The Little Peace of Mind Podcast: Recent Episodes
Nicola Bird
There's a completely different way to approach anxiety, panic attacks and stress that simply dissolves them at their very foundations. No techniques, no strategies, no tools. Simply listen and find a little peace of mind.
Join founder of A Little Peace of Mind and Hay House author of the book of the same name, Nicola Bird as she shares what transformed her own life from one of fear and anxiety to freedom, along with guest who have used the same principles to change their own lives. If you are experiencing anything from low-level chronic worry and anxiety to full-blown panic attacks, this show is for you.
What if this was the simple secret to a wonderful life?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Following on from the last two episodes, Your Guide Inside (click here) and Finding Peace With The Cards You Have (click here) – I’d like you to consider someone you love that seems to be struggling right now. Then listen.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Life deals us a hand of cards when we’re born and keeps changing them up all through our lives. What if our lives became more about finding peace with the cards we have, rather than trying to play the games we think are required to change them?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself: 1. Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
This week we discuss how life deals you a deck of cards – and your job is to navigate them. But how? Let’s find out.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
This week’s podcast is an excerpt from a Deep Dive coaching call I ran this week. These are calls where we explore deeply into the nature of human experience and who and what we are beneath all the noise of our lives.
You’re not who you think you are….curious?
Then this one’s for you.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
This week, you’ve caught me at a moment in time with COVID and had a realisation of what I’m truly interested in – given my limited energy levels currently -certain things have let themselves be known as my priorities – and other things quite obviously are not. And at the risk of going counter to what I’m actually sharing today, I took a moment to consider why.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
‘What do I need to do when I get anxious?’ is one of the most often-asked questions I hear. Well, nothing, if it doesn’t show up in the first place. Today we explore the gentle dissolving of anxiety at its source.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Elsie Spittle is a teacher of the Three Principles, was mentored by Syd Banks and has mentored many others herself. She’s just released a new book, What if You Already Knew the Answers to Your Questions? and when I read it, I invited her to come and share more on this freeing idea.
You can find the book here:
On amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Already-Knew-Answers-Questions-ebook/dp/B09QRMQ3VC
Or amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/What-Already-Knew-Answers-Questions-ebook/dp/B09QRMQ3VC
You can find out more about Elsie and her work here: https://3phd.net/
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
If you believe you’re malfunctioning in some way that other people aren’t, then your quest will naturally be to try to fix what’s broken in you. And thus begins a life-long search for tools to fix you.
But what if the fundamental assumption is flawed. What if you’re not broken so there is nothing to fix?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Following on from last week’s podcast (Your Past Is Irrelevant), this week we’re exploring why figuring out the future is too.
If you’re a habitual ‘what if…..?’ thinker, I think you’ll enjoy what you’ll discover in this week’s episode.
In traditional psychology, what happened in your past has created the experience you are living in today – so it’s crucial to review that and dive deep into it to try and find the cause of your suffering and therefore the fix.
Decisions, decisions, decisions….how much of your waking day is spent trying to decide things?
It takes a huge amount of mental energy and effort to try and figure out what to do, but what if it wasn’t required?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Human beings in general have a terrible habit thinking about their problems in order to solve them. Analysing them, ruminating over them, talking about them.
But what if we’re seeking can’t be found at the end of thought?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Clients come to me with a huge variety of issues that in their minds are creating anxiety in their lives. But what they all have in common (without realising it) is asking me ‘Sometimes I’m awake and sometimes I’m asleep. How can I be awake all of the time?’
This podcast talks a little more about that….
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
What if it’s true that you’re always OK?
Even when you had that stressy time last week? Even when life is throwing more at you than you think you can cope with? Even at the height of a panic attack?
OK no matter what. What changes if that’s really true?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
As you sit down about now with journal in hand to figure out your 2022 goals, let’s consider who or what is really running the whole show.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Following last week’s episode about the fact that nothing you think is true, this week we explore HOW you know when you really want to be taking your thinking less seriously.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 3 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
If only people could realise that they don’t have to believe everything they think, just because they think it….that would change their lives.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Through the hundreds (thousands?) of hours I have spent working with clients with anxiety, there are 12 simple misunderstandings that are the source of all their problems.
