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How to Be Happy: Tips From Bonnie Skinner
Category: Health
Duration: 00:35:17
Publish Date: 2019-12-25 23:00:00
Description:

You opened a gym because you wanted to help people improve their lives with fitness.

But lately, you've been more stressed than passionate. The gym is short-staffed and you've been working 12-hour days. You lie awake at night worrying about cash flow and coaching feels like a chore. What used to be a source of joy now feels like a burden.

How did you get here? And how do you get happy again?

Psychotherapist Bonnie Skinner will tell you in this episode of Two-Brain Radio.

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Timeline:

0:53 – The connection between physical fitness and happiness.

1:36 – The long-term effects of exercise on happiness.

3:52 – The best workout for depression? Just move.

5:01 – Anxiety and depression: imbalances of input and output.

6:09 – The difference between situational and long-term anxiety.

8:18 – Depression and the mental bank account.

10:25 – Increased output during the holiday season leads to increased anxiety.

12:13 – Defining depression: What is your brain responding to?

16:26 – Managing anxiety.

19:50 – Prioritize meaning and engagement.

21:45 – What to do when the thing that brings you meaning is also the thing making you anxious.

23:31 – Paying attention to the cues your body is sending.

25:33 – Check your baseline.

27:37 – Practice self-awareness with regular personal check-ins.

31:36 – Balancing your flywheel.
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