Therapist and a Trainer: Recent Episodes

Justin Lewis and Eric Romanak

A therapist and a personal trainer work on erasing the line between mental and physical health. Also, as Eric the Trainer likes to put it, "A podcast about getting your sh!t together." More info on Facebook and at www.Therapistandatrainer.com

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Eric and Justin  discuss how a person and athlete quantifies enough. After a story about a recent trip to Iowa classic literature is cited by the therapist. Meanwhile, a famous innovator comes to mind for the trainer. 

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Just because we're adults doesn't mean we've grown up completely. In this episode Justin and Eric look into some new ideas about maturing. As always the rocks turned up show us new looks at metal, behavior and physical ideas that we might not always consider. Bonus... Find out what spontaneous phrase made Justin's brain light up like up with both intrigue and disdain.

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New Years resolutions are virtually an American tradition, but what does it take to be successful? On this episode Justin and Eric break break their hiatus, as well as break down their most important advice to create lasting change in anyone's mental and physical health. 

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On this final episode of Therapist and a Trainer, Justin and Eric explore how to know when things should end and the best way to do it. Diving deeper into topics such as:

Natural reactions to finality

Ending things at a good point

The desire to have more

There’s a first time for everything and a last time for everything

Inspiring hope

Momento Mori

Contemplating the end

Counting your Mondays

Contemplating death to enhance the presence

Tomorrow is never promised

Making things meaningful

Finishing Strong

Why does finality feel negative

How do you know when to quit

Seth Godin

Repeating patterns

Diversify

The value of settling and good enough

Tolerating deterioration

Hopeful for change

When does quitting make things better

When the purpose is served

When you gave your best

Associating ending with failure

Building trust with clients

Ending therapy

Ending relationships with clients

Having new problems

If you’re out of problems you’re out of business

Ending something doesn’t have to be final

Picking things back up

Taking a break instead of quitting

Allow things to reach their end

The danger of holding on too long

Losing the position

Learning to abandon your position

Trying not to negate hope

Addicted to hope

Subliminal messages attached to quitting

The difference to ending something well versus quitting

Knowing your limitations

Staying in the game

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In this episode, Justin and Eric try to answer "what does it really mean to be fit?", and "what does mental health really look like?". Diving into topics such as...

How mental and physical health affects how we interact with others

Weight loss through exercise

Breathing easier

Quality of life improvements through fitness

Self-esteem and mood boost

Being uncomfortable with your physical situation

Making good decisions and having boundaries

Being able to think clearly about what you should and shouldn’t do

Delayed outcomes

Instant feedback

Outcome bias in decision making

Subjectivity and being human

How do you know when you need therapy

Interpreting problematic behaviors

Using big words

Instilling confidence and positioning authority

Looking good makes you feel good

Being capable and not working too hard

Moving through space and time with ease

Measuring your fitness against others

Different kinds of fitness

Being a friend to yourself

Seeing yourself accurately

Knowing what you’re good at and what you’re not good at

Practicing resilience

Bouncing back from failure

Resilience vs toughness

Resisting failure

Injury makes you weaker

Feeling your emotions physically

Svasana or corpse pose

Avoiding unnecessary stress

Preserving and protecting your energy

Environmental changes that affect your nervous system

Treating other people with respect

Not focusing so much on yourself

Eliminating unnecessary competition

The fitness hierarchy

Mobility, structure, attributes, and physique

Strength, power and speed

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In this episode, Eric and Justin are joined by Laura Webber and Leslie Donner, as we begin to scratch the surface on differences we see between men and women in our professions. Topics discussed include:

Competitive nature

Sublimation and channeling your negative emotions

The value of human suffering

Differences in men and women

Being receptive to change

Compliance and willingness to try things

Couples working out and dieting together

The difference between male and female brains

Differences in expressing emotions

What men’s emotions often look like

Externalizing and internalizing emotions

Eating different foods for different emotions

Differences in health and fitness goals

The virtue of strength and suffering

Strength related to confidence and health

Why men and women come to therapy

Differences in long term focus

Differences in muscle fibers and athletic qualities

Parenting and discipline 

Handling conflict

Infradian cycle in women

Joint laxity and hyper mobility

Communication differences

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After Eric completes one of his biggest long term goals by completing the Boston Marathon, he and Justin sit down to talk about what it takes to stay on the path for the long haul to achieve big things. Deep dive topics include:

Achieving long term goals

Running your first marathon

The 126th Boston Marathon

Being consistent

Immersing yourself with people who have what you want

Becoming an athlete

Wanting to be a strong person

The athletic model

High pain thresholds

Handling loss

Making something your identity

Change the way you are by changing the way you see yourself

Being a poser or a hypocrite

Aspiring to an identity

You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with

Learning quicker from experienced people

Being the runt of the pack

Being the rookie

Paying your dues

No shortcuts

Functional callouses

Toughness

When can you push yourself more

Individual experiences

Qualifying for the Boston marathon

Having support for long term goals

Staying hungry

Cultivating hunger

Rest but don’t quit

Recovering instead of taking a break

Active recovery

Recovery versus rest

Getting injured and disheartened

Head trash

Being afraid to really want a goal

Paying the cost for your goals

We know what we believe when it comes to action

Being careful planning long term goals

Benchmark goals

Building goals from dreams

Finding reasonable goals

Being fully committed

Fatigue and discouragement

Fatigue makes a coward out of any man

Climbing out of the darkness

Not all injuries are created equal

Having a come-a-part

There’s not a no fear option

There’s not a no pain option

Short term pain or long term shame

Goal setting in therapy

Goal setting in couples therapy

Measuring abstract goals

Resolving conflict

Taking ownership

Take responsibility for yourself

Be willing to change

Be honest and trust the process

Investing in your goals

Giving yourself credit

The courage it takes to go to therapy

The courage it takes to start taking care of yourself

Processing shame

Embracing the suck

Phase one of getting back in shape

We all have limitations

Having a reality check with your goals

Genetic ceilings

Exploring all your resources

Being your own worst enemy

What it feels like to achieve a long term goal

Building up things in your mind

What comes after you achieve your long term goals

Satisfying yourself

Raising yourself

Course correcting the child you used to be

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In this episode Justin and Eric argue about the definition of stress for 30 minutes, and then edit that part out. The end result is a lovely discussion about stress management and a rekindling of their friendship. Other topics include

Definition of stress

Spectrum of stress

Adapting positively or negatively to stress

Hypostress and atrophy

Eustress and positive stress

Distress and trauma

Acute stress

Chronic stress

Athleticism and stress

Stress management

The difference between a perceived and actual threat

Proximity of threat

Adrenal dump versus drip

Advantages of trained fighters

Our feelings are stupid

Elevated heart rate during stress

Short term survival

Fight or flight response

Focusing on what you can and can’t control

Marcus Aurelius’

Fight, flight or freeze

Contributing to the outcome

Why people don’t vote

Convincing people of your political views

Breathe and move your body

Not just waiting for something bad to happen

Receding stress with movement

Getting stress out of your tissue

Feeling catharsis after exercise

Having a sense of control with stress

Meditation and cleansing breaths

Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system

Participating biologically with stress management

Self compassion

Identifying where suffering is coming from

Finding ways to pick ourselves up

Encouraging ourselves

The definition of sin

Being hard on ourselves

Prioritizing sleep and recovery

You’re not special

A workaholic species

Agricultural revolution and work ethic

Working harder to survive

Producing melatonin with the sunset

24 hours news cycle

Shift work

The rhythm of your recovery cycle

Playing with bad drummers

Athletes and days off

Work smart and hard

Even the earth needs to rest

Seasonal mood disorder

Human connection and social support

Improving your stress response

Reaching out to others

Different versions of love and affection

Having the ability to laugh at yourself

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Eric and Justin talk about simple things that act like shortcuts to health. Justin tries to attempt a new world record for saying "hyperlink" in a single podcast episode. Deeper diving into topic like...