This is the second in this series – click here (Episode 121) to go back to the start of the 12 if you’ve missed it.
Today I share a common misunderstanding people have about where their experience comes from.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Through the hundreds (thousands?) of hours I have spent working with clients with anxiety, there are 12 simple misunderstandings that are the source of all their problems.
For the next 12 weeks, I’ll share them with you one by one, in case these are the same for you.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
After years of living in chronic mental stress, we can sometimes find ourselves with physical symptoms occurring from panic attacks, to sweating, to migraines and pain. Rather than trying to intervene at the level of the symptoms – what if there was a different place to look?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
When we misunderstand where what we’re looking for resides, we have no choice but to try and manipulate the monkey. Take a listen and see if anything new occurs to you.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
I was listening to an audio by Sydney Banks where he described ‘seeing your own happiness in front of your eyes’. This is my explanation of where those moments of joy can be found. The perfect antidote to anxiety.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
This metaphor arose as I sat with a client listening to her share how her life was starting to look different to her. From one week to the next, something had shifted–and here’s how I described it to her...and now you.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Last week we talked about the power of insight in creating long-lasting, sustainable change. This week I move on to talk about how we can have a life full of insights – indeed to start to live insightfully.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Last week I shared with you the single cause of all anxiety. And this week I thought it only fair to share the single solution to go alongside it.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Whenever I ask a client to share with me their current experience of anxiety and what’s causing it, 100% of the time they share a fundamental misunderstanding with me about what causes it and what they think has to change for it to be gone.
So let’s clear that up today. In this podcast, I want to share with you the truth about the single cause of all anxiety. And it’s the same for every single one of us. Every single time.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
When you have a life full of anxiety and worry it can feel like the world can ‘come at you’ at any moment and catch you unaware. Given that, it would make sense to be on your guard, be alert for danger and carefully monitoring your life to ensure that those scary thoughts and feelings don’t overwhelm you.
But what if the world doesn’t work the way you think it does? What if there’s solid ground under your feet that you can rely on to hold you up, so that you don’t have to do all that hard work?
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
This week we kicked off The Little Peace of Mind Practitioner Training and this was a metaphor I found myself sharing about why we do the work that we do.We help people get eyes for the sheet and switch on the light.Listen to this episode to understand more...
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
And the podcast is back! Recently I've seen a handful of people saying 'My anxiety was completely gone and I thought I'd cracked it, but suddenly it came back!! Help!' Well here's my response to that plea for help.
P.S Whenever you’re ready…here are 4 ways we can help you find a little peace of mind for yourself:
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Watch the free video: Freedom from Anxiety –The solution to anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Click here.
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Grab a copy of the book: A Little Peace of Mind. Click here.
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Join the Little Peace of Mind 7 Day Program. Click here.
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Work with me or one of my team privately: Click here.
Today I share with you the best insight I ever had in my whole life.
And ask you to consider the question: "What if you already have what you're looking for?"
Do you have a series of repetitive thoughts that go round and round in your head and drive you crazy?
Then this episode is for you.
What if we looked away from the divisions, stopped reinforcing the ideas of separation and looked instead to how we are all the same.
Would we opt out and sit on our sofas chanting ommmm and ignoring the world?
Not in my experience....
"This is not working for me," is something I sometimes hear from people.
Chances are you're doing one of these three things...
Today's podcast is courtesy of a client insight that she shared with me - seeing for herself just how simple change can be.
There's ALWAYS less to do than you think.
Today's podcast episode is a small section of the book, A Little Peace of Mind.
We explore where those feelings of fear really come from - and it's probably not what you might have believed up until this point.
If I go this way, will it bring me more enjoyment than if I go that way?
What do I need to do to enjoy my life more?
If I could just......THEN I would definitely enjoy my life more.
Here's a fresh perspective on the nature of enjoyment and where it can be found.
Today's podcast is about my dog, Digger and why he's just like the inside of your head.
And what to do about it.
