How do we live our lives well when we often face things out of our control?
Sometimes things that are related to our health hit us with the unexpected bad news that we left to cope with without a guidebook to help us through it all.
This week I chat with Dr. Kevin Payne about all of this and more. He shares with me how his diagnosis of MS in his young adulthood changed his life. He shares how the struggle of that journey has impacted his career and his life choices.
We talk about why he started skydiving and how instrumental that life choice has been for him in creating a life lived well for himself.
He tells me why he started "Your life lived well" and what impact he is hoping it has on the world.
We talk about what stress really is and how it relates to our fear and why you can't actually avoid stress so we all should be aiming toward a life where we reframe what stress actually is.
Be sure to check him out after you listen to this week's episode of the podcast.
Website: https://yourlifelivedwell.co
I chat with Puja about exactly that. As a Neurologist who coaches women on burnout, she has a lot of great advice for us on how to manage our busy lives in a way that won't lead us to burnout.
Puja shares her personal story of burnout and we talk about how a scientific approach mixed with mindfulness is how she approaches her coaching with women.
Be sure to check her out after you listen to this week's episode.
Website : www.zenfulbrain.com
She's now on a mission to help other women do the same and she shares some tips and tricks with us this week on how we can all start to make those kinds of changes. She chats with me about why asking ourselves what we really want is so important.
Sandra shares with us why trusting your own intuition is such a vitally important part of this growth process and we chat about reclaiming who you really are outside of the labels that society gives you.
Be sure to check her out and follow her after you listen to this week's episode
Website : https://www.wishonwildflowers.com/contact
Life can be a struggle for everyone, even those who you think have perfect lives.
This week Angela shares why she found it therapeutic to write her story. She shares why she decided ultimately to share that story with the world and chats with me about how other people's expectations of the perfect life she was living helped her to see that everyone struggles with a lot of the same issues.
We chat about how living in the social media world has given us the idea that people have perfect lives without actually understanding what's going on behind closed doors for most people.
Angela shares her ideas on living vicariously through yourself and what that means to her. She tells me why we all should be living this way and embracing as much of our authentic selves as we can.
We talk about how change inspires others and shows us things about ourselves we may not have seen before.
Angela shares her book, her passion and her love of life with us this week in an amazing conversation about life.
Be sure to check her out at https://www.inotherwordsbystone.com
Sometimes in life we are thrown a curveball.
That's exactly what happened to Melissa. Just as her and her husband were starting their family they discovered he had a chronic illness.
This week on the podcast Melissa shares with me what that process looked like for her and her family. How she has had to learn to adapt, as well as her husband to all of the unexpected changes that can occur when dealing with a chronic illness.
She shares what it's like to be a full-time caregiver. She also has some great advice for anyone who knows a caregiver and how we can help with him adding to the stress, and overwhelm of those who are full-time caregivers.
Be sure to check her out after you listen to this week's episode
Her website : https://programs.melissamiller2011.com