Redefining Rest for Public Health Professionals

Over the next couple of weeks, we are doing a Rest Rewind, where I bring up some of the most impactful episodes from the archive to celebrate hitting the 100 podcast episodes milestone. Today we kick off the series by talking about allowing emotions, and I invite you to begin feeling the sensations within your body and show you how to welcome these physical responses, allow emotions, and understan...

Y'all it is episode 100! How did that happen?! I started this podcast about 2 years ago and we have hit 100 episodes. I'm sharing something that will serve and help you in so many ways and giving you 5 concrete tools that you can start using right now to change your life.   Learn how these tools can help you when you feel worry, fear, anxiety, or any other emotion, how to work with these tools in...

No matter how many staff you supervise, what I share this week is super useful: the difference between leadership responsibility and personal responsibility.    Discover what it means to take leadership responsibility, the importance of managing your mind and processing your thoughts, and how to execute your leadership responsibility in a way that serves you, your staff, and your work.    Get full...

One of the most important and valuable skills you can learn to build the life you want is to be able to sit in awareness of what you are learning. Yet so many people learn new things and then use this new awareness against themselves in some way, holding themselves back in the process.   Discover how your expectations could be setting you up to use awareness against yourself, and why simply notici...

As humans, we have a tendency to blame our lives, emotions, and experiences on things outside of us. If you want to change something in your life whether it is your emotional experience, your decisions, your actions, or your outcomes, you have to take responsibility.   I share what taking responsibility is and what it is not, how I've taken responsibility for things in my life and how to start tak...

Procrastination is simply the action of delaying or postponing something. We have been taught that procrastination means we aren't organized or committed, or that we don't care, but this often isn't the case.   Learn where the real problem lies when it comes to procrastination and why whatever reason you are procrastinating, it does not mean you are lazy, disorganized, or need to feel bad about yo...

Anxiety shows up in a lot of different ways in my life, and for years I wanted to figure out the why.     Discover the problem with focusing solely on the reason for your anxiety and how to start befriending it instead. I share a relational shift to help you release the angst, shame, guilt, and resentment you have built up about your anxiety, and show you how to start seeing it as a part of you, b...

Indecision keeps us stuck and it drains our emotional energy, leaving us ruminating and questioning without actually taking action. It's a concept that I've started to call The Maybe Hole.   Learn about The Maybe Hole, how to tell if you are in it, and how it keeps you from reaching your goals. I share the importance of decision-making and how this can help you stay out of The Maybe Hole, and how...

In this episode, I show you how to build the skill of letting your emotions come along for the ride and give you some questions to ask yourself around how you are currently processing your emotions. I share an analogy to help you visualize what it looks like to allow your emotions along for the ride and show you how to apply this to any emotion you experience.   Get full show notes and more inform...

In this episode, I'm diving into a concept I have created to teach you about the importance of feeling all your emotions: The Human Emotion Tank. Learn how to use this tool in your life to start allowing and experiencing all of your emotions. Find out why even though you might think you're allowing your emotions already, you most likely aren't, and why it is so important for us to feel the entire...

I'm sharing my thoughts on consistency, why I think it's overrated, and why putting pressure on yourself to be consistent turns your goal into a measure of your worth and value. Hear the problem with attaching your ideas to measures of consistency, why consistency never determines your success, and what can happen when you drop the labels and shame around consistency.   Find the episode transcript...

I'm sharing the problem with viewing your goals as a measure of your worth, why you might currently feel the way you do about your goals, and a great way to stop using your goals against yourself. Discover what goals are really for, what can happen when you give yourself permission to feel empowered, optimistic, and fulfilled with your goals, and why you have the power to change the way you curren...

Hear more about this huge life change; my successes, my meltdowns, and my experience of moving out of California. I'm sharing one of the best tools I know I have for dealing with uncertainty, and I'm diving deeper into what to do when things feel out of your control, and your brain wants to tell you the worst-case scenario. And, of course, you get to find out where I moved to!   Find the episode t...

If you want a bigger, more fulfilling, and exciting life, you can't just  have  a dream; you have to  actively  dream. They are two very different things. Many of us have dreams, but very few people actively dream about their dreams. So in this episode, I'm showing you how to dream and why doing so is essential to achieving what you want in your life.   Find the episode transcript here: https://ww...

If you are ready to stop feeling overwhelmed and rushed, stop overworking and start feeling a sense of peace and presence in your life, this episode is sure to help. This week, I'm helping you see that the only thing preventing you from resting is yourself, why rest is fully available to you, no matter your circumstance, and how to stop believing rest is a privilege and start taking it in your lif...

I'm helping you understand that rest is a practice you have to engage in and showing you how to be intentional about it. Find out how we have been socialized and prevented from knowing how to rest, what's possible for you when you implement a practice of rest, and how to start building the necessary momentum to take the rest you need in your life.   Find the episode transcript here: https://www.mc...

I'm sharing two theories of rest that I have seen over and over again in my coaching and showing you how to recognize which of these theories you're operating from. Find out how to determine whether your practice of rest matches up to your theory of it and how to make the necessary changes to your practice or operating theory of rest.   Find the episode transcript here: https://www.mckoolcoaching....

I'm sharing more about the patriarchy and how it impacts everybody in the field of public health. Find out how public health as a field still operates under systems of oppression, the importance of understanding how the patriarchy impacts us all, how those of us socialized as women have internalized damaging messages from the patriarchy, and the impact of this upon our work and lives.   Find the e...

Zoila Reyna is the Founder and CEO of Public Health Hired, which focuses on sharing best practices and proven techniques for securing employment in public health. She also works full-time for a reputable healthcare company as a Senior Consultant in strategic planning for philanthropy and is an expert in community engagement, chronic disease management, mental health services, and scaling best prac...

Find out what self-trust is and what it is not, and the reason that so many of us don't recognize when we're struggling with trusting ourselves. I'm sharing some examples of what self-trust looks like, how a lack of it can show up in your life, and how to start trusting and believing in yourself so you can live an authentic life.   Find the episode transcript here: https://www.mckoolcoaching.com/8...

If you have been socialized as a woman, so much of the fear, anxiety, shame, guilt, doubt, and judgment you experience around speaking up actually comes straight from the patriarchy. The worst part is so many of us don't even realize it. But the more you contribute to the world in the unique ways that only you can, the more fulfilling your life is going to be. So this week, I'm showing you how to...

Hear more about Omari's journey with rest and some of the mindsets that have been helpful in helping him harness his emotions to access rest. Omari shares some of the ways he is creating more mental and emotional rest for himself, why the way rest looks to you now is likely to change depending on the context of your life, and his advice for creating more rest in your life.     Find the episode tra...

Having skills or knowledge in a specific area does not mean you are a good leader of people, yet so many folks in public health are promoted to managerial roles for this reason. It can lead to dissatisfaction, frustration, and resentment for those on the receiving end of the leadership, so if this is something you have experienced, you are not alone. It can feel like there's nothing you can do or...

Learn what to do if someone is telling you you're doing it wrong, and why it is perfectly OK to allow other people to be wrong about you. I'm showing you what to do if you have a problem with boundaries or saying no to people, and what could be holding you back from taking the next step to achieving your goals.     Find the episode transcript here: https://www.mckoolcoaching.com/78   Coming soon!...

Kristi McClamroch, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist and a public health entrepreneur. She founded the non-profit organization Public Health Connected during the COVID-19 pandemic and she is dedicated to strengthening the community of public health professionals so that people are empowered to face the challenges of working in public health. Kristi joins me this week to share her personal journey in t...