Everyday Alex: Recent Episodes
Alex Howard
Everyday Alex is a daily podcast providing support, wisdom and inspiration for living a healthier and happier life. Join Alex Howard for a mix of interviews, recorded therapy sessions, practical teachings, and inspirational community stories.
Alex Howard explains plans for this daily vlog in the coming few weeks and his plans to take a temporary break. You can register for the Trauma & Mind Body Super Conference at: https://traumasuperconference.com/?affid=AlexEmail
Alex Howard talks with OHC nutritionist Sanna Anderson about Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) in the context of recovery from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia.
Find out more about the Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
Alex Howard explores key principles of trauma and makes the point that we have all experienced trauma in our lives. You can register for the Trauma & Mind Body Super Conference for free at: https://traumasuperconference.com/?affid=AlexEmail
Alex Howard talks with OHC nutritionist Sanna Anderson about basic diet principles to support recovery from ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. Find out more about The Optimum Health Clinic at https://www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
Alex Howard announces the Trauma & Mind Body Super Conference which starts on the 29th June. Register now to access 7 free registration gifts. Go to https://traumasuperconference.com/?affid=AlexEmail
Alex Howard talks with OHC nutritionist Sanna Anderson about digestion and why it matters in recovery from ME, CFS, Fibromyalgia and other fatigue-related conditions. Long term stress can have a sustaining effect on our digestive systems, and Sanna helps us understand how improving our gut functions is essential to healing from chronic conditions. Everyday Alex is the daily vlog series from Alex Howard. Subscribe and hit the bell for notifications to make sure you don’t miss a single episode! Explore Alex's website https://www.alexhoward.tv/ to find out more about his projects at The Optimum Health Clinic, Therapeutic Coaching and Conscious Life.
What are the things in your life that you can choose to be grateful for? Alex talks about making the deliberate choice to focus on gratitude. Link to Howard Family Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/howard-family-2020
Alex talks about the importance of honesty, and how to approach having tricky conversations in relationships.
Therapeutic coach Alex Howard shares his ideas on how to approach weighing the risks of any new endeavour, balancing hope and disappointment and how we can invest ourselves in a new challenge by looking for opportunities for positive change. Find out more about the RESET program and sign up to the mailing list at any time at https://www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Registration is open for the RESET program for the next couple of days - the next intake will be in September 2020. In this video, Alex answers questions about the RESET program - great for anyone with sleep issues, folks with chronic fatigue conditions, or anyone looking to calm their nervous system. Find out more and sign up to the mailing list at any time at www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Introducing the latest launch of the RESET program, Alex Howard talks about the limits of "positive thinking" and the importance of acknowledging and working with the full spectrum of emotions that come up in order to heal from chronic illness.
Find out more about the RESET Program at www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Alex Howard shares key principles from the RESET Program on how to RESET your nervous system to support healing. Sign up for the FREE 3-part video series at www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Therapeutic coach Alex Howard talks about the importance of calming the nervous system in order to help the body heal. When the sympathetic nervous system is active our bodies don't have a chance to get into the healing state - through the RESET program, Alex teaches you how to access the healing state with a number of different tools and techniques. Find out more about the RESET Program at https://www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Therapeutic coach Alex Howard gives some tips for dealing with the harsh and judgemental thoughts that criticises everything we do, or attacks others. Recognising your thoughts is the first step to making proactive decisions about how you act next, both in relation to yourself and self-care, and how you treat others.
Alex Howard explains why tracking recovery on the healing journey is so important, and offers suggestions for how to do this.
Alex discusses how to practice tolerance when tensions run high in stressful community situations. Cultivating a level of compassion and respect for someone you might disagree with, as well as taking responsibility for your own triggers, can help you maintain more awareness and a sense of control over your own mental state.
Alex describes how taking small and consistent steps towards healing specific parts of our lives along the healing journey support the bigger picture of healing from chronic illness or trauma, and how the timing and sequencing of certain smaller parts of healing are important to discover with help with a roadmap or practitioner. Find out more about the RESET Program at https://www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Therapeutic Coach Alex Howard offers the perspective of keeping your big goals both with a larger picture in mind and a plan to approach the action in small intentional practices - and how to manage the micro-actions keeping the big picture in mind. In the Q&A Alex answers queries about dealing with mental and personality patterns in goal setting, and how to explore finding our "true self".
In today's live session, Therapeutic Coach Alex Howard talks about the power of presence and focus, applying helpful behaviours and practices to feel more fullfilled and productive in unstructured times.
