Living Well with Alison Starling
Strong communities are built on good health. Welcome to Living Well with Alison Starling, brought to you by VHC Health — the region’s community health system — and the Washington Business Journal. Join former ABC 7News anchor and Emmy Award winner for exclusive conversations with health care advocates on today’s most pressing health topics. Discover what you need to know when making decisions about your well-being and empower yourself with the knowledge to live well. New episodes drop monthly.
Living Well with Alison Starling
The value of mindfulness and meditation in politics and business —With Doro Bush Koch, Tricia Reilly Koch and a VHC Health behavioral health expert
What’s the key to keeping your competitive edge? Start by staying in the moment.
“It’s a practice, like learning the piano,” says Dorothy (“Doro”) Bush Koch, New York Times bestselling author of “My Father, My President” and co-founder of BB&R Wellness Consulting, in the latest episode of Living Well with Alison Starling.
“And for those who feel like they’re going to lose their edge [if they slow down], there may be some long-term problems that come from that. Constant stress definitely opens you up for disease.”
In this conversation, Bush Koch joins her fellow founding partner, Tricia Reilly Koch, to share the value wellness practices have added to their lives, and Dr. Linda Lang, medical director of Behavioral Health Services at VHC Health, discusses how people can use mindfulness to manage the demands of work and life over time.
“When you’re going out into the business world and managing yourself against all sorts of stress, you need a way to ground yourself again,” Lang said.
Listen to this episode to learn more about:
The origins of BB&R Wellness Consulting
- Why staying in the present matters (particularly when political campaigns are in full swing)
- How to benefit from meditation even if you can’t sit quietly
- What it means to “anchor” and how to do it
- How to combat loneliness, one of the biggest drivers of illness
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