EP99: The Evolutionary Reason Your Brain Creates Anxiety

The human brain hasn’t changed much in the past 200,000 years. But–you may have noticed–the world has changed a lot since then.What this means is that there are many things your brain does that were necessary and adaptive in the world of 200,000 years ago, but that are unnecessary and irrelevant today. Fear, for example,

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EP98: Freedom from Codependency with Del Adey-Jones

Del grew up in some unusual circumstances and her mind did all that it could to protect her. It did all that it could to heal the hurts of the past, as minds do. As a result, Del was caught up in narcissistic relationships and codependency for many years. Now, she experiences things very, very differently. What

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EP97: Simpler, Not More

Our experience is so much simpler than our minds will ever let us know. It’s so much simpler than our minds are even capable of knowing. When people feel badly, they ask things like: “What am I missing?” “Do I just need to see this more deeply?”“Maybe I don’t really get it?”“Should I listen to more? Listen to

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EP96: Always Okay (Even with Cancer and Covid-19) with Mary Franklin-Smith

In the past few months, Mary has been diagnosed with skin cancer and Coronavirus.Her young son also had the virus. Oh, and she had her very first panic attack recently.All of these things have shown her something amazing. They have helped her see that she is okay. Now. Always. No matter what is happening within

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EP95: You Have No Personality (and Neither do Serial Killers)

There is no such thing as a mean or evil person. Or a kind person, a funny person, a clumsy person. There are just people–always healthy, always pure, always full of love and connection at their core (yes, even Hitler. Even serial killers), who do unkind things, and also some kind things. No different than any of us.

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EP94: Grief and Death with Giles Croft

Giles’ mum died last month…just a couple weeks before this conversation was recorded. A few days after our conversation, Giles and his sister held an online funeral for his mum in the midst of the lockdown.  His experience of grief has been amazing to watch.Giles’ experience of his mother’s death has been night and day different

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EP93: Planicking

Planning + Panicking = PlanickingAre you doing it?In this episode, we look at what happens when we plan + panic = planick. But mostly, we look at how incredibly, unbelievably resilient humans are. How amazing it is that we’re making it through each day as well as we are. How we’re doing perhaps better having this thrust

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EP92: Holly’s Change Story: The End of Dieting and the Beginning of So Much More

Holly thought weight issues were encoded in her DNA. She was a person with food issues, period. There was no other possibility in her mind. She was born with food issues just like she was born with blue eyes. It was her cross to bear. Finding new ways to bear that cross was as good as

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EP91: Balance

“The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.” –Daniel OkrentIt always sounds funny to me when people talk about achieving balance. Or striving for balance. Or working on, or toward, balance.Balance is our nature. It is default. We don’t work toward what’s default. We stop working and find ourselves there. We don’t achieve

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EP90: Lucy’s Change Story: Drinking 

Fairly recently, Lucy decided to experiment with drinking less.She didn’t quit. She experimented. She became curious and watched what happened as she didn’t drink one time. And then another time. And then another time. She watched what happened as she came up against situations where drinking was the norm. There were a lot of them.She let

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