Therapeutic Coach Alex Howard offers some advice on how to deal with our new constrained living spaces, and how to deal with the ebbing and flowing of emotions, circumstances, and how to take things one situation at a time. Practising patience, resourcefulness, creativity and flexibility, we can more mindfully deal with the challenges we're presented with.
Alex Howard streams LIVE to talk about how to calm the nervous system with humour, fun, memes and good news. In a time where we can be overwhelmed by new and challenging circumstances of isolation and the coronavirus pandemic, finding lightness and humour can help us to relax and support our health and well being. What are you doing to have fun while staying at home?
In today's LIVE episode, Alex explores the theme of learning to let go, and answers questions from the live audience.
In this first ever LIVE episode of Everyday Alex, Alex explores the positive that can come from things falling apart in both our own lives, and on a larger scale, particularly in the context of COVID-19.
Therapeutic coach Alex Howard offers some thoughts on honouring your emotions and taking things one bit at a time through this difficult and unusual time. By practising commitment to make the best of the situation and surrender to what is, you may find a more structured way to get through uncertain times.
Alex Howard talks with Otis about his healing journey from ME/CFS and the realisation he needed to rise to the challenge of recovery.
Alex Howard talks with Kirsty Cullen (Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic) about ways to support immunity. Kirsty and Alex discuss the importance of sleep, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Selenium, Probiotics and how to get the most from these supports through nutrition and lifestyle.
Alex Howard shares some guidance on how to manage your mind and emotions during the Coronavirus outbreak.
Alex Howard shares thoughts on Coronavirus and ensuring people with fatigue are prepared. Article mentioned can be found here: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
Alex Howard talks with Misty Williams about her upcoming online summit Your Best Sleep Ever. Register for FREE at https://bestsleepsummit.com/?idev_id=24883
Alex Howard talks about some core principles for how best to navigate the current Coronavirus situation with fatigue related conditions.
Alex Howard talks with Instagrammer James Wythe about his journey to recovery from ME/CFS and how discovering his passion for food and cooking played a key role in his recovery. James was a sporty, active young man until when he fell ill at 21 - falling sick with a mysterious illness he was so ill he was rushed to hospital with the assumption of a brain tumour, but tests resulted with no diagnosis. James spent 2 years bedbound, with no answers or treatment. With full-time help and support from his loved ones, James slowly made improvements through learning to listen closely to his body. Once he was able to stand and cook, he discovered his love for finding new delicious recipes that fit within his dietary requirements eliminating dairy, wheat, gluten, and sugar. You can follow James Wythe on social media, Healthy Living James, and cook along with him with his delicious healthy recipes.
Alex Howard offers guidance on how to ask for help and enlist the support of others in a helpful way, especially when dealing with limitations in chronic illness and disability.
Alex Howard outlines some key principles to help get the most out of sessions with a practitioner.
Alex Howard helps ME/CFS patient Kat prepare for a visit from her mother, including how to set her own boundaries and communicate her needs to preserve the progress she's making on her recovery journey. Communicating to loved ones, and even to ourselves, what our specific needs and limits are with chronic illness can be a challenge and here Alex offers a few reflective exercises to help clarify the best ways to move through these situations.
Alex Howard guides a relaxing ten-minute meditation on opening up the heart and inviting love in order to cultivate opportunities for connection.
During a busy advertising career, Simon started to feel run down and then contracted a virus - when he didn't recover from the illness he began his long recovery from being bedbound with CFS. Alex Howard talks with Simon Ratcliffe about his recovery story from ME/CFS, along with his journey to launch his new podcast Turning the Tables: From Adversity to Advantage, including a feature interview with Michael Crawford. Listen to Turning the Tables at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/turning-the-tables/id1466532041
Alex Howard shares some thoughts about the importance of clearing background stress in our lives along with some suggestions on how to do so.
Alex Howard talks to nutritional therapist Julia Alderman about how to take supplements in a way which reduces the likelihood of reactions, and how to manage them if they do happen. Since patients with chronic illness are often more sensitive to changes with supplements, the Optimum Health Clinic specialises in taking a personalised, slow and inquisitive approach to meet a patient's system where it is. Find out more about The Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com Watch Part 1 of this series: Supplements and CFS recovery at https://youtu.be/FuFrco1ixNk Watch Part 2 of this series: Are supplements safe? https://youtu.be/p_dXrAlKk0E
Becky H recovered from CFS 10 years ago, but is starting to notice similar pre-disposing symptoms and patterns that make her anxious she may eventually experience a full relapse. Alex Howard works with Becky to help her chunk down her overwhelm and create a clear plan to put together all the tools she has learned from the OHC, the RESET program and all of her previous experience.
