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Dr. Simone’s Mind Space

Intersection of medical science and psychology, research and clinical practice insights for daily life.

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03:49

The daily life of a hyper anxious high functioning...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2025/01/14

Many of us have experienced a situation of anxiety, may it be public speaking or your driver’s license ride. When there is lots on stake and personal, family, and societal expectations tied to it, we tend to over estimate the amount of time people spend being present and having an opinion about it. High achievers, with high intrinsic motivation, tend to overthink, overanalyse, and catastrophize events and their outcomes. In order to reduce the symptoms of worrying; what often happens is that

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05:31

Back to school: organization skills

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2025/01/08

Many children and their parents discuss and struggle with the same topic over and over: keeping school and generally for adults, their “stuff” organized. In order to be successful in school and generally in life, we very clear need how to organize individual people, small and big groups. The better we keep track of things, the less time we’d actually need and the less physical and mental effort would be required.We’d be able to allocate our resources to other things, which are most likely more

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02:53

Back to school: New year, new academic milestones

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2025/01/07

A time of excitement, anxiety, and increased stress for all family members. Expectations, visions, milestones, and goals. As a family, each member contributes to supporting each other. Every member has a responsibility to make the common goal successful. This approach gives each member autonomy to achieve the envisioned milestones. Discuss with everyone how you’d like to achieve the goal. Who’s going to do what. By setting tangible goals, each one can feel engaged, motivated, and can be held

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03:50

🎄Holiday season 6: travelling solo with kids

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2025/01/03

It’s holiday season and for many parents around the world, this implies travelling with kids. Maybe you visit a family member alone with your child. How to cope with solo travelling? Some recommendations: AA as -Travel Compact -Don’t bring too many toys. New places are like lot we s of new toys -Pack using lists to organise and minimise unnecessary multiples -Comfort before price: take that taxi instead of bus etc -Ask for help, don’t be shy -Bring enough funny snacks for the train, flight, car

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04:30

🎄Holiday season 5: sleeping issues with holiday kids...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2025/01/02

Many parents around the world struggle with sleeping patterns of their children and often themselves too. What to do? Especially, when on holiday break? It’s a challenging endeavour and can make one get to physical and mental exhaustion. It’s important to listen to oneself and one’s body’s signals. Having a different sleeping schedule comparing to the everyday life is rather normal during the holidays. Don’t we adults have that too? Why do we expect anything different from our kids? Yet, it doesn’t

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02:45

🎄Holiday season 4: Home alone with kids

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/12/29

What to do as working parents when daycare/ schools are closed? The holidays weather in the northern hemisphere is usually quite a challenge. Especially, with smaller kids who can’t yet be put on skis. Many parents decide to skip the chaos up in the Swiss mountains, but where to go to get some urgently needed sunlight and not too much hassle? Parents of small children in the lowlands of Switzerland are best equipped, if they have a day bag packed. Ready for an easy start to head out into the

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04:52

🎄Holiday season 3: family conflicts

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/12/20

Spending time with loved ones can be one of the greatest joys of the winter holidays. But family time can also result in conflict.Long manifested challenging family dynamics can cause friction between members of ones and cast a shadow over happy gatherings. There is always the family members that don’t get along. Holiday stress can amplify the already tense situation among family members, especially if out-of-town visitors are staying with you. Even joyous family gatherings can add stress by

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04:26

🎄Holiday season 2: make self care your priority

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/12/20

Prioritizing guilt free self care is essential. Self care is often misinterpret as a luxury “problem”. The opposite is true, it’s an intentional practice that nurtures your emotional, spiritual, physical, and intellectual well-being. As many are parents; especially mothers, experiencing reoccurring guilt is a big topic. Guilt for not spending enough time with the children, not giving the child top priority, nor being fully present and dedicated at work. The omnipresent feeling of guilt is

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05:43

Holiday season 1: Me time islands

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/12/18

Tips to manage the holiday break Set boundaries find time for yourself and minimize activities that may negatively impact your mental health. You don’t need to put other people’s preferences ahead of your needs. Communicate friendly and clearly with loved ones about your boundaries. Your island establish a daily routine of self-care practice (yoga, meditation, skin care routine, . Values make choices that align with your values. You can’t change nor control other people, but you can

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34:04

State of the Art Fertility Treatment 8: In...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/11/22

Today‘s podcast is in conversation with Dr. Christine, live from New York and off her therapist sofa. Together with Dr. Simone, live from Hong Kong, we discussed the topic of infertility, IVF treatments, and common themes and practices in our therapy sessions. @drschwank @unesurcent @drchristineforte @optimalperformancezurich

