I had a series of massive insights when I was 16 years old. Shortly thereafter, my familiar, habitual thinking slowly came back, masking what I had seen. This happens, but I didn’t know it at the time. I spent a good part of the next 20 years trying to chase down or recreate my former The post EP124: What Losing my Insight Showed me about Feeling versus Knowing appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In this episode, I attempt to describe what’s there beyond our changing, moving, psychological  experience. As you might imagine, it’s not easy to describe in words. But I try, using one of my favorite ways of thinking about it–the purring cat (I got this from my friend Marnix Pauwels).If anything I say in this episode resonates The post EP123: The Purring Cat appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

What if we’re designed with the ability to eat without needing to think much about it? And what if we never, ever lose this ability…we just think we’ve lost it? I know it can look like we have all the evidence in the world to prove that we don’t know how to eat. We overeat. We restrict. The post EP122: You Know How To Eat appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Gina has been the primary caregiver for her father and step-mother, during a pandemic, no less. To make matters worse, her husband has had some recent health challenges and she’s been caring for him as well. As many of you know firsthand, caretaking can be a huge job.She’s felt the enormity and exhaustion and uncertainty The post EP121: Gina’s Change Story: Caretaking and Meeting Your Elderly Parents for the First Time appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Politicians do not determine our overall level of wellbeing. Policies and practices, while very important in a macro sense, do not determine what we feel in a micro sense. In this episode, we’ll explore that macro-micro distinction. When we look out to the macro and think it affects the micro, we suffer. That suffering is our The post EP120: Political Candidates and Outcomes Can’t Affect Your Wellbeing appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Sarah’s life today is unrecognizable from how it once was.She spent 15 years in and out of hospital, afraid to eat, often on a feeding tube, with more than one suicide attempt. She didn’t think she could cope with life. She didn’t want to grow up, so she kept herself (literally) tiny and physically dependent. Her The post EP119: Sarah’s Change Story: From fifteen years of anorexia to complete health, contentment, and a life supporting others appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Humans are said to process 11 Million bits of information per second. Do you know how much we’re aware of? How many bit make it to conscious awareness? 50.Isn’t that an incredible ratio?! How do you suppose the 50 out of 11,000,000 bits are chosen? Which 50 come to life in a way we can see and recognize? The post EP118: What the Ratio 50:11,000,000 Can Show You About What You Think and Feel appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

People are suffering and we’re bombarded with reminders and images of their struggles. Which, in turn, leads us to suffer for them.In some ways, it’s a beautiful, compassionate illustration of our oneness that we suffer for complete strangers. We celebrate with them too. We are them and they are us and we deeply know it. But The post EP116: Suffering for Others appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Jacqui recently had what she calls a shattering. There was B.S., life Before the Shattering (which she says is aptly named) and there is life now, after the shattering.Before the shattering Jacqui was far less aware of her worth. She believed that her worth came from the roles she took on. Her value was largely The post EP115: Jacqui’s Change Story: Realizing Your Worth Beyond Actions and Roles appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

I was ridiculously excited to talk with John Dicey, CEO of Allen Carr’s Easyway Method. Allen Carr’s Easyway books have sold over 14 Million copies worldwide. Fourteen MILLION. They’ve applied their method to smoking, drinking, overeating, and a growing handful of other issues. The essence of their approach is so much in line with the essence of The post EP113: Dismantling False Beliefs to End Addiction with John Dicey, CEO of Allen Carr’s Easyway Method appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.