Positive Solutions 4 Life-Transforming Your Mind & Body from the Inside Out

Inside Out 2: Puberty or Perimenopause?

In this episode, Peggy highlights some of her takeaways from the movie, Inside Out 2, viewed through the lens of her experience as a mom to 5 girls and as a mental health therapist. She also gives her reasons why this movie about changes in girls as they enter puberty mirrors some perimenopause symptoms for women
later in life.
 
Inside Out 2 is a great movie about the various feelings we have and what goes on in the mind as we experience those feelings. Sometimes it may feel like we are hijacked by our emotions and feelings, that we have no control over them, but we do.
 
Some main points about the movie include:
Our memories make beliefs.
Our bodies and minds store everything that happens to us.
You create the meaning of your experiences.
Every emotion / feeling is good for you. 
Your imagination can work for you or against you.
 
Listen as Peggy gives reason this movie is not only about the changes in mood for girls going through puberty, but also women going through perimenopause.
 
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Links to resources mentioned in episode:
Inside Out 2 Movie
Well Beyond 40 Podcast with Dr. Mariza Synder
Dr. Mariza Synder Perimenopause Symptom Tracker: 

Live Your Life with Marnie Dachis Marmet

In this episode, Marnie talks about how life is a journey, how we all need to find and listen to our inner voice, develop a clear vision of what we want and where we want to go by asking ourselves questions and doing things that scare us.
 
Marnie is an entrepreneur, certified health coach, podcaster and author. Marnie helps busy women and teens implement personalized, gradual and sustainable nutrition and lifestyle changes to create a happier and healthier life.
 
Marnie suggests having two journals to help tune into and find our inner voice. One is a brain dump journal where you just write down your stream of consciousness. The other journal can be more prompted, writing down what you are grateful for, what you desire, diving deeper into your thoughts and feelings, and even used to retrain your brain. This exercise can bring out different aspects of yourself.
 
Connect with Marnie:
Book, "My Song, Unleashed" can be found on Amazon and other book retailers.
Podcast: The Art of Living Well
Website: https://zenfullifecoaching.com/

Feel the Day Through Photos

In this episode, Peggy talks about what it means to feel the day, how it relates to creating a meaningful life and how you can be more intentional in creating memorable moments. 
Feeling the day is about being present, mindful, and conscious in little moments throughout the day in order to truly experience life. Peggy gives examples how three different types of photos can help you feel the day based on conscious awareness of when the photo was taken and the emotional impact it has on you.
Feeling the day more helps create a meaningful life. Listen to hear three ways you can create this in your life. Check out the book, The Strength to Shift, in which Peggy is one of 10 authors sharing their story of change and transformation. 
 

Increase Your Positive Activity with Lori Rogers

In this episode, Lori Rogers talks about how your thoughts, words, and what you imagine creates your life.
For most of her life, Lori didn't know how much her worrying, anxiety and negative thoughts were affecting her and her business until she went to a wellness fair and heard a speaker say that you create your life. This sent her on a path of learning all she could on shifting her mindset.
She now teaches people how to shift their mindset, change what they say, think and visualize so they can create a better life for themselves.
Lori shares her daily habits of Positive Activity including:
1. Mel Robbins High 5 Habit
2. Journaling
3. Conscious Recall
4. Act of Kindness
5. Meditation
6. Exercise
 
She also shares how your energy and perspective also shape your mindset and how being in the 'want' prevents you from 'having'.
 
Connect with Lori at https://www.positiveactivity.net
There you can check out what she is up to on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

Strive for Harmony in Your Life

You most likely have heard the term, work-life balance, but have you heard of work-life harmony? I saw this term in a book I’m reading. I hadn’t heard this term before and it piqued my interest.
In this episode, I share a little more about the difference between work-life balance and work-life harmony and why I think we all should strive for more harmony in our lives.
 
Work-Life Balance insinuates a struggle to keep various aspects of our life in equilibrium. It is often focused on time, managing it, scheduling equal time for various aspects of our life.
 
Work-Life Harmony is more about designing an intentional life that aligns with your values and what is most important to you. It has a sense of flow, meaning and purpose to it. Work-Life Harmony is focused on the energy of why you do what you do.
Also included in this episode are benefits that work-life harmony can have for you and ways you can start to improve your work-life harmony.
 
Check out The Strength to Shift book now out on Amazon! 

