HelloHealth Today

Dr. Carmen Mohan begins to describe a course we all should have been offerred back in school called Zen and the Art of Weight Maintenance. To begin, she describes how to eat in a healthy way. This means eating mindfully.

Listen as HelloHealth welcomes our new physician in the clinic, Dr. Mukti Kanji. She and Dr. Carmen Mohan discuss the stresses of the two-physician household, how to cope with the feeling that we need to be continually productive, and what it is like to intentionally create a space and time for yourself that is "doing nothing."

The HelloHealth signature networking event, Dinner and a Download, was recorded live on November 14th 2019. These are the highlights for Sleep, Rest, and Recovery. Carmen answers common questions and reflects on challenges related to work, family, and stress.

It’s time we all took the crash course that should’ve been offered back in college or at some other point in our formal training. Dr. Mohan calls the crash course that should’ve been Health 101 for the Preternaturally Busy. She helps you see how the urgent important things in life crowd out pieces of time that are the core of what creates meaningful memories in our lives. For executive women, the sense of urgency is often the thief of meaningful time.

When you're a woman with ambition, there’s always going to be so much to do and there will never seem to be a good time for self care. Dr. Mohan applies studies on endurance athletes to the situations in which executive women find themselves. She does this because executive women have a hard time resting and hitting the pause button. So much of their sense of self comes from professional life. Endurance becomes a huge factor their productivity at work.

When obstacles to healthy living loom large, you can be sure that Internal Dialogue has become a major player in the game. Unlike the external forces like Drag and Chance, where the other players can see where they might be able to help you, the Internal Dialogue is an internal force. It’s the story you are telling yourself and since the other players can’t hear it unless you decide to tell them, you are left to your own devices on how to cope.

Ambition seems to have just one speed — it’s called GO! GO FAST. It feels like if you’re not going fast, you’re not going at all. The mentality here is one of being either “All in” or “All out.” With nothing in between. At work, we love women who operate like this. They can be relied on to give 150 percent which means they get a whole lot done. And they don’t do anything halfway. When it comes to health, gentle movements at low intensity provide unique benefits that are very different from...

A journal is not only essential in gaining knowledge about yourself. The act of gathering the data and recording in your journal is the most important action you can take because it activates your problem-solving brain—giving you control over your daily activities and food choices. This puts you in command of each area of your health, every day.

Dr. Mohan describes how self-sufficiency and the expectation she will be self-recharging gets in the way of healthy living for many executives.

Dr. Mohan hashes out why executive women who set such high standards of excellence for their work product set such low expectations for the experience they have being in their own skin.

When we focus on lagging health indicators like how our clothes fit, we often are tracking the wrong indicator.

All women are navigating a health landscape that features the following obstacles: - Genetic predispositions - Physiologic truths of aging, including an increased risk of cancer, heart attack, and stroke - Whether, when, and how to become mothers - Hormonal fluctuations that affect day-to-day energy levels and sense of comfort Each decade marks a change in personal energy levels that correlate with physiologic aging.

Dr. Mohan introduces herself and provides a season overview. Hello Health Today is for you if you are ready to make a paradigm shift in the way you think about your health as it relates to work. You will come to see that health is a leadership strategy. Every woman seeking career stamina needs to deploy it.