Curious? Have a listen to today's podcast.
For twenty years of my life, I was sat in the wrong place looking for answers to my anxiety, stress and panic attacks.
Innocently, because no one had ever told me this...
What if the thing we think we're up against isn't as solid, fixed and real as it looks?
What then?
This episode of the podcast is the final one for a while and I'll explain why when you listen.
There's a difference between teaching the Principles and sharing the Principles through our simple everyday enjoyment of the lives we're living.
And you'll also hear me talking about a whole load of new floral related projects.
In today's podcast, you'll hear me share my own journey through the experience of insomnia, how my relationship to this has changed through insight, and the results that has had on the hours of sleep I have each night.
Enjoy.
There's not much to say about today's podcast except just listen.
And as you listen see what comes up for you.
Enjoy.
In today's episode, Anna shares her journey.
Here's how she describes how life was for her before this understanding: "I have had anxiety for 15 years. I’ve had panic attacks, I couldn’t get on a train, go to a restaurant, the hairdressers, the supermarket or drive. Years later I had ‘post natal depression’ and I was unable to cope, I couldn’t care for my daughter and was treated with medication and CBT. 3 weeks ago I crashed again and was taken to hospital, I didn’t sleep or eat. I was heavily medicated. I couldn’t go back to my own home as I was too frightened. A psychiatrist diagnosed me with GAD and said I was borderline bipolar. I lost 2 and a half stone and couldn’t speak."
Hear what's changed.
Only everything.
Today's podcast is a little bit different. This was originally a private conversation between Dicken Bettinger and myself but what Dicken points to here is the simplicity of this understanding.
So we agreed to share it with you.
You'll hear us talk about simplicity, the oneness of life and the difference between describing and sharing the Three Principles.
Enjoy.
Today Nicole and I talk about her journey through a family break-up, eating disorders and a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and what it was that Nicole discovered that helped transform her experience of all of these.
A beautiful conversation.
I hope you get as much from it as I did.
Today Jacqueline Hollows and I set out to talk about the work that she does with prisoners and the difference this conversation can make for those who are living in what many of us imagine would be one of the worst possible environments.
And instead, we ended up going somewhere completely different - and incredibly touching.
Was it a disaster that the call didn't go as we expected? No. And this podcast explains how life shows us how it rarely goes as planned and always takes us somewhere beautiful.
Allan Flood met Sydney Banks in the early 1970's and the understanding that he gained proved to be invaluable as he received a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and continues to navigate the ups and downs of life.
What really strikes me every time I hear Allan speak or read his writing is his absolutely rock solid knowing of being, in his words, "OK, no matter what".
And he doesn't mean by that what you think he does.
Listen and enjoy.
Rohini's search for help with her anxiety around public speaking had an unexpected by-product. Her previously fiery relationship with her husband suddenly started to shift.
And from a marriage that varied from being so unbearable that they at one point separated to being 'kind of OK' - they have now found a closeness and intimacy they never thought possible.
Listen to her story here - what she shares about her own anxieties is worth the listen alone - whether or not improving your relationship is your thing.
In today's podcast Barb Patterson and I ask the question: What if there was a different foundation from which to show up to life in 2020? One WITHOUT New Year's Resolutions and commitments to improve ourselves - here we discuss the alternative.
In today's podcast, you'll hear a snippet from one of our Monday Q&A calls that form a part of our Little Peace of Mind programs.
Tania (our in-house Little Peace of Mind coach) shares three simple stories of how thought creates reality - which is then experienced as if it's true.
Q- Where are you doing this?
A - Only everywhere.
Enjoy.
In today's podcast, we tackle the thorny-for-many subject of money.
What is it about this made-up idea that means it doesn't look made up at all?
Why is it so important to so many of us?
And what happens when it isn't?
Dan Arscott is our first ALPOM Podcast follow-up. We first met Dan at 19 as he was beginning to see more about this thing called anxiety.
Back then he was just finishing up sixth-form college and now we catch up with him two years later at the age of 21 to see how life has continued to unfold for him - and how his understanding of the principles has helped.
