Julie Merica

Make Your Damn Bed

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life. Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it! Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an "as-is" basis. Support this show...

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Julie Merica

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Education

Latest episode

Jun 27, 2026

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Episodes

Day 367 || Good News || Prescription Nature 14.02.2022

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/canada-doctors-can-prescribe-time-in-nature-with-free-admission-to-national-parks/ PaRx Canada now consists of over 1,000 physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals in B.C., Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario who can prescribe the annual  Adult Parks Canada Discovery Pass  from the Canadian parks authority. A University of Saskatchewan student, s...

Day 366|| Hedonic Treadmill IV 13.02.2022

https://www.healthline.com/health/hedonic-treadmill#bottom-line The hedonic treadmill is a metaphor for the human tendency to pursue one pleasure after another. That’s because the surge of happiness that’s felt after a positive event is likely to return to a steady personal baseline over time. In the same way, the negative feelings you experience after a traumatic event also tend to soften with ti...

Extended Episode: Heartbroken Anon with Naz Perez 13.02.2022

Sign up for today's Heartbroken Anonymous Meeting and get to know Naz more here: https://www.heartbrokenanonymous.com/ Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 365 || Our First Anniversary 12.02.2022

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MY LOVE! (how stinkin' amazing is it that the episode was somehow 11:11!? I almost cried. literally.) Truly couldn't be more excited to have pushed through my initial plan for 66 days and commit to 6 full ass beautiful seasons together. This episode is one of gratitude and genuine love for YOU for being the type of person in the world that the world needs right now - because if t...

Day 364 || Hedonic Treadmill III 11.02.2022

Check out the full article here: https://www.healthline.com/health/hedonic-treadmill#bottom-line Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 363 || Hedonic Treadmill II 10.02.2022

Check out the full article here: https://www.healthline.com/health/hedonic-treadmill#bottom-line Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 362 || Hedonic Treadmill I 09.02.2022

https://www.healthline.com/health/hedonic-treadmill#bottom-line Medically reviewed by  Timothy J. Legg, PhD, PsyD  — Written by  Rebecca Joy Stanborough, MFA : Rebecca’s article says:  Psychologists say that when human beings experience something good — a long-awaited promotion, a new car, a winning lottery ticket, for instance — the surge of happiness that’s experienced i...

Day 361 || What Iffirmations 08.02.2022

@TIKTOKTRAUMADOC shared an amazing technique for battling our negative self talk that truly has made a huge difference in the way I speak to myself. She asks us to try WHAT IFFIRMATIONS instead of affirmations. Instead of saying:  ‘I deserve love.’ Ask yourself, ‘what if I deserve love?’  ‘I’m beautiful.’ Try ‘What if I believed I was beautiful?’ ‘I love my body.’ Try ‘What if I loved my...

Day 360 || January 2022 Good News 07.02.2022

Good news source for this week: https://www.theskimm.com/news/10-good-news-moments-from-january-2022-5TvAkrstAJUyONg807dw8k   Mj Rodriguez reaction: https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1480389921810444293?s=20   Inspiring story: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-24/conservationists-create-home-for-wildlife-north-of-l-a Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your...

Day 359 || Taking Criticism III || processing 06.02.2022

Learning how to take the note is not easy but it’s an important practice to master. The more you put yourself out there, and ask people for support the more you open yourself up to constructive criticism. Eventually, you may even seek it out as a way to level up because effectively applying constructive criticism can sometimes be the missing link between good and great work. Having someone else’s...

Day 358 || Taking Criticism II || receiving 05.02.2022

How to handle constructive criticism without crumbling like a nature's own bar: Breathe, stay calm, & just listen. Imagine a protective bubble that allows you to listen objectively & feel safe (you are!) Feel the feelings without reacting. If needed: cool down, ask relevant & productive follow up questions, and take appropriate accountability without deflecting. Reflect, apply any appl...

Day 357 || Taking Criticism I || reasoning 04.02.2022

Once you reframe the ideas around criticism, you can better hear out the words that are being communicated to you and you may just walk away with a new perspective. That said, even if you get good at knowing why something is happening, it can still be difficult to have to actually bone up and sit through the experience in real time. Tomorrow I will share a structured way to get through a pers...

