Yen: Negative emotions are good sign posts, theire good signals for how you should be making changes in your life to feel better. The simple act of taking a couple of really deep belly breaths, especially through the bellies, you're kind of activating your vaguest nerve. When doctors would ask me what's one tip i can use to stop feeling so stressed in the middle of the pandemic at work, i would always go back to your breath. Amy: Can you talk about the potential impact of permanent remote work on mental health of workers?
Covid brought disruption and despair... but it also caused many of us to think about our lives and what is most important to us. Listener Dr Amy Comander, Director of Lifestyle Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, wants to know how we can apply lessons from the pandemic to improve our happiness as we return to normalcy.
Amy helps teach cancer survivors wellbeing tips - and also happens to be an old college lab partner of Dr Laurie Santos - so we invited her to host this episode and quiz Laurie on how to lead a happier post-pandemic life.
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