The Mark Groves Podcast

Technology has completely changed our world, but have we adapted? The online revolution has opened new avenues for addiction, social connection, disconnection and distress. There are millions of ways that we are marketed to become addicted to technology: the colours, sounds, styles, ‘likes’, games and more. We can change our relationship to technology, but it means going so much deeper than just setting rules or limits. This weeks episode is so important, I will admit I have struggled with my relationship to technology and have learned so much from Miles on how to change this. Episode highlights: 1 min - Intro to episode by Mark Groves. 4 mins - Intro to Miles, how our bodies react to the online world in relation to our biological evolution. 9 mins - How social cues impact our wellbeing, both online and offline. 15 mins - How our relationship to the world can lose its sense of reality when we are so often online. 18 mins - The mentality of “just do it”. 22 mins - Mark’s anxiety around his phone. 27 mins - Changing our subconscious relationship to technology. 32 mins - How much time are we spending with screens per day? 34 mins - Digital detoxing. 41 mins - Taking control of technology instead of letting it control you. 47 mins - New avenues for connection online, a new world of choices. 52 mins - Being conscious of our online behavior, what is behind it? Episode links: Miles Rote’s Online Course: How to use social media to improve your wellbeing Miles Rote - Self Mastery Teacher & Digital Wellness Coach, Miles illuminates the effects of modern technology on humanity & helps bridge the growing gap between our online world & our inner one through his platform, How To Become Yourself.  Miles Rote's Website Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this special episode I dive into my personal story of awakening and rejoining my heart. We all suffer betrayals, usually beginning in our childhood. And often in these betrayals, we learn to hide away parts of ourselves to survive and remain connected to those around us. This is my story of undoing those learnings and making the choice to claim my personal truth. 1:00 - Introduction to the Create The Love Bookclub. 3:00 - Mark's story of his engagement ending. 6:00 - How and why we end up hiding parts of ourselves. 9:00 - Making the choice to rejoin my heart. 12:00 - When I decided I was done with relationships. 15:00 - Give yourself the space to make mistakes, life is your playground. How to use your triggers. 20:00- Leaving too soon or staying too long? 22:00 - Relationships are the greatest determinant of health. 28:00 - The power of connection to self. Episode Notes: Join our Create The Love Bookclub! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Anahata Ananda is a wonderful friend of mine, she is also a healer, coach and guide and in this episode she walks us through the connection between spirituality and relationship. We go deep into understanding how a spiritual journey can lead us home to ourselves, and how the depth of our spiritual connection to ourself relates so much to our depth of connection with our partner. Anahata supports us in seeing how our life experiences can lift us toward faith and consciousness and out of the victim mentality.  Episode Highlights: 1 mins - Mark’s introduction - the narratives we live and how we can break them. 8 mins - Book Club Introduction! Join the Create The Love Community. 11 mins - Anahata Ananda introduction.  13 mins - Finding humour in the journey. 15 mins - The spiritual crisis, what is it? What tangents do we have to follow in order to find the path back to wholeness? 23 mins - How our journey relates to our chakras. 34 mins - Are you living out of fear or faith? What clues or messages are you not listening to?  38 mins - When we put the burden of alignment on our partner.  46 mins - How much baggage we all carry and how we can start to move through it. 50 mins - How we can step out of victim mentality and into consciousness. 55 mins - Unconditional love, the journey of coming home to unconditional love. 60 mins - Where are you still holding onto pain? 1hr 5mins - Finding the way to our truth is a process not an outcome, reclaiming your truth. Episode Notes: Free Chakra Balancing Audio Guide And Discount Codes! Anahata Ananda blends the compassion and tenderness of an Angel and the wisdom and strength of a Shaman to guide profound journeys of core healing and spiritual awakening. As a Certified High-Performance Coach, Shamanic Healer and Soul Guide, Anahata has guided thousands of individuals through core life shifts, helping them to turn their life around and manifest the life of their dreams. Anahata is the host of the internationally acclaimed Shamangelic Healing Podcast. She is the founder of Shamangelic Healing, based in Sedona Arizona, where she offers high-performance coaching, inspirational workshops, group retreats, private healing sessions, and online courses. For more about Anahata's services, visit: Shamangelichealing.