Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

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Spotlight on Anxiety: What It Is & Where It Comes From EP: 337 Dec 14, 2020

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When something feels as high-stakes and as interior as anxiety does, it’s really helpful to shine a light on it and observe it, which helps you see it as something that is separate from you. That's what we're doing today.

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: Finding Your Way to Acceptance EP: 336 Dec 11, 2020

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Rolling with tough times requires acceptance. Which might seem like you're giving up, but really it's just laying down your resistance. When you can access acceptance, you get to stop putting effort into trying to change things you can’t change. (Which is exhausting, plus futile.)

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: The Need for Alone Time Is Real EP: 335 Dec 10, 2020

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Alone time is also how we catch up to ourselves, process our emotions, and just be, without having to respond to anyone. For those of us quarantined with other people--especially parents with kids--it is also scarce.

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: How to Be Real with Your Kids (without Crushing Their Spirit) EP: 334 Dec 09, 2020

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It’s a lot harder to be patient and thoughtful -- and honest! -- with your kids when you're with them all the livelong day. Today I’m happy to have my friend Judi Ketteler, author of the book Would I Lie to You? Here with us to talk about how to be honest with kids without being TOO real (especially when you're stressed out).

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: Eff the F Bomb EP: 333 Dec 08, 2020

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Are you overrelying on the F bomb? It's awfully easy to do... but it’s a slippery slope, and the next thing you know you can be dropping F bombs all over the place, including when it's just not appropriate. (Been there!) (Caution: There is cursing in this episode.)

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: Tap Back into Empathy EP: 332 Dec 07, 2020

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These are intense, extreme times. Everyone is triggered. And that means it's really hard for us to have empathy for each other--and for ourselves--thanks to something called 'amygdala highjack'. Here's a way out.

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: You Do You (Let Them Do Them) EP: 331 Dec 04, 2020

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You don’t get to say how the people you love handle their stress. You do get to talk with them about it, but you don’t get to tell them how to do it. Here's what you can do instead to truly support them.

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: Be Here Now EP: 330 Dec 03, 2020

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Right now, it’s impossible to make plans. And our pre-COVID lives already feel like a distant memory. Where does that leave us? Right here, right now. And for the vast majority of us, that is someplace we are not at all used to being.

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: How to Stop Self-Sabotaging EP: 329 Dec 02, 2020

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You probably think you KNOW what to do when you’re stressed. But Carey Davidson, author of The Five Archetypes, says that the things we typically to do try to calm ourselves down actually only make our stress WORSE. And, naturally, she shares what to do instead that will actually bring us back into balance.

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Calm the Eff Down, Revisited: Oh the Joy of Wine EP: 328 Dec 01, 2020

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Let's take an objective, non-judgmental, genuinely curious look at the things we are using to numb out now. Like, oh, I don’t know… WINE. Because while there’s a time and a place for everything, if you’re automatically choosing to numb instead of feel, it’s gonna start taking a toll.

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