Balancing Life's Issues in Partnership with Aetna presents "Whole Minds, Healthy Bodies" the podcast as part of the 360 Health initiative. Your host Kai bring on experts for lively and sincere discussions around our mental health and how to better manage it. Topics include (but are not limited to!); Sleep, Health and Wellbeing, Eating Right on the Run and On a Budget, Your Path to Inner Peace and, Managing Finances.
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Balancing Life's Issues
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health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness
Strong in 5 - The Science of Gratitude with Christine Young, Licensed Social Worker and Workplace Wellbeing Professional
Running on empty and stuck replaying everything that went wrong today? In this Strong in 5 companion episode, Christine Young, a licensed social worker with more than 20 years of experience in workplace wellbeing, shares five quick, research-backed ways to build a gratitude habit. Her tips range from a five-minute writing practice to simple ways to recover after a tough interaction on the job.
30 Oct 2026
The Science of Gratitude - Christine Young, Workplace Wellbeing Expert, with Host James Francis
Saying “thank you” is one of the first things we learn as kids, but gratitude goes much deeper than good manners. In this episode, host James Francis is joined by Christine Young, a workplace wellbeing professional with more than 20 years of experience helping employees, leaders, and families through some of life’s hardest moments. Together they explore what gratitude really is and what the research says it does for our brains, our bodies, and our relationships.
Christine explains how gratitude activates the part of the brain linked to empathy and connection, and why it doesn’t make problems disappear but can change how much space they take up. She shares how naming specific actions can build trust at home and on the job. She also gets real about how to recover and find your peace after a difficult interaction with the public. She closes with a simple challenge every listener can try today.
30 Sept 2026
Strong in 5: Understanding Menopause
Menopause is a natural part of life — not an illness, not a flaw, and nothing to be ashamed of. But that does not make it easy. Hot flashes, disrupted sleep, brain fog, unexplained aches and pains — navigating those symptoms alongside a demanding job and a full life is genuinely hard. And you are not imagining it.
In this episode of Strong in 5, Cathy Richards — lifestyle and wellness strategist and certified exercise physiologist — shares five practical tools for getting through this transition with more clarity and less struggle. Cathy speaks from experience: she is currently in perimenopause herself, and she brings the kind of grounded, real-talk perspective that actually helps.
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