Your Daily Gameface

The Year of You continues as Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the many faces of toxicity in your life and lays out some effective ways to respond.

You believe you deserve love, in all likelihood anyway, at least you tell yourself that. But do you live and act as if you deserve love? The way you live and act often trains people how to treat you, and usually (but not always) it determines if you get the love you deserve. Dr. Kim Lannon offers some helpful changes for those who are not getting the love they feel deserve in The Year of You!

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the importance of boundaries and speaking your truth. She explains that boundaries are essential for our mental and emotional health, and that they help us to protect ourselves from toxic people and situations. Dr. Lannon also emphasizes the importance of speaking our truth, even when it's difficult. She says that when we speak our truth, we are able to live more aut...

Dr. Kim Lannon designates 2025 as the "Year of You" and provides strategies to help you take control of your stressors and outcomes.

It is New Year's Resolution season, which Dr. Kim Lannon points out usually lasts about two weeks before each resolution is long forgotten. However, there are ways to make them successful, and it all comes down to your mental approach to your goal. The biggest win here is that properly aligning your mental approach to your New Year's Resolution will pay off in a more effective mental approach towa...

Dr. Kim Lannon helps you get your game face on for all the upcoming holiday stress!

Dr. Kim Lannon speaks with Boston comedian Dave Russo about his perspective on life and mental health, the significance of team sports in fostering tenacity and resilience, and the emotional advantages and challenges of being an entertainer.

Do you struggle with the holiday season? Do you feel stress, grief, anxiety, or dread when the decorations come out? Dr. Kim Lannon says that boundaries are a huge help but maybe not how you usually think about them. Here's your handbook for the holidays from Your Daily Game Face.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how stress, anxiety, loneliness, depression, and grief can amplify during the holidays to the point where they can be overwhelming. And then she offers ways to help limit their effects on you.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the important role and benefits of complementary medicine, as opposed to alternative medicine, and explains the major role Reiki and the mind-body connection can play.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks with Kristen Tortolini about her recovery center's ways of reaching out with help to those battling addiction.

One fundamental aspect of improving your mindset is learning to replace your reactions with responses. Reactions allow whatever you are dealing with to control your thoughts, feelings, and mindset. On the other hand, responses give you more control and power. Dr. Kim Lannon explains how to develop the skill of avoiding reacting and instead responding.

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses the thinking behind those who are choosing to "hunker down" in the path of Hurricane Milton and offers some tips on delivering information to someone who runs up against their "preferred outcome." Oh, and there's some great news about the rescue efforts surrounding a Argentinian tiger named Lucy and a Massachusetts beaver named Nibi!

We all try to take care of everybody and everything all the time. That's adulting, right? That's life. But it can be overwhelming, and once it is, it drains the joy out of life and makes you less capable of helping out. And the spiral begins. Dealing with, or better yet, avoiding compassion fatigue is crucial, and Dr. Kim Lannon tells us how.

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses how to handle times when it seems that "no good deed goes unpunished", how to effectively perform acts of kindness, and tune out the negativity. She also requests donations for The Wildcat Sanctuary (https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/) to support the completion of their Catiotown Project as they approach their 25th Anniversary. She hopes to raise $2,500 as a surprise for th...

After "recovering" from a technically stumbling show opening, Dr. Kim Lannon explains the difference between sobriety and recovery and tells us how medically assisted treatments can often muddy the waters.

Narcissists constantly seek help, energy, and attention in relationships, often resorting to demanding behavior. If you find a narcissist demanding these things from you, it's crucial to understand your role in this dynamic and find ways to prevent feeling overwhelmed.

After Labor Day, many people find themselves in transition and faced with changes. The kids are heading back to school, or going to school for the first time. Maybe they are moving from middle school to high school, or high school to college. Changes in our lives often provoke mourning for old phases and grief about losing them. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about dealing with changes and the sadness they...

As graduates face their first year in college, Dr. Kim Lannon, explains the importance of effectively advocating for yourself and your ideas. Often that impulse is suppressed in childhood, and that mentality can linger too long into adulthood.

The Olympics have been an incredible showcase of perseverance for American athletes. How have they developed that skill and what challenges did they face along the way? Dr. Kim Lannon tells us how to build and enhance that quality in ourselves.

We all encounter soul-sucking gaslighters on a daily basis, and it's draining. How can you take control and rise above it? Dr. Kim Lannon discusses the effects it can have on you and offers some effective responses.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the importance of backing up medically assisted weight loss treatments with the proper lifestyle changes for maximum and lasting results. She also lays out the real-world costs of extreme public policy stances and the anxiety experienced by those affected.

Dr. Kim Lannon emphasizes the importance of effectively responding to reality rather than denying it. She believes that denying reality often leads to more of the same or even worse outcomes. According to her, we can only make a positive impact on our reality by accepting it and then working to bring about change.

There are numerous sources of out-of-context information, and even misinformation, about medically assisted weight loss, and this can sometimes come from medical professionals. Dr. Kim Lannon provides important insights about the journey for those who are seeking long-term success.

There are lots of options to lose weight. Many are "quick fixes" designed to help you "shed pounds" with surgery and/or pharmaceuticals. Those tools have their place but they are never a complete answer. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about where the real and mission-critical battles are fought in weight loss and how to win them.