Alex Howard guides a ten-minute meditation without music on grounding for stability and connecting to your body. This meditation can be used to help calm and settle an anxious mind or body and bring a sense of comfort and trust by bringing the attention down from a busy mind.
Alex Howard shares a mini-documentary with Simon Limpus, the first employee of the Optimum Health Clinic. The story includes how Simon went from living with ME/CFS alone in a caravan at the end of his parent's garden, to doing a 2500km motorbike challenge across Siberia after making a full recovery.
Alex Howard talks about the importance of coming into the body to help cultivate a healing state, and offers suggestions to help encourage this. When living with chronic illness or discomfort leads us to try to escape our body, we're often re-inforcing unhelpful energy or activity and contributing to further anxiety. When we connect to the body and settle into what we're really feeling, we can get better information about the next best step. Alex offers some further tips on how to get into more comfortable feeling states and where we might direct our energy when experiencing discomfort.
Alex Howard talks with nutritional therapist Julia Alderman about the role of supplements in recovery from chronic fatigue and whether they are safe and work.
Alex Howard works with CFS patient Sarah to help understand where she is on the healing journey and why things are not moving forward despite her previous successful experience with pacing and resting. Sarah has been ill with CFS for over 20 years, with some long periods of remission or being symptom free - in this interview she discusses how she's not recovering as quickly as before and Alex offers some insight to how she might approach her symptoms.
Alex Howard offers a guided meditation to help calm the nervous system, based up on the mantra that where the mind goes, energy flows.
David fell ill with ME/CFS while at university living in an accomodation with toxic mould, he suffered with IBS, anxiety, and contracted glandular fever leading to a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome diagnosis. Over the years, David found gradual recovery with the help of Dr. Smith's methods and The Optimum Health Clinic and shares his story with Alex Howard on Secrets to Recovery.
Alex Howard talks about why consistency is important in sustaining change, and what helps create it.
Alex Howard talks with Julia Alderman (nutritional therapist at OHC) about why supplements can be important and diet alone is often not enough in recovery from chronic fatigue, ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. Find out more about The Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
Alex Howard talks to Liarne 10 weeks on from their first session and she talks about the progress she has made, and they discuss how much activity she should now be doing. Watch Liarne's first session, Understanding why the body shuts down, at https://youtu.be/cLg9ATrMvww
Alex Howard offers a simple guided meditation on the breath to help faciliate a calm and relaxed state.
Alex Howard talks about his groundbreaking online coaching program the RESET Program which is available for registration for the next 5 days. Find out more at www.alexhoward.tv/reset
In this third video on the OHC approach to adrenals in ME/CFS, Alex Howard talks with Kirsty Cullen (Director of Nutrition at OHC) about how we can learn to address adrenal fatigue. Watch the first video in this series,"Your adrenals and why they matter" at https://youtu.be/oe6EijERsPQ, watch the second video "Key signs and symptoms of sub-optimal adrenals" at https://youtu.be/a_o6rTDxiAE
Alex Howard works with Julia to help her better understand how to navigate her relationship whilst on the healing journey.
Alex Howard talks to Katherine about her recovery from ME/CFS and the different ingredients that helped her along the way.
Alex Howard explores the relationship between stress and healing. In the video he talks about an important FREE 3-part video series you can register for now at www.alexhoward.tv/reset
Alex Howard talks to Kirsty Cullen (Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic) about the signs and symptoms of sub-optimal adrenals and adrenal fatigue in ME/CFS.
Alex Howard works with Luci for a second session. With Luci having made significant progress with her ME/CFS since the previous session 6 months ago, they talk about how to protect that progress, and then how to help accelerate it. Watch Luci's first mini-session at https://youtu.be/thONLD7Ygxs
Alex Howard talks to The Optimum Health Clinic Chairman David Butcher about his journey of recovery from ME/CFS and the role that being diligent and consistent played in it. Watch the Secrets to Recovery Movie with the Free Information Pack - just go to www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com and submit your request.
Alex Howard talks about why embracing the present moment is so important and how to cultivate deeper acceptance of one's situation.
Alex Howard talks to Kirsty Cullen (Director of Nutrition at The Optimum Health Clinic) about the role of the adrenals in fatigue and why they are important. Find out more about The Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
Alex Howard works with Dana to help cultivate a healing state whilst managing external stress on the healing path.
