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How to NOT Thrive: Next 5

August 24, 2020 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Well, you are on to me! Last week, I started talking about things you can do to guarantee that you DON’T thrive. I’m sure you knew I didn’t really want you to NOT thrive. But I wanted to point out some ways people make themselves miserable… and what they might do to shift.

If you missed that episode, JUST CLICK HERE TO HEAR IT.

It is interesting to notice how we humans can really mess up our lives! Life throws us enough to deal with. Then, we tend to multiply it with our own blind spots and stuck points.

With my Top 10 List To Guarantee You Don’t Thrive, I wanted to point out 10 ways that people really do keep themselves stuck. And the fact is, I see these same patterns repeated over and over by many people.

So, if you see yourself in one (or more) of the stuck points, that just means you are… well… human. Congratulations on being able to spot it! That is the first step in doing something different… something new… something more… THRIVING!

Listen in below for the REST of the ways you can keep from thriving… so you can thrive! (Unless you don’t want to… then just follow my suggestions.)

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Antidote To Stress

January 20, 2020 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

Feeling stressed out? Wondering what your doctor would say?

Surprisingly, doctors get very little training on stress, both in how it affects the body and how to deal with it. Got an injury? Great. The doctor has you covered. Got an infection? The doctor has you covered.

But stressed out? Not so much.

That was the experience of my guest, Elizabeth Hughes, MD. A practicing physician, Elizabeth was reading in the back of a medical journal about adrenal fatigue. She noticed that most of her patients suffered from the same symptoms.

And she realized that the culprit was stress. Or more accurately, the inability for her patients to successfully deal with stress. No surpise, Elizabeth realized, given how even her medical school training had failed to offer solutions.

That led Elizabeth to seek ways to help. She picked up a number of certifications in the process. But more importantly, she discovered an important antidote to stress that is simple and powerful. Since stress is implicated in many chronic illnesses and adversely affects life satisfaction, it is important for each of us to find that antidote to stress.

Listen in to this episode to learn how.

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How To Guarantee You DON’T Thrive

September 2, 2019 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

If you missed that episode, JUST CLICK HERE TO HEAR IT.

It is interesting to notice how we humans can really mess up our lives! Life throws us enough to deal with. Then, we tend to multiply it with our own blind spots and stuck points.

Listen in below for the REST of the ways you can keep from thriving… so you can thrive! (Unless you don’t want to… then just follow my suggestions.)

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Embracing “We’ll See”

December 3, 2018 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

EmbraceWellSee For me, “We’ll See” was my philosophy of survival when I was sick.

The doctor gave me a diagnosis with a bad prognosis. Lots of ways I could be sick and die. Lots of ways my body could betray me.

Oh, and this was 15 years ago. WebMD was the “go-to” for facts on how we would die from any symptom or condition. So, family and friends let me know all the ways my body could fail me, based on my diagnosis. And shared the facts in excrutiating detail.

I was not in denial. I simply knew that there were many ways things COULD go wrong. But that meant little on how things WOULD go wrong.

It was overwhelming to face the “could’s.” I had only space to deal with the “would’s.”

So, I took to a single response, “We’ll see.” For a bit, the tone and volume would go up. Until the person realized that “We’ll see” was where I was standing.

I find it most helpful to deal with things as they happen, not trying to figure out all the many things that might happen.

This is something I suggest for all of us. So many things we could worry about. Or we could just use the energy to deal with what is. What becomes. What happens.

Embrace “We’ll See.” I discuss it in this episode of the podcast.

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6 Steps To Dealing With Stress

January 9, 2017 by Lee H. Baucom, Ph.D. Leave a Comment

How many times do you hear someone say, “I’m so stressed!” Or how many times do YOU think and feel that?

We live in a culture that seems to revel in being stressed. Unfortunately, it is sometimes a badge of honor — the cost of being in demand and doing important stuff.

But is it?

How do you not just “deal” with stress, but beat stress? Well, first, we need to be clear about what stress REALLY is (and what it isn’t). Then, we can talk about strategies for addressing the REAL issue.

When you are “stressed,” there isn’t a solution. When you know what it is, the solution(s) are easier.

Let’s talk about defeating stress with 6 strategies in the training below.

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