The Little Peace of Mind Podcast

In today's episode, you'll hear John El-Mokadem and I do our best to answer the question: "Yes, but what about my physical symptoms?" John shares a beautiful metaphor that I know will speak to many of you, and we answer a handful of questions from 'real, live people' with 'real, live problems'. Here's to peace with physical symptoms instead of needing them to be gone.

Today's guest is Ankush Jain. Ankush had an experience as a child which gave him an idea about who he was, what he was capable of, and what he'd need to overcome to get by in life. For years he lived this as his reality, until he saw who he thought he was was simply an idea that wasn't, and never had been, true. Today we discuss all this, plus: how a coach helps you bump up against your own thinking what's left when we knock the legs out from under thought if this is true.....so what?

Today is officially 'World Menopause Day' so with that in mind, I wanted to share this conversation I had with Tania Elfersy earlier this year to bring you a fresh perspective.

Earlier this year, John El-Mokadem and I ran a training that was helpful to so many people that I wanted to turn it into a podcast to share with you today. In it we discussed: What's the big deal about living in a quieter mind? Why do we think it's so hard to 'get there'? How dropping the resistance to what is can be a fundamental gamechanger How the way we feel doesn't need to have any bearing on what we choose to do All about physical symptoms - anxiety, panic attacks, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia There is a bit of dodginess in some of the sound due to the internet connection, but please don't let that spoil your enjoyment!

In this week's podcast, I talk with Gayle Nobel about her experience of raising her son Kyle, who has autism. And what ensued was a wonderful rich conversation about what happens when life turns out differently than we had imagined it would do so is conversation relevant for all of us. "Space of Love brings a powerful message of hope to those living with autism. However, the message reaches far beyond that to anyone who, in the face of unexpected adversity and an uncertain future, has longed for a practical and profound path to living in the Space of Love more than they had dreamt possible. Gayle Nobel has written with gritty honesty, humility and wisdom about the bumps and potholes she has traversed, often more than once, on her journey. Believe me, you will not regret traveling with her and sharing the sights and insights she shares with you along the way. —William F. Pettit Jr., MD, psychiatrist and student and sharer of the Three Principles since 1983

Earlier this year, I ran a program called 'Falling More Deeply in Love' alongside my mentor and colleague, Dr George Pransky. George and I recorded three masterclasses together – and today's podcast is an out-take from one of those calls. Here you'll hear George answer the questions… What do we do about disagreement and conflict in our relationships? How do we get 'them' to behave better? How do we feel closer and more connected with each other? How do we get to have more sex in our lives??!

In this episode you'll hear me talking to Karen DiMarco about how to take the weight of our bodies of our minds. You'll hear me sounding slightly insane talking about the amount of thinking I have had about food and how much I weigh without even realising it and how so many of us are literally thinking ourselves fat. So if you, like me, are fed up of white-knuckling through the latest diet fad and beating yourself up about not going to the gym, you'll find this refreshingly insightful. She also shares details of her new upcoming Weightless program right at the end of the episode so make a note to listen to this one sooner rather than later.

In today's podcast, Shannon Cooper, our Head Coach at A Little Peace of Mind answers the following questions. Beautiful. Can other people make you feel stressed and anxious? What about repetitive, intrusive thoughts? What about avoiding things I'm scared of? Can Mind ever abandon us? What do I DO when I'm having a bad day? Is it my common sense and wisdom that's telling me to avoid the thing I'm scared of so I should listen to it? Or is it just thought so I should ignore it? How do we change our thoughts so we can have better ones and therefore a better life?

One of the things about anxiety is that we can become scared of uncertainty. We want to KNOW what's going to happen so we can plan for any contingency - we need our surroundings to be reliable and just so in order that we can have any chance of relaxing. The result? We turn into control freaks. One of my colleagues joked last week that she could tell how well she was doing by how control-freaky she felt on any given day - and I would say that's probably true for all of us. Today's podcast is taken from the upcoming Little Peace of Mind 12 Week Program and here's where I started to see something more deeply true that impacted on my ability to get comfortable with the uncertainties of life.

In today's episode Brooke and I do our best to answer two questions: Is it true that something traumatic that happened to us when we were a child can impact the way we show up to life today? Can our own children ever be broken or 'go wrong'? We'll be following this episode up with a Facebook Live on Friday 31 August at 1pm UK time where we'll be discussing 'How To Help our Children Thrive No Matter What' - click here to set a reminder to join us and ask your questions: https://facebook.com/alittlePOM/videos/2128166510836199/