Building Psychological Strength

Pop quiz: Tell me the things people should be doing to keep their bodies strong and help them avoid illness and injury!

You got it: Exercise, sleep, diet, water

Now, what about the things you should be doing to keep you mind strong? What are the things you should be doing to cultivate psychological strength so you have the mental resilience to weather the ups and downs of life?

That’s harder, isn’t it?

Well, as it turns out, the fields of Psychology and Design Thinking are brimming with evidence-based tools and techniques that can help you build the psychological strength and life alignment that will help you THRIVE in your life!

But, until now, those tools have really only been available in academic journals or behind the doors of therapists’ offices.

I’m thrilled to announce a new partnership with my friend Ashley Smith!

Together, we have created Peak Mind: The Center for Psychological Strength, and in this episode, we’ll tell you all about it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What psychological strength is and why it’s important to cultivate it

• Why our brains can be our best asset or biggest barrier

• How you can start building your own psychological strength through a membership in Peak Mind.

This project has been in the works for over a year, and we truly believe that we’re bringing something innovative, meaningful, valuable, and powerful to the market.

We’d love for you to join us!

Wanna learn more? We’re offering a FREE 4-part Achieve Your Peak video series. Sign up now - the doors won’t be open for long!

www.peakmindpsychology/webinar

Think back to when you were a little kid.

How excited were you when you got a new box of crayons or some Play Doh or water color paints?

Inside of each of us is an inner child who is inherently creative. Every single one of us had a time in our lives when we created simply for the joy of the process.

Why don’t we do that as adults?

This week, you’ll meet Kirsie Schwender. She is the founder of the company Love & Drishti and the transformational Meditate and Create event. She makes the most beautiful jewelry, and she had a profound impact on my own life.

Kirsie has had such a powerful journey to become the centered, grounded, creative woman that she is today, and we talk about that in her interview. We also cover some other incredible topics:

• You only get one life. Don’t get to the end of it and regret that you didn’t live as your true self.

• Who is your inner child? What does she love doing? What does she do, simply for the sake of doing it? What makes her happy? How can you give her what she needs?

PSSST! I'm hosting an absolutely FREE webinar called "Setting Value Based Boundaries" in partnership with my incredible friend Leslie Forde of the blog Mom's Hierarchy of Needs. If you're in need of a few boundaries in your life, you won't want to miss it. Visit www.aprilseifert.com/webinar to register!

Stop.

Take one moment and do me a favor.

Take the next 30 seconds to think about how your life feels right now, and rate it on a scale from 1 to 10.

Are you closer to the low end? Are things feeling difficult? Are you having to white-knuckle too many situations? Are your relationships, your job, your hobbies, your health out of alignment?

Or, are you closer to a 10? Are things feeling light, joyful, aligned? Do you regularly feel in flow? Are you spending your time in a way that fills you up, rather than spending it in a way that drains you?

This is exactly what we’re talking about this week with my guest, Mary Shores. Mary Shores is the international bestselling author of Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life.

As an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, Mary Shores teaches individuals and businesses to fearlessly create their own realities by using scientific methods and practical personal development.

Our conversation includes two powerful topics that I have to call out:

• Alignment – Each of us has our own unique values, strengths, and weaknesses. We have our own goals and our own vision of ourselves at our best. This means, each of us have to make a unique set of decisions about how we live in alignment with all of those unique factors. When we live in alignment, everything feels easier. We have such a great conversation about the importance of knowing yourself well and living into who that person authentically is.
• Cleanse or clog – One way Mary helps her clients live in alignment is through an elegantly simple method to intentionally make more aligned decisions. She calls this technique the “cleanse or clog” technique. Each time you make a decision about what to do, eat, where to go, how to spend your time, etc., you ask yourself whether it cleanses you or clogs you. It’s that simple. Over time, you train your brain to work this way by default. And that is when the magic happens.

You’re only getting one life. Live an aligned one.

PSSST! I'm hosting an absolutely FREE webinar called "Setting Value Based Boundaries" in partnership with my incredible friend Leslie Forde of the blog Mom's Hierarchy of Needs. If you're in need of a few boundaries in your life, you won't want to miss it. Visit www.aprilseifert.com/webinar to register!

This week’s episode is POWERFUL.

This week, you are going to meet Lydia Slaby. Lydia is an advocate, speaker, and writer focused on empowering people, communities, and organizations faced with daunting change.

She is also the author of the brand new book, “Wait, It Gets Worse.” In this book, she shares her story of battling non-Hodgkins lymphoma and the clarity and life lessons she gained from that experience.

You are not going to want to miss these amazing conversations:

• The importance of knowing what is and isn’t important to you, and the simplicity it brings to your intentional decisions about how to spend your time and who to spend it with.

• What radical responsibility looks like when you’re battling cancer. Does it still apply?

• The importance of nurturing your body, mind, and soul.

• How we all can approach life in a more intentional, straight-forward way.

This is such an impactful episode, and I can’t wait for you to meet Lydia. It’s time to live like your lives depend on it, friends, because they do!

PSSST! I'm hosting an absolutely FREE webinar called "Setting Value Based Boundaries" in partnership with my incredible friend Leslie Forde of the blog Mom's Hierarchy of Needs. If you're in need of a few boundaries in your life, you won't want to miss it. Visit www.aprilseifert.com/webinar to register!

Have you ever stopped to think about the impact that your upbringing has on your adult relationships?

No?

I hadn’t either. That is, I hadn’t thought about it until I began hitting bumps in the road in the early days of dating my husband. I didn’t realize that the avoidant attachment style I had developed as a child (after losing my dad to cancer when I was younger), was manifesting itself in this relationship.

It didn’t occur to me that the last man I loved and was extremely close to was suddenly gone one day.

It didn’t occur to me that I was afraid of that same thing happening to me in my relationship with my husband.

Today we’re talking to an attachment expert, and wow is it an eye-opening interview. Today, you’ll meet Silvy Khoucasian.

Silvy has a Master’s Degree in Psychology (Marriage and Family Therapy) and has dedicated herself to helping individuals and couples heal from trauma, create healthy emotional boundaries and establish real and lasting connection within their relationships.

We hit 2 incredibly impactful topics:

• How we develop our attachment style & how it impacts our adult relationships

• The importance of setting boundaries, beyond just boundaries with our time…and how to do it.

This is one of those episodes that is jam packed with tactical value that you can implement in your life today. I absolutely can’t wait for you to meet Silvy Khoucasian!

PSSST! Speaking of boundaries, I'm hosting an absolutely FREE webinar called "Setting Value Based Boundaries" in partnership with my incredible friend Leslie Forde of the blog Mom's Hierarchy of Needs. If you're in need of a few boundaries in your life, you won't want to miss it. Visit www.aprilseifert.com/webinar to register!

Have you ever thought about the number of decisions you make on a daily basis and the impact they have on your happiness?

The decision to light a candle at dinner, bake cookies with your kids, or share a meal with family and friends.

These decisions add up and can have an incredibly meaningful impact on your happiness.

That is exactly what we’re talking about this week with Alexandra Amarotico, the author of the book The Secret Joy of Hygge (pronounced HOO-GAH). Alex learned about the notion of Hygge after traveling to Denmark and seeing how they intentionally make small decisions and changes in their day to cultivate this cozy feeling. She’s bringing the notion of hygge to the U.S. with this incredible book.

We talk so much about happiness in this episode, which I LOVE. We also talk about chasing big, life-long goals like writing a book and how to fit that into a busy life.

This episode is so wonderful, and I can’t wait for you to meet Alex Amarotico. Listen to it next to a cozy candle under your favorite blanket.

Cheers!

When was the last time you made a truly bold move? A move where failure was a distinct possibility….but so was success?

