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Personality challenges, such as Borderline Personality Disorder and yes, Narcissism, have a clinical diagnosis of course but they aren't zero-sum conditions. It's not that you have them or you don't. You, and everyone you deal with, has some of these traits to some degree. Dealing with them in others and even within yourself takes a toll. How much of that damage accumulates, lingers, and affects y...

Dr. Kim Lannon continues her discussion from last week's episode about codependency, this week talking about how it can relate to the treatment of our physical and mental health concerns. Often the differential of power between us and our medical professionals can pressure us to suspend our self-advocacy at the exact time when we need to protect our self-interests the most. This is especially true...

Dr. Kim Lannon had a rough morning, and we talk about that before she dives into codependency. It's not a problem that is limited to addiction. Codependency is likely a part of everyone's emotional stew, but our awareness of it, and skills to deal with it, can help us keep it from becoming a major, and sometimes a crippling emotional problem.

Dr. Kim Lannon, in a wide-ranging episode, talks about struggles with attention deficits and the part that diets play in dealing with them. Awareness and understanding what you have control over, and how to exert that control, are often keys to living a healthier, happier life.

In New England, we love rooting against things. For many years many of us would say we'd rather see the Yankees lose than the Red Sox win. These days it might be true that we'd rather see the Chiefs lose than the Patriots win because the Chiefs' success challenges our self-identity as Pats fans. Dr. Kim Lannon was interviewed by the Boston Globe about why Pats fans root against the Chiefs and the...

Dr. Kim Lannon starts this episode by adding some micro-goals to your physical health plan for 2022 (don't be scared), and then she talks about how we can start to apply these micro-goal principles to your financial health. Of course, improving both your physical and financial help, even in small degrees, is going to do wonders for your mental health as well.

After a quick discussion of the problem surrounding the recent COVID surge, Dr. Kim Lannon talks about mico-goaling our struggles with anxiety. We often underestimate just how big a role sleep, eating, and exercise can play in either heightening or mitigating our anxiety levels, and so we miss out on the huge benefits that even small changes in these activities can bring us. Kim gives us some easy...

Dr. Kim Lannon gives us some specific tips on how to micro goal our approach to 2022 and as well as how to deal with our eating issues including how to identify foods that are causing problems for you, and handling the non-food issues that fuel bad habits. 

The basic premise of New Years Resolutions often leads directly to failure. These resolutions are often grand, over-ambitious, and self-critical, and when they are abandoned that often leads to deeper mental struggles with those issues. Dr. Kim Lannon offers some new approaches to making needed changes in your life, that lead towards attainable goals that set a path for even bigger and better chan...

Dr. Kim Lannon discusses dealing with our holiday stresses by focusing on what is in our control, our potential over-attachment to the outcomes, and staying in the moment. It's not always easy to diffuse what stresses us during the holidays but learning the skills to do so will help us year-round. 

In our continuing holiday-based series of shows, Dr. Kim Lannon discusses ways to avoid the traps of "resolutions". Starting immediately with small and attainable wins is one way, and that often begins with awareness of what the challenges are, and the ways you have control over both creating them and dealing with them.

Dr. Kim Lannon describes how the very premise of "resolutions" in the new year is, very often, a recipe for failure. Real change should begin with defining a goal, or better still a series of smaller attainable goals, and deliberate thought about how to achieve them. In other words, you need a plan. 

Thanksgiving is in the books and now we face the major holiday of the year, which can be a test for many of us. Dr. Kim Lannon lays out some of the ways the year-end holidays can stress us and challenge our peace of mind, and then she gives us ways to help deal with those challenges. This is an overview of the topics we'll be dealing with as we close out the year. 

While Thanksgiving highlights, emphasizes, and sometimes even sets fire to the struggles we often experience in our relationship with food, it can also make us mindful of the best ways to deal with those struggles throughout the rest of the year. Dr. Kim Lannon wraps up her three-part series on dealing with the holidays by giving us a game plan for our food issues that will be useful on Thanksgivi...

We know that we are what we eat, but do you realize that you often feel how you eat? This is especially true during holiday meals, and in this episode, Dr. Kim Lannon gives us a game plan to help us to prevent being emotionally derailed at the holiday dinner table! 

Can you eat 10,000 calories in one sitting? You'd be surprised! In fact, you may already have. Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the pitfalls of Thanksgiving dinner and the potential effects that linger well beyond "one day a year." Learn how to deal with the temptations of our American dinner holiday, and enjoy yourself without the consequences, on this edition of Your Daily Game Face!

As we approach "falling back" an hour next week Dr. Kim Lannon gives some insights into SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder and some tips on how to deal with it. Then we discuss HAD - Holiday Affective Disorder (not a real thing, or is it?) as we face those holiday get-togethers with our families and the ensuing conflicts, debates, and stress they often bring. Now is the time to start gearing up men...

Dr. Kim Lannon welcomes Ron Kolek of The New England Ghost Project to the show to discuss the paranormal and the role our experiences play in our culture and our mental outlook. It's an in-depth look at parapsychology on this Halloween edition of Your Daily Game Face!  

In preparation for next week's Halloween guest appearance of New England's own Van Helsing, Ron Kolek of New England Ghost Project, Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the paranormal and its psychological components. Are paranormal experiences real? What is "real"? And why are some of us drawn to the paranormal, while others push it away? What role does the paranormal play in our mental health? All of this...

Dr. Kim Lannon recaps her running of the October Boston Marathon and discusses the outlooks and perspectives that are necessary to be successful on Heartbreak Hill and how we can apply them in day-to-day life.   

Dr. Kim Lannon chats with former US Olympic hockey player and former Hartford Whaler David Jensen about his career and his struggles and how it all factors into his ongoing work with youth programs and veteran programs here in New England.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about how the return of Tom Brady to Gillette works to highlight many of the ways sports teams can mirror family dynamics and the ripple effects that can come from conflict and dysfunction. Dr. Lannon also talks about principles at work when we lose our connections to those groups with which we self-identify change and how that can often lead to comfort and distraction behavio...

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about here remarkable weekend in Fort Lauderdale with The Tribute to American Heroes by The Human Baton and then talks about PTSD among veterans, and how their struggles with past trauma can help us deal with trauma of our own.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the challenges facing veterans and first responders in deal with their past traumas. The traumas are intense, of course, but many of the tools used with these men and women can help ease our own personal battles with the past trauma in our lives.

Dr. Kim Lannon talks about the importance of resiliency and relevance in your mental health and the problems that arise when you "focus on the failures" or focus too much on what others may be thinking about you. The key is to stop treating "failure" and lack of experience as catastrophic, or a definition of yourself-image, and find how learning, growing, and bouncing back relates to you and how y...