This episode is a follow-up to last week’s episode on improving your relationships. Everyone struggles with relationships at times, be they romantic, familial, friendship, or work. If you’re not happy with a relationship but you don’t want to leave it, what can you do?
In this episode, you’ll learn about another relationship concept: manuals. Listen in to learn what they are, how they can cause problems, and what you can do to prevent problems.
Everyone struggles with challenging relationships at times, be they romantic, familial, friend, or work. If you’re not happy with a relationship but you don’t want to leave it, what can you do? In this episode, you’ll learn three concepts that can help you shift your perspective and improve any kind of relationship – even if the other person doesn’t change. You’ll also hear an important additional suggestion and caveat about improving relationships.
When we face unexpected challenges, it’s normal for our brains to spin out in worry and fear about potential outcomes. This mental “spin cycle” not only hinders our ability to accurately assess the probability and severity of these outcomes but also impairs our prefrontal cortex’s problem-solving ability. If you’re faced with an unexpected problem and want to stop your brain’s spin cycle, what can you do? In this episode you’ll learn a powerful three-step strategy to halt the spin cycle and how this strategy can help you calm down, identify practical solutions, and feel more confident handling the problem.
Outsourcing confidence is something all perfectionist women do. While there is probably a biological benefit to our brains doing it, it can be quite problematic. If you notice you’re outsourcing your confidence, what can you do about it? In this episode you’ll learn why we outsource confidence and self-worth and why it’s better to source them internally. Listen in to hear examples of how you might be outsourcing confidence and how you can transition to in-sourcing instead.
Cognitive flexibility has a big impact on your emotional health and wellness. It directly impacts your creativity, resilience, and quality of life; and the more cognitively flexible you are, the better able you are to respond to changes in your environment. If you want to be more cognitively flexible, what can you do? Listen in to learn how using The Model can help you increase cognitive flexibility and to hear ideas, examples, and questions that will help you stretch your thinking and challenge unhelpful beliefs.
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m dedicating this episode of the podcast to a coaching tool known as The Model. This tool helped me improve my mental health and learn to better manage my brain. Can it do the same for you? Listen in to learn the relationship between your thoughts and your results and how The Model can help with any problem or goal.
If you set New Year’s resolutions or goals in January, there’s a decent chance you’ve already slipped up or abandoned them completely. But that doesn’t mean failure is inevitable. In this episode, we’ll explore three common obstacles to achieving goals and resolutions and three simple strategies you can use to overcome them.
Have you ever found yourself thinking you’re not good enough, you don’t fit in, you’ll never be able to accomplish your goals, or that life shouldn’t be happening the way it is? Most of us have limiting and painful thoughts like those that we automatically accept as true and feel powerless to change. In this episode, I share a 3-step process you can use to challenge those thoughts and think something different.