What if one of the most powerful tools for Aging youthfully isn’t found in a supplement, a Diet, or even an Exercise routine—but in how you think, play, and respond to life’s most difficult moments? In this deeply moving and insightful conversation, Dr. Gillian Lockitch speaks with Kym Coco, who shares how profound loss became the catalyst for transformation, resilience, and renewed purpose. Drawing on her background in sports kinesiology, emotional awareness, and performance Coaching, Kym reveals how mindset, movement, and intentional play can help rewire emotional responses and restore vitality. Listeners will discover how Grief can become a gateway to Growth, how simple shifts in self-talk can transform your inner critic into a supportive coach, and how engaging fully in the present moment—through activities like golf or dance—can restore joy, Clarity, and resilience at any age. This episode offers both science-informed insight and practical tools to help you take control of how you age—mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Episode Timeline

00:00 – Welcome and introduction

Overview of the episode theme: healing through play, mindset, and emotional resilience

02:30 – Kym Coco’s story and the origin of Miracle on the Mountainside

A powerful journey through Trauma, recovery, and conscious healing

05:00 – Life-changing accident and mindset transformation

How surrender, belief, and active participation in healing shaped a new path

08:30 – Mind, body, and Emotions as interconnected systems

How sensory input, beliefs, and emotional states influence physiology and decision-making

11:30 – Golf as a tool for healing and rebuilding life

Using structure, presence, and play to move through grief and uncertainty

14:30 – Dr. Gillian’s personal story of dance and renewal

From loss to ballroom dancing and rediscovering joy and purpose

20:00 – Creating new pathways: the “100 golf courses” vision

Using challenge, novelty, and environment to rebuild identity and resilience

23:00 – The power of symbolic reminders: the “rock ritual”

Simple daily practices to reinforce agency, intention, and emotional choice

25:00 – Communication, emotional triggers, and conscious response

Tools to create space between reaction and response for better Relationships

27:00 – Transforming the inner critic into a supportive coach

Practical strategies to shift self-talk and build resilience

29:00 – Daily practice for emotional resilience and vitality

Morning awareness, reframing thoughts, and integrating body and mind

30:50 – Key takeaways and closing reflections

Choosing joy, presence, and purposeful aging

Connect with Kym Coco

https://swagtail.com/

Book: Miracle on the Mountainside

https://swagtail.com/podcastbonus/

Call to Action

Connect with Dr. Gillian Lockitch at https://www.askdrgill.com/ or email: [email protected]

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Dr. Gillian Lockitch Dr. Gillian Lockitch

Dr. Gillian Lockitch is an international speaker, author of Growing Older, Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably, and host of the Growing Older, Living Younger Podcast. As a dual-certified Specialist in Paediatrics and Medical Biochemistry and Professor at the University of British Columbia, her professional career was rooted in science. During her rehabilitation from life-saving emergency spinal surgery, her passion to be able to dance again led her to explore the intersection of medical and epigenetic science with non-Western healing traditions, to understand how to change aging at the cellular level. Within the Growing Older, Living Younger Project, the Change Your Aging Masterplan cycle is a year-long 3 part coaching program to preserve mind and brain, build your best body, and to survive and thrive in your environment. At 70 Dr. Lockitch became a first time entrepreneur, building a global online business with the premiere wellness and beauty company, to help others extend their healthspan, stay vibrant, active, and independent as they age. Now retired from medical practice, Dr. Lockitch is an empathetic coach and mentor but does not diagnose, treat or prescribe for medical diseases.