Your Mental Wellness Podcast for Your Voice and Sanity

20 Signs That Your Reptile Brain (AKA limbic system) Is in Overdrive:
1. Focusing on pain or body checking:

Do you find yourself obsessively talking or thinking about symptoms of illness?
2. Scanning your environment:

Do you find yourself scanning your surroundings for potential threats?

3. Reading the future:
Do you find yourself predicting how you will react if you engage in certain activities or go specific places? Or do you often predict how others will react? Do you avoid situations, or alter the way that you live in a self-protective manner?

4. Obsessing about fear: (of chemicals, fatigue, pain or anxiety):
Do you find yourself constantly worrying about the future or your state of health? I
5. Mood changes:
Do you often find yourself feeling helpless, sad, resentful, angry, depressed or anxious? Do you feel like you are on an emotional rollercoaster? Do you have thoughts of suicide?

6. Negative thinking patterns:
Do you find yourself in persistent negative thinking patterns about yourself, others or the world? Do you feel victimized by other people or circumstances? When things are going well, do you find yourself thinking it won't last?

7. Negative Self-Dialogue:
Do you find that you are impatient with yourself or others? Do you notice that your inner dialogue or conversations are largely based on judgement of self or others? Do you take things personally?

8. Believing that you cannot change or succeed because your illness is worse, not as bad or different:
Do you find that you often feel different and separate from others?

9. Lack of self-love:
Do you find that you don’t take time during the day to take care of yourself in a loving and nurturing way?

10. Living by your feelings:
Do you often find yourself planning your day in accordance with how your body feels or your energy levels?

11. Addictive behaviors:
Do you find yourself engaging in behaviors that you know are unhealthy but cannot stop them?

12. Being the expert or comparing this program with other information:
Do you find yourself saying “I already know that” when you are going through this program?

13. Blaming:
Do you often find that you are stuck in a pattern of blaming other people for the circumstances of your life?

14. Justifying:
Do you find yourself justifying your reactions based on past experiences, outdated beliefs, or your personality characteristics?

15. Complaining:
Do you find yourself complaining about how you feel, complaining about other people, or expressing dissatisfaction regarding the state of the world?

16. Over analyzing – spending too much time asking “why?"
Do you find yourself over analyzing situations or trying to find the root cause of your reactions? Do you over-process or excessively analyze your emotions or experiences?18. Comparing your results to others:
Do you find yourself comparing your results to other people? Do you find that you are impatient with your recovery process?
19. Defining yourself through the pe

You'r listening to YOUR Mental Wellness podcast for YOUR voice and sanity.

Thank you for joining us this week on your mental wellness podcast for your voice and sanity. Make sure to check out our show notes, visit our website, www dot tools for vitality.com where you can subscribe to the show. We would appreciate it if you would tell a friend about the podcast

What are your questions about your mental wellness, tools for vitality, or any other topic that comes up for you?
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Tools for Vitality: Therapy, Coaching, Optimizing Nutrition and Movement for Mental Wellness

Research shows that it is very beneficial to slow down, disengage from our constant connection with technology, and strengthen our creativity and goal achievement by taking a break from our devices.
Sarah Hohmann and I discuss our challenges with harnessing our use of technology.
For example, our first thing in the morning can be to start with 20 to 30 minutes of quiet time. Learn more how this practice allows you to refresh your mental wellness. As a result, you will (re-)discover your voice and sanity.

You'r listening to YOUR Mental Wellness podcast for YOUR voice and sanity.

Thank you for joining us this week on your mental wellness podcast for your voice and sanity. Make sure to check out our show notes, visit our website, www dot tools for vitality.com where you can subscribe to the show. We would appreciate it if you would tell a friend about the podcast

What are your questions about your mental wellness, tools for vitality, or any other topic that comes up for you?
Email me: [email protected] .
Tools for Vitality: Therapy, Coaching, Optimizing Nutrition and Movement for Mental Wellness

I am thrilled to continue the dialogue with #1 International Best-Selling Author and award-winning Speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice 2023, Ironman World Athlete, Leadership Keynote Speaker, and Executive Mental Health Advocate Nick Jonsson.
Nick shares about his passion, research and solutions to combat loneliness we so often experience in today's (remote) workplace.
Contact Nick:

• Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-jonsson
• Website: https://www.nickjonsson.com

You'r listening to YOUR Mental Wellness podcast for YOUR voice and sanity.

Thank you for joining us this week on your mental wellness podcast for your voice and sanity. Make sure to check out our show notes, visit our website, www dot tools for vitality.com where you can subscribe to the show. We would appreciate it if you would tell a friend about the podcast

What are your questions about your mental wellness, tools for vitality, or any other topic that comes up for you?
Email me: [email protected] .
Tools for Vitality: Therapy, Coaching, Optimizing Nutrition and Movement for Mental Wellness

I am thrilled to have the opportunity to introduce you to the #1 International Best-Selling Author and award-winning Speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice 2023, Ironman World Athlete, Leadership Keynote Speaker, and Executive Mental Health Advocate, Nick Jonsson.
Nick shares about his passion, research and solutions to attend to loneliness that many of us, including executives and business owners, experience in the workplace.
Contact Nick:

• Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-jonsson
• Website: https://www.nickjonsson.com

You'r listening to YOUR Mental Wellness podcast for YOUR voice and sanity.

Thank you for joining us this week on your mental wellness podcast for your voice and sanity. Make sure to check out our show notes, visit our website, www dot tools for vitality.com where you can subscribe to the show. We would appreciate it if you would tell a friend about the podcast

What are your questions about your mental wellness, tools for vitality, or any other topic that comes up for you?
Email me: [email protected] .
Tools for Vitality: Therapy, Coaching, Optimizing Nutrition and Movement for Mental Wellness

There is an exciting ingredient to our mental well being called attention. Because we needed a specific given tasks at hand seem mundane, or where we have so many distractions at our fingertips at all times these days. So to really be at our best, we got to harness our mental capacities. Vitamin Bs and vitamin D get to support our attention.
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Vegetarian foods high in vitamin B12 include fortified cereals, fortified fruit juices, fortified tofu, yogurt, milk, cheese, eggs, vitamin water, and whey powder.
Interested in a vegan, sustainably grown and harvested food novelty that is packed with vitamin Bs? Learn more here.

You'r listening to YOUR Mental Wellness podcast for YOUR voice and sanity.

Thank you for joining us this week on your mental wellness podcast for your voice and sanity. Make sure to check out our show notes, visit our website, www dot tools for vitality.com where you can subscribe to the show. We would appreciate it if you would tell a friend about the podcast

What are your questions about your mental wellness, tools for vitality, or any other topic that comes up for you?
Email me: [email protected] .
Tools for Vitality: Therapy, Coaching, Optimizing Nutrition and Movement for Mental Wellness