I often talk about how all suffering comes from thought taken as truth. That can sometimes be heard as cold or insensitive. It looks to me like there are three primary misunderstandings at play when this message is heard in this way. Three things that are not what’s being said, but are how it is The post EP195: When this message sounds cold and insensitive appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In today’s episode, I speak to a question that was sent by a listener named Betsy. Betsy says her binge/restrict cycle is the worst it’s ever been, she’s gained weight, and is embarrassed and ashamed by herself. Given that she literally sees this all when she looks in the mirror, how can it be thought? Betsy The post EP194: How Can My Weight Problem be Thought When It’s a Physical Reality? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In this episode, I talk about a one month workshop I recently led for people struggling with health anxiety. What happened over the course of a month is pretty amazing. Three people who were struggling with worry and anxiety around their health began to see that their anxiety has nothing to do with any health event The post EP193: Freedom from Health Anxiety appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

It’s so funny that I refer to these conversations we have here as an “understanding”. That’s not what it is at all, really. It’s before understanding. Way before. It’s so close, so immediate, so oozy that we overlook it. A mind and it’s concepts and stories look right “over” it.   It’s this aliveness that is everything far The post EP192: Overlook appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In this episode, I share a quote that deeply spoke to me about how the objectifying mind is “nothing other than it’s own movement”.  How it will “arrange and rearrange its collection of ideas onto a nest and settle down for a little while, but some unexplainable restlessness will prompt it to keep looking for The post EP191: A More Comfortable Nest appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

There are many concepts and ideas that have been incredibly helpful to me. Things like wisdom, empowerment, hope…From a place of feeling completely immersed in the story of me-and-my-life, going from feeling like life is up to me to seeing that there is something called “wisdom” leading the way was unbelievably helpful.Same with hope. From The post EP190: Hope as a Handhold appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Today’s episode is based on a question I received from a listener. The gist of her question was this:  “If our thoughts are not real and they’re just making up stories, then how would you explain childhood abuse? Are my thoughts and feelings not true? Is my mind just making this up?”It’s an excellent question, The post EP189: Listener: “Is Childhood Abuse Also a Story?” appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

The mind isn’t a real thing. It’s a concept.  As a concept, it implies some solidity and some continuity. There’s a story about me-and-my-mind that can’t help but arise.My mind appears to be an entity with some solid qualities. I can like what it does or dislike what it does. I can try to change The post EP188: The Mind Isn’t a Real Thing appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In this conversation, I talk with parenting coach, change coach, and The Little School of Big Change moderator, Jessica Silverman. Jess shares what’s behind impatience, particularly in parenting. We feel impatient when we think things aren’t going the way they should–our children aren’t feeling the way they should, or they aren’t behaving the way we think The post EP187: Uncovering Patience with Change Coach Jessica Silverman appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

If you listened to EP181, you heard me speaking to some questions sent by Alice. In today’s episode, I share a portion of a conversation I had with Alice after she heard EP181. Alice says she feels like a prisoner to thoughts and beliefs she couldn’t change. She said that although it sounded nice to The post EP186: Listener: “I’m a Prisoner to my Thoughts and Beliefs” appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.