Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

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[New Year’s Plan Jam!]: How a Planning Expert Prepares for the New Year, Ep 867 Dec 26, 2022

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Welcome to the first ever New Year’s Plan Jam! This week, I’m interviewing four different types of experts and asking them to share their own personal New Year’s planning rituals and routines. (I’ll share my own on Friday, too.)

First up is Sarah Hart-Unger, host of the Best Laid Plans podcast (who was on the show earlier this fall during the week on planning–and who was a big hit). Sarah is a planning expert who generously shared how she goes about new year’s planning and goal-setting, what she factors in when she’s making those plans (including my favorite–energy), and the tools she uses. Talking to Sarah got me pumped to bust out my new planner and start dreaming and scheming and I feel confident it will have the same effect on you!

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[5 Minute Self-Care]: Feel Alive and Ward off Illness, Ep 866 Dec 23, 2022

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You know how it can be so hard to wake up? Maybe it’s cold outside, you didn’t sleep great, you’ve got a lot of stuff to get done that day and you just don’t want to do it? But you drag yourself out of bed and get going but maybe never really shake off the sluggishness?

Today’s self-care can help you feel more alive and strengthen your immune system. It also helps you sleep better. In ONLY 30 SECONDS A DAY. This is my favorite kind of health hack–easy, fast, no cost, no commitment. All it really takes is willingness.

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[5 Minute Self-Care]: Feed Your Cells and Soothe the Soul, Ep 865 Dec 22, 2022

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You know how your energy can conk out in the afternoon? And you start craving something to perk you back up, and maybe something to distract you and keep you going for another couple hours until the work day is through? Today’s quick self-care tip is delicious, restorative, feels like a treat, and is so so good for you and can get you in some really lovely brain waves.

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[5 Minute Self-Care]: Reset Your Nervous System, Ep 864 Dec 21, 2022

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Your nervous system is an information super highway that dictates how stressed you feel, how well you’re sleeping and digesting, and whether you want to bite someone’s head off. Today I’ve got three easy ways for you to communicate with your nervous system and help it help you. No supplies needed.

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[5 Minute Self-Care]: Quiet Your Mind, Unkink Your Spine, Ep 863 Dec 20, 2022

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When you’ve been sitting all day you feel it in your body–your neck and shoulders get tight, maybe you get a headache, you’re fatigued… blech. Today’s 5-minute self-care is something you can do that requires NO EFFORT and brings your body back into a better alignment that is also profoundly relaxing.

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[5 Minute Self-Care]: Rest Your Eyes, Brain, and Spirit, Ep 862 Dec 19, 2022

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During this holiday hullabaloo, when it may feel like time is at a premium, I’m focusing on sharing EASY, FAST, and MEGA-POWERFUL ways to show yourself some TLC.

First up is something that refreshes your eyes, brain, and spirit and has even been shown to help patients recovering from surgery get out of the hospital faster and be less crabby to their nurses. No, seriously.

Study on benefits of a natural view for post-surgery patients

Study on natural views reducing depressive symptoms during COVID lockdowns

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[Anxiety]: Your Return Ticket from Anxiety Land, Ep 861 Dec 16, 2022

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Anxiety is often the result of living in the future--thinking about what hasn’t happened yet, perhaps even dreading it. Of course, it’s not bad to think about the future--you do want to give thought to where you’re headed and planning is generally a pretty handy skill to have–BUT, like anything else, it can become a habit. Living in the future can become pretty uncomfortable because your body can’t follow your brain there, and that disconnection can become unsettling.

Today I’m sharing how your body can help you come back into the present moment, where you can rest. It’s so so easy and feels so good.

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[Anxiety]: A Breath to Calm a Racing Mind, Ep 860 Dec 15, 2022

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I’ve heard anxiety described as “excitement without breath,” Meaning, anxiety isn’t 100 percent bad. In fact, it’s often a sign that we are up to something big, or important.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing a breathing technique that brings breath into the picture and helps you get out of that locked-up, stressed-out, worried state. It’s easy, and we’ll do it together so that you’ll have the muscle memory you need to remember to do it next time anxiety strikes.

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[Anxiety]: What Living with Anxiety Has Taught Me , Ep 859 Dec 14, 2022

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I’m re-airing an interview from December 2020 with Leigh Medeiros, a screenwriter and creativity coach who has lived with anxiety for over 30 years and is working on a memoir about how it’s affected her life.

You’ll hear some references to the height of the pandemic, but certainly, the things Leigh shares about understanding anxiety and learning to work with it skillfully still apply.

Leigh Medeiros’s website

The 1-Minute Writer, Leigh’s book

@Leigh_Medeiros, Leigh on Instagram

@Leigh_Medeiros_, Leigh on Twitter

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[Anxiety] A Trick to Contain Those Anxious Thoughts, Ep 857 Dec 13, 2022

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You could spend most of the day and night worrying–and how unproductive and unpleasant is that?

Today I’m sharing how to put up some boundaries around your attention so that you set aside specific time and space for worrying–a technique I learned about from a 9-year-old.

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