If you missed the first episode we did together, you can find it here.
I particularly loved his metaphor of how thought is like the natural flow of traffic - instead of the car-crash of thought that seems to show up at the height of an anxious moment.
How do you untangle thought? Listen and find out:)
Tania Elfersy has recently joined the Little Peace of Mind team as a coach and in today's episode, we talk about the simplicity of how change happens.
We talk about;
- the gift of feelings as our divine guide to know how we're using thought in that moment
- a fresh perspective on the thought: "I'm not getting it!"
- the difference between understanding the principles and being touched by the nature of them
and much more - enjoy!
Nick Bottini is the author of Just Play: The Simple Truth behind Musical Excellence and this podcast is relevant whatever game you happen to be playing in life right now.
We discuss:
- What lies behind high-performance
- The truth behind being 'in flow' as a requirement for great performance
- How we can be desperate to change our experience
- Doing things when you don't feel at your best
- The nature of pain in light of this understanding
Enjoy!
Annie thought she had found a solution for anxiety in the form of alcohol.
This quickly spiralled into an ongoing addiction and then panic attacks.
In today's podcast we discuss:
- That the principles behind life are always in operation whether we know about them or not
- What happens when we give up trying to fix ourselves
- Why it's a mistake to think the Principles are a tool to help you get a better life
- What it means to be free of limitation
Vicki describes herself as always having been a worrier from a very young age. This continued throughout her life and showed up in huge amounts of doubt and procrastination about her work.
Vicki runs her own business and she would find herself caught in self-doubt, comparing herself to others and writing huge long lists of goals and actions to accomplish.
All that's changed now and you'll hear Vicki has a much lighter experience of work and life (until the days she doesn't and what happens then).
Alan spent his career as a chef in a number of top restaurants all around the world - working and partying hard.
However underneath it all he experienced panic attacks and anxiety, along with a whole host of other physical symptoms from tension headaches to insomnia to morning dread.
All of this left him unable to work and unable to travel.
In today's podcast we talk about how that has changed for him in the past three months and what he has seen on his own journey that has been helpful.
You'll hear Alan talk about
- a way to listen to what you're learning in a way that allows you to be impacted
- a fresh perspective on the 'I'm not getting' it thing
- how we can get more comfortable being uncomfortable
- where to look for solutions to physical solutions
- whether we're the lucky ones
Enjoy.
Today Rebecca and Bea share their mother-daughter experience of their journey through anorexia.
Bea teaches us about the invisible power of thought and how one simple insight can change a behaviour that looks so totally compelling.
Rebecca shows us what it means to parent with unconditional love.
Whatever your 'thing', this episode is one we can all learn so much from.
In today's episode, Catherine shares her journey through dizziness and health anxiety - with constant visits to the doctors and panic attacks that made her world smaller and smaller.
First she stopped driving, then she stopped going out of the house altogether.
We talk about how that's changed for her and discuss:
- the key insight about thought that Catherine saw for herself
- how the principles behind this new understanding are not about learning something new - rather seeing how it's always worked
- the power of finding out for yourself
- the relief of letting yourself off the hook and realising you're heading in the right direction
- how unhelpful it can be to discuss our anxious symptoms and stories instead of looking towards mental health and where that lies
In todays' episode - we take a departure from our normal and instead of talking about anxiety and stress, we're exploring creativity with author Steve Chandler.
We explore
- the simple answer to any problem
- the idea that some of us were not born creative
- what we can learn from houseplants
- the two things that are probably missing if you're not creating what you want to
- the idea of being on or off your path
- how to introduce a spiritual understanding to anyone
Today we kick off a whole new set of Little Peace of Mind Podcasts - and this first episode is going to be one you'll come back to over and over.
Amie Joof is 20 and her journey through a lifetime of anxiety to one of freedom over the past few months is a beautiful story that will bring you hope.
Huge transformation is what's possible as a result of a simple change in understanding; from being immediately impacted to falling into doubt and frustration and eventually to the falling in love with life just as it is that's on offer here.
