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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...

Changes ... Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how making changes in your life, your outcomes, and your mindset is a long game. And often the biggest enemy of positive change is the expectation of instant gratification. If change can't be accomplished quickly, it's not worth it to many people. Often though, a small amount of process can reap major rewards, and more importantly, lasting rewards. And it can...

Dr. Kim Lannon of Gameface Consulting talks about the stressors of dealing with Valentine's day, whether you are facing it outside of a relationship or as part of a couple. If you have struggled with this holiday in the past, she talks about the possible reasons why, and what you can do about it.

Motivation fuels your choices, your activities, and your outcomes, both positively and negatively, depending on the source and nature of that motivation. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how influencing and minding your motivations is yet another way we gain control of our outcomes, our outlooks, and our lives.

Dr. Kim Lannon is celebrating a birthday this week. She knows that for many, birthdays can amplify our struggles with time. We often spend too much time anyway thinking about the past or worrying about the future. This, despite the fact that almost all of our most peaceful and happy moments happen in the present. In fact, the more time we spend in the present the happier and more peaceful our...

Chances are you aren't off your rails, but maybe that's the problem. Not that you should be "off the rails", but maybe you should be laying new tracks, starting with installing the relays needed to change tracks. Too much with the railroad analogy? Listen to Dr. Kim Lannon explain our fight to create new healthier patterns as we deal with our New Years Resolutions to lose weight or any changes we...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the headline events of the first week of 2021, not from a political standpoint, but as a study in groupthink and how we can deal with our individual struggles with and against what happens when people set aside their own personal beliefs and morality and adopt those of the group. 

Dr. Kim Lannon explores codependency in this episode, talking about its potential beginnings and how it affects our relationships, parenting, and dealing with addiction, whether you are the addict or part of an addict's family or support system. Learn how to identify codependency and how to avoid it or opt out.

It's the last 2020 edition of Your Daily Game Face, with your host, Dr. Kim Lannon of GameFace Sports Consulting! The end of the year is a time for self-reflection and looking forward. It pays to make that introspection as positive and productive as possible. Lets' talk about what you will let go of from 2020 and what you will embrace in 2021! It all starts with the Three Rs!

If you are depending on the turning of the page on your calendar to bring changes to your life, you are setting yourself up to fail. Anything worth doing after the start of the new year is worth starting now, and a key to being successful in bringing those changes is realizing those changes will come as the result of your decisions and choices. It can be scary to be in control of such things perha...

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses what many are fearing as we approach the holidays, namely the stress of feeling alone and isolated with little hope of relief during the pandemic. The answer is starting each day with intent and finding ways, small and seemingly insignificant ways at first perhaps, of breaking emotional cycles and resetting your outlook with new perspectives. Don't worry, it's a lot easier...