Dr. Tami Talks

Did you know stress can be good for you?  Do you know what makes stress bad for you?

This topic becomes increasingly important as we navigate more perceived stressors in the world around us.  This affects how we think, how we feel, and how we behave in our everyday lives in small and big ways.

This episode will help you recognize when you’re swept up in bad stress and help you understand why and how it happens.  

This level of knowledge and insight is a window into greater self-awareness and liberation.

What are your thoughts on this?  I’d love to hear from you– feel free to find me on LinkedIn, Instagram or email me [email protected] and share with me what’s on your mind as we explore good stress versus bad stress.

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

I know you–because you’re so much like me– you're interested in your own growth, development, and evolution and so you know that change is a must. 

In our quest for change, we often struggle because we think it should be easy.  We think we can just decide to change and that it should be done.

We don’t recognize that there’s both the capacity to change and then there’s the ability to change.

Two different things, yet related.  

Your capacity to change is determined by the state of your nervous system.  Or better said, when you're in a state of chronic stress or experiencing sympathetic activation then you lose your capacity to change.  While in an activated stress response you don’t have access to the regions of the brain that allow you to change your thoughts or focus.  Additionally, an activated stress response is a huge energy expenditure.  You expend and waste an incredible amount of energy when you're in a state of chronic stress.  This also reduces your capacity to change. 

Your ability to change is determined also by your nervous system state, which is why I’m such an advocate and teacher of nervous system rebalancing as a path to the most effective way to create the change we seek.

Think of capacity as an internal storage and ability as the skill to change. 

I teach both.

Listen on to learn how to apply a simple practice to expand both your capacity and ability to change. 

This episode is loaded with goodness and you’ll learn the Triple A process for making change work for you!

I share the Triple A as a repeatable process to Acknowledge, Accept, and Allow that gives you tangible tools to shift and build your own capacity and build your own ability to change!

It’s packed with gold—and you’ll soon discover it for yourself.

Please connect with me and share with me how this helped you. And as always–spread the love by sharing this episode with someone who’ll benefit from hearing this!  We’re on this journey of life together, my friend!  

Join The SMART Program waitlist here: https://drtamiberry.ck.page/smart-waitlist

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

This episode is for you if you’re trying to change and you desperately want to change but despite your desire and best efforts change is still hard!  I know how awful this is–I’ve been there myself –which is why I’m here breaking this down for you.  This episode can save you years of struggle and emotional pain, especially if you are stuck in habits that don’t serve you well.

You’ll gain an understanding of what’s really going on beneath the behaviors you wanna change, whether that behavior shows up in your actions, reactions or inactions.  The core of change is the same for all of them.  What a relieving and refreshing realization that is!

Grab your pen and paper because we are breaking this down and you’ll wanna capture it. LIsten on to gain some critical skills and tools you need to actually make change happen now!

You’ll discover why trying to use willpower to change a habit will always backfire AND why it’s the most commonly employed strategy that fails 9 times out of 10.  Plus, you’ll gain insight into the tactics you can use that actually work to make change inevitable for you.

Please share this episode with someone you care about who will benefit from hearing this.  We are in this game of life together and we are starting something special here.  We are part of a movement to reclaim our best lives yet–it begins with you and me and the next person you share this with.  Let’s go!

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

Let’s launch an Attention Rebellion!

There’re a lot of things vying for your attention right now.  The constant news cycle, ads, social media, work, family, friends…there are so many places where your attention can be swept up and carried away.


Why does it matter where your attention goes?

Everything that has your attention has access to your brain.

The brain is being continually shaped by experience (up until the day you die).

Your attention is the access point to shaping your brain and molding your mind.

Guard that like the precious gem it is!

Guard it like the trajectory of your entire life depends on it...because it does.

I want to inspire you to be rebellious in where you place your attention.  Don’t let it get swept up or hijacked or pulled every which way.  It will leave you feeling depleted, drained, and exhausted.  It will allow you to become easily swayed, manipulated and quickly undermine your own highest good, values, and commitments.  

We think it’s benign.  The messages we’re inundated with filter into your psyche and shape your experience of yourself, others and life. It isn’t benign.  It’s overstimulating your nervous system and exhausting the resources of your frontal lobe and brain.

Listen in on how to perform your own Attention Audit and learn some practical strategies for how you can quickly refocus your attention so you can direct it toward creating a life you love to live.  

