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A podcast with stories and lessons from a personal and professional quest to Live Happier. Helping individuals live with more authenticity and intention. Providing strategies to reduce perfe...
We hope you enjoy this super special bonus episode, here to tide you over until our next season begins in a few months. This is my extended...
Here it is, our final episode in our season all about rest! Remember in the first episode when Nancy talked to her friend Stephanie Pollock...
One thing you should know about people with High Functioning Anxiety-- we love our rules! Even when they don't help us live happy and h...
Hey guys! So we're supposed to have a new episode for you today, but as it often does, life happens. And my producer Nicki, well, she&a...
Have you ever been through a period of your life where you felt like nothing was going right? And during that period, did you think: "Oh my...
Most people think that napping is great! A little break during the middle of the day. But Nancy HATES naps, with a fiery passion. They don&a...
When most people think of vacation, their thoughts are simple: awesome, great, I love to go on vacation, and this will be THE BEST. For peop...
Nancy has tried and tried again to be a consistent meditator. Everyone says it's the key to getting rid of anxiety! But the "traditiona...
Nothing hits harder over the age of 30 than a bad night of sleep. When Nancy thinks about rest, she automatically thinks about sleep, and ho...
In the first episode of our new season (!) Nancy wades into a topic that's both frustrated and fascinated her over the years-- rest. Sh...
In our final episode of Season 3, Nancy reflects on all the thinking and learning she's done around change this season. She writes a le...
In this episode Nancy reveals that she's *always* had a business nemesis. A person that she compares herself to when she feels like thi...
In this episode, Nancy shares a relatable tale: her struggle to stay off social media. She made that change a while ago, but her BFF is alwa...
In this episode Nancy shares the story we've all been waiting for... a little tale about a rogue Segway. But it's actually about a...
Nancy talks to a leading psychologist and expert in emotions, who tells her all about how our emotions can help us create change in our live...
In this episode, Nancy talks to an expert in creativity, who had to reevaluate her whole life and career when everything fell apart, then re...
In honor of my new course Self Loyalty School, this season we are looking at how to make change. In this episode, Nancy learns how hard it i...
In the first episode of our new season, Nancy brings us on a personal journey of change through self-loyalty. She describes how she embarked...
In this extra-special bonus episode, Nancy tells a super personal story of self-loyalty with appearances from the Monger, the BFF, and final...
In this episode, Nancy recounts a story of a moment where she didn't feel like she fit in her surroundings at all, but was able to find...
This episode traces a familiar circle, pun intended! Nancy explores the idea of "spiraling" through a personal story about living the same l...
In this episode, we tackle a subject that Nancy has VERY strong opinions about. Gratitude. People with High Functioning Anxiety tend to use...
In this episode, we learn all about feelings. How they show up in our brains and in our bodies, and how they can affect the way we interact...
In this episode, we'll learn about the final character in the Happier Approach cast-- the wise, self-loyal, and sometimes elusive, Bigg...
In this episode, we get close and personal with another central character in the Happier Approach: the overindulgent BFF. The BFF has good i...
In this episode, we take a trip into Nancy's brain and learn all about her inner self-critique. The voice that tells her every day that...
In this episode, the first of our new season, we go back to the beginning to learn how The Happier Approach all started. This is a great epi...
Trailer for the new season of the Happier Approach. Starts May 7th! Visit: https://NancyJaneSmith.com Learn More About Self Loyalty School:...
The beginning of any new year often hyperactivates our “Shoulds.” I should lose weight. I should start meditating more. I should be kinder t...
For years, the month of December was my month of debauchery. My BFF (the voice of false self-compassion) ran the show. After months of being...
Anyone with High Functioning Anxiety knows what I mean when I talk about the Swan Effect. It basically boils down to the feeling of being so...
Well, we made it to 2021! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I know I’m excited to be back at the podcast after a short break. One o...
About a month ago, I challenged myself to a month of practicing meditation. As I shared in Part One of this series , I didn’t have a consist...
As if navigating the holidays wasn’t already hard enough, 2020 has turned our holiday traditions on their head. In my family, we’re making s...
For many of us with High Functioning Anxiety, we have a hard time noticing when we are anxious. Our anxiety is usually swimming around in ou...
The self-help industry is FULL of concepts that are meant to inspire you into a better version of yourself—go big or go home, love yourself,...
For those of us with high functioning anxiety, the voice of our inner Monger is loud . It’s the voice that tells us we’ll never succeed. It’...
What is happy? This is a loaded question—but it’s something I want to explore in this episode because happiness is the #1 thing my clients s...
I don’t have a meditation practice of my own. In fact, I’m pretty resistant to it. I have a lot of rules around meditation and I’m pretty ri...
How often are you apologizing, regardless if you hurt someone or if the situation truly necessitated an “I’m sorry”? People-pleasing include...
Frequently we will ask ourselves—why am I unhappy? But the key component is the question underneath the question. What is making you unhappy...
I didn’t always know I wanted to be a therapist. It took me a while to ADMIT it out loud that I wanted to be a therapist (I was 34 before I...
For those of us with anxiety, it’s pretty common to go into research mode and ask ourselves: why am I feeling this way? And if you already e...
Your past matters—even though the personal growth industry is obsessed with the future you at the expense of the past you . In that world, t...
Trauma. This word is loaded for so many of us. When we think of trauma, we think of what we call Big T Traumas: images of war, combat, natur...
Go big or go home. Dream big! Do big things. That’s what all the self-help gurus and Pinterest tell us to do. But is it really the answer? W...
Have you been feeling a bit stuck lately, wondering what comes next? Saying to yourself that there has to be more ? If so, you’re not alone....
Does this sound like you? Your to-do list is a mile long—yet, logically, there’s no way you could complete it; you drive yourself so hard, p...
Being human is messy and imperfect—and, we’re bound to make mistakes. It’s part of the deal. We’re not going to get everything right, every...
There is so much pressure to be the perfect parent. My clients tell me all the time that they consistently feel they have to be “perfect” an...