Listen as host Jackie Carroll, a health coach with UK HR Health and Wellness, leads you through a short meditation focused on cultivating humility in our lives. How could growing into a humbler person help you thrive more at work, home and beyond? Each month, Jackie will guide you through a new meditation aimed at deepening the resilience practice offered by co-host Amy Rodquist-Kodet.

Listen as host Amy Rodquist-Kodet, a health coach with UK HR Health and Wellness, shares 5 helpful tools and research-based exercises that can help us strengthen our intellectual humility. Each month, Amy will explain a new practice you can try to build your resilience and thrive more.

It’s important to ask ourselves questions that test our assumptions, bias or information. We may find that we don’t have the whole picture. We may even learn something new!

Try journaling or self-reflecting from a 3rd person view. By creating ‘self-distance,’ one may be able to gain a new perspective on one’s life, beliefs and challenges.

Practice admitting when you’ve made a mistake. Research suggests that admitting mistakes can often be seen as a strength as opposed to a weakness!

Listen as host Sebastian Calmes, a Wellness Specialist with UK HR Health and Wellness and Dr. David Weisenhorn, a Family and Consumer Sciences Senior Extension Specialist, discuss the topics of technology, social media and their impact on well-being.

In this conversation, we explore the topic of digital wellbeing and how it impacts other dimensions of wellness. We learned that technology is like a tool. Something to be used with a specific purpose. With any tool it can be used for good or for ill. This conversation reminds us to be mindful and intentional with technology. Without mindfulness and discipline, technology and social media can quickly become a hindrance to wellbeing. Educate yourself on what technology and social media are. Social media is designed to be addictive. With this information, we are better equipped to create positive technology and social media habits.

Listen as host Jackie Carroll, a health coach with UK HR Health and Wellness, leads you through self-reflection meditation to discover what is underneath the urge to check our phones impulsively. What need is not being met that leads us to scroll for hours? Each month, Jackie will guide you through a new meditation aimed at deepening the resilience practice offered by co-host Amy Rodquist-Kodet.

Listen as host Sebastian Calmes, a Wellness Specialist with UK HR Health and Wellness and Dr. Laura Escobar-Ratliff, Director of the College of Social Work DSW program and Clinical Assistant Professor, discuss the topic of social connection. In this episode we learn that feeling socially connected is a two-way street. Meaning that social connection is our responsibility. Something that requires intentionality in order to create and maintain meaningful social connections. We also learned having a core group of connections provides us with a space to be our authentic selves. A place where we can share not only our wins, but our losses too. Each month, Sebastian Calmes will interview an expert guest with the conversation aimed at deepening the resilience practice and meditation offered by co-hosts, Amy Rodquist-Kodet and Jackie Carroll. 

Listen as host Amy Rodquist-Kodet, a health coach with UK HR Health and Wellness, shares 5 research-backed ways to restore balance in your relationship with technology. Each month, Amy will explain a new practice you can try to build your resilience and thrive more.

Key Takeaway: Understand and be honest with your phone usage habits; what apps are you spending the most time on, and does that align with your values?

Key Takeaway: Understand that social media apps are designed to be a bottomless pit of content. You can scroll for hours, and it’s always going to try and show you something new.

Key Takeaway: Out of sight, out of mind. Research suggests that just by removing your phone from your sight, productivity can be increased. When the phone is visible the urge to check it is greatly increased.

Listen as host Jackie Carroll, a health coach with UK HR Health and Wellness, leads you through a meditation that helps you deeply reflect on our natural, human desire to make meaningful social connections! Each month, Jackie will guide you through a new meditation aimed at deepening the resilience practice offered by co-host Amy Rodquist-Kodet.

Listen as host Amy Rodquist-Kodet, a health coach with UK HR Health and Wellness, shares an insightful practice that can help you create more meaningful connections in your life! Each month, Amy will explain a new practice you can try to build your resilience and thrive more.