Healin Podcast

This is a follow up episode to the previous episode on Friendship Matters, where we talk about what are all the necessary skills or areas that we need to strengthen or to increase awareness around to be able to deepen our current relationships with our friends, romantic relationships or at home. I talk about the importance of mindset and the awareness of our thoughts when we are making the effort to make new friends or deepen the connection, about the need to have a vison and awareness of what we need and are looking for on a friend, about green flags in relationships to look out for and what are some of the areas that might need healing to increase our levels of adaptability, flexibility, trust and vulnerability, that are crucial in the formation of deeper bonds. If you want to learn more, please listen to the previous episodes on the importance of attachment theory  "Attachment Styles and AEDP Therapy with Christy O'Shoney" and Healing from Complex Trauma with Attachment Informed EMDR with Dr. Gillian O'Shea Brown. If you also find this episode please share it with your friends and family to help us all achieve deeper connections in our lives.

his is extremely helpful conversations with friendship experts, if you are curious or interested in making new friends, or deepening your connections with existing friends!  My guest, Karen Riddell is a public speaker and Psychology Today blogger on the topic of friendships and the Author of the book, “Friendship Matters”.  We had a fascinating and helpful conversation on WHY friendship matters, the multitude of physical, emotional and professional benefits that having friends has,  the scientific research behind the power that friendship has, e.g. people’s presence, their touch and connection fuels our bodies with oxytocin and we discussed the evidence and statistics on how it improves our health and longevity. We talked about how and where to find new friends, about the skills needed to grow and deepen friendships, and what we can proactively do to make and deepen the relationship with our friends to feel better and live longer!   To learn more about Karen Riddell and book her as a speaker, please go to her website at karenriddell.com [http://karenriddell.com/] or on social media at @thefriendshipmattersbook.   With the current loneliness pandemic, please share this episode with as many people as possible to support us in inspiring as many of us to HealIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with your health, with your relationships and in every area of our lives.

Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained board-certified Psychiatrist and professional chef and nutritional specialist who is considered a Nutritional Psychiatry Pioneer and the author of "This Is Your Brain On Food" and of her latest book "Calm Your Mind with Food" .   We spoke about her journey into incorporating nutrition as a fundamental foundation of mental health and her psychiatry practice, how many physicians are unaware of the role that nutrition plays and how that is changing with over 20% of medical school having a robust nutritional component in medical education, why what we eat is so important to our mental health, how when you start to improve what you eat it works as a catalyst for healthier habits and better physical and mental health, why sugars and carbs have a negative effect on our anxiety and tips on how we can enjoy small amounts of the carbs that we love, and more tips about what to eat to avoid and treat both anxiety and depression.    To learn more about Dr. Uma Naidoo please check our her website at https://umanaidoomd.com [https://umanaidoomd.com/], follow her at @drunanaidoo on all social media platforms, if you want to eat foods for your brain and health but don't like to cook please try out her Mood Food Meals [https://dailydoselife.com/product/mood-food-meals-by-dr-uma-naidoo/?utm_source=umanaidoomd.com] with the Daily Dose - delivering freshly prepared meals using her brain food recipes and spices, and please subscribe to Dr Uma’s newsletter [https://drumanaidoomd.substack.com/] on Substack and if you are a physician or a student in training Dr. Uma is an instructor with her own @MasterClass  [https://app.frame.io/reviews/e0de22f5-43ae-4e7e-b0dd-2910a9928027/5a4de5ad-bbc6-4126-97dd-a777fbcd1b86]- see her classes on Brain Health and sign up for Dr Uma’s course on  Nutritional Psychiatry [https://www.moodfoodlabs.com/tiybof/].    Please share this episode with everyone who is facing anxiety or depression and can benefit of this information to healIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with there health and relationships.

This is a helpful and inspirational episode with Leanne Townsend, a Family Lawyer, who felt that she was stuck on a hamster wheel and decided to prioritize her health and wellbeing attaining amazing results, not just in weight loss but in every area of her life, including love.   We talked about her health journey, what helped her and how it is never the right time to prioritize ourselves and our health, but when we decide to do so, and focus on planting and watering our own garden, doing the work, and what is needed to establish the right habits for her successful results.    You can learn more about Leanne, her law practice, Townsend Family Law, and her growing Facebook Health & Wellness Group at @leannetownsendlife on Instagram, Leanne Townsend on Facebook and Linked IN at www.townsendfamilylaw.ca [http://www.townsendfamilylaw.ca/].   If you find this episode as helpful as I did, please share it with your friends and colleagues to help us inspire as many people as possible to invest in themselves to and HealIN to achieve higher levels of satisfaction with their health, their relationships and with every area of their lives.

This is a solo episode that you and everyone you know will find extremely helpful. I talk about the importance of getting "Curious, Not Furious" , a term I first heard from one of my guest in this podcast, Johanna Lynn, and I wanted to use it when it refers to dealing with our angry emotions. I talk about why feeling anger is a positive thing, I explain how we learned to deal with anger and we explore all the reasons why it is important to get Curios and not Furious. I then explain all the different ways that we can get curious and what it means and share helpful coping mechanisms to deal with difficult emotions when they arrive. To learn more, or to work with me go to Linkedin at Karen Millon or Instagram at @karenmilloncoaching and send me a DM. Please support me in inspiring others to HealIN to achieve greater levels of satisfaction in every area of their lives!    The information in this solo episode is based on my years as a coach and learning from my clients and the principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy by Aaron Beck.. Principles that I was trained and certified on, and the Trauma Informed awareness that I have learned from the many guests that I have had in the podcast and the many trauma informed books, and tedtalks, and youtubes that I have read or heard. Detail references available upon requests.  Books include “The Myth of Normal’ By Gabor Mate, ”What happened to you?” by Dr. Brice Perry, How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera, TedTaks by Juna Mustart, and Mike Goldman and YouTubes by Mark Tyrell,  an Anger therapise and anger researched Ryan Martin.