Are you caught in a vicious cycle where personal setbacks have left you feeling exhausted and defeated?

My guest today, Holly Bertone, knows exactly how you feel. Having ascended to one of the top ranks at the FBI, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and then an autoimmune disease that left...

“Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child." Have you heard this expression before?

As a parent, do you find yourself wondering what it actually means to raise healthy and successful adults?

In this episode, special guest Pam Godbois, LCSW, joins me for a wide-ranging...

When it comes to processing your emotions, creating calm in your mind and body provides the conditions for clarity.

In this episode, we're talking about the process of exploring your options and choosing how to respond based on your values. In other words, how to make choices that align with...

How much tension do you feel in your body? And where do you feel it?

When it comes to processing your emotions, aka emotional regulation, we're talking about releasing tension and freeing the energy that is stored in your body and how this affects your mind.

Emotional regulation is a skill you...

Do you struggle with emotional eating where you find yourself getting really angry or upset, and then after you eat, you feel guilty?

And so really this whole idea about processing your emotions is something that's really important to your overall health.

In the last episode, I talked about...

When it comes to difficult situations how do you deal with the emotions that arise from them?

Do you suppress them, as in not allow yourself to feel? Do you avoid them? Perhaps you turn to emotional eating or going for a run?

Or do you actually process them? Do you actually know what that means?...

When you are stressed, do you tend to turn to food or maybe alcohol as a way to deal with the stress?  As a way to cope?

Or maybe it's not stress. Maybe it's boredom or sadness or loneliness, so really it's more emotional eating in the broader sense, than just stress eating.

Well, in this...

Do you know what it feels like to be the target of projection, where someone who doesn't know how to deal with their own stuff, projects it onto you and makes you feel less than?

If that's the language that's going through your head, this is an episode you don't want to miss.

In this episode,...

Do you remember the scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker says, "These aren't the droids you're looking for?"

Do you remember that Jedi mind trick?

And do you wish you had that kind of influence where you could get someone to either do or stop doing something?

Or better yet, use that trick...

Do you know the difference between an outcome-based habit and an identity-based habit?

One is focused on what you want to achieve, while the other is about who you are becoming.

And if you want to become a joyful eater, if you want to be able to look at your New Year's resolutions next year and...