Your Daily Gameface

Dr. Kim Lannon tells us about 9 things we need to unlearn to live happier and healthier lives after a lengthy discussion about critical thinking, our misconceptions and why we don't challenge them enough, and the societal mental health problems embodied in Alex Jones' treatment of the parents at Sandy Hook.

Dr. Kim Lannon welcomes back Michelle Micalizzi of Micalizzi Enterprises in this special live episode from the Maine Coast.  They talk about life after trauma, whatever that trauma is in your life. It's easy to feel a lack of control after trauma, fear changes, and build your life around it, but it's essential to find your control, find the opportunity in change, and build the life you want....

Dr. Kim Lannon gives us the primer on setting boundaries in our lives, talking about why they are important, why we let people trample them, and how to establish and maintain them effectively. We are often programmed to let people cross our boundaries at will, but that often leads to unnecessary anxiety. We sometimes unknowingly train people that this is acceptable. Learn how to teach them that it...

It sometimes seems our days are filled with difficult people, and often women find that to be true more than most because all too often the male-female dynamic gives permission to some men to be difficult, if not oppressive, to women. People with personality disorders and character failings almost always add difficulty and disorder to our days. Using an example of the all-too-common dynamics of in...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about a recently released study that tells us that eating ultraprocessed foods for more than 20% of your daily calorie intake every day could set you on the road to cognitive decline. Learn more about the findings and how they may apply to your diet.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how easily a thoughtless response to their anxiety, fear, emotion or depression, can invalidate people, especially kids. Invalidation can lead to emotional isolation which can, in turn, lead to kids filling their "sandbox" with people who have shared experiences. Often what this does is perpetuate the isolation. In this episode, we learn what not to say when someone open...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about ways to identify the toxic relationships in your life and understand what you are dealing with, so you can respond effectively. More talk about paying attention to the sandbox you are playing in and why who is in that sandbox with you is vitally important to living a happier, healthier life.

Dr. Kim Lannons talks with her guest Amy Salant, the owner of Fitness Together in Andover Ma. Kim and Amy talk about Amy's unconventional path to personal training. And they discuss the challenges to your efforts toward weight loss and fitness, as well as the ample rewards to both your physical and mental health!

Several topics on this edition of Your Daily Game Face. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about a new hotline for mental health help, just call 988. Heart the details here. She also talks about Veterans and their potential reactions to fireworks on the 4th of July. But the main topic for today's show is how to deal with toxic people in your lives, especially the people you cannot simply separate yourself from,...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the Biopsychosocial model which tells us that our medical conditions are more than biological, psychological and social factors play a part as well, sometimes a large part. It's often unwise to rely solely on medicine, especially pharmaceutical treatment, to deal with your issues, and it's especially unwise to settle for the mindset that tells you the issue is totally ou...

Dr. Kim Lannon and her guest, Michelle Micalizzi of Micalizzi Enterprises discuss how to bring intent to your life and tune your mental approach to help draw health and happiness to you so that you can "enjoy the cake". And they ask the fundamental question ... Are you in the right sandbox?

June is Men's Health Month and Dr. Kim Lannon talks about male menopause (yes it's a thing, it's actually called andropause) and other health issues many men don't even know they face. Learn about the less obvious health issues men deal with and learn how to begin to deal with them.  

Dr. Kim Lannon of Gameface Consulting talks about some of the mental health questions surrounding mass shootings, and the dynamics of many social media discussions about this subject and others. Then she gives us the basics of Asperger Syndrome and its increasing profile in our culture. 

Dr. Kim Lannon points out how the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial has highlighted the science behind mental health treatment. Too often we treat mental health treatment as merely "talking about feelings" when there is an abundance of tried and true scientific principles at work. Dr. Lannon demonstrates where we have seen this due to the unusually public nature of the trial.

Dr. Kim Lannon offers some insights into what she's observed while watching the defamation trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp in the context of what mental health issues may be at play. The trail is a public look at the struggles that couples can face while dealing with their own individual traumas. 

As Mental Health Awareness month continues, Dr. Kim Lannon explores the mind/body connection and dynamics at work in depression and less severe bouts of anxiety and melancholy. She also talks about ways to manage these interactions between your mind and your body and use them to help you improve your mindset and your physical health.

As Mental Health Awareness Month continues Dr. Kim Lannon invites a furry little guest to help discuss the role that animals can play in your mental health game plan. We also talk about the ways sugar can undermine your mental and physical health. Sugar has been normalized despite its often severe consequences.

Which came first? No, not the chicken and the egg. Which came first, your cardiovascular issues, or your anxieties, your weight issues, or your stressors? People usually don't pay attention to the relationship between the mind and the body, between the challenges to your peace, the food you eat and the way that you eat it, and the health conditions you are dealing with as a result. Often physical...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about her experience in the 2022 Boston Marathon and how the lessons a marathon teaches can help your daily game face!

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses and injury she's dealing with as she faces her 8th Boston Marathon, and balancing between self-diagnosis and advocating for yourself when dealing with the health professionals in your life. It's important to understand, and have a say in your diagnosis and treatment, but listening too much to "Dr. Google" often leads to anxiety and trouble. This episode talks about your ro...

Dr. Kim Lannon walks down several paths in this episode, starting with the psychological underpinnings of curses and touching on the balance between focusing on the internal factors and external factors in your life, learning that what is said is not often exactly what is heard, and revisiting Will Smith and Chris Rock.

Dr. Kim Lannon works through the Oscars fiasco between Will Smith and Chris Rock as a way to describe what happens when you are dealing with emotional dysregulation. Then she applies some of the same principles to family situations and family emotional issues that lead to similar incidents that always seem to be part of many families' histories and lore.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about Narcissism, how it presents and how to deal with it, and then the discussion turns to the similarities and differences between the narcissist and someone dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about not being able to say "no". We all have relationships where we experience problems saying no. Sometimes those are the only kind of relationships we have. Sometimes we have trouble at work saying no. Sometimes those are our most significant relationships. But those relationships are always problematic and always, it seems, the problem is rooted both with you and with the...

Many of us struggle with trying to control things that are out of our control, like the way other people treat us and talk to us. We try to change them when their behaviors towards us have much more to do with their deep-rooted issues about themselves than anything to do with us. The real problem is the power that we hand them over the way we feel about ourselves, and it's a good thing that that i...