Go Help Yourself: A Comedy Self-Help Podcast to Make Life Suck Less

Ever been bored on what should be an amazing vacation? This episode is for you!

This week on GHY, Lisa shares an article from The Wall Street Journal about Peak Vacation Happiness and three ways to keep that joy going and fight the travel blues.

We reference also reference our review of the book SMART with Dr. Sood. 

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On this episode of GHY, Lisa shares an article about Why It’s So Hard to Admit You’re Wrong from the New York Times.

Other episodes we mention:

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

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On this episode of GHY, Lisa shares an article about The Remarkable Shelf-Life of the Offhand Comment from the New York Times.

Here is the GHY episode we mention about What to Do When You Say Something Stupid.

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On this episode of GHY, Lisa and Misty dive into the rising occurrence of family estrangement, sparked by an article Misty shares from Cosmopolitan called Why So Many Young People Are Cutting Off Their Parents by Fortesa Latifi.

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On this episode of Go Help Yourself, Misty shares the theory of Dunbar's number, as outlined in this article from bbc.com called Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships.

If you'd like to try out the Fabriq app Misty mentions to get more intentional about your relationships, you can do so here.

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On this episode of Go Help Yourself, Misty shares an article from NPR titled Your gut microbes may influence how you handle stress by Will Stone. This sparks a compelling debate between Lisa and Misty. Is there something wrong with you if you're depressed? Should you even try to fix it, or are our modern systems the real things that need fixing?

If you'd like to listen to the other episodes mentioned, you can find them here:

Viva Las Vagus: How to Activate Your Vagus Nerve to Combat Anxiety

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This week on GHY, Misty shares an article called A Magic Phrase to Defeat Nosy Questions by Jancee Dunn from The New York Times' Well Newsletter while Lisa shares her favorite ways of shutting down predatory curiosity.

If you find yourself on the receiving end of nosy questions, try these tips:

1. Remember that you don’t owe anyone an answer.
2. Tell them you don’t want to talk about it, or let them know you’re uncomfortable discussing it.
3. Redirect if you want to keep the conversation going. "I don't want to talk about that, but I do want to share this with you..."
4. Try asking them, “Now why would you ask me that?” or “What are you worried about for me?”
5. Thank them and let them know you’re doing just fine.
6. If you decide to answer, be brief. 

If you'd like to listen to the other episodes mentioned, you can find them here:

The Self-Driven Child Part 1

The Self-Driven Child Part 2

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This week on GHY, Misty shares an article from Greater Good Magazine that outlines the science about how awe can make us more likely to help others.

Here's the 10-minute painting focus challenge Lisa mentioned from the NYT

And here's our episode covering SMART with Dr. Sood

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On this episode of GHY, Lisa brings back her favorite "old person" magazine to share some action-packed (and research backed) life tips from The Bottom Line magazine, including:

• Why Dissatisfaction with life is normal
• How overtraining leads to lower moods
• Extreme heat is linked to more mental health emergencies
• Women are both happier and sadder than men
• How a consistent sleep schedule protects your heart 
• How to use tea bags to freshen the smell of your car
• The love language myth
• why “happy wife, happy life” doesn’t hold up under the scrutiny of research
• Why planned sex is just as fulfilling as spontaneous sex

Okay, Bottom Line!

We also reference the following episodes: Why We Sleep by Dr. Matthew Walker, The Paradox of Productivity, and The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. 

If you want to learn more about The Bottom Line, you can do so here.

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On this episode of GHY, Lisa and Misty dive deep into the topic of ghosting in dating. Lisa shares two recent articles: Ghosting Is an Inescapable Part of Dating. Is It Ever OK? and 7 Ways to Respond to Ghosting. This leads to a very lively discussion about the fabric of humanity and brings up the question... are we owed anything by anyone?

We also touch on a previous episode where we reviewed Amanda Seales’s book Small Doses, in which she discusses three types of ghosting:

1. Bread crumbing
2. Stashing
3. Submarining

As Misty would say: ugh.

As Lisa would say: people gonna people.

Boo!

You can also listen to our episode of The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

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