Episode 8: First Nutrition Habits
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1894628/episodes/10069119

Simple things to boost mental health

We re going to find what we look for

Putting effort into finding the positive in things

Gratitude journaling

Body language behind positivity

Law of attraction

Being grateful for the state of the world

Increasing wealth

Declining deaths from childbirth, war, famine and plague

Negative media

Positive Psychology treatments

Building on strengths

Interpreting the external world

The importance of breathing in exercise

The intelligence of your breath

Symptoms of a threatened nervous system

Exercise as self induced stress

Holding your breath when you exercise

Sympathetic arousal posture

Holding your breath to recruit strength

Decompressing with exhales

Breathing as a sign of perceived weakness and struggle

Digging deep

Episode 4: Treat Yo-Self
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1894628/episodes/9750298

The struggle is the point

Going to failure in fitness

Exercising more with better breathing

How to breath while running or exercising

Exhale on effort

Overriding your stress system

Channel capacity in exercise

Removing things from your life

Removing news and social media

You are what you read

You are what you watch

How media impacts your mental health

What goes in comes out

Paying attention to what you consume

Negativity as a stimulant

Assessing threats and the nervous system

Actual threats versus perceived threats

How much news should I watch

Opinions versus information

Stoicism

Serenity prayer

Controlling how you respond to thing out of your control

Seva Distance Project

Running Coaching

Couch to 5k

Accountability for runners

Mobility

Physical hierarchy of fitness

Stretching and flexibility

Yoga

Reclaiming your full range of motion in your joints

Easing into fitness

Stress in body tissue

Resist the emotional slingshot

Relieving your pain

Ego writing checks your body can’t cash

Burnout and exhaustion

Adrenal fatigue

Starting point of fitness

Finding the right yoga class or teacher

Keeping up with the herd

Self determination theory

Finding encouragement from other people

Participating in a support system

Connectedness

Having people check on you

Maintaining friendships

Longer lifespan and a healthy social life

Not liking people

Connecting with other humans

Feeling good about yourself

Not liking yourself

Brutal honesty looking in the mirror

Buddy system

Investing in yourself

Investing in your health

You have to invest if you want a return

Having skin in the game

Hiring a coach

Getting ahead with accountability and education

Having natural athleticism

Stair stepping into fitness

The sacrifice of health

The sacrifice of illness

Higher quality of life

Therapy in a moment of crisis

Smug mug

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Justin and Eric sit down with Licensed Psychological Practitioner, Leslie Donner to discuss the minefield of raising kids to eat better and be physically active. Deep dive topics include:

Therapy for women and teenagers

Eating disorders

Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder

Evaluations for seeking weight loss surgery

Healthy mindset with food

Healthy relationship with food

Childhood obesity

Growing up overweight

Navigating teenage weight loss

Modeling healthy behaviors for children

Long term strategies

Health conscious kids

Rigid diet and exercise

Trying every diet

Help Lord the devil wants me fat

Mediterranean diet

The way down diet

Using religion to lose weight

Extreme mindsets

Body image impact from the parents

Earning food

Educating kids about eating healthy and being active

Epigenetics

Kids with healthy metabolic profiles

Childhood obesity statistics

Food versus consumable product

Trusting fast food

Stopping eating meat

Cortisol and diet

Obesity and alcoholism

Set point

Being obese without other health issues

Carbohydrate intolerance

Is obesity a choice

Letting kids being involved in cooking

Educating kids about food

Letting kids play with their food

Food accessibility

Diet culture

Kids self moderating food intake

Keeping kids active

Playing with your kids

Exercise as punishment

Talking to your kids about exercise

Installing exercise equipment for your kids

Not commenting on size

Affirming the right values with children

Academic performance from nutrition and hydration

Food as a drug

Giving your kids candy and junk food

Food is fuel

Teaching your kids about calories and energy

Guilty pleasure

Headsweats performance and custom apparel

Celebrating obesity versus body positivity

Overeaters anonymous H.A.L.T.

Justifying laziness and eating poorly

High school activity levels dropping

How to get non athletic kids to embrace physical activity

Intrinsic motivation in children

Overhauling diet

Changing the way kids think about themselves

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Justin and Eric get close as they share a microphone, so Holistic Nutritional Consultant and Personal Trainer- Laura Webber, can drop some great knowledge on the other mic. Laura shares with everyone her 3 most important habits to start with that make the most dominoes fall on a diet journey. Deep dive topics include...