I hope my epic nasal congestion doesn’t detract from the impact of this message…this is worth a listen, my friend. It’s so valuable that it might be worth listening to twice! 

Will you help me spread the love by sharing this with a friend or someone you think will benefit from hearing it?  Thanks!

#AttentionRebellion #DrTamiTalks #ILoveYou

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

You are the one. 

You are the one you've been waiting for.  No one is coming to save you.  And you don't need anyone to save you. 

You are the one. You are the one who creates your experience and if you don't like it then you can re-create it. This is a level of radical responsibility for yourself and your life that few will take.  

It isn't easy, in fact it's humbling and hard.  Which is why so few actually do it.  It takes radical courage and bravery to do it.  It is a position of 100% responsibility and with it comes 100% power to change, evolve and grow into who you want to be.

When we've lost our own agency, when we stop growing and evolving then we feel awful.  Take your power back and know you are the one!

Join me to discover why you are the one and why that's the BEST news and how you can leverage it to become a powerful force for creating more health, success and joy in your life right now.

As always, I love to hear from you, so go on and share this or tag me and give me a #YouAreTheOne if this speaks to you!

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

Your ability to live a successful life is the theme of this episode.

This topic is so important if you want to experience a fulfilling, meaningful, satisfying,  and joyful life.

Most people are living by someone else's definition of success.  Stuck on a path that never gets them to the promise land of the sweetness, depth, richness, and goodness of life.  Chances are, unless you've actually tasked yourself with doing this work, you are living by someone else's definition of success.  It's likely it's been conditioned into you and it leaves feeling like you never quite have enough or that you're never quite good enough. 

If your living a definition of success that isn't aligned with your greatest good then you likely feel all kinds of stressful emotions and you may even feel down right awful about yourself, your accomplishments and your life's work.

You can change all of this!

Listen on to find out how you can begin living a successful life as soon as right now. 

AND--I'd love to hear your thoughts on what I've shared here.  Find me on LinkedIn, FB or IG and let's hang out!

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

In this episode I share why we all need a scarcity detox and what steps we can take to do it.

Scarcity is an epidemic right now and it poisons our way of thinking, being and living in the world.  Scarcity has us thinking that there’s never enough.  Never enough time, energy, money, or that we’re not enough.  With scarcity we become more competitive, constricted, contracted and exhausted.  

Sufficiency, on the other hand, is a powerful way to reprogram your thinking mind in ways that support your own health, happiness and fulfillment in life.  Sufficiency thinking means you appreciate what resources you have within you and around you. With sufficiency we become more compassionate, collaborative, connected, and joyful.  Sufficiency thinking helps us evolve and expand into who we truly are in our fullness.

Scarcity thinking prevails in modern life.  Scarcity thinking is a byproduct of running on survival thinking and it breeds more scarcity and stress.  It is as toxic as any poison you can ingest in how it influences the brain and body.

You can begin to train your brain for a new way of seeing yourself and your life that is rooted in sufficiency.  You can begin right now to appreciate your strength, resilience, and goodness.  Not as a way of forcing positivity into your life, because that always backfires in the end, but as a sincere recognition of what is really true about you and the impact and influence you have on others.  

Your truth will set you free and the truth is you’ve got exactly enough of every resource you need to live a truly beautiful life within you right now.  

Take a listen and share with me your thoughts–head on over on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/tamiberrymd)  or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tamiberry.md) and message me!

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

In this episode I discuss the important role the nervous system has in how we show up in our lives.  And how it can prevent us from making the decisions or taking the actions that allow us to live up to our greatest aspirations and potential.

I learned this so intimately in my own experience with burnout, because I never intended on burning out. I clearly never intended on being an alcoholic. I never intended on being a shopaholic, workaholic, or the slew of other addictions that took me over.  But now that I understand what the nervous system does and how when it's stressed it creates massive dysfunction and dysregulation in the way we think and behave. 

Seriously, having this level of knowledge is going to set you free in so many aspects of your life. 

Science shows us that you can only go as far as your nervous system will let you.  This means we need a new level of respect for the role of the nervous system and particularly the survival mode of the brain. 

I anticipate that disruption and ever-increasing stressors will be the norm for the next several years whiten the places we work, live, and play.  All of this will impact the nervous system if we don't develop a new relationship with ourselves and our inner resources to meet this level of disruption, chaos and change.

