Episodes

  • True Life Notice

    True Life Notice
    Jun 23 2022
    You can now find the True Life podcast content, happening on the Self-Help(ful) podcast where Kevin Miller and Dr Randy James bring you their "Functional Friday" episodes and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 min
  • 102: Recovering From Injury: And Living Is All Injury

    102: Recovering From Injury: And Living Is All Injury
    Feb 10 2022
    #102: Recovering from injury is a popular topic, whether it’s a broken bone, a soft tissue sprain, pull, or tear, or a severe illness or disease. Yet as you’ll hear in this episode, we hit on the reality that living itself is injury. Every morning you wake up, hopefully having gotten quality sleep that was healing. Let’s say you start at 100%, which is impossible, but whatever level you start out, from that point on you are depleting yourself, physically and mentally. You spend the day wearing down your resources, which is why by nighttime, we are tired. It’s our body saying, “Hey, I’ve used up enough resources I need rest and recovery to recharge!” If you have a specific, acute injury, like my recent broken rib, or if you are down with COVID, your body needs even more recovery. Thus the things we think to do to recover from a big injury, don’t differ from things we want to address every day for our recovery. It’s a valuable paradigm shift to realize the reality of our existence as it pertains to our overall capacity and ability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • 101: No Play No Gain

    101: No Play No Gain
    Jan 27 2022
    #101: The topic today is the value of play. Now as soon as I say that, some of you will be turned off, as I used to be. I get it. For the aspiring and success oriented individual the topic of play and fun can sound like a frivolity or luxury and lacks the valor of just pushing toward the big goal. And yet, this is how sleep used to be viewed as well. The hero doesn’t sleep! Getting more than 4-5 hours is wasteful to the truly committed! Now we know better. If you want to perform at the top level, you need great sleep. Quantity and quality. Among the truly successful I see a priority given to play. Budgeting time for non-productive work that gives our emotions a break and our inspiration a boost. In this episode we dig into the concept. Join us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    54 mins
  • 100: You Are Becoming Something Right Now

    100: You Are Becoming Something Right Now
    Dec 22 2021
    #100: Every moment of every day, we are becoming. Something. There is no neutral. We are taking actions to further our transformation into something. Something we WILL be...next week, next month, next year...” This can be both daunting and exciting, but regardless it is just happening. We happen to our transformation or our transformation happens to us. Dr Randy James and I have a candid discussion on this that is not a big call to arms for positive transformation as much as a humble look at our propensities as humans and the challenge this reality can be even for us aspiring people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    53 mins
  • 99: Elevate Your Wellness To A Ritual

    99: Elevate Your Wellness To A Ritual
    Dec 8 2021
    #99: We talk diet and exercise and sleep and all our habits and routines around them, and it can often sound like a chore. How about elevating our efforts to…rituals. Rituals transcend mere chores and instill a reverence and even sacredness to the effort. In this episode Dr James and I talk about taking our daily health and wellness habits and treating them as true rituals that give them far more depth and meaning which of course help dramatically to how we perceive them and therefore, consistently engage with them for the benefit we truly desire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • 98: Depression Treatment Menu | Part 2

    98: Depression Treatment Menu | Part 2
    Dec 1 2021
    #98: We continue our walk through a fairly comprehensive list of menu items on treatments for depression. Apathy, or even just feeling blue and unmotivated and fatigued. In the previous episode, 97, we discussed solitude, outside time, exercise, positive input, having purpose and surrounding yourself with inspiration. Here we continue on with about nine other menu items you can pick and choose from to raise your spirits and increase your hope. We really worked to be compassionate and gracious as we discuss this very serious issue, and not showcase any one thing as the holy grail, and recognize you could engage in so many of these and still have a clinical problem. But none of these efforts will hurt, and they will most assuredly help give you the best chance to combat what is holding you down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 97: Depression Treatment Menu

    97: Depression Treatment Menu
    Nov 15 2021
    #97: Depression, apathy, and just feeling blue and numb, are very real issues affecting all of us. We are all on the spectrum, we’re all coping to a level, and even when we are greatly inspired in one area of our life we can be dealing with aspects of depression in others. The culture looks at two possible treatments; counseling and medication. Both are of course, worthwhile. Yet they are merely two options out of about 15 we are going to discuss. None are guarantees, but all are highly relevant in combatting these issues. We get through six of them in this episode and continue on in the next episode to cover the rest. A quick note of relevance I feel we should have started off with, is...motive. Until we have a clear motive to pull out of depression, few of any treatments will matter. And motive is the root of my other podcast, What Drives You. I encourage you to find it and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    58 mins
  • 96: The Delight And Danger Of Sugar

    96: The Delight And Danger Of Sugar
    Nov 4 2021
    #96: We see sugar as a gift and honor it like we honor wine. And like wine, it’s probably not best to have it in excess. For the greater span of time, humans went most of their lives with little to no sugar outside of the occasional fruit when it was in season. In America it wasn’t until around 1619 when sugarcane came on the scene. Today sugar is added to everything. The American Heart Association recommends up to 25 grams, or 6 teaspoons per day. Though the average American consumes 88 grams, about 22 teaspoons a day. What’s best for our physical health? Zero. Today, 1 in every 3 Americans has diabetes or prediabetes. Another way to look at it, around 122 million Americans have a sugar related disorder, while only 14 million have an alcohol disorder. We are sicker and fatter than ever and sugar is the primary culprit. In this episode we talk about how to best view and manage sugar. Something again, we love too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins