As the holidays approach, we can start to feel a bit stressed. You might be seeing family, doing a lot of cooking, and/or attending various events.

In order to manage your stress, you can take some time to plan and prepare— make lists of everything that you "need" (choose!) to do and try to be realistic about what you can accomplish. Remember, holidays can be special! They can remind us of what is truly important to us—and by doing some of the tips I'll give you today, you'll be able to enjoy the holidays with less stress.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

1. How to deal with stress during the holidays

2. How to simplify your holiday season

3. How to make sure you're taking care of yourself during the holiday season

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wow, 100 episodes!

It's been an honor and privilege to be sharing with you every week on the Building Resilience podcast for 100 straight episodes. I'm so excited to be at episode 100 and I look forward to continuing to work on the podcast. It's one of my favorite things to do!

To celebrate that, I'm going to fill your back pocket with 20 thoughts to pull out whenever you need them—your mental Swiss Army Knife. If you're struggling, you'll have just 20 micro doses to keep you going. 

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. Book a mini session with me on my website!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I wake up to another day filled with anxiety. I've been dealing with morning anxiety for a while now, and it's really starting to take a toll on me. I know I need to do something to change it, but I'm not sure where to start."

Does this sound like you? You're in the right place!

In this episode you will learn how to manage morning anxiety and start your day off right. Stick around to discover why mornings are harder for people who experience anxiety, how exercise and movement can help ease anxiety symptoms, and how journaling can help challenge negative thoughts and explore fears.

"The goal of meditation practice is to be aware and to observe and to notice thoughts, feelings, body states without reacting to them or believing them to be true. You're simply watching your thoughts."

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As parents, we have a lot of jobs. Keep our kids safe, make sure they're fed, make sure they're educated, and so, so many other things. However, we're not actually raising kids—we're raising adults. And few things are more important than raising a resilient adult.

Today, we'll talk about how our kids don't actually have it easier, why we need to let our kids feel ALL of their emotions, and some strategies to raise some truly resilient adults.

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jocelyn Patten has lived for many years with serious mental illness. Touching on depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia, Jocelyn gives a deeper look into life with mental illness—both for those dealing with it themselves, but also for loved ones dealing with mental illness second hand. On top of that, she is my cousin! And I have often enjoyed writing she has done in the past.

On today's episode, we talk about some of her struggles, including what inspired her to write her book, how she is trying to help remove the stigma against mental illness, and some of the personal insights from dealing with these struggles.

You can find Jocelyn's website at jocelynpatten.com and get her book, Love and Theft: A Memoir of Mental Illness, on Amazon.

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Even though we all know lying isn't good, many of us are guilty of the odd lie. However, it may not be your loved ones or your boss you're lying to—it might just be yourself!

Lying to ourselves can be a coping mechanism that keeps us from achieving our full potential, but truly facing what some of those lies can be and getting ahead of them can be a real game changer. Today we'll be talking about 5 common lies we tell ourselves, how to face them, and "truths" we can tell ourselves instead!

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, I shared an episode called "The Gap and the Gain", which follows the premise of an excellent book with the same title by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy. I recommend listening to that episode first if you haven't heard it yet, but if you haven't heard it yet, the gist is this: you can have a "gap" mindset of what you lack, or a "gain" mindset of your potential. 

In this episode, we talk about ways to stay in that more positive "gain" mindset—seven questions you can ask yourself to be exact!

Here's a link to this week's download:

https://leahdavidsonlifecoaching.ck.page/43acf7a671

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm a big reader, and every once in a while I come across an idea or a book that I just HAVE to share with everybody. When it has to do with my clients or listeners, even more so! Today's one of those days.

The book "The Gap and the Gain" by Dan Sullivan really hit me hard—and as soon as I read about the concept I just knew you all would love it.

In a nutshell, there are two sort of mindsets we can be in, "the gap" and "the gain". When we're in "the gap", our thoughts tend toward thinking what we lack, while in "the gain", we think of our potential and what we've already got. The best part? Our situation doesn't have to change in order to switch mindsets—which means that those thoughts are completely within our control.

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

One thing I talk about all the time (because I truly believe in it and do it myself!) is the power of journalling! While it might be just writing things on paper, science shows it actually does more than you might think—and the benefits can be profound.

On this episode of Building Resilience, we talk about the proven benefits of writing in a diary. I'll give you some tips and techniques of how to make the most out of your experience (as I said, I've been doing this for quite a while now!), some things to think about while you're journaling, and some novel ideas to improve your outcomes.

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discovering who you are and who you want to be is potentially one of the most important things we do in this life—and Tyson Bradley knows how to do it.

Tyson Bradley is the future #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of the book Discover Your Inherent Identity: A Simple And Effective Way To Create Change And Make It Last. He is happily married and the proud father of 2 redheaded girls. He has studied mindset and behavior change over the past 10 years and has finally cracked the code on the fastest way to make habits happen.

Visit Tyson's website and get his free tool to change your habits at inherentidentity.com.

Visit me on Facebook or Instagram. You can also find me on my website and book a mini session with me!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.