Unpacking Anger with Bronwyn Schweigerdt

In this episode, Bronwyn Schweigerdt, anger expert, helps to unpack anger, what it really is, and how to release yourself from its hold in your mind and body.
Bronwyn discusses how anger is real but it is a secondary emotion, so it is really important to look within to find the true emotion felt that is coming out as anger. Anger is not bad. No emotion is bad. Emotions are messages trying to get your attention to look within to what we really need. 
She believes there is no such thing as an angry person. It is stigmatizing and labeling a person that does not allow them to be anything else. 
Anger management doesn't work. It is just treating a symptom and not looking underneath or within to why a person is angry in the first place. Understand and heal the root cause and there will be no anger. 
Bronwyn gives examples of integrative exercises that can help you unpack the anger you hold inside and give it back to the rightful owner. 
Learn more about triggers, anger, and integrative exercises on her podcast, Angry at the Right Things.

Stuck in Negative Mood? Try This!

Have you ever been stuck in a negative mood? I have more than I'd like to admit.
In today’s episode, I will share with you 10 things that I ask myself that provide clues into the way I am thinking, feeling, behaving and showing up for myself and to the world around me.
It starts with awareness, asking ourselves a few questions and deciding to do something different.
10 things to ask yourself about when you are in a bad mood:
1. Schedule
2. Sleep
3. Exercise
4. Food Intake
5. Thoughts
6. Body Feeling
7. Expectations
8. Communication
9. Focus
10. Tasks
We all have bad days once in awhile. When they start becoming a string of days, it’s time to take a step back, ask ourselves some questions, and gain a little insight. Then from our answers, we can choose differently. We can choose to take a break, get a little more rest, move our body, fuel ourselves with nutritious food, show appreciation for the moment, be grateful, have a conversation with a loved one, express our thoughts and needs, tackle a project you have been wanting to do, or take a pause to breathe in life for a moment.  

The Power of Intuition with Lisha Song

In this episode, Lisha Song talks about our bodies are trying to communicate to us when things are not aligned and when things are not ok. Our bodies are messengers and very intuitive, if we listen. Lisha also shares insights about her book, 'Love What Hurts' which includes personal stories, the importance of integrating psychology, somatics and spirituality in the healing process and shares a clearing exercise to help readers befriend the wounded parts of themselves.
 
Lisha is a licensed mental health therapist, an author, and workshop facilitator. She has over 23 years of experience working with trauma and Complex PTSD. With her intuitive gifts, education, and experiences, Leesha has been guiding people toward transformative healing and evolutionthat infuses self-empowerment and self-love. She is the author of “Love What Hurts: A Guide for Healing Emotional Wounds and Following Your Intuition”. Listen to the conversation on integrating spiritual and the body into therapy, how following own's intuition can lead to your best life, that trauma happens on a sensory level and is different for every person, signs of Complex PTSD, and the power of the imagination. Connect with Lisha Song here:Instagram.com/sacredhealingplaceFacebook.com/sacredhealingplacetacoma
 
Lisha Song, Love What Hurts, Sacred Healing Place, Trauma, Intuition, Self-Improvement, Personal Development

The Cupping Book by Dr. Tom Ingegno Book Summary

This is a summary of Dr. Tom Ingegno's, The Cupping Book. I received this book and cups as a gift for having Dr. Tom on my podcast in August (see Episode on August 16th). He did not ask me to read his book nor did he ask me to give a review of it. I am just sharing this book summary as it aligns with my mission to help bring Positive Solutions to you, my listeners, that can transform your life from the inside out. 
In this book summary, I summarize what cupping is, give a brief history of this ancient practice, what cupping is beneficial for, description of the bruising and why it varies in color, and  how long the bruising lasts.
To learn more about what type of cups are out there, the types of oils or creams to use, where to get them, how to clean them, Dr. Tom provides all this in his book. He also describes in detail the step by step instructions for how to perform static cupping and sliding cupping techniques. 
Dr. Tom really wants to bring the ancient art of cupping back into the homes of anyone and everyone. Find his book on Amazon here. Connect with Dr. Tom at Charm City Integrative Health. 

A Post It Note Goal with Maria Smith

In this video, Maria Maldonado Smith talks about how she got an early start in goal setting that turned into a post-it note that allowed her to achieve her goals in business and her personal life.
Maria is the Chief Empowerment Officer of MMS Consulting and the creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program. She equips leaders, employees and organizations to clearly define goals and create a roadmap to achieving them. She believes anything is possible when you set a goal and create a vision for it.Lots of discussion on the importance of writing things down from a science perspective and just having a busy life, juggling many responsibilities including work and family. Maria shares about her book, "Creating a Vision Board" available on Amazon, that walks individuals through a 5-step process to create a word of the year, asking yourself three important questions to really get clear on your goals, defining your core goals, mission and even play goals. Find out more about Maria and to book her for your next speaking event here: https://mmsconsultingfirm.com/ Connect with her on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-maldonado-smith https://www.instagram.com/mariamaldonadosmith/