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Dr. L.'s Healthy Practices' Podcast
Episodes
338 episodes
Aging and Mental Health
As you get older, you may find it increasingly difficult to have a positive outlook on life. There are certain stages of life that are difficult to endure, such as losing loved ones, coping with chronic medical conditions and having lower energ...
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The Journey to Self-Love: Embracing Your Imperfections.
The journey to self-love isn’t any pursuit of perfection. Rather, it is a complex process that involves embracing your imperfections and accepting yourself. The world today may often demand flawlessness, but building self-love involves ap...
Six Habits for Overall Wellness
The Power Of HabitsHabits are the quiet architects of our lives. While we often credit motivation or big decisions for our progress, it’s actually the small, repeated actions, performed daily that shape who we become. A single cho...
Push Yourself Beyond Your Comfort Zone.
Everyone has a place we call the “comfort zone.” It is comfortable, familiar, and safe. However, your comfort zone can become a hindrance to your success, especially if you remain stuck there for too long. Sure, you feel secure, but sometimes i...
The Power Of Kindness For Personal Happiness.
The power of kindness is important to us all. We think that we are just being nice, but we are doing so much more at the same time. From lowering stress to boosting your mood, the power of being kind to others can be real. Just a bit of kindnes...
Seven Ways to Reconnect With Yourself When You Feel Lost.
Reconnecting with yourself when you feel lost means tuning back in to your own thoughts, feelings, values, and needs instead of living on autopilot or only reacting to outside pressure. It is less about becoming a different person and more abou...
Ten Self-Care Tips To Create Life Balance.
Perseverance is a vital ingredient to achieving success. It multiplies your talents and allows you to use them more effectively. If you cannot persevere, your talent doesn’t matter, since you’ll never achieve your full potential. It’s sometimes...
Ten Signs You Are Stuck And Need To Engage In Personal Growth.
If something feels off in your life, there is a chance that you are feeling stuck and need to engage in some personal growth. While all people experience the feeling of “being stuck” in life a little differently, there are some signs that you a...
Ten Areas Of Self-Improvement Everyone Should Consider.
Self-improvement is not about striving for perfection, it’s about progress. It’s about looking at your life with honesty, curiosity, and courage, then making intentional choices to grow into a fuller version of yourself. Everyone’s ...
Steps to Build Social Confidence.
If you’ve ever been in the presence of someone truly confident, it’s almost as if self-assurance is oozing from their pores and they remain unshaken no matter the circumstances. Apprehension and intimidation don’t seem to eve...
Managing Uncertainty In Life: Six Ways To Effectively Deal with Difficult Emotions.
Experiencing uncertainty unfortunately involves a lot more emotions that just feeling uncertain. When you experience uncertainty, it’s common to deal with a flood of other emotions because of it, such as fear, anger, and frustration, to name a ...
Mental Toughness - How Do You Deal with Setbacks and Challenges?
A sure sign of a person’s mental toughness is their ability to handle life’s setbacks and challenges with grace. Rather than allowing a tough situation to completely derail their life, a mentally tough person has the ability to handle their pro...
Stress And Overwhelm - 5 Signs You Need A Healing Day
What Is a Healing Day?Before we talk about signs, let’s define what we mean by a healing day. Because this isn’t just a day off or a lazy Sunday. A healing day is intentional. It’s a conscious pause. A full-body, full-spirit exhal...
The Role Your Mindset Plays in Weight Loss: 10 Weight Loss Success Tips To Use.
Mindset is one of the most powerful tools you have when it comes to physical fitness. The way you think about diet, exercise, and weight loss dictates how successful you’ll be. In this podcast, I will look at 10 ways to change your mind set abo...
Five Positive Ways to Deal with Failure
Grappling with failure is the devastating reality of our own imperfection. When embarking on a new idea, many cease to even begin because of their fear of failing. Although failure can be likened to the dangerous cave of doom, many fail to real...
Six Markers Of Mental Toughness
Mental toughness is a key component to success, and it can be cultivated through understanding the 6 markers of mental toughness. Understanding how each of the following markers intersects with our everyday lifestyles is essential for growth an...
Top 10 Signs That You Need To Learn Who You Really Are
Life is a long journey of self-discovery. It should be an adventure, but adventures aren't always easy. Unfortunately, you don't have an instruction manual or a map to guide you on your way, but there are certain signs that suggest you're not w...
Six Key Benefits Of Being In A Loving Relationship
A loving relationship is not a perfect relationship. It’s not two people who never argue, never feel insecure, or always know the right thing to say. A loving relationship is something much more human and much more meaningful: it’s a space wher...
Mental Toughness – The Role Of Facing Fears.
It isn't easy to face your fears – to do so requires a level of bravery and determination that a lot of people simply do not possess or cannot overcome their fear enough to tap into it. The good news is you can work on your mental toughness to ...
Five Ways to Interrupt a Worry Cycle
Worry is not something that comes and goes. Sometimes it sets up camp in our minds and bodies, creating an endless line of worry soldiers that are set on defeating you. However, you do not have to live like this. You can take steps to stop the ...
How Gratitude Helps Buffer Against Burnout
People often talk about how gratitude is a mindset shift, but in reality, it has the power to impact you far more deeply than that. While choosing to be grateful and adopting a gratitude practice can indeed change your whole mindset, it also ha...
How To Master Self-Discipline And Finally Achieve Your Goals
Mastering self-discipline and finally achieving your goals is not easy for everyone to do. It takes perseverance, and you must be willing to make sacrifices. Once you decide what you want, you should do whatever it takes to succeed. Although it...
Ten Expectations To Let Go of For Personal Growth
If you are ready to chase after personal growth, congratulations! Acknowledging that you want to become a better version of yourself is majorly important – with this first step, you’re preparing yourself for a big voyage into a better life for ...
What Is Mental Toughness?
According to Wikipedia, “Mental toughness is a measure of individual resilience and confidence that may predict success in sport, education and the workplace.“ Oxford reference says that mental toughness is, “A quality of mind or in...
How To Build Emotional Resilience Using 5 Techniques To Handle Life’s Challenges
Developing emotional resilience helps you learn how to adapt to difficult circumstances, pick yourself up after experiencing failure, and manage negative feelings effectively. While tough situations and setbacks are inevitable, you can discover...