Dr. Kim Lannon is celebrating her birthday on this episode of Your Daily Game Face by acknowledging that birthdays can be hard because of the anxiety that can come from self-reflecting. But that look inward to spark some positive changes when it comes to dealing with chronic threats to your happiness because of poor mental hygiene. Do you confront everything in life? Dwell in negative thoughts, judgment, and criticism? Is every interaction a battle, especially with your teenagers?  Awareness that you are doing it, and contemplating why are some of the first baby steps, but while it probably took you years if not decades to build these thought patterns, it doesn't take nearly as long to break them, especially when you start experiencing the positive results.