As the New Year begins, many of us feel pressure to fix, improve, or overhaul our lives.

In this episode of Pay Attention, Holly McNeill is joined by osteopathic physician Dr. Neal Patel for a grounded, compassionate conversation about what healing can look like when we slow down and do less—not more.

Together, they explore the connection between stress, mental health, and the body, and how unresolved emotional patterns often show up as physical pain, inflammation, or chronic illness.

Dr. Patel shares his holistic, patient-centered philosophy—emphasizing fewer pills, fewer procedures, and greater awareness of the habits that quietly shape our health.

The conversation also touches on meditation, foundational practices like sleep, movement, and nutrition, and emerging research on the endocannabinoid system and energy-based healing.

Rather than offering resolutions or quick fixes, this episode invites you to pause, pay attention, and listen—to your body, your mind, and the signals you may have been ignoring.

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The Mindfulness Architect, Holly McNeill, reflects on New Year's resolutions—and why intention alone is rarely enough to create real change.

Rather than offering another checklist or goal-setting framework, this episode invites listeners to pause and examine what they are actually paying attention to—day by day, moment by moment—and how that attention shapes identity, choices, and the direction of their lives.

As the year comes to a close, Holly explores the relationship between intention and attention, sharing how her own intention to find something better opened her to seeing new possibilities.

She closes by inviting listeners to create a New Year's resolution grounded in intentional attention, and to carry that awareness into the year ahead.

On this Christmas Eve, I invite you to pause.

In a season that can feel joyful for some and heavy for others, this episode is a quiet reflection on the gift of the human journey — with all of its beauty, struggle, tenderness, and possibility.

There is a natural flow to life, and much of our suffering comes from the habits, beliefs, and patterns we've unknowingly created in an effort to protect ourselves.

Part of this human journey is gently learning to recognize and unwind that conditioning.

The P.E.R.L.O.V.E. framework emerged from lived experience and years of exploration across mindfulness, neuroscience, and spirituality, offering one compassionate way to do just that.

This episode is not about fixing yourself — it's about remembering who you are beneath the conditioning.

Wherever you find yourself this holiday season, may this be a moment to breathe, soften, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom already within you.

Wishing you peace, presence, and love on this precious human journey.

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