Opt to Thrive
Opt to Thrive is a health and wellness podcast designed to support, educate, inspire, empower and motivate midlife women to live their healthiest, happiest most fulfilled lives. Motivated by her own life experiences and the punch in the face that was the midlife transition, Dr Corina Sims created Opt to Thrive.
Dr Sims is a rural GP Obstetrician with a passion for connecting with and empowering other women to be the best version of themselves. Disappointed with the plethora of contradictory information targeted at perimenopausal and menopausal women and recognising the gap in medicine that has been identified GLOBALLY in managing women going through it she strives to bring evidence based information to those who are searching for the answers.
Listen in every week where on one week you’ll find either a short and sweet episode designed to uplift, inspire and give helpful tips to manage your mind and a longer episode the next created to educate and inform.
Opt to Thrive
10 Happiness Hacks That Can Change Your Life
In this episode, we dive into 10 practical happiness hacks that can help you create lasting joy, increase your emotional well-being, and empower you to live a more fulfilling life. Whether you're dealing with challenges or just looking for ways to boost your mood, these simple yet effective strategies can have a powerful impact on your mental and emotional health.
At the time of recording, it's Thanksgiving, and I'm reflecting on the importance of gratitude and what truly makes us happy. For those of you who may be wondering, yes, I live in Australia, but Thanksgiving is a tradition I still celebrate. As I sit down to reflect on happiness, I want to share 10 valuable tips that have transformed my approach to life.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
- Practice Gratitude: Learn how simple acts of gratitude—like appreciating small things in your daily life—can significantly increase your overall happiness.
- Self-Validation: Discover why relying on others for validation can be limiting and how self-validation can be a game-changer for your happiness.
- Embrace the Peaches: Why trying to please everyone is a losing battle, and how accepting that not everyone will like you can set you free.
- Take Responsibility for Your Happiness: Understand why your happiness is in your hands—and why trying to make others responsible for it can create unnecessary stress.
- Life is 50/50: Learn how accepting that life is a mix of highs and lows can help you cope with tough times and appreciate the good moments even more.
- Know Your Values: Get clear on your personal values, and how living in alignment with them can make decision-making and boundary-setting much easier.
- Practice Acceptance: Explore how letting go of control over other people and situations can bring you more peace and happiness.
- Challenge Your Thoughts: Why it's important to be aware of your thoughts and how they shape your emotional reality.
- Feel Your Feelings: Learn why feeling your emotions (instead of avoiding them) is the key to emotional freedom and lasting happiness.
- Remember You Are Worthy: The ultimate hack: You are worthy of love, happiness, and success—just because you are you.
Show Highlights:
- The Power of Gratitude: How expressing gratitude for everyday things can lead to greater life satisfaction.
- Self-Validation Over Seeking Approval: Why learning to validate yourself is crucial for building lasting happiness.
- Peach Metaphor: The importance of accepting that some people will just "not like peaches," and how that can help you stop seeking external validation.
- 50/50 Life: How to embrace the ups and downs of life, knowing that both are part of the human experience.
- Feeling Your Feelings: Why it's essential to experience emotions fully rather than numbing them with food, alcohol, or distractions.
Resources Mentioned:
- Brene Brown's Values Exercise: A powerful resource to help you clarify your personal values. Find it online here.
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- Instagram: [@opttothrive]
- Facebook: [Opt to Thrive]
- Website: [Opttothrive.com]
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