Holistic Nutrition

Meeting people where they are

Confusion in nutrition

Many aspects of nutrition

Coaching habits

Bio individualized nutrition

Social components of nutrition

Starting at age 30

Making small changes and getting active

Looking at food in a different light

Rock bottom moments

Partying too hard

Heavy drinking and smoking

Knowing you can do better in life

When something clicks

Trial and error with diet

Evolving diets

3 things that make the biggest difference in nutrition

Where do you start

Identifying where are you starting from

Tracking your food

Big calorie meals

Point A to point B

Taking a hard look at yourself

What sabotages your diet

Calorie counts

How much are you drinking

Meal timing and measuring

Patterns in over eating and under eating

Tracking what you’re eating

Nutrition journaling

Starting a diet without sacrificing

Having a better relationship with food

Being honest with yourself

Confessing your nutritional sins

Drinking enough water

Does coffee hydrate you

Having a water goal

How much water should I drink

Dehydration statistics

Symptoms of dehydration

Becoming energized with water

Keeping up with electrolytes

Consequences of dehydration

Brain shrinkage

Brain fog

Dizziness and accidents

Hospitalizations from dehydrations

Alertness

Headaches

Better sleep

Bathroom frequency

Finding the motivator

Seva Distance project

Online running coaching

Strength and mobility for runners

Couch to 5k

Qualifying for Boston marathon

Being nutrient minded

Negative feelings associated with being healthy

Concentrating on what your body needs

You are what you eat

False marketing

Health halos

Reading the labels

Grams of sugar and processed foods

Removing nutrients in food

Shopping on the outside of the grocery store

Food versus consumable product

Calorie intake and differences for active people

How much can you cheat if you workout

Quality over quantity

Dream crusher and buzzkill

White bread as a gateway drug

There’s no rush into health

You won’t change overnight

Tough love

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Justin and Eric chase after life's ultimate goal, but realize that rethinking happiness might be the only way to finally grab the carrot off the stick. Topics covered include:

Defining Happiness

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want, by Sonja Lyubomirsky

A meaningful life

Contentment

Happiness is a dangerous word

Evolutionary system designed to eat and procreate

Chasing sex and stimulation

Equating happiness with pleasure

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

Working with your evolutionary systems

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

Physiological needs

Safety

Love and belonging

Esteem

Self-actualization

People who enjoy all aspects of life

Finding Joy in life

Happiness versus Healthy-ness

Feeling content in any situation

The attributes of satisfied people

Positive brain chemistry

Absence of pain

Having enough energy and vitality to pursue needs

Resilience to stress

Contentment and a sense of accomplishment

Having a lack of regret

Self respect

Clarity and purpose

The byproducts of healthy diets and exercise

As above so below

What happens after you work out

Armoring your body

Mitochondria increase

Not skipping your workouts

Self care is self respect

The clarity of pursuing health

The horse before the cart

The importance of finding meaning

Finding meaning as a head exercise

The need to participate first

Analysis paralysis

Considering how you things make you feel instead of what you think about it

The futility of anxiety and overthinking

Using too much brain energy

Balancing out your system

Channeling anxiety for good

Giving overthinking a purpose

No Stupid Questions Podcast with Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics and Angela Duckworth, author of Grit

Happiness in social context

The right to the pursuit of happiness versus the right to happiness

Easy is incompatible with happiness

Education, welfare, healthcare and pension systems

Jeremy Bentham

The supreme good is the greatest happiness of the greatest number

The suicide rates in the developed world versus traditional societies

Material goods and wealth won’t bring happiness

Eric Erikson’s stages of development

Testing boundaries

Not giving it your all

Taoism

80/20 rule

Giving space to rest and reflect

Proving ancient wisdom empirically

Combining excitement with tranquility

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In this episode, Justin and Eric try to live up to their own standards of success by making a podcast about failure that isn't a cliché. Diving deeper into topics such as:

