Your Favorite You
by Melissa Parsons
Latest episode
Ep 214: Somewhere to Practice
Ep 214: Somewhere to Practice
About this podcast
Welcome to Your Favorite You, a weekly podcast helping brilliant women like you with beautiful brains to create the life you've been dreaming of with intention so you can find your favorite version of you. Your host, Melissa Parsons, is a pediatrician turned life coach. She holds the titles of wife, mom, daughter, sister, and friend of many. She became a certified life coach after discovering that coaching held the secret to the universe, and knew she had to share this magic with everyone in her orbit. This podcast is for you if ... you're stuck in fear and perfectionism thinking that your value comes from what you do or what you don't do, rather than knowing that your value comes from who you are, and this is keeping you from dreaming and trying new things, or from remembering or doing what you used to love. Join Melissa on this journey to figuring out and remembering who you are; a journey to finding and becoming your favorite you. To learn more about Melissa, visit: https://www.melissaparsonscoaching.com/
Episodes
The newest 20 of 217 episodes
- Ep 214: Somewhere to Practice · 19 minIf you’ve been to therapy, read self-help books, or listened to podcasts (maybe even this one) and still find yourself saying yes when you mean no, staying quiet when you want to…
- Ep 213: It's Not the Task, It's the Timing · 12 minWhat have you written off as something you hate or just can’t do, even though you only try it in your most depleted window? Maybe it’s the difficult conversation you keep putting…
- Ep 212: Prevent an Infestation · 16 minHow bad does something have to get before the pain of dealing with it finally outweighs the pain of just living with it? I had to think about this question recently after…
- Ep 211: A Good Decision Is Not the Same Thing as a Good Outcome · 18 minNot every good decision can guarantee a good outcome, and the idea that it can is quietly torturing you over decisions using a measuring stick that was never fair to begin with…
- Ep 210: Mastering Mindfulness with Dr. Nirali Dubal · 51 minYou don’t need to spend hours sitting in silence to experience the benefits of mindfulness. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Nirali Dubal, who shares how meditation helped her…
- Ep 209: The Energy Audit · 14 minWhat if you could find the places where your personal energy is quietly leaking away? Just like a drafty window can go unnoticed because you’ve lived with it for years, emotional…
- Ep 208: Trusting Yourself When Everyone Else Has Opinions About Your Life · 18 minIt can be exhausting to try to make a decision about your own life when everyone around you has an opinion about what you should do instead. How do you trust yourself in the…
- Ep 207: Resentment · 29 minResentment. It’s a feeling that can be hard to admit to, especially when you’ve been taught to be ashamed of it, talk yourself out of it, or convince yourself that you shouldn’t…
- Ep 206: Remodel Your Home, Remodel Your Life · 22 minWhat can remodeling your home teach you about remodeling your life? More than you might think. As I’ve been remodeling my home, I’ve noticed all the ways the process mirrors the…
- Ep 205: Retiring from Being the Strong One · 25 minHave you ever thought of yourself as “the strong one” in your life? The one who is always available, always fine, and who always holds it together so nobody else has to. It’s a…
- Ep 204: I'm really fucking good at this! · 16 minI'm really fucking good at my job. And before you decide I’m an egomaniac, I want you to notice how uncomfortable that sentence may have just made you. I felt it too, that urge…
- Ep 203: Letter to Sweet Melissa, circa 1991 · 20 minThink about a younger version of you who had no idea what was coming next. What would you tell her? Not to fix her or warn her, but to let her know that she makes it and it’s…
- Ep 202: Learning to Rock the Boat with Katie M. · 46 minWhat happens when you shift your focus from trying to make everyone else happy to finally listening to yourself? In this episode, I’m joined by one of my amazing clients, Katie…
- Ep 201: Leading with Care with Bonnie Pugh, MD · 1 h 3 minI’m so excited to introduce you to today’s guest, whom I’ve known and admired for the past 25 years. I met Dr. Bonnie Pugh during residency, and we've been friends ever since…
- Ep 200: Your Favorite You - 200 Episodes In · 26 minI named this podcast Your Favorite You because I believe your favorite version of yourself already exists within you. She's not someone you have to build from scratch—she's…
- Ep 199: It's Still the Clitoris (We're Back) with Nina Deep, MD · 50 minFeeling comfortable in your body can be challenging when so much of what you’ve learned is incomplete, inaccurate, or shaped by shame. That’s why I’m welcoming back Dr. Nina Deep…
- Ep 198: But You're Here Now: On Grief, Presence, and What Truly Matters · 19 minWe spend an extraordinary amount of our lives preparing to live them: working toward the thing, achieving the next milestone, building toward a future version of ourselves and…
- Ep 197: The Flip Side - Success and Struggle · 28 minWe spend so much time talking about how to achieve success—how to work toward it, how to stay motivated, and how to push through the tough parts—but we don't talk nearly enough…
- Ep 196: Befriending Boredom: What Happens When You Stop Filling Every Silence · 19 minWhat if you thought about boredom not as a problem you need to fix, but fertile ground from which insight, self-knowledge, and genuine rest can grow? Think about this: When you…
- Ep 195: Self-Care vs. Numbing · 19 minWhen was the last time you did something to take care of yourself and actually felt better after? Not just distracted or temporarily relieved, but genuinely, truly better. We…
