Sleep continues to be one of the most underrated components of your mental health picture. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the mechanics and benefits of good sleep and gives some helpful hints about how to improve your sleep and why the usual sleep "remedies" often aren't really helpful.

Dr. Kim Lannon of Gameface Sports Consulting talks about the roots, causes, and contributors to ADD and ADHD and some of the ways to tame these challenges, including lifestyle, psychotherapeutic, and pharmaceutical responses. An important episode, especially for the parents of challenged kids.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about dealing with a negative mindset, something almost all of us deal with to at least some degree whether we are just stressed a little by certain people or circumstances or we see a big hungry bear in the back of every cave in our lives. Dealing with a negative mindset and the anxiety it produces is a matter of awareness of what makes us feel that way and why. That, in turn, allows us to see if our negative thoughts are reasonable and rational, or even if they are real. 

Dr. Kim Lannon explains that nearly 80% of those infected with COVID have suffered a loss of smell with varying degrees of loss and with a wide range of outcomes. Some are still dealing with long-term loss of smell. This leads to a discussion of the role our senses play in our mental health and well-being. This, in turn, leads to a discussion of how well we understand that our senses, and the thoughts and emotions they evoke, are not who we are, they are what we experience. More importantly, that leads to a discussion of how well we understand that we have control over those thoughts and emotions,  and hopefully it's not the other way around.

While certainly you "own" and have a part of everything that you find yourself dealing with, it is also true that threats and challenges to our wellness wheel, which we discussed in the last episode, do come externally from other people as well. Dr. Kim Lannon addresses an important question that came from several listeners to the last episode of Your Daily Game Face, specifically, how do we handle toxicity in our days that comes from other people who we can't simply block from our lives? You see, you have a part in that as well, and the good news there is that the part you own can also be thought of as control that you can exercise that you may not currently believe you have!   

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about creating a wheel that lists all the areas of your life that important. The idea is to deal with sadness and anger and anxiety by first identifying which parts of your wellness wheel are being threatened. This is the beginning of processing the feeling and responding.

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses how important diversity is in your life. In this case, we are talking about your self-identity. Tieing your self-image and self-worth to a single aspect of your life, your job, your role as a parent, spouse, or "bread-winner" can be akin to putting all your mental health eggs in one basket. Things change in our lives, at times in major ways, and diversity of interests and self-identify help us transition with much less stress. Dr. Lannon also talks about the vastly underrated role of sleep in our mental well-being. 

E56 - Interrogation Training, Water Coffins, and Chaffing Tips ... Dr. Kim Lannon welcomes her guest Kalvin Evans from the global racing series, The Human Baton. Kalvin tells his back story and talks about training for his military intelligence career, his work with veterans, horses, and the fight for human trafficking awareness. And of course, Kalvin tells us about The Human Baton. The real message here though is about how your mental approach to what you face has a lot to say about your outcomes.

Host Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how we are born with one of three types of temperaments and those temperaments contribute to shaping our personalities. That combination contributes to our behaviors, reactions, and outcomes, both positively and negatively. Being aware of these things makes us more aware of our behaviors and reactions, and the reasons for them. That awareness helps us support the mindsets that serve us and manage the ones that do not, often showing us that the ones that hold us back don't stand up to our examination of them.

Changes ... Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how making changes in your life, your outcomes, and your mindset is a long game. And often the biggest enemy of positive change is the expectation of instant gratification. If change can't be accomplished quickly, it's not worth it to many people. Often though, a small amount of process can reap major rewards, and more importantly, lasting rewards. And it can reveal the true value of process and the rewards of progress.