Defining success
Defining failure
Trying a different approach
Expecting and creating a different outcome
Changing your system
Deciding the game you're playing
Game theory
Simon Sinek
Finite games
Infinite games
Depression after achieving your goals
Quality of life
Accepting failure is going to happen
Self imposed expectations
Couples therapy
Couples that overcome conflict
Building closeness in conflict
Biology of failure
Damage and repair cycle
Working out until failure
Is fighting productive?
Reducing anger and anxiety in conflict and stress
Removing inherent pressure of failure
Preparing for anxiety
Preparing for Monday
Guy Wench article link:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201501/10-surprising-facts-about-failure
What happens to your brain when you fail
Self Compassion after failure
Successful people have failed more often
Failure as a shortcut
Love yourself and challenge yourself
The obstacle is the way
Passion projects at Google
How we learn from accidents
Decision strength
Spending mental energy
Vince Lombardi. "Fatigue makes a coward out of any man"
Why crash diets end in binging
Headsweats custom apparel
Jason Selk
Relentless solution focus
Theory of dominant thought
Focusing on the wrong things
Pink elephant
Channel capacity
The brain can only think about one thing at a time
Always thinking about the negative
Sliding into the failure mindset
Interrupting the rhythm
Cleansing breath
Distracting your brain
Focusing on one thing you can do different
George Lucas "Your focus determines your reality"
Passion replaces negativity
Resilience versus Toughness
Scott Sonnon
Tacfit
World's smartest workout
Severe dyslexia
Learning disorders
Turning disability into genius
Bouncing back from failure
The ability to resist failure
We do not rise to the occasion, but default to our level of training
Resilience always precedes toughness
Thresholds and failure points
Seeing yourself as a biological machine
Resistance to failure
Resistance to recovery
Optimize not maximize
Finding a way to not avoid failure
Fail fast
Believing in failure and recovery
Betrayed by feelings of failure

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Possibly everything you ever wanted to know about getting healthy can be learned from Issac Newton's Laws of Motion. From getting off the couch to becoming a disciplined athlete, these principals can get you there. Justin and Eric draw unmistakable parallels to help you stay focused on what's most important and dive deeper into ideas like:

Laws of motion and inertia
An object at motion tends to stay in motion
An object at rest tends to stay at rest
New years resolution mindset
Keeping your mind moving
Working on your memory and capacity
Remembering names
The World Series of Memory
Keeping your mind active and sharp
Being curious about projects
Learning new words
Word of the day
Having a catalyst to get moving
The 4 phases of fitness
Shame, pain and fear
Past, present and future
Fighting through the present moment
The choice of the moment
Seeing yourself in the future
Pain and fear as a motivator
Fear of stagnation
Force equals mass times acceleration
How to make change speed up
Paradox of depression
Looking outside your perceived ability
Therapy as a catalyst
Setting small goals
Identifying barriers and obstacles
Going around barriers or through them
Know your machine
Reaching critical velocity to escape your old life
Looking at a 10 year view
Emotional slingshot
Becoming a different person
Knowing your limitations
Gauging success in couples therapy
Self Check in
Celebrating success
Every argument is the same thing
Willingness and openness to change
Becoming aware of your own predictability, patterns and rhythm
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
Reducing friction in our lives
Growing unhealthy with your spouse
Talking to your spouse about getting healthier
Priming your family to succeed in health
Pushing your spouse's buttons
Seeing the problems of your cycle
Taking responsibility with your spouse

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In this episode Justin and Eric talk about the human brain’s inherent reward system, and how it gets us both in and out of trouble. Deep diving into topics including:

-  Parks and Recreation: Treat Yo-self

  • The difference between self care and treating yourself 

  • How the reward system of the brain works and why it exists

  • Dopamine and reward prediction error

  • Dopamine created by anticipation

  • Pursuing success 

  • Addictive personalities

  • Food being a gateway drug

  • Abusing the dopamine system

  • Accepting your addictive personality

  • Making healthier trades

  • Using the reward system optimally

  • Making a game out of chores

  • List making and accomplishment

  • Motivated by rewards

  • Getting up early

  • Motivated by a sense of superiority

  • Positive reinforcement 

  • Using competition for good

  • Removing negative experiences

  • Tacfit

  • Kelly McGonigal article https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/five_surprising_ways_exercise_changes_your_brain

