Your Daily Gameface

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...

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.