Wellness While Walking

Molly Watts of The Breaking the Bottle Legacy podcast joins us today to talk about alcohol, related health myths, abstinence, Dry January, and other approaches. Molly bravely shares her journey, which started as the child of a parent who struggled with alcohol use disorder and then went on to include her own tumultuous relationship with alcohol. Molly brings positivity, resilience, and hope to a complex subject.    LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information Coach Carolyn on Clubhouse: @stepstowellness wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com   RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) ABOUT MOLLY Breaking the Bottle Legacy podcast Molly Watts website and Alcohol Truths: How Much is Safe? Breaking the Bottle Legacy Facebook group Live HAPPIER Longer podcast MORE ON ALCOHOL - See Your Physician Before Making Changes Excessive Alcohol Use, cdc.gov Understanding Alcohol Use Disorder (PDF available), niaaa.nih.gov HAMS – Harm Reduction from Alcohol website How to Change Your Drinking, Ken Anderson Alcohol Explained, William Porter This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness and Change Your Life, Annie Grace Rachel Hart Take a Break From Drinking podcast Alcoholics Anonymous    DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.  

Goals and resolutions are helpful constructs, and today, we deconstruct some of what makes goals more likely to be reached. SMART goals, Big Hairy Audacious goals, and where goals fit with our life’s purpose and our habits are all topics on the table today! We also dip our toes into the diet/diet culture/body positivity/healthy habit change/Lizzo-Jillian Michaels dust-up. Lace up and join in!  LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information Coach Carolyn on Clubhouse: @stepstowellness wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com   RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) Sharing Wellness While Walking with a Friend Tell a friend about the podcast! If you need to guide them on downloading podcasts in total, check out this step-by-step tutorial at www.gretchenrubin.com all things podcast listening are explained (feel free to rate, review and subscribe to WWW while you’re there!) Almost all phones now come with a podcast app built-in: go, podcasts! Share a screenshot of Wellness While Walking on your social media This could be a screenshot of the podcast playing on your phone, or you could share some of Wellness While Walking’s social media posts right to your own account Please message me on Facebook or Instagram if you want me to share a screen shot for you to post! Send them to www.wellnesswhilewalking.com All the episodes (and the show notes) are there THANK YOU!! <3 Goals S.M.A.R.T. Goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable/Attainable, Realistic+Relevant, Timely Big Hairy Audacious Goals – see Built to Last, Jim Collins What Do Scientists Know About Finding Purpose in Life? pyschologytoday.com Rebel Wilson Reveals All the Weight Loss Tips That Helped Her Lose 60 Pounds in 2020, prevention.com Rebel Wilson Says This “Free, Safe” Exercise Helped Her Lose 60 Pounds in a Year, prevention.com From the article: “My biggest tip, guys, is get out there and walk.” (SMILE!) Rebel Wilson Instagram Live video, December 1, 2020 Controlling Your Blood Sugar Can Improve Your PCOS and Hormone Imbalance, clevelandclinic.org   Body Positivity Waist-Hip Ratio and Cognitive Ability, Evolution and Human Behavior Journal via sciencedirect.com The Development of Babies’ Brains Relies Directly on Fat From the Mother’s Bottom and Thighs, zmescience.com     DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.

Can our Norwegian friends help us shift our mindset about spending more time outdoors, no matter the weather? How can we enjoy nature more, on our own terms? What are some baby steps we can take if we're just starting this journey? Join my conversation with author Oliver Luke Delorie as we explore Friluftsliv!   LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com     RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links)   FRILUFTSLIV “What is ‘friluftsliv’? How an Idea of Outdoor Living Could Help Us This Winter,” nationalgeographic.com Friluftsliv: Connect With Nature the Norwegian Way, Oliver Luke Delorie There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge), Linda McGurk     DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.    

Goals, intentions, targets or resolutions? No matter -- these mindset and action shifts will help make all of them more attainable! Also, we cover the relationship between sleep and diet, as we talk about how there are so many components of health and wellbeing.   LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com     RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) Mindset Shifts: Making our goals, intentions, targets  and resolutions more successful Progress Principle book, Teresa Amabile. Sleep and Diet Joint Associations Of Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity And Sedentary Time With All-Cause Mortality: A Harmonised Meta-Analysis In More Than 44 000 Middle-Aged And Older Individuals, bmj.com Reciprocal Roles of Sleep and Diet in Cardiovascular Health: A Review of Recent Evidence and a Potential Mechanism, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Effects of Diet on Sleep Quality, academic.oup.com Wellness While Walking -- Episode 9 Wellness While Walking -- Episode 44 How Foods May Affect Our Sleep, nyt.com Yes, Many of Us Are Stress-Eating and Gaining Weight in the Pandemic, nyt.com     DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.    

