Mindful Living with Dr Sogol

Tired of living in anxiety- overwhelm- anger- resentment- frustration? Dr sogol was. In 2021 she set an intention to consciously live life with ease and calm. Was it easy? No, it was anything but easy. It was messy. It was hard. It was uncomfortable. It was a S&*t show. It was a power struggle between her toddler brain and her parent brain. So why did she do it ? Why bear all the pain? Because...

Why do we set so many goals and then end up abandoning them and never coming close to reaching any of them? Can you relate. Whether that is new year goal or quarterly goal or 1 year goal most of us start with sync excitement but all fade out by the end of the month if we are lucky.  What if we focused on the intention not the goal? In this episode dr sogol explains the difference between goals and...

REST ,the 4 letter golden word we all need more in our life. To relax. To live with ease. To live in peace. But why are we so resistant to it? Why does our body scream to take a break but we ignore and neglect its demands. It’s because our toddler brain screams louder and reminds us of our fears. In this podcast dr sogol discusses the 7 common fears we face as humans when we try to pause and rest....

Robyn Tiger, MD is on a mission to empower physicians with self-care tools backed by science and research. With physician burnout on the rise, Robyn knows firsthand what it’s like to love your job while also coping with stress, anxiety, overwhelm, imbalance and even illness. She uniquely combines her 15 years in diagnostic radiology with certifications in yoga therapy, meditation, and life coachin...

We are so focused on setting goals and achieving those goals in this competitive, not enough, world that we have truly forgotten the meaning of life. We achieve our goals yet we feel horrible and then we blame it on not achieving enough. Our focus is on the wrong target. We need to stop targeting our external accomplishments. Pause. Look at what we are missing on the inside. Yes it's time to...

I am sure by now in the 2nd week of january you are inundated by the narrative  NEW YEAR NEW ME. I used to fall into that trap but it was short lived, maybe a month. In this episode Dr. Sogol talk about her goal for 2022. She is not striving to create anything NEW in herself. She actually wants the opposite. She wants to return to her OLD SELF.  She longs to return back home.  Join me on SoMe for...

2022 is the year of the tiger which represents strength and courage. We can all say with the pandemic we, physicians, have had to put on our superhero caps and navigate the world through our strength and courage but at what expense? What have we neglected? What have we left behind? What are we going to use our strength for in 2022? Are we going to take the courageous step towards our own wants and...

In this episode dr sogol talks about how her toddler brain was about to take over her holiday break with her family creating so much stress and panic. Thankfully dr sogol has worked so much on potty training her toddler brain that she was able to use her parent brain to create a holiday break for her family from a place of ease, calm, joy, and peace.  Join me on SoMe for daily inspirations tips an...

This episode dr sogol talks about the third little white lie your toddler brain feeds you everyday. On repeat. This lie not only stops you from taking action and doing the things you really want to do in life but it also keeps you from finding JOY and FULFILLMENT. Now who wants to live a life without happiness? Not me…  Join me on SoMe for daily inspirations tips and encouragement: https://www.fac...

Time is the most valuable commodity. We all have the same amount of time and we can't buy time. You can buy a lot of things but not time. Well what if i told you that the problem is not having too little time but its actually what you do with the time that you have. How you put that time into use. What you dedicate to the time you have. How you show up in the minutes and hours that you have....

So much of the time we continue to think with our unconscious brain - yes the infamous toddler brain. We believe in its lies and we believe those lies to be our truth. At those moments in our lives when we decide to do something for yourself our toddler brain takes control and feeds us more lies. Little white lies. Nothing grand. It acts discretely and quietly. When we decide to once in our lives...

So often we walk around wishing for miracles. Miracles can look like winning the lottery, paying off our student loans, creating life by becoming a parent, becoming financially independent and retiring early, getting married. But what we skim over and dont value and see is that the biggest miracle of life lies within us. Its our breath - our heart- our existence- our presence. Without that there i...