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Mike Campbell is a men’s coach who specialises in helping men connect to their hearts in every aspect of life. In this episode we go deep in unpacking the messages men receive throughout their lives about love and commitment. Why do so many men seem to swim in the emotional shallow end of relationships? How do we deal with avoidance in relationship? AND, how can we change the narrative? Mike is as real as they come and a true friend, I am honored that he has shared this important and necessary conversation with us all. Episode Highlights: 1 min - Introduction from Mark. 3 mins - The Breakup Recovery Course is now live. 5 mins - Mike Campbell introduction, what does coaching men involve?  9 mins - Masculinity and the societal messages about being male and committing to relationships. 13 mins - The avoidance of relationship and commitment, the power of fear, what is below this fear? 20 mins - The invalidation of our emotional expression that so often occurs. 22 mins - What is stopping men from opening up? The impact of suffering in silence. 28 mins - Staying in the ‘safety’ of the superficial world. 32 mins - Mike’s engagement breakup story, how he went straight into business and how he started to open up. 39 mins - The necessity of hard conversation, are you willing to walk away if your partner can’t step forward? 43 mins - Dealing with a partner who ‘dances in the grey area’. 49 mins - Becoming ‘grounded’ with yourself and dealing with becoming grounded in relationship. 55 mins - How boundaries can help to create trust and truth in relationship. Episode Notes: Breakup Recovery Course Mike Campbell Instagram Mike Campbell is a men’s coach, author, and tragic wannabe professional stone fruit eater, Mike is the founder of The School of Personal Mastery – a group coaching program for men wanting to get their shit together and achieve greater success and happiness in their career, relationships, and life - without the guilt and hang-ups.  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This is a very personal episode for me, this is my own journey with codependency. Throughout our lives we all become part of widely accepted social contracts through our childhood, religion, community and family. This is my story of breaking some of the social contracts that did not align to my own truth or integrity. It took a lot of vulnerability to break those social contract and also to open up on this topic, so I truly hope it resonates. Episode Highlights: 1min - My own personal story and learning about codependency in my own life. 2 mins - My relationship to alcohol. 4 mins - How I’d kept one foot in and out foot out with my commitments to change. 5 mins - What unspoken agreements do you hold onto that you don’t truly believe? 10 mins - If i loved myself what would i do? 16 mins - The addiction to trying to save others. 19 mins - I don’t “have it all together”, the power of compassion for self. 22 mins - Where have you been taught to hide your truth? If this episode resonated for you please remember to subscribe, leave a review, let me know what you'd like to hear more of, and share with your loved ones! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

In this episode, Kate Horsman shares her personal story with an eating disorder. Kate shares her ‘fall into grace’ as she left the harsh, competitive world of ballet and made her way through hospitalisation and the life long task of healing. In a world where disordered eating and negative body image are so normalized, Kate’s voice cuts through the pain experienced by so many to offer compassion and hope that we can finally come home to feel safe in our own bodies. As Kate so warmly describes, the way out is to nourish ourselves. Whether you believe you have a healthy relationship with food and your body, there are so many gems offered by Kate in this episode. Episode Highlights: 2 mins - Intro, the teacher arrives when the student is ready. 8 mins - Breakup Recovery Course. 10 mins - Please leave a written review if you enjoy this episode! 11 mins - Kate Horsman introduction, background in ballet and childhood. 19 mins - How Kate’s body communicated her needs. 25 mins - What caused Kate to drop it all and leave. 30 mins - Male eating disorders and the pathway into eating disorders for boys and girls. 34 mins - How do you become safe in your body? 38 mins - The normalization of unhealthy eating. 46 mins - Committing to healing and nourishing yourself. 53 mins - Finding your voice in your healing. 57 mins - Movement as healing. 1hr 2mins - Surviving the present moment. 1hr 4mins - Kate’s current work supporting others in healing, the power of compassion. 1hr 17mins - Kate's new course coming soon. Episode Notes: Kate Horsman Instagram Kate Horsman.com Kate Horsman is a Nutritionist, Counsellor and Mindfulness Leader in Vancouver BC. Her training through both professional counselling and nutrition, provide the bridge between the mind-body connection which lends greatly to her specialization in Eating Disorders and Mental Illness. Allowing food and the brain as a medium for embodied change. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Sam Skelly is a dear friend of mine that has truly changed lives with her work on loving ourselves, loving our bodies and using breathwork to meet our pain with love. Whatever pain you might be experiencing in your life and whether you know the root cause of your pain or not, Sam walks you through how to meet pain with love. Sam specializes in loving our bodies and our relationship with food, but also with using breathwork as the bridge to meeting our pain. When we meet our pain with love, finally the pain can transform. Sam walks us through a practical example of how to use breathwork in everyday life. If you think that the idea of breathwork isn’t for you, then this episode is most definitely for you! Episode Highlights: 2 mins - Intro to episode. 10 mins - Intro to Sam Skelly, how Mark and Sam met, the mission of hungry for happiness. 15 mins - The link between the body and emotions. 20 mins - Childhood messaging around bodies and eating. 28 mins - The game of life if the ultimate goal of happiness. 30 mins - Meeting pain with love. 36 mins - Meditation and breath work. 43 mins - Breathwork with Pause, how we stop ‘doing’ and learn to just be, why are we addicted to our phones? 48 mins - 20 second breathwork example. 53 mins - Breathwork as a metaphor for life. 55 mins - Pain that is preverbal, how breathwork sessions can give rise to intergenerational pain. Episode Links: Hungry for Happiness Pause Audio Samantha Skelly on Instagram Samantha Skelly Website Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

*Ghosting* it's a phenomenon! One of the most common questions I am asked is 'how do I respond to this person who has just suddenly disappeared?' In this video we unpack the phenomenon of ghosting. Why is is happening? What is behind it? How should we respond, if at all? If you've ever ghosted someone, or been ghosted, this episode is for you! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

John Kim (aka The Angry Therapist) has made his mark on Instagram, sharing authentic, raw and unfiltered views on life, love and everything in-between. This week I was honored to discuss his approach and in particular we go deep on the difference between young love and healthy love. If you are wondering how to step into healthy love and beyond the highs and lows of superficial dating, then John Kim is your man! Episode Highlights: 1 min - Intro to episode. 2 mins - Being authentic online. 5 mins - Being a therapist vs being a coach. 12 mins - Starting over and having nothing to lose. 16 mins - Healthy love vs unhealthy love or young love. 24 mins - Relationships are built, not found. 29 mins - The bad boy and the codependent. 35 mins - False beliefs and limiting beliefs. 41 mins - Why don’t we study relationships? 45 mins - Accepting that not all relationships are meant to last. Episode Links: The Angry Therapist Website The Angry Therapist Instagram Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jamie Elizabeth Thompson is a holistic intimacy and sex specialist and we had the most amazing conversation about awakening our sexual selves. Sex and sexuality is such a difficult topic for so many people. Whether it be via our culture, familial upbringing, or religious conditioning, there is still so much shame wrapped up in our sexual selves. Jamie and I discuss how we can move through our conditioning and use our vulnerability to empower and explore our sexual selves. Jamie brings so much understanding and knowledge on the power of the erotic to this episode and I’m so excited to bring you this important conversation, whatever your sexuality, relationship type or gender this episode is for you. Podcast Highlights: 1 min - Introduction to the episode on sex and sexuality. 6 mins - Please leave a review where ever you listen! 6.30 mins - The ‘Create The Love’ course discount, ends soon! 8 mins - Intro to Jamie Thomson’s work with sex and sexuality. 12 mins - Sexual energy and using it in your life as well as the bedroom. 16 mins - Puritanism vs hyper-sexualisation. 20 mins - Narratives around female sexual repression and male sexual shame. 27 mins - The shadow side of sex. 30 mins - Erotic intelligence and the erotic actualization pyramid. 32 mins - How we can have great sex and how we can break our conditioning. 40 mins - Breaking down our sexual shame and repression. 47 mins - The feminine sexuality and giving women permission to ask for what they need. 49 mins - Erotic love languages. 60 mins - Asking for what you want and the ways to ask. 1hr 03 mins - Integrating our hearts, minds and genitals. Podcast Links: Create The Love course starting soon! Jamie Elizabeth Thompson Facebook Jamie's Instagram Jamie's Website Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands