The Foundation of a Lasting Relationship: Faith, Friendship & Growth

How to Take Back Control After a Cancer Diagnosis | Christine Carter, Ph.D. | Diacardia S2 E9

A cancer diagnosis can leave you feeling like everything is happening to you. Appointments. Treatments. Medications. Side effects. In this episode of Diacardia, Christine Carter shares her personal journey through breast cancer and how lifestyle medicine helped her regain a sense of control. Rather than replacing conventional treatment, she explains how evidence-based lifestyle changes can work alongside medical care to improve quality of life, manage treatment side effects, and support long-term health. Chapters  00:00 A cancer diagnosis changes everything 00:47 Life after treatment 01:35 When the side effects become overwhelming 03:20 "What can I actually control?" 04:45 Lifestyle medicine alongside conventional care 05:50 Taking your life back 07:10 Final thoughts About Christine Carter Christine Carter, Ph.D. is a social psychologist, Harvard Medical School-trained Wellness and Lifestyle Coach, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, and a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. For more than two decades, she has translated scientific research into practical strategies for improving health, happiness, and wellbeing. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah, The Today Show, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. If this conversation resonated with you, please like, subscribe, and share it with someone who might need it.#LifestyleMedicine #BreastCancer #CancerRecovery #HealthPodcast #Diacardia

Can we actually reverse Alzheimer's?

In this episode, social psychologist and lifestyle medicine expert Christine Carter, Ph.D., explores the emerging research behind Alzheimer's disease, cognitive decline, and lifestyle medicine.Can changes in sleep, exercise, nutrition, stress management, and social connection play a role in brain health? Christine discusses a recent clinical trial, the science behind lifestyle medicine, and why researchers are paying closer attention to the habits we can control.We also explore why the biggest challenge isn't knowing what to do—it's learning how to follow through on our best intentions.If you're interested in Alzheimer's research, dementia prevention, brain health, healthy aging, or behaviour change, this conversation offers an evidence-informed look at one of the most important questions in modern health.

Diacardia - S2 E7 - The Art of Speaking the Unspeakable - Andrea Dindinger

Can you speak the unspeakable? Something you need to say, but it feels too risky. Great relationships soar when we can speak and hear the unspeakable. Listen when an outstanding marriage coach and therapist, Andrea Dindinger, asks her husband whether he thinks about them getting divorced. It's scary. But look at all the learning the courageous, curious, and caring question unleashes. And watch how she talks about the boundaries that make relationships grow strong. And the gentleness and patience to work across those boundaries. #diacardia #HealthyRelationships #BuildingTrust #BraveQuestions #AndreaDindinger #relationshipcoaching

How can you really listen - through your heart? S2 - E6 - Renowned Coach Debbie Phillips

What does it really mean to listen through the heart? In this episode of Diacardia, Debbie Phillips interviews Dan Mulhern and turns the lens back on the practice at the center of this podcast. Together, they explore: * Why we get stuck trying to be right in conversations * How breath awareness helps us move out of our heads * What it means to truly listen, not fix or respond * How deep listening can make someone feel less alone Through stories from coaching, relationships, and their work together, including time inside the White House, they unpack a simple but powerful idea: Listening through the heart changes everything.

Trauma - the Invisible Partner in Relationship

Protea Foundation Founder and CEO Cristina Pearse talks with Dan about two general kinds of trauma and how they affect close relationships. If you're partnering with someone who has experienced trauma or other significant loss you may experience them as highly sensitive and prone to being "triggered" by what seem like minor exchanges. We make sense of it. Cristina puts neurological science in understandable form. She helps Dan who shares about the early childhood trauma that's been hidden for decades. In their own diacardia conversation, Cristina and Dan explore how awareness generates new options for both partners to understand the hidden partner of PTSD in relationship. Diacardia does what it does: helps individuals grow more free and healthy and builds connection between them.