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EP 1: Reclaiming your Wellness with Robyn Conley Downs

EP 1: Reclaiming your Wellness with Robyn Conley Downs

When most people think about wellness, they think diet and exercise. And while these are necessary for achieving optimal health, they are not enough. What most of us truly aim for and what we truly crave is to feel good and have emotional wellbeing....

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When most people think about wellness, they think diet and exercise.

And while these are necessary for achieving optimal health, they are not enough. What most of us truly aim for and what we truly crave is to feel good and have emotional wellbeing.

For the very first episode of This or Something Better, I had an enlightening conversation with, Robyn Conley Downs. Robyn was recently named one of the Most Influential Women in Wellness, and she also has a Masters Degree in Education with an emphasis on behavior change. 

A self-confessed perfectionist, mom, and my friend for over eight years, Robyn has made herself her own guinea pig. Her own challenges urged her to pursue her research around behavior and mindset,  resulting in her new book The Feel Good Effect. 

Robyn’s book The Feel Good Effect launches on September 1st. Also available in audiobook format, it will help you reclaim your wellness by making small changes that turn into big results. Robyn is also the host of the top rated apple Podcast, The Feel Good Effect, where she taps into cutting edge science around neuroscience, psychology, mindfulness, habits and mindset.

If you want to feel inspired and be armed with knowledge to feel good, then this episode is for you!

Get Robyn’s book The Feel Good Effect here 👉 The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change

Episode highlights:

  • How the Real Food Whole Life blog began
  • Why she started The Feel Good Effect podcast
  • Robyn’s rock bottom moments and realizations
  • Her own struggles with perfectionism
  • Mom guilt and how women are too hard on themselves
  • Robyn’s personal definition of wellbeing
  • The striving mindset vs. the feel good mindset
  • The 4 Ps needed in shifting mindset
  • The life-changing practice of self-compassion
  • The incredible payoffs of shiting thought patterns
  • How our culture rewards perfectionist behavior
  • Emotional wellbeing: What people truly crave for
  • How we’re kinder towards others than ourselves
  • The common pitfalls of trying to do it all
  • The problem with the perfection-based mindset 
  • Why the “all or nothing” approach doesn’t work
  • The issues of comparison-based thought pattern
  • Why having a striving mindset only works short-term
  • How shifting your thought patterns changes outcomes
  • How we often forget about our own agency
  • How small changes turn to big results
  • Understanding the role of mindset in wellbeing
  • Why you need to stop being passive in your own life
  • How being a perfectionist makes you less creative
  • The unrealistic wellness advice most of us fall prey to

About our guest:

Robyn Conley Downs is founder of the mission-driven media and education brand, Real Food Whole Life, and creator of the Feel Good Effect Mindset & Method.

Holding a Master's degree in education with an emphasis in behavior change, and 4 years of public policy & health change at the doctoral level, her work taps into cutting edge science around mindset, strategies and habits; and how people create and sustain lasting wellness.

She combines this professional research background with work as a certified yoga teacher, specializing in mindfulness and self-compassion, to share science-based, life-tested, radically simple solutions to help people feel good.

When not writing or speaking, Robyn can be found behind the mic of her Apple-top rated Feel Good Effect podcast, in the kitchen creating simple real food recipes, hiking, reading, or practicing yoga.

Recently named one of the Most Influential Women in Wellness, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, Andrew, and their daughter Elle.

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