink whatever I want, be a hermit, avoid family gatherings, you know all the things that just seem to put you on easy street. I have struggled with this a lot. I talked in Episode 307 about exercise. I used to battle just g...
Jan 13, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 308
“The heaviest weight at the gym is the front door.” Ed Latimore. When I first heard Ed say that, it had a huge impact on me. The reason why is because it resonates. It resonates and it’s true still even after years and years of consistent working out. The front door is still the heaviest weight for me. I mean I have exercised my whole life, I was teaching high impact step aerobics at 18. I was thin, could eat what I wanted..without worry. I continued to exercise but around 27 I started putting o...
Jan 09, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 307
Every single time I go into a public bathroom my thought is to leave it better than I found it. It doesn’t matter that they have people cleaning, I personally want to leave it better for the next person because what’s the alternative? You just leave it a mess for the next person to deal with? I’ve had that thought and that’s not how I want to live my life. When I’m going into a public bathroom and it’s packed and you’re waiting for the next stall, I don’t want to go in after someone who looks sl...
Jan 06, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 306
I feel like we’ve been having some come to Jesus episodes lately but I just really feel like the thing that helps me the most is when someone simply tells me with love of course, the truth. When someone tells me like it is. When you have things going on in your life that you know don’t feel good or you know you want to improve and you hear someone that is well meaning say “you’re perfect just the way you are” they mean well but you know that’s not true because you can tell by the way you feel th...
Jan 02, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 305
Toughening up doesn’t mean you aren’t gonna get your feelings hurt, it means when you get your feelings hurt you remind yourself you get to control how long you’re going to give this power over you. If you’re like me, I don’t like feeling sorry for myself. No one has time for that. I like to quote that song by Ariana grande. “Thank you, next”. Thank them and move forward don’t waste time playing the victim, because you’re not one unless you give your mind to it endlessly replaying it over and ov...
Dec 30, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 304
When we are working on updating ourselves, sometimes there’s parts of us that someone else likes but that don’t serve us anymore. It’s ok to let that go. Nothing would make my parents happier than if I went back to being in their religion, but that thought never even occurs to me anymore because that wouldn’t serve me. I’ve let that go. Sometimes we will be with friends and everyone’s having a drink and they ask me what I want to drink and I say I’ll just have a water, and I know they might like...
Dec 26, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 303
In this age of technology we can easily search any topic and find it. When you search for something…you expect for that to be what you come up with right? When you search on Spotify for country music, are you surprised when you get country music options? No. Cause that’s what you’re looking for, that’s what you put out there that you wanted and that’s what you got. You put in a google search for something and you’re going to start seeing that everywhere. It almost seems like technology can even ...
Dec 23, 2022•8 min•Season 1Ep. 302
This podcast or any other podcast won’t change your life unless it changes the actions you take. If you listen for 10 minutes and say oh that was great but you don’t think how am I going to apply that today, how am I going to use that in my life this week? Listening to the podcast is like going to the gym. Listening to the podcast and applying what you learn in your life right away is like going to the gym and actually working out. Ive listened and consumed enough to know that no matter what you...
Dec 19, 2022•7 min•Season 1Ep. 301
How many of us know someone or maybe you’re that someone..that blames other people for all of their problems. So and so made me lose my temper. My mother has me so stressed. My husband always brings home treats so I will never lose weight. The kids take up all my time so I can’t go to the gym. Ive got news for you and for me too. As long as you don’t have control of your temper, there will be someone that will set it off. As long as you don’t have control of your eating, there will be food avail...
Dec 16, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 300
We all go through different seasons of life, sometimes we are sailing through and sometimes we are slogging it out. No matter where you are right now whether you’re sailing or slogging, 100% of us have two things in common. You might not think that’s possible but I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. The first this is this: You take you with you into every season. No matter where I go in life there I am. And the same is true for each one of you. No matter where you go, there you are. You are the...
Dec 12, 2022•10 min•Season 1Ep. 299