This is the final podcast for a little while - with 74 episodes to browse through, you should have plenty to keep you going :)
Today's episode is with Rachel. Rachel shares her journey from insomnia, control-freakery and health anxiety to a life where she just finds herself (and weirdly also her husband and children) more lighthearted.
Today's podcast is a clip from a recent Little Peace of Mind Q&A call, hosted by our Head Coach, Shannon Cooper.
In it, she discusses the suffering that can happen when we take on a job that simply isn't ours.
So what IS our job? And what really isn't?
In today's podcast get ready for a deep dive into something that's been a complete eye-opener for me over the past couple of months.
I had seen it's all thought. My bank account, my kids, my career, the trees and the weather.
I had never really considered that it also included me.
Clare Dimond and I recorded this podcast for you to explore this very notion.
Be warned there is swearing due to the extent my mind has been blown by seeing a whole deeper level of this conversation than I had up until this point.
That said - enjoy!
In today's podcast, Michael Neill and I discuss his new book Supercoach.
This is an update to Michael's original book that was released ten years ago to reflect more accurately his current level of understanding about where our experience comes from and how knowing this means we can more easily create cool shit in the world (his words!)
Written as a kind of self-coaching guide, the original Supercoach book was one of my earliest forays into Michael's work so it was great to have the opportunity to quiz him on all things inside the book.
We talk about
- How Michael's own journey is reflected through each of his books
- Why it's even relevant that people know where their experience is coming from
- Why sometimes it seems like more of us and sometimes as of less of us in the game is what's required
- Why Michael has included practical exercises (shock, horror!!) in the Supercoach book
- The Thermostat Metaphor
And much, much more!
Michael being Michael, there is swearing in this podcast so please cover little ears while listening!
In today's podcast, you'll hear me talking to Julian Fraser.
We cover so much ground, including
- how Julian went from being angry a huge amount of time to becoming.....well.....the unbelievably gentle person you'll hear on this podcast
- how he responded initially without and then later with grace upon learning of his daughter's disability
- how he used to weigh 20 stone and what he saw that meant that weight slowly disappeared from his body
- and how the 3 Principles conference was born and how you can hear from some of the leading teachers in this field at next year's conference
Claire explains her journey from being admitted to a mental health institution and suffering terribly with anxiety and depression to one where her life has been free of this for 25 years.
We explore how permanent, lasting, change is possible through this understanding.
I hope you are as inspired by her story as I was.
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/
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
In today's episode, Barb Patterson and I discuss the source of transformation.
We ask (and answer) the following questions:
- How DOES change happen?
- What if we got as curious about mental health as we are about anxiety?
- What does it mean to 'rise to the occasion' and what do we do when we feel like that is beyond us?
- What do we need to do in order to cultivate resilience?
And much, much more....
This week Jen Lucas returns for the final part in our three-part series on insomnia - this time to answer YOUR questions....
- Do we really need 8 hours of sleep a night?
- Can we drink coffee late at night?
- What about bad dreams?
- The illusion of control.
- And the most helpful question that comes to mind for me these days.
As start to see changes in our own lives, the common question we often ask is: “Why didn’t anyone ever tell me this before?”
And we start our own personal mission to inform everyone we know and care for about this completely different way of seeing the world.
And then we wonder why we get blank stares and ‘Don’t give me all that whoo whoo stuff’ in return.
So how do we become more impactful in our sharing?
Michael Neill and I discuss in today’s episode: What REALLY makes the difference to others?
In this episode I talk with Jamil Hai about his journey through anxiety and becoming medication-free after 10 years of Xanax medication.
We share our journeys and the discoveries that have made such a difference to our lives and consider the question: "What if YOU didn't have to run the show?"
Chills and goosebumps abound in this very special episode.
Today's guest is Steve Adair. Steve knows what it means to be a seeker of solutions to human happiness - he studied everything he could get his hands on for years in an attempt to work out how to help his clients suffer less.
In this episode we talk about the pitfall of trying to fit this understanding into what you already know, how studying hard gets in your way and how to recognise if you're (metaphorically) repeatedly sticking your fingers in plug sockets!
