Make FUN a priority | Ep. 329

If you find yourself compulsively Googling symptoms and feeling more anxious than reassured, this episode offers a compassionate, evidence-based 3-step plan to help you break free from cyberchondria and health anxiety. 

In this episode, I share five simple, science-based questions you can ask in moments of anxiety to help you respond skillfully—without feeding rumination, avoidance, or fear. 

I want you to get serious about inserting fun back into the holidays this year.

It might seem odd to have an entire conversation about fun. But here’s why we have to: most of us aren’t having any.

In fact, it’s gotten so bad that researchers have a ...

Increasingly, I’ve noticed a trend in how people are describing “having fun” – and so much of that time, what they’re doing is scrolling thru TikTok or Instagram – Reddit or Quora – or any online communications app. Even people who are actively struggling with depression will tel ...  Show more

It's such a simple question that it causes people to get a blank look in their eyes. A few years ago, I visited friends who lived and worked on the Grand Canyon's South Rim. Yes, people live there - thousands of them. The drive into town is too far to commute - but that was okay ...  Show more

I have waited a long, long time to have this conversation.

Not because it hasn't been requested—it has. Not because I didn't know how I felt about it—I do.

I held off for two reasons. One, because I wanted to talk about it when I fel ...