On today’s episode of Looking Up, mindfulness author, speaker, educator, and Director at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, Diana Winston, sits down for a conversation with Dr. Deepika Chopra about mindfulness. She talks all about the difference between mindfulness and meditation, how mindfulness can help fight the feeling of being on auto pilot, her experience as a buddhist nun and how mindfulness can be an effective treatment for both physical and emotional pain. She even takes...

On this week’s episode of LOOKING UP, Dr. Deepika Chopra speaks with author, communication pathologist and cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Caroline Leaf. Dr. Leaf has been studying the connection between the mind and brain since the 80s and has worked with thousands of underprivileged teachers and students in her home country of South Africa. Hear her take on the differences between the mind and brain, how we all experience mental messes, what it really takes to form new habits and break out of...

Did you know that yoga can be a tool for resiliency and increasing optimism? And if practiced, it might even help you find a sense of connectedness, purpose, and direction. On today’s episode of Looking Up, Krissy Jones and Chloe Kernaghan, founders of SKY TING Yoga, open up about their yoga journey. Founded in 2015, SKY TING began in New York City with the hopes of providing Katonah yoga to yogis of all levels. Now, with SKY TING TV, Krissy and Chloe are making yoga easier and more...

Looking Up’s guest this week is none other than actress, activist, and iWeigh founder, Jameela Jamil. We learn so much from Jameela in this conversation: she shares how therapy has helped her deal with trauma, the difference between how men and women are treated by the tabloids— educating us all on the media gaslighting that comes into play, the beauty standards that are deeply rooted in white supremacy, and why making mistakes can sometimes be important catalysts for self-growth. Jameela...

What do you guys think of cancel culture? It is important to call out bad behavior and some people commit unforgivable harm— but what about misunderstandings, lapses in judgment and an authentic intention to do better and be better? What are the emotional and mental health consequences of the gone viral canceling of real humans? On this episode, Lara Pia Baroncini, the founder of the cult favorite brand LPA, host of the Everything is the Best podcast, and mother to be, shares her experience...

Each of our mental health journeys follow a different path... how one navigates through mental adversity can be a messy, non-linear, and important quest. Sometimes the tools we choose aren’t always the best ones for us but learning to cope and growing from our mistakes is undoubtedly an integral part of our recovery. On this episode of LOOKING UP, mental health advocate and son of the beloved late Robin Williams, Zak Williams, shares his story of rock bottom and how he self-medicated his past...

On the season three recap of LOOKING UP, Dr. Deepika Chopra changes things up a little and takes the time to share details about her own life. She starts the episode like any other... only she’s asking herself instead of a guest the rapid fire Looking In questions. Listeners can get to know Dr. Chopra  a little better and hear about some of the most moving and impactful moments season three has had on her. Take a listen and tune back in March 1 for the premiere of LOOKING UP season four. To...

There are various types of rock bottoms, often met with red flags along the way, signaling that something is wrong. These red flags can easily be overlooked or avoided for a number of reasons:  pride or addiction, habit or fear, curiosity or even compulsion. This week’s LOOKING UP guest is Certified Life Coach, hypnotherapist, spiritual mentor, meditation teacher, and recovering alcoholic Ryan Haddon, who shares how her rock bottom experience was a baseline for reinvention; she chose to...

Last week was Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 76th anniversary of Auschwitz’ liberation. Now more than ever it is necessary to share stories of Holocaust survivors so that history may never repeat itself. Today’s episode shares the story of one woman’s resilience, strength, determination and ability to create hope from hopelessness. Best-selling author, world renowned psychologist and PTSD expert, and Auschwitz survivor, Dr. Edith Eger, was only 16 when she was thrown in a concentration...

On this week’s episode of Looking Up, Steve Schwartz, master tea blender and founder of the Los Angeles based brand, Art of Tea, shares his passion for tea and the ritual behind it. What started out as Steve studying Ayurveda so that he could help heal his mother, turned into him blending teas together in his living room for the likes of the Peninsula Hotel and acclaimed chef, Wolfgang Puck. This episode is all about about healing, resiliency, passion, rituals, mindfulness, and of course, the...

On this episode of LOOKING UP,  Internet personality and professional “meme,” Jilly Hendrix, talks all about the benefits and consequences of social media— the online bullying, the exploration and beauty of being able to self-express and share through platforms, the pursuit for personal growth and understanding, and the necessity for social responsibility, researching and taking accountability before making a post. This episode delves into a lot, with much to unpack, take a listen and get...

This week’s episode of LOOKING UP features married couple, Sophie Jaffe, founder of popular superfoods company Philosophie, and Adi Jaffe, psychologist and addiction expert. This episode tackles a whole different kind of resiliency: it’s about a couple who has been through infidelity, sex addiction, and lies, but also hours of therapy, forgiveness, and finding resiliency in order to complete a total relationship rebuild through radical transparency. Hear this incredible story of a resilient...