Just recording this podcast left me in a beautiful feeling and, as we discuss, the inevitable return of our sense of contentment and balance that never really leaves us, thought it does a great job of pretending to.
Today my guest is Elsie Spittle - if you haven't met her yet, you're in for a treat.
We talk about Elsie's new book, about the simplicity of enjoying life, the practical nature of wisdom and whether or not we have any control over our thoughts.
And if you happen to be agoraphobic, the best piece of advice I ever heard.
Enjoy.
Today Jen Lucas and I catch up with what's happened to my chronic insomnia since we last spoke a month ago.
This podcast is slightly different to our normal format as you'll hear me being the client - see how we all get caught up and manage not to listen (!) and one of the longest ever silences on air as the penny drops for me.
Here's how Vivienne introduces her story:
"When I was about to turn 30, I left my marriage (I’d only been married for 15 months - scandalous) and after returning to NZ from Australia where I’d been living, I settled in to my new life. I fell in love with a man much older than me, who had already had his family and didn’t want any more children. We went round the houses for a long time - I had hope that he would change his mind as he loved me so much (I didn’t doubt he loved me) but nothing was happening. In amongst being the happiest I’d ever been in a relationship, I was also miserable because I couldn’t see a happy ending - I was either going to have to ‘settle for a lesser life’ without children, or I had to end the relationship with someone I truly loved and wanted in my life. These were my perceived choices. I was driving myself mad and driving us apart. And no one ever told me there was any other way to feel.
One day, I had the insight: “I have no idea what my future will look like”. I had made up two options and neither of them looked appealing, but the truth was I had no idea.
When I came across the Principles in 2009, I realised what had really happened when I had that realisation, and a whole lot of other realisations followed in its footsteps. I realised there was nothing to be scared of - I was no longer scared of my own emotions or of my thoughts. This was HUGE. I also realised I didn’t have to do something ‘instead of having children’ to prove my worth or value in the world. The void I had thought existed in my life where children should have been, disappeared without a trace (because of course, I’d made it up in the first place, and once I saw it for what it was, it dissolved of its own accord).
Now I freaking love my life, and when I look back, all that thinking seems so foreign to me. But it’s such a wonderful example for me as I see how innocently we get caught up in the world of thought that’s been created, when we don’t see it for what it is."
Listen to her story and you'll hear the myriad of ways that we make that we're not complete, just as we are in this moment.
Joe Bailey is a psychologist and author of some of the most life-changing books I have read.
He is also a pioneer of this understanding and has been sharing and teaching since his encounter with Syd Banks in 1980.
In today's episode Joe talks about how addictions are created and how although there's nothing to do to find peace of mind, there still might be something that needs doing. Listen. It will make sense when you do!
He also talks about his recovery from Lyme disease - after suffering with pain, memory loss and exhaustion and having been told he'd never be well again; he had one simple insight that meant that today he is completely healthy and well.
Dicken Bettinger is currently my own mentor in this conversation about how all human beings really work.
Today we talk about how incredibly simple it is to drop out of our frantic busy thinking, to stop trying to figure life out and how to be at peace no matter what is going on in your thinking.
As one of my clients, who was invited to listen in on the call, remarked at the end of the creation of this: "Dicken is like happiness in form'.
If you've heard the expression: Listen for the feeling - you'll understand what that actually means after virtually hanging out with Dicken for the next hour.
Who are we really? Pretty much nothing that we believe ourselves to be.
But if we are not who we think we are, what's left?
And what on earth is the relevance of that to anxiety?
Only everything.
That's what Clare and I discuss today on today's podcast as we discuss her new book: Real - The Inside-Out Guide to Being Yourself.
Warning: Bring your tissues.
Does insomnia cause anxiety? Does anxiety cause insomnia? I don't care....I just want to SLEEEEEEP!
This session started out with Jen sharing her experience of years of insomnia and taking medications and how that all shifted for her.
We ended up with Jen coaching me around this very topic and a huge insight for me as a result that I hope will serve as a catalyst for a few of your own.
After the session we decided to create two follow-up podcast episodes so this is just the first part of the series.