  • mind body health

  • The Willpower Instinct, The Joy of Movement, The Upside of Stress

  • Fitness and the Reward System

  • Exercise high

  • Exercise making you more likeable

  • Expanding your capacity for joy

  • Exercise makes you brave

  • balancing your nervous system

  • Fitness metaphors

  • Lifting heavy burdens, breaking through, enduring discomfort

  • Building trust and belonging with fitness

  • Collective effervescence

  • Communal joy

  • Suffering together with others

  • Enhancing your self image

  • Vulnerability in fitness

  • Vulnerability and sex

  • Emotional steroids

  • Pursuing vulnerability with a partner

  • pinnacle of intimacy

  • listening to someone else’s needs

  • positive self reinforcement

  • Giving yourself a plus one

  • functional narcissism 

  • Giving yourself credit

  • Feeling bad for not exercising

  • The end justifying the means

  • Feeling lethargic and bloated after eating

  • Eating clean

  • Having good energy levels from food

  • Long term gratification as a reward 

  • Reward dosage and frequency

  • Feeling guilty from eating 

  • A balanced reward to work ratio

  • Earning your reward

  • The importance of short term rewards

  • Giving yourself permission to celebrate and reward yourself

  • Staying motivated with short term rewards

  • Pitfalls of the reward system

  • Being creative with rewards

  • Managing your competitive nature

  • Losing self compassion

  • Trap of achievement

  • Compulsive and impulsive behaviors

  • The economics of health

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy

  • Being intentional 

  • Reframing health

  • Recovering from being lazy and irresponsible

  • Finding a new way of self discipline

  • Doing what works for me

  • positive negativity

  • Feeling worthy of self care 

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In this episode, Justin and Eric talk about the ups and downs of being a beginner and starting something new as an adult. Deep diving into topics such as:

-        The first steps in personal growth

-        Naturalness bias

-        Overnight success and the problem with YouTube

-        The definition of Talent

-        What keeps people from starting things

-        Fear of failure

-        Self Determination Theory

-        Pursuing growth

-        Autonomy, competency, and connectedness

-        Getting up early to exercise

-        The Buddy System

-        Figuring out your personal system

-        Self discipline

-        Starting fitness and martial arts

-        Tai Chi and Jiu Jitsu

-        Watching a class

-        Embarrassment ant primal fears

-        Showing weakness

-        Holding your breath to hide weakness during exercise

-        Advantages of being a beginner

-        Stimulating your brain with new things

-        New Toy Effect

-        How to keep your brain alive

-        Obstacle course racing

-        Pursuing new experiences

-        Comfort equals safety

-        Becoming likable

-        New people at work

-        The virtue of humility

-        Definition of Humility

-        Fear of being vulnerable

-        Growing through vulnerability

-        Gracie Jiu Jitsu

-        The fastest way to excellence

-        Considering others feelings, ideas and perspectives

-        Getting in over your head

-        Developing a passion

-        Chronic injuries

-        Sleeping well

-        Feeling satisfied at the end of the day

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In this episode Justin and Eric try to breakdown the difference of thing that we are responsible for, versus how we unknowingly may have found ourselves in an undesirable place in life. They dive deeper in topics such as...

  • Growing up overweight, bullying and hitting rock bottom
  • Are people really doing the best they can in life?
  • Internal and external Locus of Control
  • Controlling your destiny vs. bad luck
  • Self destructive choices taken in context
  • Alan Watts on Environment
  • A history on commercial food production, obesity and primal eating habits.
  • Overeating as a survival behavior
  • Misconceptions on social media's impact on mental health
  • Social displacement, and how social media keeps us from being productive
  • Men and Women's stress level differences when using social media
  • The Paradox of hard work versus convenience and pleasure
  • Doing uncomfortable things that are good for you
  • Comparing yourself to others on social media
  • Accepting yourself as you are
  • Using resignation positively
  • reasonable expectations
  • The importance of self evaluation
  • Breaking down goals into smaller steps
  • Being predisposed to certain athletic capacities
  • Finding purpose through acceptance
  • Figuring out the next step
  • Giving yourself grace and compassion for how you got here
  • The importance of spontaneous play
  • Self restraint and impulse control

Justin's research
On Stress and social media:

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2015/01/15/psychological-stress-and-social-media-use-2/

Impacting our day to day

https://www.apa.org/members/content/social-media-research

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In this inaugural episode Eric and Justin discuss what it means to be on Team Life versus Team Death. The trainer and therapist dig deeper on why physical and mental health are so important and the ways they undeniably crossover.  Also digging deeper into the concepts of... 

  • Growth Mindset versus Fixed Mindset
  • Being comfortable with who you are, and being uncomfortable
  • Using athletics and fitness for honest feedback
  • Pursuing and acquiring vitality
  • Slowing down the aging process
  • The reason to take mental health and fitness seriously
  • Primal hardwiring, survival behaviors and natural instincts that don't serve us 
  • What a healthy society consists of
  • The false choice in mental health of "Am I crazy or not crazy?"