The title of our podcast, Pieces to Wellness, can be interpreted in several ways. One is that wellness is like a puzzle and the image on the puzzle that we aspire to is different for everyone. Wellness is a broad, holistic concept with many interconnected parts. This week, we list as many parts or pieces as we can think of - those that help us most and those that we struggle to remember to implement.

We don't suggest that you try to put the whole puzzle together in one sitting, and you especially don't have to do it all by yourself. The actual pieces that complete your individual puzzle may even shift and evolve over time and that's ok. We hope to give you an idea of some of the pieces that work best for us, hoping that this will help you realize what works best for YOU.

Plus, we LOVE lists. So if you don't know where to start, jot down the pieces that resonate for you and pick one or two to put into practice. A couple additional pieces that we thought of after the fact: staying off social media as much as possible, autonomy/sovereignty - thinking and acting for yourself, self-efficacy - simply believing that you can succeed, and service to others can all be key components to a life of wellness.

If you liked this episode, check out our Recipes for Wellness episode. Think of it like taking the ingredients in this episode and combining them into your own recipe for wellness!

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Purpose. Joy. Flow. Kindness. Our guest this week is Leon Logothetis, widely known as "the kindness guy." This conversation is sure to boost your spirits, warm your heart, and maybe even inspire some faith in the inherent kindness of humanity.

Leon shares his story of what inspired him to step away from a life that looked "successful" on the outside, but was deeply unfulfilling to him personally. In search of the lived experience of kindness, he journeyed to many places around the world, relying on the kindness of others to literally sustain him as he traveled. As you might imagine, this adventure led to profound experiences, deep introspection, and some truly extraordinary stories.

Leon chronicled this journey in The Kindness Diaries which is available on Netflix and Prime Video. Most recently, he released a film, The Kindness Within, also available on Prime Video (trailer linked here) which tells the story of his trip to India. Tim and Karen believe wholeheartedly that mental health is an inside job, and that being kind to yourself is one of the most important parts of holistic wellness, so we are delighted to welcome Leon to Pieces to Wellness.

Check out all of Leon's offerings at: https://www.leonlogothetis.com/.

Kindness changes everything.

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This week's episode discusses a common feature of depression and anxiety known as rumination. Rumination is also described as overthinking, and like many other symptoms of depression and anxiety, it tends to fuel itself. Ultimately, when we're ruminating, we're not being present or mindful, we're retelling old stories and/or anticipating possible future scenarios worriedly. While these thoughts may be attempts to protect ourselves, they are generally not helpful, and often completely untrue.

The antidote to rumination is mindfulness. But when you're in the grips of repetitive ruminative thinking, how do you break free? We share some key approaches that have worked for us - all of which involve interrupting our own thoughts - challenge those stories, assumptions, and worries. Movement is a great place to start. Karen shares the recovery mantra, "move a muscle, change a thought."

Stopping ruminative thinking is a process - some days will be better than others. Noticing when you're ruminating, calling yourself out on it, and doing something about it, even something small, can make a huge difference. Once you find what works for you, rinse and repeat. Consider this a new tune up tool in your toolbox.

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Another guest episode! This week we welcome Annah Elizabeth, founder and creator of the Five Facets of Healing Program. Annah's story is truly miraculous.

Annah turned her intense personal experiences of loss, betrayal, and grief into an extraordinary approach to healing that includes physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing. She shares her story with such openness and vulnerability and then describes the healing approach that emerged. Annah combines the modalities of Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) and other intuitive spiritual services with more traditional approaches. She is a widely renowned speaker who has been featured on the TEDx stage as well as in online forums such as Tiny Buddha and Open to Hope.

This conversation just begins to scratch the surface of Annah's offerings and tools, all of which are rooted in her own experience and supported by the bigger interconnectedness that all of humanity shares. We are honored to share this conversation and hope to have Annah back again soon!

To learn more about Annah and her offerings, visit: https://annahelizabeth.com/.

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This week we welcome a powerful guest, Vicki Savini. Vicki is one of those people whose mind and heart go full steam ahead all the time - she loves her people and pets deeply, and her compassion is endless. And, she is honest, open, direct, vulnerable, and creative. We get into all these things.

Vicki is a teacher, writer, mom, speaker, and intuitive life coach. She wears all kinds of hats, rising to the situations in her life and the lives of others with grace and dignity. She believes that fear is the root cause of the increase we are seeing in anxiety and depression, and her books and other services offer others a path to self love - the opposite of fear.

Vicki opens up about what led her to prioritize her mental wellbeing, and what continues to motivate her to share her 7 Essentials - tools that empower others to balance mind, body, spirit, and love our whole selves. She gets vulnerable about her own experiences of loss and loneliness, and how these experiences helped her grow and develop into the powerful force you hear in this episode.

You can check out all of her services at https://vickisavini.com/. Her newest book, Burn The Damn Cape, is available on Amazon, and on her website under Products.

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Today, we rant. Productively, and diagnostically speaking.

Here at Pieces to Wellness, we believe that while not everyone has mental illness, everyone has mental health. That's why we share tips, tools, strategies to keep you on the wellness side of the spectrum.

We also believe that mental health is essential to overall wellness. All too often, people who live with mental health challenges are reduced to their diagnoses. And we are so much more than that. We recognize that there are some ways in which diagnostics can be useful, and we emphasize how and why we should not let our diagnoses define or limit us. We are more than the sum of our parts, and our mental health diagnoses are just some of the pieces that make us who we are.

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This week we are honored to welcome the venerable Robina Courtin to Pieces to Wellness. Robina is a Buddhist nun with a remarkably direct, take charge personality that comes through immediately in our conversation.

Robina generously shares her wisdom with a real love for humanity that shines through. Together, we explore various daily practices that can literally help us change the way we think. Robina shares with us the importance of things like compassion, meditation, freedom, truth, and skillfully offers strategies to support us all in weaving these things into our day to day life. Consistently engaging in practices like meditation impacts how we experience and respond to our emotions and can have a significant positive impact on our quality of life.

Robina also gets personal with us, sharing a bit about her own journey throughout her life.

She shares her wisdom regularly on IG @robinacourtin. If you want to hear more, she also has a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/@RobinaCourtinYouTube. Here's a quote that stuck for us:

Happiness is the mind that is free from attachment and the other neuroses... clear, blissful, happy and stable.” — Ven. Robina

If you enjoy this episode, check out our conversation with Timber Hawkeye: Just Keep Swimming

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Routine maintenance is part of the regular vocabulary here on Pieces to Wellness. This week, we explore the origin story behind this favorite term.

Once a month, we do a quick "tune up" episode. Each of these shorter episodes explores one or more practical tools we have in our mental health tool kit. You know, the ones that keep us on the wellness side of the spectrum. These tools are well-used and dog eared showing how regularly we put them to use. Tim first shared this term in his book, and this week treats us to a excerpt from his book, Never Underestimate the Power of You from the chapter on Routine Maintenance.

We each share a bit about what routine maintenance means for us, those practices that we lean on day in and day out. As always, we hope that these episodes remind you how important it is to prioritize your wellness, and validate all the work you do to care for your mental health.

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