Alex Howard shard some ideas on goal setting for the New Year and why it's better to focus on positive habits rather than outcomes.
Alex Howard talks with Kirsty Cullen about how to manage your food and nutrition doing the Christmas holidays.
Alex Howard reviews the first set of Therapeutic Tuesdays and offers suggestions to get the most out of watching them.
Recovery takes persistence | Everyday Alex 079 | Feel Good Friday | Alex Howard talks to Natasha Todd about how she recovered from ME/CFS, and the powerful role that persistence played.
Patience is a muscle | Everyday Alex 078 | Thoughtful Thursday | Alex Howard explains why patience is a critical muscle to support healing, and how we can develop more of it.
Alex Howard shares an update on some of his personal projects and explains some of the methods used at The Optimum Health Clinic.
Alex Howard works with Kotryna in their third session to understand why her body goes into a stress state when bouncing the boundaries and moving from stage 2 to stage 3. You can watch Kotryna's first session "Self-love calms the nervous system" (Episode 009), and her second session "Working with anxiety in the body" (Episode 037).
Alex Howard offers a simple guided meditation to support more compassion towards ourselves and others.
From Royal Harpist to chronic fatigue | Everyday Alex 074 | Feel Good Friday | Alex Howard talks with former Royal Harpist Claire Jones about her recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome. Find out more about the Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
Alex Howard introduces the plan for the next evolution of Everyday Alex. If you are interested in participating in filmed sessions with Alex as described in today's episode, please email Emily at emily@alexhoward.tv
Alex Howard talks to Kirsty Cullen (Director of Nutrition at the Optimum Health Clinic) about core principles of the OHC approach to nutrition.
Alex Howard works with Anna to help her understand why it feels like her energy is coming back and uses the stages of recovery model to map what is actually happening.
Alex Howard offers a simple meditation to help cultivate more space and stillness in your mind and body.
Overcoming the achiever | Everyday Alex 069 | Feel Good Friday Alex Howard talks to Louisa about how she overcame her achiever pattern and what life is like now she has recovered from chronic fatigue.
Alex reflects on his recent retreat to France and encourages those with chronic illness to review a forced sense of slowing down as an opportunity for contemplation, healing, connecting to the self and reflection.
Alex Howard talks to Kirsty Cullen (Director of Nutrition at the Optimum Health Clinic) about whether people should follow a paleo or vegan diet for recovery from fatigue.
Therapeutic Tuesday | Everyday Alex 066 | Alex Howard helps Liarne understand why her body goes into shutdown and how to manage when it happens.
Mindful Monday | Everyday Alex 065 | Alex Howard offers a 15 minute guided meditation to help cultivate self-love.
Alex Howard interviews James about his recovery story and what worked for him on his healing journey.
What stops people from healing? | Thoughtful Thursday | Everyday Alex 063| Alex Howard explores the important question of what stops people healing.
Is eating well enough? | Wellness Wednesday | Everyday Alex 062 | Alex Howard talks with nutritional therapist Kirsty Cullen about whether eating a healthy diet is enough to support recovery from fatigue.
Why diagnosis matters | Therapeutic Tuesday | Episode 61 | Alex Howard works with Judith to understand the different elements that may be behind her fatigue. Find out more about The Optimum Health Clinic at www.theoptimumhealthclinic.com
Meditation for cultivating trust | Mindful Monday | Episode 60 | Alex Howard offers a guided meditation to help cultivate a deeper sense of trust.
Returning to the body | Everyday Alex 059 | Feel Good Friday Alex Howard talks to Carol about her current experience on the RESET Program and the power of learning to reconnect to her body.
Thoughtful Thursday | Everyday Alex 058 | Alex Howard offers some suggestions to help select a good practitioner.
Wellness Wednesday | Everyday Alex 057 | Alex Howard explains why a key ingredient of the healing journey is the relationship between patient and practitioner and how to best nurture it.
Therapeutic Tuesday | Everyday Alex 056 | Alex Howard works with Louise to listen more deeply to her body and its own innate wisdom of how much activity she should be doing.
Mindful Monday | Everyday Alex 055 | Alex Howard offers a simple guided meditation to help relaxing more deeply into the body.
Feel Good Friday | Everyday Alex 054 | Alex Howard talks to recovered patient and now practitioner Marie Fleming about learning to establish boundaries and taking care of herself on her recovery journey whilst also being there for her daughter.
Alex Howard explores the concept of confirmation bias and why identifying it can be so important on the healing journey.