In this PreAmble episode, where I catch you briefly before you walk or otherwise do your thing, I urge one last look back at 2020 as we turn toward the future. Happy new year to you! See you in 2021!   LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com     RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) Questions to Ponder about Last Year What went well? What were you proud of? What didn’t go well? What plans or goals weren’t realized? How are you different from how you were this time last year? If you could give your experience of 2020 its own tagline, what would it be? What were your most meaningful moments? Are there any lessons learned this past year – some big groundbreaking a-ha moments or some smaller insights? How did you have fun? What drained you? What invigorated you? What did you let go of this year? If you had to pat yourself on the back for something you did – or didn’t do – this year, what would that be? What was the best thing that happened? What was something small that you did frequently and made a big difference? What did you try for the first time? What are you grateful for this past year in particular? If you had to write a tag line for 2020, what would it be? What's something that -- now that you consider the above -- you need to change for the coming year?               DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.    

Looking backward to see where we've been, we focus on 2020 and the first year of the Wellness While Walking podcast, before turning our sights on the promising road ahead!   LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com     RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) Ep. 45: Our Daily Lives: Embracing + Elevating the Ordinary Ep. 49: Walking Daily with Dana and Mary: #walk20in20 Blue Zones, Dan Buettner. Gary Vaynerchuk (Gary Vee) - @garyvee "This Year, Don't Set New Year's Resolutions," forbes.com "Covid-19: Now is the Time to Redraw the UK's Map of Inequality," health.org.uk "COVID-19 Pandemic Highlights Longstanding Health Inequities in US," hsph.harvard.edu Emily Prokop, Podcast Coach, Teacher and Strategiest     DISCLAIMER   Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thank you for listening to Wellness While Walking podcast, a walking podcast.

Join a fun chat with two listeners who've walked EVERY DAY in 2020! How did they do it? Why did they do it? What can we learn about their efforts, practices, and the benefits they’ve derived from their daily outings?  LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com   RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) Guest Information Mary can be found at @malcarlson Dana can be found at @wwdanaisdetermined Other daily walkers have used #walk20in20 hashtag, but that's likely to change in 2021! Gretchen Rubin Information Happier With Gretchen Rubin (podcast) The Happiness Project (book) Better Than Before (book) The Four Tendencies (book) Outer Order, Inner Calm (book) Warming gloves (will cover gear more in future episodes) Down mittens Ski Gloves with Thinsulate Heated gloves     DISCLAIMER   Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.

Cooking during COVID makes us more flexible cooks, and we benefit from home-cooked meals to support our health. We dish on strategies for stress-free meals, and Karen shares her tips for shopping for veggies. I talk about my family's favorite 2020 DIY go-to dinner -- you'll walk away from this episode inspired to plan and prep your next delicious, doable meal!   LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com   RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) Where to Find Karen: Healthy Gluten-Free Family website  Healthy Gluten-Free Family on Instagram Healthy Gluten-Free Family on Facebook Healthy Gluten-Free Family on Pinterest About Celiac Disease About non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity   DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.

Are you overwhelmed by cooking? So many of us are. My guest today helps us break down the kitchen overwhelm with some very doable strategies for making cooking more manageable, and tastier as well! Let’s dig in with Karen from Healthy Gluten-Free Family! LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com     RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links)   Where to Find Karen: Healthy Gluten-Free Family website  Healthy Gluten-Free Family on Instagram Healthy Gluten-Free Family on Facebook Healthy Gluten-Free Family on Pinterest       DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.

Should I quit drinking diet soda? And if so, how??? What gets Carolyn up in the morning, and the power of our gratitude practice, especially for health care workers.  LET’S TALK THE WALK! Wellness While Walking Facebook page Wellness While Walking on Instagram Wellness While Walking on Twitter Wellness While Walking website for show notes and other information wellnesswhilewalking@gmail.com   RESOURCES AND SOURCES (some links may be affiliate links) DIET SODAS AND ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS Do Sweet Drinks Have Anything to Do With Dementia? foodpolitics.com Just How Bad is Diet Soda For You? clevelandclinic.org 21 Healthy, Low-Sugar Soda Alternatives That Make It Easy to Quit Color, eatthis.com Effects of Sweeteners on the Gut Microbiota: A Review of Experimental Studies and Clinical Trials, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Diet Soda By Itself May Not Cause Weight Gain, Study Says, But Combining With Carbs Can, cnn.com Measuring Artificial Sweeteners Toxicity Using a Bioluminescent Bacterial Panel, ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Artificial Sweeteners: Sugar-Free, But at What Cost? health.harvard.edu Diet Soda Intake and Risk of Incident Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, diabetesjournals.org Coca-Cola Discontinues TaB Diet Soda in the US, beveragedaily.com Stickk app  Habitica app  Pact app – (not recommended) LOVE OF LEARNING Character Strengths, VIACharacter.org Science of Well-Being (Yale) class, coursera.org GRATITUDE AND HEALTH CARE WORKERS Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happier, Robert Emmons Improving Mental Health in Health Care Practitioners: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Gratitude Intervention, researchgate.net Improving Mental Health in Health Care Practitioners: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Gratitude Intervention, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih   DISCLAIMER Neither I nor most of my podcast guests are doctors or healthcare professionals of any kind, and nothing on this podcast or associated content should be considered medical advice. The information provided by Wellness While Walking Podcast and associated material, by Whole Life Workshop and by Bermuda Road Wellness LLC is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment, and before undertaking a new health care regimen, including walking.     Thanks for listening to Wellness While Walking, a walking podcast.