#396: Why Running Makes You Happy
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Sarah and Coach Amanda gab with Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., a research psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University as well as author of the just-released book The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage, about why exercise helps our minds and moods. Dr. McGonigal talks with the duo about:
-how to “tend and befriend” stress;
-the science of a runner’s high—and the potent benefits of it;
-why moving in synchronicity with people is so potent;
-why you should become an early bird exerciser, if you’re not already;
-how to mentally cope with a sidelining injury; and,
-how to bring more joy to your life.
Sarah and Amanda talk about their families’ holiday breaks, and the guest joins the show at 14:33.
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| 1:46.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shea. I am joined by Amanda Louden today. Hello Amanda. Hi, how are you? Good, good. So we're recording this a little bit early, so we're just a few days past Christmas and Hanukkah and so you |
| 1:58.0 | went somewhere for the holiday you saw some family right? |
| 2:00.9 | Well the intent was to go somewhere but that didn't happen. We were all |
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| 2:11.1 | going to go to Ohio and visit my brother but my sister-in-law came |
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