Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

In honor of today being the first work day since daylight savings time began, I’m sharing three strategies that will help you minimize the aftershocks of moving the clocks forward a full hour in one night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are many obstacles to creating and assimilating new habits that help us become better people. I mean, of course, otherwise we would all be walking around as the best possible version of ourselves and wouldn’t that be grand? Here's how to deal with one of the biggest obstacles: backsliding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Which means that in order to really cement in a new habit, it helps to reward yourself and savor every benefit you notice (and to refrain from beating yourself up). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I’m interviewing Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a New York City cardiologist, and author of Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart-Healthy Life. Suzanne has been on helping her patients prioritize their own health by building new habits and breaking old ones for 20 years, and shares her best tips on staying on track. (She's so great!) Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

How do you actually remember to do a new habit? And hold yourself accountable for doing it even when it's inconvenient? The truth is that what you track improves, because what you focus on grows. So here's how to track your new habit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a way to make creating a new habit a lot easier and a lot less of a cognitive lift--and that is by linking the new thing you want to do to some existing habit that’s already ingrained in your brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trying to become better is not a reason for feeling bad about yourself. You will mess up. You will backslide. You will completely forget. And it is OK. All you need to do is simply start again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today’s big idea is that because habits are so unconscious and so well-worn, it can take a really big dose of motivation to get you to take action and then to sustain that action. The good news is that I’m going to share a great motivator with you. The bad news is that it is not all that pleasant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I had the privilege of working with today’s guest, Dr. Daryl Gioffree, on his new book, Get Off Your Sugar and not only does he know his stuff, but he’s passionate about helping folks get healthy and just a really good guy. I get him to share his insights about breaking one of the toughest habits to break--and that is eating sugar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In order to successfully outrun an already established habit, you’ve got to have a plan. Otherwise, you’re going to be winging it, and likely to run right off the road when you hit any kind of bump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Habits are like icebergs--you can perceive just the tip of them, when actually most of them exist underneath the surface of your awareness. You can’t just throw some dirt and some grass seed on the tip of an iceberg and turn it into a meadow--it’s still gonna be a mountain of ice that runs deep. You need to see what's under the surface to truly change it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Today’s big idea is controversial. And it is that household chores, like doing the dishes or folding the laundry CAN be done in such a way that they qualify as self-care. Gasp! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most people think self-care means getting a massage, or a pedicure, or taking a yoga class, but little things like doodling, cooking, and even stamp collecting can help you keep yourself in a good spot. Kevin, a listener who collects stamps, shares his perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether it's with a partner, or yourself, sex is an indisputable part of being a person and therefore has a role to play in being a better person. It's also an important way that we take care of ourselves on multiple levels--physical and emotional. That's why I'm interviewing Alicia Gauvin, Executive Director of the Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health, for her perspectives on why sex--and pleasu...

Although there’s nothing pampering about trying something you’ve never done and, let’s face it, probably doing pretty badly at first, opening your mind and possibly your body up to a new skill or discipline is a great way to keep your mind sharp, and to expand your worldview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While self-care is a wonderful thing, in can also be an occasion for you to come face to face with all kinds of different emotions--sadness, anger, grief, shame, agitation, you name it. And since many of us have a tendency to not want to experience some of these more uncomfortable emotions, you may find yourself wanting to skip out on your self-care so that you don’t have to feel them. I hope this...

When you think of the ‘self’ in self care, you probably think about your body and your mind. But today I’m talking about a way to take care of your energetic--aka your vibe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes self-care is the equivalent of eating your lima beans (or insert your other least favorite vegetable). And while that’s not sexy or particularly exciting, it’s OK. Because perhaps viewing these not-so-pleasurable things as important self-care might help you actually do them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can here so much about self-care that it starts to smell a little off to you. I totally get that, and so does today's guest, with Macala Lacy, a community-based yoga teacher, mental health therapist, and wellness educator based in Los Angeles. She shares a really helpful re-frame that can help cut through any mental backlash you might have to the phrase itself. Learn more about your ad choices...

While we think of self-care as something you DO--like yoga, or meditation--self-care doesn’t always have to be an action. Sometimes it’s a decision--a simple yes or no. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the podcast is all about self-care--something we all need to do, and often need reminders to do, and now, in the midst of this pandemic winter, our self-care requirements are higher than ever. Also, what else are you going to do?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I just spent the month of January NOT drinking, and it really gave me some insights that surprised me, in terms of how it made me feel and also in what I learned about drinking’s specific effects on women, on the individual and collective level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode is a listener-suggested topic: that feeling that you're a fraud and you're going to get found out. Ugh so many thoughts about this one! Including three ways through it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot of us are feeling anxious or depressed, and meds and therapists can help, they aren’t the only tools we have. One of the tools that most people don’t consider to be related to mental health is nutrition. So I’m interviewing my go-to healthy eating expert, Mary Sheila Gonnella, aka the Queen of All Things Nutrition about how to nurture our mental health at every meal time. Learn more about yo...

Today on the podcast I’m sharing the final four books that are on my list of 8 Books that Made Me a Better Person in 2020. These aren’t necessarily the books I loved the most during 2020, although some of these were absolutely transporting reads. They’re the ones that helped me re-think things, have more empathy, have more hope, become more inspired to make a difference in myself and the world, an...