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Wellness Check from January 27th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get the themes going here. Get Elena
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  Speaker 1: on the phone. It's Elena would from Nightingale College.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct? I'm having an interface problem. There we go. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Hi Elena, Hello, Hello? Is this if we talked since Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked once.
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  Speaker 1: Before in the year New Year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, alright, this is more chat about New Year's resolutions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're still talking about habits and just
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  Speaker 3: building systems that can help you make those habits last.
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  Speaker 3: You know, by this time of year, most people have
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  Speaker 3: completely abandoned most of their resolutions. Yeah, which is fine.
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  Speaker 3: And these are just some tips that that can help
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  Speaker 3: you be a little bit more successful.
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  Speaker 2: You don't be so don't be so compassionate. Well you
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  Speaker 2: say it's fine, it's not fine. You need to shake
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  Speaker 2: your finger at us and say.
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  Speaker 3: I'll shake my finger at just you else.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what are the what are the things we
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  Speaker 2: can do to try and keep this going?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? The first one is to learn the habit cycle,
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  Speaker 3: and this is three steps. Stimulus, behavior, reward. So the
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  Speaker 3: stimulus is the trigger that prompts behavior. Maybe like for Gina,
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  Speaker 3: it's seeing the books on the night stand. Right, the
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  Speaker 3: behavior would be reading the book, and then the reward
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  Speaker 3: would be the joy that you find from from reading.
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  Speaker 2: With me. It would be seeing the bottle of bourbon
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  Speaker 2: on the camera. Drinking the bottle of bourbon. That's not
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  Speaker 2: a good habit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking about healthy habits.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I'll try and think that I have any
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  Speaker 2: What's next.
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  Speaker 3: Goodness Next is to practice habits stacking, and this just
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  Speaker 3: means to add small hat excuse me, small positive habits
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  Speaker 3: into existing routines. So doing things like taking your morning
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  Speaker 3: medication right after you brush your teeth, or just just
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  Speaker 3: finding something that you do every single day and just
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  Speaker 3: adding a little tiny thing in with it.
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  Speaker 2: For and for instance, I mean what would you add
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  Speaker 2: in with meaning meaning you remember to take your medicine
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  Speaker 2: because you always do it right after you brush. Find
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  Speaker 2: the habit you've already established, add a little something to
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  Speaker 2: it your routine.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, maybe you stretch right before you take your shower
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  Speaker 3: or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I got, you got. What's next next.
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  Speaker 3: Is to find positive alternative and I really love this one.
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  Speaker 3: So for example, instead of keeping your bottle of bourbon
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  Speaker 3: on the counter, maybe you keep a bottle of water
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  Speaker 3: on the counter. So then you can grab that and
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  Speaker 3: drink that instead of the bourbon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I know it really does help if
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  Speaker 2: you put the bourbon inside the cabin where you can't see.
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  Speaker 3: It, yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Then you don't think about it as much. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: makes sense, Thanks, perfect sense. What else have we got? Next?
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  Speaker 3: Is to start small?
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm really good at.
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  Speaker 3: Just setting realistic goals.
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  Speaker 2: You know this.
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  Speaker 3: I have conversations all the time with people who are like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to the gym five days a week for
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  Speaker 3: four hours, and they've never been to the gym before,
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  Speaker 3: and so they go one day and then they can't
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  Speaker 3: walk and they give up. Right, So instead of setting
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  Speaker 3: that huge, big goal, start really close to where you are.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe start by going on a short walk a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times a week, and then build from there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, sounds sounds reasonable. What's next?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Next is to plan for setbacks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and this.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, when we're trying to make changes, it's
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  Speaker 3: not a perfect smooth path. You know, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: run into trouble, and so make a plan for what
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  Speaker 3: you're going to do when you're really stressed out or
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  Speaker 3: tired or just don't feel like doing it, what's what's
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  Speaker 3: the plan on those difficult days?
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  Speaker 2: Until you watch TV.
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  Speaker 3: And you know it might be sometimes and then after
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  Speaker 3: that you get up and go again.
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  Speaker 2: Right yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that takes your mind
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  Speaker 2: off of it a little bit and then you get
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  Speaker 2: back to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Celebrate your progress, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I am a huge fan of this. Each step
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  Speaker 3: that you take towards your goal is worthy celebration. So
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  Speaker 3: even if you've only done it one time, give yourself
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  Speaker 3: a high five, throw a one song, dance party, journal
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  Speaker 3: about your success, whatever it is, to just help remind
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  Speaker 3: you that you're doing good work.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I mean, to be serious about it. It is
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  Speaker 2: hard sometimes because you do something like say, okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna walk a mile or something and you do that
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  Speaker 2: and you feel really I mean, it was hard and
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  Speaker 2: you feel really down and it's gone. Yeah, it's so hard.
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  Speaker 2: But then you have to say to yourself, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: feel really kind of terrible right now, but I did it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did it exactly. Yeah, yeah exactly. And it's
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  Speaker 3: so easy to get caught in that negative loop. So
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  Speaker 3: just remind yourself you're making progress. You did the thing,
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  Speaker 3: and that is worthy of celebrations.
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  Speaker 2: I done it.
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  Speaker 1: Woo.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Elena would thank you very much. Where
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  Speaker 2: can people find out more?
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  Speaker 3: You can learn more about this, as well as Nightingale's
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  Speaker 3: amazing programs by visiting Nightingale dot edu.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thank you, take care. All right, okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's see