Day 356 || Universe Game 03.02.2022

Any time I feel particularly discouraged, hopeless, or lost and need a pick me up, I play a very fun call and response game with the universe to remind me that life can be fun and more malleable if we get intentional with ourselves and our thoughts. How to initiate a play date with the universe: 1. Choose something to visualize + manifest.  2. Keep searching for that thing over the next...

Day 355 || How to Change Your Mind 02.02.2022

Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence "over time, we tend to optimize and conventionalize our responses to whatever life brings. Each of us develops our shorthand ways of slotting and processing everyday experiences and solving problems, and while this is no doubt adaptive—it he...

Day 354 || Enjoy The Commercial Break 01.02.2022

Commercial breaks are actually good for you. Take a pause once in a while to remind yourself you're actually really enjoying the regularly scheduled programming. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 353 || Erika Rishko 31.01.2022

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/wellness/story/81-year-tiktok-influencer-fitness-inspiration-75036202 "I think my advice is fairly simple: Do not do anything extreme - there is no need to -- and start slowly," said Rischko. "Just eat healthy, but do not chastise yourself." "And figure out what works for you," she added. "Find a sports activity that you enjoy because if you do not enjoy it you w...

Day 352 || Cosmic Vacation 30.01.2022

Travel and vacationing is incredibly amazing for your brain and your emotional and mental well-being. And according to Forbes 63% of Americans say they go six months or longer without a vacation, with more than a quarter (28%) of respondents going a year or more between trips. So, if you’re one of these people who rarely take time off to vacation and can’t see how you could afford one, reframe you...

Day 351 || Ramble about Heartbreak 29.01.2022

Learning what I want took a lot of trial and error. Learning how to communicate it properly took even more trial and error. Now I know what I want and I've surely narrowed the playing field but at least now I am only scouting people who could actually make the roster. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Day 350 || Follow the Fear 28.01.2022

I took what scared me and listened to why - I realized it scared me because it was important to me not because the act itself was scary and I followed that fear home. Since then, my relationships with myself, others, and my passions have changed. I want you to take the amazing advice of Jay Sukow and follow your own fear.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Host...

Day 349 || If It Makes You Happy 27.01.2022

According to science, humans kind of suck at knowing what will genuinely make us happier in the long run. Society tells us what we really want is to find love and money and success, but in reality, we may already have all the things that we could ever want to be happy people, but were too busy trying to meet some arbitrary societal deadline to notice. Support this show http://supporter.acast....

Day 348 || Take the Note 26.01.2022

Get comfortable being wrong. Get comfortable being criticized and called out. We practice getting comfortable with this by allowing ourselves to get vulnerable. Put yourself out there, open yourself up to feedback, and practice listening without getting defensive.  You are a human being living a human experience which means you’re gonna fuck up sometimes. You’re gonna make mistakes. You’re go...

Day 347 || Easy + Reset Buttons 25.01.2022

From Glennon Doyle’s Untamed: “Easy” buttons are the things that appear in front of us that we want to reach for because they temporarily take us out of our pain and stress. They do not work in the long run, because what they actually do is help us abandon ourselves. “Easy” buttons take us to fake heaven. Fake heaven always turns out to be hell. You know you’ve hit an “easy” button when, afterward...

Day 346 || Good News for Social Justice 24.01.2022

If you come across any good news or positive headlines, send 'em my way! We’ve got a long way to go - especially with human rights, but remember, there are good people fighting the good fight and they would love to have you among their ranks. Make your voice heard. Social media isn’t just for stalking your ex anymore, with enough noise, we can change companies practices and political loyalties. We...

Day 345 || Negative Mindset Shift 23.01.2022

If you are struggling with negative thoughts, it’s normal. Our brains are programmed to think negatively. But just because it’s normal doesn’t mean it’s helpful. If you practice redirection long enough, you can shift your mindset completely which can literally improve your life, by changing nothing else. If you start to notice yourself falling back into negative thinking patterns, pay attention to...

Day 344 || George Costanza 22.01.2022

Saturday Scatterbrain: We’re in control of our own happiness. We have the power to control a lot of our environment. So, if you want the sheets untucked, get up and untuck them yourself.  Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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