Your Daily Gameface

Dr. Kim Lannon talks live on remote from Big Sky Montana about how vital self-care is to your mental health, whether it involves a big vacation, a day off at the beach, driving the long way home, or taking just a minute to be present. 

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses altruism and people's relationship with it in various aspects of their lives including parenting and addiction. Does altruism even exist? Can people act without any self-interest? Dr. Lannon helps us find what role our selfless acts play in our lives.

Dr. Kim Lannon continues the discussion about Simon Biles and the spotlight she has brought to mental health, which leads to a far-ranging discussion of mental hygiene, the more common sources of threats to mental health, and their sources

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about Simone Biles' withdrawal from Olympic competition, explaining, from first-hand experience some of the pressures and challenges that led to Biles' decision. Dr. Lannon also talks about the lessons we should and perhaps shouldn't take away from this story and gives some insights into what we should help our kids draw from it.  

Asking why men court tragedy is often hyperbole, but too often, sadly, it isn't. After suffering the untimely loss of a family friend who died suddenly last week at the age of 46, Dr. Kim Lannon explores why men, generally speaking, aren't as ardent in maintaining their health as women are.

Your Daily Game Face takes a metaphorical walk in the woods this episode but only after Dr. Kim Lannon talks about her literal walk (race actually) in the woods (up Loon Mountain actually). This episode talks about her motivation to do such a thing and then follows that trail to the mindset of competition and motivation, cognitive dissonance, giving up power over your outcomes, and whether or not...

"Mindfulness", "Observer Position", be "in the moment" ... These are common phrases we hear everywhere these days and that's because behind them are important concepts for your mental health. They aren't easy concepts to grasp. They can seem to run counter to your current understanding of your world. But it's with putting the work on them because they can change everything for the better. (And the...

Most of us shift our personalities to fit our jobs, our home life, or when we visit our parents or in social situations. That's to be expected. but think of where you feel your best and are your most successful, and ask whether you bring that "you" everywhere. Athletes are sometimes outstanding on the field or the court or the track, but maybe not so much in "real life". How do we bring the skills...

People with an “external locus of control” generally believe that their successes or failures result from external factors beyond their control, such as luck, fate, circumstance, injustice, bias, or people who are unfair, prejudiced, or unskilled. One key to mental health is understanding that you have more control over the outcomes of events in your life. That control is there for the taking, and...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the Human Baton online competition which starts very soon! Make sure you join up! With many people returning to their workplace, for some the stress can result in bouts with afib. Dr. Lannon offers some ways to manage it. And we ask if you are empathetic. Or are you more sympathetic? Do you know the difference and do you know how diminished empathy can affect your mental...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the struggles of 23-year-old Naomi Oska and her recent withdrawal from the French Open as a result of anxiety about dealing with the press. Dr. Lannon outlines the stigma of people wrestling with anxiety, especially women, and she lays out ways of approaching these problems. That leads to a discussion about the varying pressures faced by young athletes. 

We had some technical issues to start the show, but Dr. Kim Lannon rewrote the show's story and we had a great discussion about re-writing the narratives of our lives. Once a storyline in our lives is written we often feel we are stuck in that plot even if it's not serving us, it's making us unhappy, or it's harming us. Man of us think that our story is written by others, but realizing that that's...

As restrictions lesson around Covid and we face more and more socialization, interaction, and more time outside of the house, many of us will be dealing with new stressors, higher anxiety levels, and a pandemic of threats to our mental health. Adolescents may struggle more, addictions may be aggravated, and families will be stressed. Here in the middle of Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Kim Lan...

Dr. Kim Lannon hosts a mailbag episode that answers some of the questions that were generated by earlier episodes. It begins with a discussion of better ways to handle hypothyroidism, which leads to a discussion of how, in cats, hyperthyroidism is treated with radioactivity. But much of this edition deals with anxiety. We all have anxiety, it's part of the human condition, but how do we know when...

It's time for spring cleanings and they can have mental health benefits you may not realize. Often household clutter is a symptom of stressors (you know the kind that long-term pandemics can generate, for instance) and your resulting mental outlook. Fortunately decluttering could be an easy way to relieve some of these stressors and certainly, it can lessen the impact of an accumulation of stresso...

Dr. Kim Lannon tells us that anxiety is not always 100% psychologically based. There may be a physiological basis for your anxiety or (weight battles) or it's even possible that your anxiety (and/or weight battles) have triggered some physiological problems. She starts with your thyroid and hypothyroidism.

Sleep continues to be one of the most underrated components of your mental health picture. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the mechanics and benefits of good sleep and gives some helpful hints about how to improve your sleep and why the usual sleep "remedies" often aren't really helpful.

Dr. Kim Lannon of Gameface Sports Consulting talks about the roots, causes, and contributors to ADD and ADHD and some of the ways to tame these challenges, including lifestyle, psychotherapeutic, and pharmaceutical responses. An important episode, especially for the parents of challenged kids.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about dealing with a negative mindset, something almost all of us deal with to at least some degree whether we are just stressed a little by certain people or circumstances or we see a big hungry bear in the back of every cave in our lives. Dealing with a negative mindset and the anxiety it produces is a matter of awareness of what makes us feel that way and why. That, in turn...

Dr. Kim Lannon explains that nearly 80% of those infected with COVID have suffered a loss of smell with varying degrees of loss and with a wide range of outcomes. Some are still dealing with long-term loss of smell. This leads to a discussion of the role our senses play in our mental health and well-being. This, in turn, leads to a discussion of how well we understand that our senses, and the thou...

While certainly you "own" and have a part of everything that you find yourself dealing with, it is also true that threats and challenges to our wellness wheel, which we discussed in the last episode, do come externally from other people as well. Dr. Kim Lannon addresses an important question that came from several listeners to the last episode of Your Daily Game Face, specifically, how do we handl...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about creating a wheel that lists all the areas of your life that important. The idea is to deal with sadness and anger and anxiety by first identifying which parts of your wellness wheel are being threatened. This is the beginning of processing the feeling and responding. Learn how in this episode. 

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses how important diversity is in your life. In this case, we are talking about your self-identity. Tieing your self-image and self-worth to a single aspect of your life, your job, your role as a parent, spouse, or "bread-winner" can be akin to putting all your mental health eggs in one basket. Things change in our lives, at times in major ways, and diversity of interests and...

E56 - Interrogation Training, Water Coffins, and Chaffing Tips ... Dr. Kim Lannon welcomes her guest Kalvin Evans from the global racing series, The Human Baton. Kalvin tells his back story and talks about training for his military intelligence career, his work with veterans, horses, and the fight for human trafficking awareness. And of course, Kalvin tells us about The Human Baton. The real messa...

Host Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how we are born with one of three types of temperaments and those temperaments contribute to shaping our personalities. That combination contributes to our behaviors, reactions, and outcomes, both positively and negatively. Being aware of these things makes us more aware of our behaviors and reactions, and the reasons for them. That awareness helps us support the mi...