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07:54

Lost in translation despite language mastering

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/11/17

Spending another research trip in beloved Shanghai, yet feel as lonely as one can feel. Arriving in the city, the central business airport and I’m the only western person passing migration. Such an experience is very interesting, yet l certainly challenging, lonely, and lost in translation, despite the language proficiency. There is something difficult to put the finger on, but it’s a small mutual nominator that’s just not present. Therefore it’s very challenging to make oneself understood, even

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03:16

East meets west a love affair

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/11/11

Two generations ago, my family decided to move east and explore new territories. A fascination, admiration, and certain level of adventure certainly played a role. A love affair that I had already during early teens. Living in Shanghai was a true dream and returning for my PhD and onward research was almost too good to be true. This very research also connected my partner and me, an MD PhD with family originating from Shanghai. How can the world be so small? Now, my immediate family is also

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03:53

How to set boundaries for ourself

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/11/09

Many of us live in rush hour 24/7. Their everyday life in the hamster wheel. But how can we escape the hamster wheel and set boundaries for ourselves? How can we deal with the fear of missing out and where to say no or stop.We need to tolerate the consequences of boundary setting, for ourselves and our environment. This is also why it’s so hard, because you won’t get any positive reinforcement of your behavior of saying no. It needs insight, acknowledgement, willingness to change, and routine

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02:31

The essential me time minutes

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/10/31

We’re constantly on, rushing, running, trying to get a giant to-do list done. It is crucial to take some time out of your busy day, go for a 15min walk, a manicure, hair wash, facial massage, a candle light yoga time at home, something small, that’s giving you the care and nurture you need.We all need me time minutes, to be a better partner, parent, boss for our employees, including ourselves, if we’re self employed. Take this seriously, before you burn out ❤️

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02:31

State of the Art Fertility Treatment Episode 7: Keep...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/10/26

What could be more unsexy than having your doctor monitor your sex life, as intrusive as ultrasounds on a weekly basis. When under IVF treatment, or actually even before that, when trying and trying with no success, sex becomes performance driven, rather than passionate, seductive, emotionally intense, and exciting.How can we keep this passion up and the performance pressure down? Arrange date nights, candles, bubbles, all you’d always done in the beginning of your romantic relationship. Try

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03:54

Perinatal depression: On why it’s ok to say I hate my...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/10/25

Perinatal depression is a common challenge for new parents, one in 10 was the common standard. Perinatal mental health problems have however significantly increased during the pandemic, up to almost every other pregnant and postpartum women struggling with depression and anxiety. It is a dark place for the entire family, the couple, and the individuals. An untreated perinatal depression causes longterm consequences on the child’s mental health. Something that can with relatively little effort be

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01:48

State of the Art Fertility Treatment Episode 6: The...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/10/24

Each individual deals differently when confronted with infertility. Some become very obsessed with their own health, very task-oriented, some depressed, some anxious, others angry and resentful. It is important to accept the entire rainbow of emotions. Sometimes, seeking help as an individual and as a couple can relief some of the emotional pain. Look after yourself. Be kind to yourself. Be understanding to yourself. Give yourself some love. @drschwank @unesurcent @optimalperformancezurich

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04:14

State of the Art Fertility Treatment Episode 5:...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/10/24

We all have our habits and daily routines. Some of these lifestyle factors are more or less supportive and constructive for our health. Yet, changing habits, no matter how destructive they may be, is incredibly challenging. It takes time, perseverance, patience, willingness, and acceptance to make adjustments. When facing infertility, lifestyle factors, as do physical, and mental factors play their role in the puzzle. It is important to look at the individual and the couple from a holistic

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04:03

State of the Art Fertility Treatment Episode 4: The...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/10/09

Many couples have an idea of their trajectory of their relationship, including milestones they would like to achieve. Moving in together, decorating a joint home, travel, spend everyday life together, and plan the future ahead. If couples are in a relationship for a long time, in addition do decide to get married, a natural follow up in most societies is the expectation of the couple having a child, preferably more than one. The more a couple feels the need to conform with society’s and family’s

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05:25

State of the Art Fertility Treatment Episode 3:...

Dr. Simone’s Mind Space ·

2024/09/26

Many women around the world are undecidedly childfree. The reasons can be very diverse and for many women and partners the cause never found. It is a very challenging situation on a personal, relationship based, family, societal, and even evolutionary level. It’s against the norms and conventions of society and our evolutionary instincts, dreams, expectations, desires, that are unwanted denied to us. It’s a very different scenario to the one of an individual or couple willing not having

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