I delve into the mind-body connection, the nature of stress, how it impacts our overall health and our ability to make decisions and how it can hold us back from acting in our own best interests.  I also share how you can take your power back in the face of overwhelming uncertainty, chaos and change so you can rise to the occasion and bring your best self to your family, your work, and to the life you want to live.

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

Let's talk about turning pain into passion and purpose!

This is one of my most favorite topics.  This idea can single-handedly change your life.  It certainly has changed mine!  

Our pain offers us an incredible opportunity to evolve and grow beyond where we are right now.  Our collective experience of stress and pain right now is a unique opportunity in the history of us as a species to use stress as a powerful source for evolution and growth.  

So often we try to bypass it, we avoid it, resist it, suppress or repress it and deny it's even happening at all.  Yet, what's the result of this approach?  Nothing good and often loads of suffering occur as a result.

From a biological, political, and social structural standpoint, stress (and pain) have always been the greatest drivers of evolution, change and growth.   We need to reconnect to this truth of Nature and then apply it to our own lives.  We often times can become so accustomed to stress that we start only seeing through the neural circuitry that aligns with stress. And pretty soon all we see as more and more stress, more and more pain. And then we shut down, right? Because we are a biological organism and all biological organisms are designed to avoid pain and to ensure survival.

Pain and stress are part of an intelligent feedback system that is here to serve us with valuable information.  But it's up to us to know how to use it as such.  We spend a lot of time avoiding or minimizing pain rather than looking squarely at it, and this makes us suffer even more than the pain itself does.

I think of it as an equation (it's the science nerd in me): Pain X Resistance to Pain = Suffering

Life is painful. There's no getting around this. When we turn towards pain, to see it clearly and compassionately, It's truly an opportunity to reduce our overall suffering in life. And it's taken me a long time to truly understand that the amount of pain that I experienced is nothing compared to the resistance I have around that pain, you know? 

Resisting pain is especially prominent in those with strong willpower and grit, and it works against us.  For the longest time, I didn't want to acknowledge I was burning out. I didn't want to feel my emotions at all, so I did everything to avoid them and I suffered mightily.  

I discuss how painful feelings and emotions can be the gateway for us to fuel our passion and purpose in life.

This is alchemy, in a way.  The ability to turn pain into passion and purpose is possible for each one of us and it will require we open to the nature of pain and begin to understand the exquisitely intelligent feedback system that lives within us. 

Listen on to find out more!

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md

In this episode I share why I burned out, what burnout taught me, and how I continue to recover.  This episode is personal and I share candidly and deeply about my own experience, despite what my internal perfectionist has to say about it--which is a lot of nothing good!

My mission to serve is bigger than my fear of judgment and shame.  And so, here I am sharing the nitty gritty details and showing up for you because I know that if you are here then you need my authentic truth and you can borrow from my experience to help process your own and find greater strength in meeting the challenges and stresses of your life right now, especially if you are experiencing burnout.

I talk about ego shame and soul shame too.  How ego shame becomes the driver for our overachiever mentality and how this accumulation of stress leads us to think, feel and act in ways that are contrary to our greatest good and this activates soul shame.  It's actually the destructive combination of ego shame and then the soul shame that it creates that ends up driving us into burnout.  What an interesting idea---do you agree?!

I'm really passionately interested in how it is that we can shift  our neurology, our neurochemistry, our neurophysiology, and  our very own biology as we can make incremental step wise progression towards our healthiest, happiest, most joyful state, because that is where real success lives. And that's what I want for you, for me and for all of us.  

Let me know what you loved most about this episode! 

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Before you go, I want to invite you into what I’m calling the greatest experiment in thriving on the internet. ✨

It’s called Project Thrive—and we’re finding out what becomes possible when brilliant, ambitious, big-hearted humans stop postponing their own joy, aliveness, and possibility and start creating from there.

And I want you in this experiment with me.

If a round is open, jump in. And if you missed this one, get yourself on the Priority List for the next round.

Because you do not have to wait for some future version of your life to start thriving.

Your Year of Thriving can begin the moment you decide it does.

Come play with us.

Go to drtamiberry.com/project-thrive.

Let’s find out just how good life gets to be. 💛✨

Let's stay connected!
Follow me on IG: @tamiberry.md
Follow me on LinkedIn: @tamiberry.md