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Send us Fan Mail A follow up to our popular episode on overthinking, this week we focus on some long-term strategies for coping with the vicious cycle of overthinking, ruminating, and obsessive thinking. It's an issue that affects millions of us, and these three tips can help get you out of your head and able to  think about your  thoughts.  1. Identify and isolate the thought 2. Write it dow...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was so fun to record! Claire + Donna discuss some of their favorite moments from the podcast from 2023. Support the show *NEW WEBSITE ALERT!!* TheJoyfulRebels.com I want to become a supporter! Follow us on social media! Instagram: JoyfulRebels Facebook: Joyful Rebel Coaching TikTok: The Joyful Rebels We want to hear from you! If you would like to send us comments or t...

Send us Fan Mail Are you ready for a self-evaluation? With 2024 just around the corner, you may want to focus on your wellness in the coming year. But wellness is a MEGA topic, and it can feel daunting to even start. We are going to talk about 2 different ways to build a strong foundation in 2024. The basics are simple, but that doesn't mean it's easy! MACRO- You can choose to focus on 3...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes when we are in a season of extra activities and stress, it can help to lean into an anchoring or grounding routine. This week, we are offering you the 3 Ms: M ove* M oisturize* M editate Other episodes to check out if you need a little more support. We've got your back! Time To Have That Hard Conversation Time To Flex Your "No" Muscle Time For A Quick Ment...

Send us Fan Mail Yes, this week's episode starts with Donna chuckling (we do crack ourselves up, on and off camera), and yes we do love sharing the insight we've gathered on this topic over the years. If you can put in the reps, then stepping out of your comfort zone does get easier. There is hope.  This week's homework: Ask yourself, is there anything you want to do that you aren&a...

Send us Fan Mail Let's venture out of our comfort zones. The benefits- growth, learning, increase in confidence, pride in yourself, increased resiliency...the list goes on. Check out part 1. And your homework for the week- Pick ONE thing that you don't want to do. And do the thing! Support the show *NEW WEBSITE ALERT!!* TheJoyfulRebels.com I want to become a supporter! Follow us on socia...

Send us Fan Mail Does your personality change as you age? According to science, yes.  Our dominant traits may remain stable over time, but we do have the capacity to change who we are. We can grow and enhance new neural pathways and connections, which in turn can allow us to influence where we fall on the spectrum of the Big 5 Personality Traits. Support the show *NEW WEBSITE ALERT!!* TheJoyfulReb...

Send us Fan Mail This week, as we roll into holiday season, we are offering a short guided meditation. We hope that you can find ~9 minutes to focus on YOU, and to cultivate some gratitude, which we know benefits our minds and our bodies. I know you are busy. I know you are probably putting the needs of others before yourself. My hope for you is that you can find space and time to find calm, to re...

Send us Fan Mail What character strength do you wish that you had to help with your mental health or mental wellbeing? The top 5 responses, in a survey of 9000 people, were surprising. Not love, or kindness, or spirituality, but rather.... 5. Forgiveness 4. Creativity 3. Perseverance 2. Bravery 1. Self-Regulation We talk about this top 5, as well as some science-backed strategies to work on these...

Send us Fan Mail Humility- a quiet strength, a "soft" virtue, where we shift the focus from ourselves and our ego, to others. We shift from the "I" to the "we." Claire + Donna offer 4 ways that we can return to humility, including: 1- prime your humility 2- get curious 3- up your honesty and awareness 4- be kind- to yourself For more info, check out this article , whi...

Send us Fan Mail Negative emotions are necessary, and instead of wishing them away, we can learn to strive for a balance between our negative and positive emotions. We need the good with the bad. Today, Claire and Donna discuss 3 ineffective ways to handle negative emotions, and then 3 effective ways to navigate your negative emotions. Enjoy today's episode? Share with a loved one + follow Th...

Send us Fan Mail Are you interested in enhancing your emotional agility? This week Claire and Donna talk about the concept of Psychological Flexibility, including the idea of "momentology," as discussed by Dr. Mitch Abbott.  This mixture of awareness and mindfulness is action-oriented. We discuss 4 skills, as well as a brief exercise that you can try this week- the "lightning bug mo...

