Is criticism hard for you to take? Can the people in your life offer you feedback? Do you get defensive and criticize back? What are your limitations in taking criticism? Listen to this week's podcast to see how you can better prepare yourself to take criticism and respond more positively to feedback. Think of it as a gift and gain some resilience by applying the 10 strategies outlined in today's podcast. Check out the show notes for some additional resources.

How to Receive Feedback with a Growth Mindset

What is a Growth Mindset: 8 Ways to Develop One

Happiness -  is it a state or a trait? Is it the same as pleasure? What does it have to do with well-being? Can you be happy in life if your life lacks meaning? There is a lot of stuff to unpack as it relates to happiness and how we experience it. This podcast discusses qualities that happy people have, and how they can be used to create savoring rituals. 

What Happy People Know by Dan Baker, Ph.D. and Cameron Stauth

The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

How would you rate your level of well-being? Are you physically fit? Do you feel spiritually connected? Do you make time for a mindfulness practice? Take some time to answer these questions, listen to the podcast and see what other areas of your life might need improvement. Cultivating well-being takes a lot of work. It takes commitment, and a desire to live life making quality tasks a priority. 

Join me and a couple of my daughters to continue a discussion about parenting. Things really have changed, and parenting has changed. My girls share their insights and add to my own about how parenting "with the brain in mind" really is an effective way to help create secure attachments with your kids (which is another topic to be addressed at a later time), reduce tantrums, encourage brain integration, and help you (the adult) develop your "parenting brain."

Below are some resources. 

Big Little Feelings -- check out Instagram @biglittlefeelings

Dr. Becky Kennedy -- check out Instagram @drbeckygoodinside

Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive

Brain Based Parenting: The Neuroscience of Caregiving for Healthy Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

Drs. Dan Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson have written a book called "The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind." In this podcast, I break down the strategies to provide access to this information for any who may be interested. The book is very much worth reading and is easy to understand and valuable for anybody with a brain. 

The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

The River of Well-Being

The Upstairs and Downstairs of the Brain: Part One

Time is not a limited commodity because it is always there, unfolding every second before you. Focusing on time creates stress and dissatisfaction with life. You have enough time, we all do. 

Put First things First

Become the Master of Your Time

When we avoid or distract from negative emotions, we close ourselves down. This practice might numb us from the emotions we don't want to feel, but it also numbs us from the emotions we want to feel. Feeling them all is the only answer to wholehearted living. 

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.”

― Dalai Lama XIV

Thanks for sticking with this multi-part series on worry. There are solutions, and there is hope for less chronic worry.

Keep listening and learn how to keep the worry nests out of your hair.

The Worry Trick by David Carbonell, PhD