Dr. Simone’s Mind Space
- Episodes
- 100
- Released
- several times a week
- Latest episode
- Nov 3, 2026
About the podcast
Intersection of medical science and psychology, research and clinical practice insights for daily life.
Episodes 100
Forest Mornings: Small Habits That Change Your Day
Dr. Simone records from a crisp autumn forest in Zurich to explore how small daily habits—like getting morning daylight, taking deep breaths, and going for a walk—can boost metabolism, mood, and sleep. She …
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Dr. Simone records from a crisp autumn forest in Zurich to explore how small daily habits—like getting morning daylight, taking deep breaths, and going for a walk—can boost metabolism, mood, and sleep.
She highlights the value of proper resets such as yoga or massage to quiet the ‘‘mind buzz,’’ especially for women in perimenopause, and encourages gratitude and simple self-care to improve overall well-being.
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Perimenopause Unmasked: Navigating the Emotional Rollercoaster
Dr. Simone explores perimenopause—the underrecognized transition many women face in their 30s–40s—covering symptoms like anxiety, brain fog, sleep problems, and low energy, plus common thyroid issues. She …
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Dr. Simone explores perimenopause—the underrecognized transition many women face in their 30s–40s—covering symptoms like anxiety, brain fog, sleep problems, and low energy, plus common thyroid issues.
She discusses practical approaches including nutrition, exercise, circadian-aware eating, supplements (calcium, vitamin D), small-dose hormone therapy and evening progesterone to improve sleep, and the importance of early awareness, support, and shared experiences.
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Above the Clouds: Finding Calm After 40
Dr. Simone uses travel "above the clouds" as a moment for reflection after turning 40 and becoming a late mother, describing life as a roller coaster of responsibilities, shifting identity, and perimenopausal …
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Dr. Simone uses travel "above the clouds" as a moment for reflection after turning 40 and becoming a late mother, describing life as a roller coaster of responsibilities, shifting identity, and perimenopausal changes.
She discusses juggling motherhood, career, relationships, and expectations while exploring ways to reclaim old dreams, practice self-care, and find peace of mind with support from loved ones and new priorities.
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Nordic Farewells & Mexican Sun: Packing for a Couple's Escape
Hello from up north — getting my hair done in Copenhagen before a long trip to Mexico as a couple. I'm excited but a bit mixed about leaving our four-year-old son with his grandparents; couple time is necessary …
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Hello from up north — getting my hair done in Copenhagen before a long trip to Mexico as a couple. I'm excited but a bit mixed about leaving our four-year-old son with his grandparents; couple time is necessary for working parents, but we'll miss him.
The trip includes a high-altitude, cool and rainy Mexican city and the warm Pacific coast, followed by a stop in Stockholm at the end of September. I'm trying to pack versatile, minimal items rather than cluttering up with things I don’t need, and I’ll share my packing in the next few days.
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Stop Being Everyone's Emotional Garbage Bin
Dr. Simone explores how to stop absorbing other people’s emotional dump, build healthy boundaries, and live with integrity instead of being run over by others. She shares a personal approach — including a …
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Dr. Simone explores how to stop absorbing other people’s emotional dump, build healthy boundaries, and live with integrity instead of being run over by others.
She shares a personal approach — including a nourishing lunchtime yoga practice — to recharge, set limits, and support yourself while still caring for others.
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Mom Guilt & Me-Time: Finding Balance in Parenthood
Dr. Simone shares a reflective episode from Copenhagen about enjoying family time while navigating persistent mom guilt. She talks candidly about the tension that can arise with partners, the relief of moments …
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Dr. Simone shares a reflective episode from Copenhagen about enjoying family time while navigating persistent mom guilt. She talks candidly about the tension that can arise with partners, the relief of moments when someone else cares for you (like a hairdresser appointment), and the struggle many mothers face to carve out personal time.
She encourages mothers to be bold about claiming me-time, explaining that self-care is essential to restore energy and be able to give to others. Practical, empathetic, and calming, the episode centers on finding balance and permission to prioritize yourself.
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When High-Achievers Become Moms: The Identity Crisis No One Warned You About
Dr. Simone explores the identity shift high-performing women face after becoming mothers: the emotional strain of returning to work, the challenge of being mentally present, and how success and productivity …
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Dr. Simone explores the identity shift high-performing women face after becoming mothers: the emotional strain of returning to work, the challenge of being mentally present, and how success and productivity must be redefined during early parenthood.
She shares personal reflections and practical ideas—like taking a breather between work and pickup and setting priorities—to help ambitious parents take small steps toward a more balanced, fulfilling life.
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No Mountain Too High: Traveling Solo with a Baby
Dr. Simone returns to Zurich after a women’s empowerment weekend in St. Moritz and shares her experience solo‑traveling with a nine‑month‑old—what worked, what was tiring, and how the trip ultimately went well …
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Dr. Simone returns to Zurich after a women’s empowerment weekend in St. Moritz and shares her experience solo‑traveling with a nine‑month‑old—what worked, what was tiring, and how the trip ultimately went well.
She challenges discouraging, old‑fashioned advice aimed at mothers, urging women to try travel their way, support each other, and build self‑esteem through positive reinforcement and bold choices.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
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Unexplained Infertility: Finding Hope When Tests Give No Answers
Dr. Simone explores unexplained infertility—when thorough testing shows no clear cause—discussing how common it can be and available treatments such as fertility medications, IUI, and IVF. She also covers …
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Dr. Simone explores unexplained infertility—when thorough testing shows no clear cause—discussing how common it can be and available treatments such as fertility medications, IUI, and IVF.
She also covers practical steps couples can take: lifestyle changes (quit smoking, reduce alcohol and caffeine, maintain a healthy weight, balanced diet, daily exercise), stress reduction, and the importance of seeking support and treatment options at Optimal Performance Zurich.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
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Corporate Narcissist: When Leadership Becomes Psychological Warfare
Dr. Simone explores how narcissistic personalities often gravitate to leadership roles and the ways their behavior can feel like psychological warfare in the workplace. This episode outlines common manipulative …
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Dr. Simone explores how narcissistic personalities often gravitate to leadership roles and the ways their behavior can feel like psychological warfare in the workplace. This episode outlines common manipulative patterns and the impact on employees' emotional well-being.
Practical guidance is offered on protecting your nervous system: keep a low profile, distance yourself when possible, document escalations, and seek HR or external support when needed. Surround yourself with supportive people and prioritize self-care to navigate toxic leadership.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
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Raised to Perform: The Long-Term Impact of Performance-Based Childhoods
Power, Pressure, and the Price of Constant Output: Dr. Simone's explores the psychological cost of relentless ambition and the imbalance between masculine drive and the suppressed feminine side. Through …
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Power, Pressure, and the Price of Constant Output: Dr. Simone's explores the psychological cost of relentless ambition and the imbalance between masculine drive and the suppressed feminine side. Through personal stories and observations, she highlights how constant output affects mental and physical well-being.
Inspired by successful, feminine women she met in Shanghai, Dr. Simone's urges embracing softness, beauty, and connection as a path to greater success, balance, and nervous system recovery—especially for women navigating male-dominated environments.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
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Raised to Perform: The Long-Term Impact of Performance-Based Childhoods
How early conditioning shapes adult ambition, burnout, and self-worth. Growing up under a never good enough parenting approach, pushed these women to over perform, yet as a consequence have an incredibly low …
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How early conditioning shapes adult ambition, burnout, and self-worth.
Growing up under a never good enough parenting approach, pushed these women to over perform, yet as a consequence have an incredibly low self esteem, caused by an incredibly harsh self evaluation. The inner critic never stops until complete exhaustion.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
The psychology of a high performing women
The psychology of a high performing women, their history and childhood how they are the way they are, and then how that impacts relationships and marriages down the line. Balancing your goals for the year, if …
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The psychology of a high performing women, their history and childhood how they are the way they are, and then how that impacts relationships and marriages down the line.
Balancing your goals for the year, if someone has big dreams and a million things they want to do how to strategize and prioritize.
When you feel so overwhelmed you just freeze and do nothing instead?
@drschwank
@unesurcent
How and when is a good time to tick off bucket lists thats been on your heart for years?
When angles are baking
Today’s episode with an openminded global citizen that dares to wear a Birkin bag. Meet Niklas: A designer at heart, inspired by movement, people, and everyday moments. Discussing the feeling of constantly …
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Today’s episode with an openminded global citizen that dares to wear a Birkin bag. Meet Niklas: A designer at heart, inspired by movement, people, and everyday moments. Discussing the feeling of constantly being overstimulated by today’s constant inputs, social media, podcasts, music, and the peace and quiet of phone free hours, such as mornings with his analog alarm clock, providing a post wake up hour of phone free bliss, the 45min ride class, completely in the moment of movement, and the post class phone and availability detox joy. Nikolas shared his love for food, cooking, baking, and childhood memories. When angels are baking in pre Christmas times. A shared childhood memory.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@maisonbyniklas
Millennial women in conversation as title?
Today’s conversation with Tanya. A passionate barre and yoga instructor, devoted mom, and sourdough baker turned small business owner, deeply interested in health and fitness —all while balancing the many hats …
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Today’s conversation with Tanya.
A passionate barre and yoga instructor, devoted mom, and sourdough baker turned small business owner, deeply interested in health and fitness —all while balancing the many hats of modern womanhood.
We’ve discussed the drivenness and hyperdrive of millennials. The feeling of never being, pushing hard enough, even if we alway give at least 150%, still second guessing ourselves. Tanya shared her transforming practice of teaching restore classes, and how people come over and over and return to this peaceful 45min of calm and peace. What a great inspiration to incorporate it into our daily busy lives.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@sourdough_at9
@tanyaponya
A diary of a working mom’s life
Today’s been a day, where I felt to be like unorganized puzzle pieces all over the place. My mind like a bee hive, one million thoughts and feelings at the same time. Up in the air like leaves in the fall wind …
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Today’s been a day, where I felt to be like unorganized puzzle pieces all over the place. My mind like a bee hive, one million thoughts and feelings at the same time. Up in the air like leaves in the fall wind. After a miserably rainy morning came the sun with a crisp icy winter wind. Snow had fallen near by the city for the first time, winter is officially around the corner, only a couple of hundred meters higher above sea level.
After the typical evening duties, today literally called for a yin yoga session to close the day, calming mind and body to recalibrate and be a better more present member of the family. A less irritable, stressed, rushed, judgmental on self and others human kind.
This diary entry shall stand for as a metaphor of how so many of us go about our days, never stopping, holding our breath, to start deep conscious breathing.
Welcome to the mom diary part one.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
Life is a roller coaster: How to embrace it, rather than swim against it
Life can be a rollercoaster: some days we wake up on the sunny warm side of life, other days on the rainy cold side. Many factors can play a role and shift the mood in one or the other direction. Especially …
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Life can be a rollercoaster: some days we wake up on the sunny warm side of life, other days on the rainy cold side. Many factors can play a role and shift the mood in one or the other direction.
Especially, for women this is the case, having a natural cycle dictating a woman’s life through all stages of life. One’s personal life story of course, play the predominant role in how we face challenges. With a more optimistic outlook, we can cope with many more demanding situations life can bring. This positive outlook isn’t just something we’re born with. It’s an interplay of nature vs. nurture, experiences, situations, interactions with self and others, and being at the right place and time for the magic to happen. Sometimes we feel things fall into pieces other times things fall in to places. Life is unpredictable at times, as much as we wish to control it. I find it very challenging myself, to let my thoughts wonder and be open to what comes.
Certain practices can be very beneficial to putting you back on track. Embarrassing the uncertainties and go with the flow!
@drschwank
@unesurcent
An openminded conversation
Today’s episode with an openminded global citizen that dares to wear a Birkin bag. Meet Niklas: A designer at heart, inspired by movement, people, and everyday moments. Balancing creativity, discipline, and the …
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Today’s episode with an openminded global citizen that dares to wear a Birkin bag. Meet Niklas: A designer at heart, inspired by movement, people, and everyday moments. Balancing creativity, discipline, and the curiosity for what comes next.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@maisonbyniklas
From matcha to sourdough to perimenopause
Today’s conversation with Tanya. A passionate barre and yoga instructor, devoted mom, and sourdough baker turned small business owner, deeply interested in health and fitness —all while balancing the many hats …
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Today’s conversation with Tanya.
A passionate barre and yoga instructor, devoted mom, and sourdough baker turned small business owner, deeply interested in health and fitness —all while balancing the many hats of modern womanhood.
We’ve discussed and shared our thoughts, emotions, and life changes with facing perimenopause.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@sourdough_at9
@tanyaponya
Transition into fall: what we can learn from Ayurveda
Moving from bright summer days, to crisper fall days, from deep greens into oranges and reds in fall. This is a turbulent period of transition, restlessness, and melancholia: fall. Lots of us feel restless …
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Moving from bright summer days, to crisper fall days, from deep greens into oranges and reds in fall. This is a turbulent period of transition, restlessness, and melancholia: fall.
Lots of us feel restless, more anxious, up in their heads a lot. September is a typical month where everyone goes back to school. Childhood memories of our returning to school appear, making us anxious and unconsciously competitive. If you have children of your own; you might get triggered by them, reenact, and relive your own childhood experiences.
It is important to become aware of the dynamics and work on giving them space, without negatively impacting your surrounding.
Ayurveda and its philosophy of the individual composition of elements; fire, water, earth in interplay with nature and the different seasons, is an excellent support and mind map to be used, to reestablish balance in body and mind.
Follow your intuition when it comes to grounding your thoughts and feelings.
The mind desires to follow its imbalances, whereas the body seeks balance. When in doubt, listen to your body as you’d listen to a close friend.
Consistent Daily Routine:
Establish a steady routine for waking, sleeping, eating, and exercise to provide grounding and stability.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
Sourdough queen & barre instructor: journey to motherhood
womanhood. @drschwank @unesurecent @sourdough_at9 @tanyaponya
Two Female Doctors in Conversation
Today’s conversation live from sunny Zurich, with Dr. Ela. As a global citizen, Dr. Ela is home in many places and cultures around the world. We’ve discussed the beauty of solo travelling as a woman, the …
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Today’s conversation live from sunny Zurich, with Dr. Ela. As a global citizen, Dr. Ela is home in many places and cultures around the world. We’ve discussed the beauty of solo travelling as a woman, the stigma, self consciousness, and the empowering feeling of breaking the societal norms and expectations. Together we inspire, connect, and strive. Thank you Dr. Ela.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@ela_oz_la
Two Female Doctors in Conversation
Today’s conversation live from sunny Zurich, with Dr. Ela. As a global citizen, Dr. Ela is home in many places and cultures around the world. We’ve discussed the beauty of solo travelling as a woman, the …
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Today’s conversation live from sunny Zurich, with Dr. Ela. As a global citizen, Dr. Ela is home in many places and cultures around the world. We’ve discussed the beauty of solo travelling as a woman, the stigma, self consciousness, and the empowering feeling of breaking the societal norms and expectations. Together we inspire, connect, and strive. Thank you Dr. Ela.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@ela_oz_la
Sourdough queen & barre instructor: mom life
Today’s conversation with Tanya. A passionate barre and yoga instructor, devoted mom, and sourdough baker turned small business owner, deeply interested in health and fitness —all while balancing the many hats …
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Today’s conversation with Tanya.
A passionate barre and yoga instructor, devoted mom, and sourdough baker turned small business owner, deeply interested in health and fitness —all while balancing the many hats of modern womanhood.
@drschwank
@unesurecent
@sourdough_at9
@tanyaponya
A mental and physical escape: in conversation with Sophie and mental health warrior
Today’s podcast is a walk and talk conversation with Sophie Eva Allison @sophievallison, Business Psychologist, Yoga, Barre & PT instructor, and Corporate Wellbeing Coach and Ina @themh_warriors, founder of …
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Today’s podcast is a walk and talk conversation with Sophie Eva Allison @sophievallison, Business Psychologist, Yoga, Barre & PT instructor, and Corporate Wellbeing Coach and Ina @themh_warriors, founder of Mental Health Warriors, a non profit organization for putting mental health disorders in the spotlight. The three of us discussed the importance of our mental health, travel, and a healthy body mind lifestyle.
@drschwank
@sophievallison
@themh_warriors
@drschwank
@sophievallison
@themh_warriors
Back to routines: matcha & co
Today’s conversation with Haruka on being back home after summer break, long travels, the joy of routines, friendships, mental load, and parenting. @drschwank @sayakamatcha
Summer time: couples time
Plan well in advance, but arrange some support during the loooooong summer breaks around the world 🌎 -Arrange grandparents to spend precious quality time with your children. -Plan a fun camp and book it a year …
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Plan well in advance, but arrange some support during the loooooong summer breaks around the world 🌎
-Arrange grandparents to spend precious quality time with your children.
-Plan a fun camp and book it a year in advance. Anticipation joy is the greatest joy!
-Bring a babysitter / nanny on part of your summer break.
-Plan time with friends, kids play well together and all parents get a lovely break, plus kids see other kids!
-Book an upscale family resort with kids and teen club, allowing the essential breather for parents.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
Summertime and mommy me time
Summer holidays aren’t exactly “holidays” for parents of children of all ages! Take out me time during the days at times that for your and your family’s schedule best. -If you have napping toddlers, A) head out …
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Summer holidays aren’t exactly “holidays” for parents of children of all ages!
Take out me time during the days at times that for your and your family’s schedule best.
-If you have napping toddlers, A) head out on a run or B) do a yoga session, C) read a book, while they’re sleeping.
-If you have teens, lets them have their “pre-adult” alone time multiple times a day and do something yourself, with girlfriends 👯♀️ or of course your partner.
SUMMER TIME - ME TIME - Take the oxygen mask self first before helping others!!
@drschwank
@unesurcent
Travel essentials: a peak into a global family
Today’s podcast shares the most essential pillars on a long distance travel with a toddler. -Be relaxed and go with the flow. -Add as much comfort and quiet time into the trip. -Be prepared for everything …
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Today’s podcast shares the most essential pillars on a long distance travel with a toddler.
-Be relaxed and go with the flow.
-Add as much comfort and quiet time into the trip.
-Be prepared for everything, helps you to relax.
-Pack early and wisely.
-Never forget the snacks for the entire family on board!
-Love is the motto.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
Global female connection: an interview
Today’s global conversation with entrepreneur Sophie. Equipped with her holistic training, she works as a Wellness Consultant and Yoga Teacher. Her goal is to help my clients feel their best, both mentally and …
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Today’s global conversation with entrepreneur Sophie.
Equipped with her holistic training, she works as a Wellness Consultant and Yoga Teacher. Her goal is to help my clients feel their best, both mentally and physically.
@drschwank
@unesurcent
@sophievallison
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