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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...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how exercise (even well short of a mile run or 50 pushups) can play a major role in rewiring your outlook and therefore your lifestyle. Even a regular 15-minute walk can help you regain control over your approach by literally rewriting your mindset in a way that shows you that your hand is on the wheel of your own life.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about stages and cycles in our lives, and how we can often give our power away instead of understanding our part in our outcomes. Our lives are created internally to a much greater degree than we generally think. It's important to have more awareness of how our thoughts and fears steer our outcomes and to understand how that awareness comes from processing those thoughts and f...

Gratitude is the operative word for the week, and Dr. Kim Lannon explains how to effectively use gratitude to rewire your thought process and change what your days are all about. We also talk about whether you take your dog for a walk or whether your dog takes you for a walk (in this case the dog being your mind). 

Maintaining mental and physical health is almost always a balancing act. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about using medicines and supplements in concert with changing your approach towards the issue and what makes it worse. The idea is usually not to hammer a problem into submission no matter what other effects that causes, but instead to use medications, supplements, food, and lifestyle changes to help les...

We all know the holidays can bring stress, but did you know your Thanksgiving meal might be among the biggest stressors on your holiday menu? Dr. Kim Lannon gets us prepared for Thanksgiving and the holiday season and tells us how to lower the stress settings while giving thanks.

What's next? Our part in the election is done, there's nothing left to do or argue on that front. So COVID 2: The Sequel? The Holidays? Dealing with the kids? The eternal darkness now that daylight saving time is over? What's right in front of you now? And how do we handle it? Join Dr. Kim Lannon on Your Daily Game Face as we face our post-election night fears and talk about her great new project,...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks to Olympic Silver Medalist Peter Carruthers about competing at an Olympic level, Olympic memories from 1980 and beyond, and applying the lessons learns through competition to everyday life!

It's Mental Health Awareness Month and Dr. Kim Lannon explores some of the challenges you face in preserving a healthy frame of mind day to day.  While social comparison is necessary it can become an enemy of your well-being when it is not reigned in. Controlling what you think about and how you think of it is necessary as well, especially when what you mostly think about is controlling thing...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about rounding out your personal perspective and your view on other people's perspectives. Understanding why you are attracted and attached to certain conclusions and beliefs, and developing the ability to believe more than one concept to be viable can lead to less stress and improve your interface with the world. 

Dr. Kim Lannon talks with former Boston Bruin Frank Simonetti about his playing and coaching career and dealing with the "enthusiasm" of parents and the self-image you creat as an athlete and how that affects your self-image as a person. You'll also hear about Frank's work with veterans through WarriorForLifeFund.org and his other charitable service through BostonBruinsAlumni.com, BowlWithTheBruin...

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses the first debate of the 2020 election or more accurately our surprising social media reaction to it and explores what it says about our collective state of mind. That leads to a wide-ranging discussion about healthcare policy and more specifically mental health policy especially in regard to addiction (of all kinds)  

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about nutritional psychology and explains how what you eat can influence what you feel and think. This is another aspect of controlling our mental health that we undervalue.  

Many feel that nothing in their lives is under their control and their outcomes are victimized by external things. Dr. Kim Lannon explains, that external forces do exist, of course, but we have a lot more say about our outcomes then we generally believe we do. And that control is less overwhelming responsibility than it is an endless opportunity for a happier, healthier life.  

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about her experiences treating PTSD and how important it is to learn to set down our stress and set aside our threat generation, even for short periods of time to begin to learn how to do it for longer periods of time. This is the key to managing our anxieties.

You probably suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder to at least some degree, esp[ecially if you live in the northern half of the country. How do you combat it? What role does nutrition play? And why is all of that so important to your mental health? Dr. Kim Lannon gives you the rundown.