Are you faking your illness? It's your own fault you must be lazy. The weather is crazy! You must be seeking attention. We are crushing stigma and talking about all things stigma this month. Where it comes from, if we stigmatize ourselves, and how it can impact your overall wellness.

Are you going to cry about it or are you going to boss up? Maybe do both. On this episode of The Brain Factor Joy and Laura rewind and do a refresher on resilience and evidence based protective factors.

Mentor, nemisis, frenemy? Work-life relationships can be just as important as our personal relationships, and they can have a significant impact on our overall well-being and success.  Joy and Laura discuss the importance of work relationships, what they look like, and what they can mean to us.

On this episode of The Brain Factor, the one about talking to yourself, Joy and Laura discuss positive self talk.  Do you talk to yourself? If not, maybe you should, there just might  be something good in it for you

This episode of The Brain Factor, the one about how to deal, addresses the protective factor coping skills. Laura and Joy discuss minimizing chronic stress and its importance for overall health. Is stress normal? Managing stress and learning how to cope with the feelings that stress creates is essential to our health and wellbeing. chronic stress harms health and increases your risk of health conditions such as heart disease, anxiety disorders, and depression.

In this episode, Joy & Laura discuss the difference between the things that are within our contol and things that are out of our control. 

This episode of The Brain Factor, the one about emotional clutter, addresses the protective factor good problem solving and coping skills. Laura and Joy discuss built environment, how we set up our spaces, and how there are similarities between our environment being cluttered and our emotional clutter. What's cluttering your mind?

On this episode of The Brain Factor, Joy and Laura talk about healthy diet, exercise, and development/ national sleep awareness.

In this episode of The Brain Factor, Joy Riddle is joined by a special guest and friend, Dr. Maggie Labarta! They discuss the importance of loving yourself in order to love others, and how you can do so, especially with Valentine's Day coming up!

On this episode of The Brain Factor, Joy and Laura talk about having fun at work while still following the rules at home school, and work.