Send us Fan Mail Following up from last week's episode, Time For A Quick Mental Health Reset, we discuss how we can ALL benefit from taking a break from social media. From the consequences of doomscrolling, to the research surrounding social media breaks, to 2 tips you can incorporate TODAY to lessen the grip of social media on your life, we cover these topics and more in this short episode....

Send us Fan Mail Seasons are changing. It's a time of a transition. It's also the perfect time for a quick mental health reset.  Claire + Donna provide 4 tips you can use today to improve your wellbeing and do some of the simple maintenance of your active self care routine. Which tip are you going to try? Support the show *NEW WEBSITE ALERT!!* TheJoyfulRebels.com I want to become a suppo...

Send us Fan Mail This week we focus on a big picture topic- life satisfaction, or how we evaluate our overall quality of life. We cover the difference between happiness and satisfaction, and then go over the Riverside Life Satisfaction Scale. Listen to the questions, tally up your score...and then you get to decide what you do with that data point. Are you satisfied with your score? Surprised? Mot...

Send us Fan Mail This week is exciting- we are beginning our discussion on the steps that YOU can take to get to know yourself better. If you want to get clear before you determine the direction of your life, or if you want more ease in your everyday decision-making, then you'll want to check this out. We start by revisiting our habit tracking. Then we dig into defining core values, some comm...

Send us Fan Mail This week's guest is Kimberly Spreen-Glick, one of Donna's mentors, and a fitness and wellness coach with 25 years in the industry. Kimberly stepped away from a lucrative executive role to form The Inspired Life University , where she hosts workshops and wellness certifications. Kimberly developed the Wheel of Wellbeing, a powerful tool that we can use to check in with o...

Send us Fan Mail We start with an update on our habit tracking. Have you started tracking any small habits? How is it going? Then we discuss our individual yoga journeys- how we got into teaching and how its influence has led us to where we are today. Finally, we get into 3 things yoga is NOT. 3 myths about yoga, if you will.  Yoga is not... 1. a practice where you need a completely clear, blank m...

Send us Fan Mail Do you have some goals you want to work towards? In today's episode, Donna & Claire discuss how habit tracking works for them. Donna uses tracking during the day to make her nights and subsequent mornings easier. Claire uses tracking to tackle habits that light her up and fill her up. She shares a sample of her tracker, a significant win she had in regards to reading (dat...

Send us Fan Mail Are you stuck? Are you on autopilot? We are gearing up to start a series focused on getting to Know Yourself...but before we can start that work, we want to help you identify and eliminate barriers you have to starting the work. The pre-pre-work, as Claire says. And what's holding you back? It's probably related to fear.  Today we offer two tips to identify and work with...

Send us Fan Mail Hey, rebels! This week we are airing a previously unreleased recording from July of 2023. Here's the backstory. This past summer, we hosted a private Facebook group with 100+ women, focused on ways to boost confidence in different areas of our lives. One of our activities involved reading an article titled "Body Image Booster: Ask Yourself These 23 Questions" by Mar...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 50 of The Joyful Rebels Podcast! We are (almost) at our 1-year anniversary of bringing you weekly podcast episodes, and this milestone of 50 episodes aligns with another exciting event- our interview with Regina Smith. The alternate title for this episode is "Keep Moving Forward While Enjoying the Present Moment" as it embodies some of the wisdom Regin...

Send us Fan Mail After a brief recap of our summer, we delve into a topic that is the cornerstone of all things Joyful Rebels- Knowing Yourself. From WHY we should care, to HOW we can start to look at knowing ourselves (with two brief activities), join us as we begin this crucial conversation. If you want to make ANY positive changes, and create the life you want, you need to start here.  Support...

Send us Fan Mail Join Donna and Claire for a snippet of their conversation in the car! On location in a vehicle, en route to their first Joyful Rebels photo shoot, they reflect on "doing the thing." Support the show *NEW WEBSITE ALERT!!* TheJoyfulRebels.com I want to become a supporter! Follow us on social media! Instagram: JoyfulRebels Facebook: Joyful Rebel Coaching TikTok: The Joyful...

Send us Fan Mail We've got another mini episode for you! We're jumping on the mics to offer you our take on one topic- what's it going to take? Enjoy this shortened format, as we've had requests to record more bits of our unstructured and off the cuff conversations.  We had fun, and we hope you have fun listening! Support the show *NEW WEBSITE ALERT!!* TheJoyfulRebels.com I wan...