This week’s episode of Looking Up features relationship experts James and Suzy Pawelski. Together, they co-authored the book, “Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts.” Suzie achieved an Applied Positive Psychology Master’s degree from UPenn and Dr. James Pawelski is a professor and Director of Education in the Positive Psychology Center at UPenn, where he co-founded the Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program with Martin Seligman in 2005. This...

Dr. Iris Firstenberg, Professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, is this week’s guest on Looking Up. Dr. Firstenberg specializes in strategies for creative problem solving and innovative thinking. She helps people take their business ideas from good to great using science based information on the brain. This episode emphasizes the importance of curiosity, repetition, desirable difficulties, visualization, effective practice and intentional challenge to make our brain work better for us....

Cosmopolitan’s resident astrologer, Stars Like Us podcast host, and author Aliza Kelly is this week’s Looking Up guest. She talks all about the intersection between psychology and astrology, and even does a live birth chart reading. There was no shying away from scientific based questions in this episode, and Aliza breaks down the art of astrology in a relatable, easy to understand way. Her approach is all about utilizing the cosmos along with empathy, intuition and mathematics to provide...

This week’s guest on Looking Up is mother, entrepreneur, former Shark Tank investor and Dry Bar founder, Alli Webb. While you might already know her story in founding the wildly successful blow dry chain, Alli gets more personal with listeners. She talks all about the death, mourning and loss one might feel after a divorce, the reinvention of ourselves, how the only way out of negative times is to understand that “what we resist persists,” the power of manifestation, and the importance of...

In this Season 2 recap episode, Dr. Deepika Chopra shares a helpful exercise she has used with clients for over the last decade. This exercise is used as a reset button, and encouraged to practice going into the holidays. This episode also shares the resiliency, the optimism, the insights and the inspiration of guests from Season 2, reminding listeners to start finding moments of hope and moments of joy in our daily lives. It’s encouraged to re-listen to episodes from this last season to take...

Today’s Looking Up guest is UCLA professor, memory researcher and author of the book Better With Age, Dr. Alan Castel. In this episode, you’ll learn about the differences between seeing and noticing, selective memory and all memory, how one of the most potent forms of learning is actually through mistake, and how our expectations of aging can deeply impact how we actually age. To purchase your own THINGS ARE LOOKING UP Optimism Deck of Cards please visit ThingsAreLookingUp.co For more BTS...

This week on Looking Up, Ashley Tisdale talks about her experiences with depression and anxiety, and the importance of normalizing our mental health struggles. The acclaimed actress, singer and producer gets real about her personal journey with mental health, acting, non-toxic living, plastic surgery, her new wellness blog, Freshne, and of course, a little bit of High School Musical. Ashley shares how all the ups and downs of her life are just a part of her unique, resilient story.   To...

Today’s episode of Looking Up features Sarah Edmondson, a once struggling actor in Vancouver, who in her late twenties enrolled in a series of self-improvement seminars called ESP (Executive Success Program), aka NXIVM. Sarah worked her way up, becoming a high-level teacher and one of the most high-ranking recruiters for the program. The unraveling of NXIVM and its masked evilness is all documented on HBO’s The Vow and also Starz' Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult, which follows the lives of...

Do you have a system in your home? Do you and your partner have clearly defined expectations and well-defined roles? Is there fairness and transparency? My guest on today’s episode of Looking Up, Eve Rodsky, says that couples rarely - if ever - are able to answer yes to all three of these questions, and she’s made it her life’s work to change that. In this episode, Eve shares with us how she’s working to change society, one marriage at a time. She has a simple solution to an age-old problem:...

So much loss has taken place over this past year and that loss looks different for all of us. So many Looking Up guests have recognized some of the gifts they've received by way of their struggle during this time… but one thing that’s important to highlight is human flexibility, the ability to be emotionally and mentally flexible, or what it means to adapt, to recreate, to reinvent and to pivot to find new paths moving forward, especially when faced with setbacks. This week’s guest is a...

Many of us have experienced in one way or another the symptoms of performance anxiety. Whether that be fumbling words during a speech, getting sweaty palms on a first date, or even messing up lines in a play you memorized by heart. The feeling might make you cast doubt on yourself, despite knowing you worked hard. Looking Up's guest for this week is Dr. Don Greene, a peak performance psychologist whose specialty is overcoming performance anxiety. His comprehensive approach has been taught at...

Take a listen to this week’s episode of Looking Up with Whitney port: Business woman, reality television star, wife, and mother. This conversation includes all things transparent, and she gets real about mental health, the ups and downs of motherhood, and of course, her time in reality television. Whitney is not afraid to stand up for what’s in her best interest, even if that means going against societal pressures and norms. Whitney embraces growth through loss, struggles, and what she...

On this week’s episode of Looking Up, we embrace the therapeutic qualities and emotional benefits of writing with successful poet and published author, Alex Elle, who has overcome a number of her own hardships throughout her life by way of writing. You may recognize some of her work from the widely popular “Notes to Self” series, where she posts thousands of self affirmations and quotes as a reminder that we are human and capable of healing. Not only do we talk about the importance of...