This is episode 5 of Everyday Wellness. Mindset Matters. Six ways to shift your

mindset to lose weight and be happier. I'm Dr Kelly Donahue, clinical health

psychologist here with my co-host Cynthia Thurlow,

functional nutritionist and nurse practitioner.

Let's get started. start it.

Welcome to everyday wellness.

Wellness is the result of the decisions that you make every day. It's your mindset and the thoughts you believe. Wellness is the food you put in your body and the relationship you have with yourself and others.

Wellness is your work and meaning.

Join us on everyday wellness as we explore ways that you can choose wellness today. Hello, hello, today we are going to touch on mindset strategies and some of the science

behind why this is such an important component of the work that we do with

our own clients and patients as well as, you know, just day-to-day existence recognizing how important that mind-body

connection really is. Absolutely and we've talked about mindset a lot on our

podcast and I talk about it routinely with my clients but we wanted to

break down mindset and help you to understand what mindset is and how you can use the principles and the science behind mindset to actually be

healthier and happier.

Who doesn't want that, right?

Exactly, exactly.

And you know, I have to be completely up front that although I did part of my thesis in some of this, I didn't really, really fervently believe in it until I was probably 10 years into being a nurse practitioner.

You know, that's the point where, you know, the fulcrum really hits where you've been doing

it long enough that a lot of the work that you do is very intuitive with your patients and all of a sudden I started to

realize I was like wow it's not that they want to be non-compliant they just don't

yet have their heads wrapped around all the changes they need to make and recognizing that

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