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Phobias are one of my favorite things to coach. They are also one of the absolute best illustrations of how our experience works. When you have a phobia, you aren’t afraid of the thing you think you’re afraid of. You’re afraid of thought. Period. It’s amazing to see how a mind defends what it believes. There are a million made up reasons and justifications for our phobias but the thing is…those reasons and justifications are slippery. When closely looked at, they really don’t make much sense. This is one of my favorite episodes of this podcast because, for the first time ever, I give you a sneak peak into one of our graduate community Little School of Big Change calls. This is one of those episodes that has the potential to blow your mind wide open to a brand new way of seeing things. I hope you enjoy it!  The post EP89: Phobias and Other Illusions appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Marnix is a coach and author with a growing sense of joy about life. Less than 10 years ago he was depressed, anxious, and addicted. Marnix and I talk about all sorts of things in this episode. From how and why he woke up to this very different experience of life, while others too often do not. Was it luck? His own toughness? Something else?To his opinion on the difference between nondualism and the three principles.Plus, the dangers of thinking that we know how our own evolution will look and feel, what Marnix did when he went through a scary period with no clients, and so much more. I hope you enjoy this very open, free-flowing conversation with Marnix! You can see more about Marnix here: https://www.marnix.nl/homepage/welkom/english/The post EP88: Living a Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Life with Marnix Pauwels appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In times of uncertainty, minds can get restless. They can make up stories and scenarios in order to give you some semblance of certainty. Knowing how your mind works, helps. It helps you see what’s beyond its stories. What is beyond the mind’s stories? Now. Where we’re all okay, doing the best we see to do, present and not in a state of panic. If you’d like to read the article I rad in this episode, you can read it here: https://dramyjohnson.com/2020/03/you-and-your-mind-in-a-pandemic/ The post EP87: You and Your Mind in a Pandemic appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Some things in life feel like driving with your parking brake on.Other things feel simple. Effortless, even.What’s the difference? And how can we more naturally do the things that feel really hard?What if I said that no activity is inherently hard, ever? None. No exceptions.What if I said that paying taxes is not inherently less satisfying than receiving a tax refund? That numbers going up in your bank account is not an inherently nicer experience than numbers going down in your bank account?Nothing is inherently hard, boring, scary, fun, exciting. Nothing is inherently anything.I bet you know this already. In fact, I know you do. Now let’s look even deeper.  The post EP86: How to Do Your Taxes (And Other Hard Things) appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

 Imagine what it might be like to truly see your physical health as loving feedback.Not good versus bad. Not healthy versus diseased. Your health is how the energy of life happens to be flowing through you, expressing itself through your physical container, at a particular moment in time.Imagine viewing physical health challenges as an offer to expand. Not punishment, not bad news, not a problem to fix, work around, or medicate…but an actual invitation to step into a much bigger level of consciousness.That’s how my friend Scott Kelly views it. Scott’s approach to physical health is one of the most expansive views I’ve come across anywhere, and I can’t wait to share him with you in this episode.See more about Scott and his amazing work (which I MOST highly recommend) at https://www.scottkellycoaching.com/This is the last chance to join so many Changeable listeners in The Little School of Big Change. Class begins today, and enrollment ends Thursday, March 5th. What are you waiting for? https://lsbc.dramyjohnson.com/The post EP85: Health is Not Good or Bad with Scott Kelly appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

There was a new mother who was very caught up in doing everything right for her baby. She saw her baby’s weight, eating habits, and moods as personal reflections of how she was doing as a parent. She worried about what people would think if her baby cried in public.Her B-A-B-Y.We talked and looked and listened. She finally said, “I see that all of this judgment is a story.”Yes! “But how do I stop believing it?”Hmm. This sort of statement is incredibly common. What’s going on when we see that it’s our thinking, but…?Listen in to find out.If you want to see “it’s your thinking…” in a way that is deep, relevant, and immediately helpful, please join us in The Little School of Big Change next week! The 6-week course begins March 2nd.LSBC is a deep immersion into this understanding with coaching all the way through. There is no better, faster way to experience deep, lasting insights and change. Enroll here: https://lsbc.dramyjohnson.com/The post EP84: I Know It’s My Thinking, But… appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

It’s been so fun to watch things change for Tom.Shortly before we met last summer, Tom was not feeling great. It was a feeling he had expressed off and on at times in his life. His doctor called it Recurrent Major Depression. Then, as Tom says, he snapped out of it. He began to turn a corner and feel a lot better. He also began to immerse himself in the New Paradigm understanding and see a lot.Tom’s “recurrent major depression” looks a lot different to him now. It looks more like moods–even very low ones–fix themselves. You’ll love hearing how Tom explained this to his doctor  Tom knows that he could feel anything at any time. But he also knows that all feelings fix themselves. I can’t wait for you to hear this from him in this episode. See more about Tom here: https://www.tommattox.com/ The post EP83: Tom’s Change Story: From Major Recurrent Depression to Moods that Fix Themselves appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

At first glance, the New Paradigm can appear to be inconsistent with the idea that memories are “repressed”, or that the effects of old thought and memory are manifest in our bodies. After all, if we are 100% free and innately well, feeling only Thought energy that is constantly in motion, how would repression fit? This is a question I get all the time, usually in a way that feels scary, as if deeply repressed memories are stored in our muscles, bones and psyche, likely to spring to consciousness and wreak havoc at any moment. Okay, that may be a bit of a dramatization, but you get the picture. So listen in, as I talk about repressed memories and how we often feel the physical and emotional effects of thought we aren’t ready to feel.  The post EP82: Are Memories Repressed and Stored in our Body? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

I’ve seen so many people suffer over the idea that they don’t know their “purpose”.It’s not purpose’s fault. But “purpose”, or  better yet “soul purpose”, as Kirk Souder often talks and writes about it, just sounds so big. So important. And sometimes so mysterious.We make up how it would look and feel if we were aligned with our soul’s purpose. We expect it to look a particular way and we conclude that everyone has a purpose except for us. Ours is a mystery and because we don’t know what it is, we’re missing out.If any of that is familiar, you’re going to love this conversation with Kirk Souder.Kirk is co-founder and head leadership coach at enso, an organization that works with leaders and brands around the world such as Nike, Disney, Virgin, Visa, Google, The White House, and Obama for America. Kirk coaches high-impact leaders to find their greatest possibility in leadership, purpose, and impact.You’ll hear in my voice how much I loved this conversation with Kirk. You’ll see that your purpose is right under your nose, hiding in plain sight. And the path toward it is far simpler than it seems. See more about enso here: https://www.enso.co/See the book Kirk co-wrote, The Soul Purpose Method, here: https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Purpose-Method-Discover-Co-create/dp/1733294600The post EP81: Listening to Your Soul and Blowing Your Own Mind with Kirk Souder appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In this episode, I talk with Teri Whiteman and Claudette Dietlin about Nature. Human nature. Mother nature. “Inside” nature. “Outside” nature. Same same. No, seriously. Same same. We humans are nature, and we operate by the same Principles as nature. Do you know that? Like, really know it? The difference between you and a tree is that you have a brain and a mind that can tell stories (including stories about how much more special people are than trees, how life should and shouldn’t be going…you get the idea).It’s incredibly mind-opening to see how the laws of nature govern you and I. I think you’re going to love this conversation.If you want to spend a weekend in nature with Teri and Claudette, exploring these connections more deeply, check out the amazing retreat they are leading in early March. They talk about it at the end of this episode, too: The Nature of You Retreat.The post EP80: The Nature of You: How You and Nature are One and the Same with Teri Whiteman and Claudette Dietlin appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.