This week, we’re talking all about making bold moves with none other than Jenna Redfield, the head honcho over at Twin Cities Collective. The Twin Cities Collective was created to help Twin Cities bloggers and creatives connect with other like-minded individuals in the area. They come together to teach, learn, connect and support - all with the purpose of helping you grow your business and brand!

In her interview, we hit such valuable topics:

• The importance of making BOLD moves and how they can catapult your success.

• The connection that comes from community…real, in person connection.

• How a commitment to self-directed learning can open doors you didn’t think were available to you.

Not only that, but Jenna is a social media marketing EXPERT. If you want to know how to grow your social media channels and use them effectively to market your business, you won’t want to miss this episode.

This week, it’s all about being brave and going after the things you want. I can’t wait for you to meet Jenna Redfield!

Friends, meet Genecia Alluora! Genecia is the former Miss Singapore, the founder of Soul Rich Woman, South East Asia’s largest network of female entrepreneurs, and a literal powerhouse who is empowering other women to step into their own power and become entrepreneurs with such a unique business model.

Occasionally, I interview someone who is so confident that she gives me a boost in my own confidence, simply through osmosis. This was one of those interviews.

Genecia shared with us her incredible rise from having to financially support her family and being bullied as a child to becoming Miss Singapore! We also talked about some incredibly powerful topics that we can all learn from:

• The importance of personal development

• How critical it is to set boundaries and hold sacred certain portions of your life

• The power in shedding a victim mindset and moving beyond what has happened to you in your past.

This one is going to make you pound on the table, friends. I can’t wait for you to meet Genecia!

This week, we’re speaking with Jennifer Longmore, a Leading Authority on Soul Purpose, and Elite Business Coach to enlightened entrepreneurs. For more than 15 years, she has served clients in permanently shifting the limiting beliefs and patterns that prevent them from being who they really are so that they can live their most abundant, aligned and accelerated soul’s journey.

It was such an interesting interview because Jennifer and I teach a lot of the same constructs, but she comes at it from a very different perspective. I loved having her on the show because she brings a different point of view to the same powerful topics we focus on so much.

During this interview we hit some amazing topics!

• Monkey brains! The ‘old’ part of our brain can be easy to fool. The information we feed it (intentionally or not), will impact the way it shapes our experience in life. Our mindset will truly shape the experience we have, and we get to decide what that is. Not only that, but whatever beliefs we hold (beliefs about ourselves included) will impact the evidence we seek out and believe. We’re more likely to believe evidence that upholds our beliefs about ourselves. Woah!

• Money Mindset - The way we think about money, our own worth, and our relationship with wealth will ultimately impact how much money you make. This part of the conversation is so powerful, and I don’t want you to miss it!

I’m so thrilled for you to meet Jennifer Longmore!!

Many of you know that I recently had a baby. Woah, nothing throws you in the middle of a women’s health journey like being pregnant and having a baby.

Wanna know the craziest thing?

I was SHOCKED about how little my doctors could tell me when I would ask questions about different aspects of pregnancy. Simple questions like, “Can I eat this?” or “How much of this should I have?” or “Is this supplement ok?” were always met with the same answer, “Weeeeeellll, we don’t really know.”

That’s insane!

How is it that there are so many unknowns about women’s health?! And how is it that we run into so much misinformation about our own bodies?!

This week, we’re diving deep into the topic of women’s health with Dr. Kelly Culwell. Dr. Culwell is an OBGYN and former Medical Officer for the World Health Organization. She is so passionate about helping women take responsibility for their own health and get the most out of their appointments with their own doctors.

Dr. Culwell and I hit on so many valuable topics:

• Why the word “vagina” causes us to recoil & the impact it has on our health

• How to make the most of your appointments with your OBGYN

• The importance of taking care of yourself (not just the baby) when you’re pregnant and during the “4th trimester.”

I can’t wait for you to meet Dr. Kelly Culwell!