The Little Peace of Mind Podcast

Heidi went from having an ordinary life to waking up one night sweating and anxious. This grew into huge moods swings, periods of anxiety and mania culminating in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. She came to me for some private coaching, but it was a few weeks before she could find a date that would work for both of us so in the meantime she began the Little Peace of Mind 12 Week Program. There she heard something completely different and when she showed up to our first coaching call and told me: "I no longer consider myself to have a diagnosis of anxiety or bipolar." What on earth happened in those few short weeks? I invited Heidi to create this podcast with me to share her story.

Today's guest is Judy Sedgeman, one of the early pioneers of the Three Principles understanding. She shares with us her experience of unexpectedly bumping into the work of Dr Bill Petit, meeting Syd Banks and how her journey through learning and teaching the Principles unfolded. Judy has a huge range of experience sharing this with a diverse set of people and now her clients include people struggling with the worst of circumstances we could possiblly imagine. We discuss how we can use the gift of thought to create suffering or joy and how life has a way of working out.....no matter what.

Today's guest is our Little Peace of Mind Kid's Coach, Julie Brown. Julie specialises in supporting all those under the age of 18 through our LightHearted Kids, LightHearted Tween, Parenting and 1:1 Coaching Programs. Given it's the summer holidays (as least in this hemisphere), I thought you might enjoy a fresh perspective on what to do about those little people creating chaos/refusing to get up/worrying about moving up a school year/getting up to all sorts they shouldn't this week! We talk about the three things that are the game-changers in parenting or being a teacher, and the things every child should know that make a huge difference to how they show up in the world. We have laughter, we have insights and exploration and even interruptions from 9 year olds - just so you can see that we live what we teach!

Today's podcast is an excerpt from another of Little Peace of Mind Q&A weekly calls that we run - this time with our coach, Shannon. Today Shannon uses two beautiful metaphors to help you understand WHY you feel so bad when you feel bad and why there's absolutely nothing you need to when you do. Enjoy.

So......I signed a publishing contract with Hay House - whooo hoooo! (A big over-excited as you might be able to tell) A Little Peace of Mind, the book, is on it's way! With that in mind, this week's podcast is taken from the book. It's my favourite chapter at the moment. If you saw only this....what I talk about here....it would change EVERYTHING. Enjoy.

It's HOT here in the UK at the moment and with the shedding of clothes comes the familiar insecurities that can arise about how we look, what we're eating and why the hell we don't just go to the gym more! And for some, issues around weight and food feel more serious than just a superficial concern with how we look. Today's guest, Jess Heading works with women who have lost confidence in their own wisdom around food and health. Today she shares her own experience of 10 years of eating disorders into now having a completely different relationship with food and body size and confidence. (And some of my own personal insecurities because yes, I am as human as the next person and this is a 'sticky' topic for me!)

"There is only one truth in this book. The truth is that you are freedom. You are freedom itself. Unlimited, unbounded. Pure potential. Pure freedom. It is just sometimes you believe otherwise. That's it. It is no more complicated than that. But oh my goodness how hard it can be sometimes to see that. How hard it can be to see that when it looks like we are being so firmly held back by a lack of money, qualifications, support and other resources and trapped by responsibilities, commitments and demands on our time and energy." Clare and I explore who we really are, our relationship to people and circumstances and our belief that we have free choice. Where freedom lies and all the places it pretends to be.

"I need my panic attacks to go and THEN I'll be happy." "I need to be able to take my kids on holiday this year and THEN I'll be happy." "I need to be able to stop washing my hands obsessively and THEN I'll be happy." "I need my boyfriend to want to live with me and THEN I'll be happy." "I need to be a stone lighter and THEN I'll be happy." "I need a husband/kids/new house and THEN I'll be happy." What if none of that was true? Today Gemma shares how her anxiety hinged around a central story that she suddenly saw to be untrue. It was made of thought. And how that changes everything. (Oh and how she had her finger bitten off by a dog - in case you're planning to have breakfast while you listen!)

Here's was Danielle's life: "I had a complete nervous breakdown, the 3rd in my life, I couldn't leave my room, I didn't sleep at all for 3 weeks, I dropped down to 6st 11 (43kg) I couldn't bath, wash or brush my teeth because I couldn't be alone for that long. I couldn't sit down so I paced around in a small circle for about 10 hours a day. I became petrified that I would go crazy & grab a knife & stab myself or jump off of the balcony without any control over myself. I banned anything that could be a hazard from the house. No one was allowed to come into the house as that made me feel even more afraid, I couldn't eat & just about managed to drink water. I started experiencing hallucinations at night & would wake up to spiders crawling over the walls & bed, to seeing people standing over me & hearing voices in my head (all through lack of sleep & severe stress) hospital was discussed but the crisis team realised that moving me would probably make me worse & I agreed, so I had twice daily visits & calls to check I was still alive." From this....to peace of mind. Listen to her story.

In today's podcast, it's just me, going solo. What you'll hear today is a clip from a live Q&A call that I ran as part of my 12 Week Little Peace of Mind Program. I wanted to respond to questions and themes my clients had been asking throughout the week and here's what I covered: The two fundamental things – the ONLY things you need to see in order to completely change your experience of life How trying to control the uncontrollable leads to struggle in every area of our lives Why being human is actually OK How we get stuck where we do And how you're not really special or different at all