Be Well and Be Green
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis podcast is dedicated to empowering you to improve your personal wellness and enhance the wellness of our planet Earth, especially in terms of the climate crisis.
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Do you need more intimacy for your personal wellness?
January 17, 2020 12:58 - 15 minutes - 14.9 MBEpisode 10: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness - this episode focuses on intimacy. Intimacy is sharing ourselves, the good and the bad, and being accepted. To be truly well and happy, one needs intimate relationships. Being intimate means being vulnerable, letting our guard down. If we stay guarded we will always be alone. In terms of the environment, Angie talks abou...
Communicating to improve your wellness
December 23, 2019 14:31 - 19 minutes - 19.6 MBEpisode 9: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness - this episode focuses on communication. Truly listening is a gift. Listening can relieve stress in the speaker in that they know they are acknowledged and affirmed. For the person listening, it can relieve stress in that they can become harmonious with another individual. Angie talks about how while this year, 2020, is a...
Balancing work and play to improve personal and planetary wellness
November 27, 2019 16:37 - 11 minutes - 14.1 MBEpisode 8: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on work and play. Angie points out how work and play are connected and form the foundation of our lives. She further suggests that maintaining a good balance between work and play will improve your overall wellness. With regard to the environment, she discusses the New York Times opinion piece from Oct...
Thinking for wellness
November 06, 2019 00:41 - 13 minutes - 14.8 MBEpisode 7: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on thinking and how optimism is related to your ability to use the placebo effect to help your health and on the other hand, how pessimism increases the chances that you will have negative physiologic outcomes- the nocebo effect. She also discusses the C40 Cities which organizes the World Mayor’s Sum...
Feelings in relation to our own wellness and the wellness of the planet
October 14, 2019 23:49 - 14 minutes - 15.7 MBEpisode 6: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on feeling and how to be truly well, it is important to express all of your feelings. She also discusses the outcome of the Climate Action Summit held in New York on September 23rd which unfortunately, was less than stellar. Several personal actions are suggested, such as reducing consumption of sing...
Movement for increased wellness
October 05, 2019 20:03 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBEpisode 5: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on moving and how the benefits of moving are associated not only with physical health, but mental health as well. She also discusses some good news in energy production, for instance, the bi-facial solar panel, and a couple examples of using the legal system to protect our planet. Several personal act...
How do you eat for your own and the planet's wellness?
September 06, 2019 16:27 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBEpisode 4: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to improve your own personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on eating and the benefits of a whole food plant-based diet. She also discusses food choices in terms of climate change. For instance, eating beef and lamb has a larger greenhouse gas impact than grain, fruits and vegetables. Several personal actions are suggested so that everyone can be part of the sol...
Exploring ourselves and our planet through our senses
July 26, 2019 15:53 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MBEpisode 3: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues discussing John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a way to touch on all aspects of personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on sensing and how caring for and working to improve our senses will enhance our overall wellness. She also discusses climate change and highlights the upcoming Climate Action Summit, organized by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, September 23, 2019. He is asking global leaders for specific...
Why should you care about your breathing?
July 18, 2019 12:58 - 12 minutes - 11 MBEpisode 2: In this episode, the host, Angie Gust, continues using John Travis’s 12 dimensions of wellness as a framework to talk about personal health and wellness. This episode focuses on breathing and how breathing and meditation can elicit the relaxation response. The climate crisis is discussed in terms of its negative effect on respiratory health. Several personal actions are suggested so that everyone can be part of the solution. References Andrews, TM. Independent. April 10, 20...
Premiere episode - have more responsibility and love for yourself and the planet
July 05, 2019 16:44 - 14 minutes - 12 MBIn this premiere episode, the host, Angie Gust, introduces John Travis’s Wellness Energy System-the 12 dimensions of wellness. The first dimension, self-responsibility and self-love, is discussed and the connection is made between personal health and wellness and the health and wellness of our planet Earth. Several facts about the climate crisis are noted from the Climate Reality Leadership training that the host attended in March 2019 and several personal actions are suggested so that eve...