Always wanted to try mediation but your toddler brain wouldn't let you sit still enough to attempt it. “ I don't have time to meditate”  “ I am not wired like that”  “ I can't sit down for that long”  Sound familiar?  Listen to this podcast episode with DR.Schramm to learn: How to make meditation FUN and EASY  How she cured her migraine, insomnia, digestive issues How meditation can...

Holiday season is upon us. WOW. 2021 is almost gone. Poof. done. November is a month of gratitude and giving. We gather with our family in gratitude and count our blessings. Meanwhile we are exhausted. Drained. Pressured. Overwhelmed. Secretly wishing for the day to be Over. Done. Finished.  Well for this holiday season I want you to STOP GIVING and start TAKING.  Taking care of your wants Taking...

An innocent soul lost to a tragic unnecessary careless incident. Gone. Vanished.  How do you deal with grief? What do you do with your anger, sorrow, rage, and disbelief? How do you process your emotions? Do you run away? Do you hide? Do you avoid it? What if you could walk into the pain? What if you could embrace the pain with open arms? What would that look like? How would that feel? Listen and...

We are taught to rush, hustle, run, hurry, push to the point of exhaustion. That is how we have been conditioned to live all our lives. What we don't realize until years later is that this approach does get us what we always “ dreamed” of,   It leaves our body and mind in lack, in void, drained, empty. So we work relentlessly for years to build a family, a home, a career, a legacy but we dest...

Last week we discussed the SNS - sympathetic nervous system, "fight and flight" state that can lead to chronic stress. This week we delve into the PNS= parasympathetic nervous system - rest and digest state. We talk about the chemicals and science behind the PNS and its effects on the body. What to do to stimulate the PNS and why its important to operate in this space.  https://www.faceb...

Why do we live to abuse ourselves? Why do we dismiss our own emotional and physical needs? Why do we not listen to our body? Why do we neglect our most essential physiological needs: our heart, our lungs, our gut? This neglect leads to long term sequelae like: anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, tachycardia, arrhythmia, stroke, and at times cancer. Listen to learn how you can learn more abou...

We are all struggling with life, feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Listen to my conversation with Dr Shereef where she shares simple tools on how to create productivity system to preserve our wellbeing and prioritize our needs first. You don't want to miss this episode. Dr. Serene Shereef is a Trauma Acute Care Surgeon, and Mindfulness & Productivity coach who helps high-performing women...

We spend our entire life DOING. Making goals and elaborate plans and strategies and when we accomplish our goals we just move on without recognizing our efforts or pausing to celebrate it. We expend so much emotional and mental energy that we are all now depleted. Our bodies are saying no more please. Stop DOING for others and start BEING for me. Listen to find out how we can save ourselves from c...

Oh the stories our brain tells us! Most of those stories are not encouraging nor uplifting UNLESS you consciously use your brain to create a story for yourself which most of us dont do. Most of us are living in autopilot, thinking the same thoughts over and over again. In this episode i teach you how to recognize those unconscious thoughts and how to challenge them and really think more deliberate...

Now that you have some vacancies in your circle of five, how do you fill them? The first step is to decide if you want to CHANGE and GROW or if you want to stay the same. If you are ready to change then don't miss this episode. I outline 3 criteria to fill your vacancies that will change your life for the better. You will take back control of your life and live life based on YOUR dreams and d...

Podcast SUMMARY:  Who are you?  You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” Jim Rohn. Who are those five people? What conversations do you have with them? What activities do you do with them? How do you feel about them? Why did you choose to share your time and energy with them? Are they empowering and supportive or are they critical and negative? SoMe:  https://www.facebo...

When was the last time you made eye contact with a human? What is in your visual field everyday? What are you looking at? Is it a human face? For most of us we spend more than 10 hours a day on our screens. It's the reality of our time. We are addicted. So have you ever paused and thought about what kind of information your eyes are taking in everyday? How does that information make you feel...

As humans we are surrounded by SOUNDS. Our sense of hearing allows us to absorb and process million of sounds on a day to day. have you ever paused to think about what sounds your brain is taking in? have you wondered what those sounds translate into your brain? do you know there is a direct relationship between sounds and emotions? A thunderstorm can cause you to feel anxiety or scared. The sound...