Podcast Episodes
Amber C. Saunders, Esq. on the Importance of Estate Planning Addressing Your Finances and Personal Legacy
Amber C. Saunders, Esq. is an accomplished Estate Attorney and Principal Attorney of The Saunders Firm located in Atlanta, Georgia. Through personal family experiences, Amber realized the importance of carrying forward the special memories of family members at the time of their passing. This has resulted in Ambers’s unique approach to estate planning where she works with clients and their family members to integrate financial matters with personal memories and messages to form a legacy to be remembered.
Dr. Samantha Lang on Thriving in Your Family Caregiver Relationship
Dr. Samanatha Lang, PhD is a licensed psychologist focusing on anxiety, depression and life transitions with specializations in neuro and geriatric psychology and family caregiver support. Working closely with family caregivers and the loved one’s they care for (the care partners unit) Dr. Lang has conducted break through care partner research, guiding family caregivers to focus on the relationship between care partners versus primarily working on caregiver coping strategies.
Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad on the Importance Social Connection Has on Your Health and Well-Being and How to Best Avoid the Pitfalls of Loneliness and Social Isolation
Dr. Holt-Lunstad is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, where she directs the Social Connections Lab. She is a leading expert on the impact of social connection on health, with groundbreaking research showing that social isolation and loneliness are major risk factors for early mortality.
Gail Sheffler On Not Losing Yourself When Caregiving for a Loved One
Gail discusses what she learned about herself when caring for her husband who was terminally ill. Gail honestly describes how she evolved in her role and the importance of maintaining her husband’s dignity regardless of the health challenges that effected them.
Dr. Robert Leahy on How to Correctly Identify the Type of Worry You’re Experiencing and Learn How to Make Productive Worry a Positive Resource in Your Life.
Dr. Robert Leahy on How to Correctly Identify the Type of Worry You’re Experiencing and Learn How to Make Productive Worry a Positive Resource in Your Life.
Katie Horwitch on How Awareness and Targeted Adjustments Can Quiet Negative Self-Talk
Katie Horwitch, is an author, mindset coach, and self-talk activist with an expertise in shifting the stories and habits that help shape our negative self-talk patterns.
Dr. Bob Rotella on How Cornerstone Learnings from Sports Psychology Deliver Healthy Benefits to Family Caregivers
Dr. Bob Rotella is internationally known for his work in the area of applied sports psychology and is consistently recognized as the premier Sports Psychologist in the world. As a Professor of Sports Psychology for 21 years at the University of Virginia, he also served as the Director of the Sports Psychology Department as well as President of the North American Association for Applied Sports Psychology.
Dr. Stephen Trzeciak on How Acts of Kindness Deliver Physical and Emotional Health Benefits
Dr. Stephen Trzeciak, a practicing intensivist and Chief of Medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey, is also a clinical researcher, teacher, lecturer and best-selling author whose focus is to raise awareness and participation of compassion and kindness globally. Dr. Trzeciak shares scientific research cited in the groundbreaking book, Wonder Drug, that he co-authored with Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli, along with his personal insights on the significant health benefits resulting from living a Live to Give and other-focused life.
Victor Imbimbo on the Influence Loneliness Has on Your Life and Steps to Address It
Victor Imbimbo, a leading expert on family caregiving and owner of Caring Today, a company dedicated to supporting the needs of family caregivers, talks about the issue of loneliness and the influence it has on our physical and emotional health. Included in this podcast is a review on the pervasiveness of loneliness in our society and especially within the family caregiver community and determining the level of loneliness currently in your life. Along with this, you will be introduced to the concept of “disruptors” to help you counter loneliness and help elevate your day-to-day well-being.
Dr. Kristin Neff on Living with Self-Compassion
Dr. Kristin Neff, world leading self-compassion expert an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, talks about building self-compassion into your daily life and avoiding the pitfalls that come with being too self-judgmental and unrealistically critical. Kristen will relate her experiences as a family caregiver and detail the many health benefits that come from incorporating self-compassion practices, especially during our most challenging times.