Maryse used to experience symptoms of dizziness and extreme early morning anxiety.
She would get better then fall back into her symptoms. Over and over again.
Today she shares her doubts along the journey, the insights she received and how this understanding has put solid ground under her feet and expanded her comfort zone without her having to do a thing.
Enjoy!
In today's episode I am so pleased to be joined by Shannon Cooper.
Shannon was our Head Coach for a large part of last year and returns again to join us again to help deliver some of our coaching programs.
She has a wonderful and profound way of describing the principles that lie behind this understanding in a way that just makes sense.
We talked about her new book, True Nature, floating, having a head full of sea, the 'what do I do when....?' questions and her own personal journey through anxiety.
Enjoy - I just know you will.
Susan Wheeler-Hall lives with a progressive physical disability and chronic pain.
Circumstances you think would mean we'd have to live a miserable life.
Susan's story demonstrates how our peace of mind and wellbeing are not dependant on our external circumstances - ever.
Wyn Morgan had what looked like a wonderful life on the outside, but inside he was completely miserable.
He shares his story of what he saw that shifted his depression from the darkest of depths to a life where he's at peace with the ebb and flow of the human experience.
Such a story of hope and a way of describing how we all operate as humans that I'm sure will be helpful to you all.
Ian Watson spent years exploring various techniques and strategies to try and uncover the source of wellbeing before discovering the Principles that lie behind the work that I do, and he does.
In this episode we explore how he sees that understanding that thought creates experience is helpful, but not enough.
What else do we need to know? Listen and find out!
This week’s podcast has a slightly controversial title but Jacquie’s passion is to help people become more human and in this episode we explore what it is that makes us all the same.
Here’s who this episode is designed for:
- People who self-harm – that might include cutting, pulling out your hair, eating disorders, drinking too much wine, over-eating etc etc. You see? We’re all the same.
- People who love people who self-harm – what can we do when those we love are clearly indulging in unhealthy behaviours
- People who listen to all the Little Peace of Mind podcasts because they just know there’s something new to learn in each one, whoever you are and whatever you’re up to
So, just about everyone then :)
Rudi Kennard is this week's guest on the podcast as we talk about those 'difficult people' that seem to show up in our lives from time to time.
We talk about how experiencing a change in our relationship with anyone can be a one-way affair - we needn't actually get them involved, and we don't need to find clever ways to get them to change their behaviour.
Sound too good to be true - have a listen - I really enjoyed creating this episode for you.
In today's episode, Damian Mark Smyth shares his personal journey through Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and what he saw that changed everything for him.
There's so much to learn here, whether you experience OCD or not - we all have repetitive thinking that isn't particularly helpful.
I'm hoping that Damian's insights spark some of your own.
” What you’re looking for is a quiet mind” – Sydney Banks.
When you’re struggling with an anxious, panicky experience – it’s easy to feel as far as you possibly could be from a quiet mind.
Peace. Quiet. Calm.
Where does that come from?
What’s possible from that space?
How do we get there?
All of these questions and more are answered by John El-Mokadem in this special podcast episode.
In this episode, James and I share his story. James' anxiety was caused by the traffic noises outside his house. Or so he thought.
Then he saw that the thing that he thought was causing his anxiety wasn't. This is the story of what happened after that life-changing insight....
"What do I have to do to GET this so it makes a difference to my anxiety today?" is a question I'm often asked.
My answer is always - "Less than you might think".
Today's podcast is a short snippet of a coaching conversation with a client as we discuss what it takes for change to occur in our lives.
Dr Aaron Turner has been a mentor of mine for many years and I've had the privilege work alongside him closely as I've created A Little Peace of Mind this year.
And he knows a thing or two about anxiety. In this episode Aaron shares his own journey through anxiety (which I had never heard before in full) and how the principles have transformed his experience with it.
He also shares more about the principles underlying the work that all of us who share this understanding point to as well as we can.
Aaron just happens to do it particularly clearly!
What he's helped me see far more clearly this year is the freedom that comes with getting comfortable being uncomfortable.
I just know you're going to love this episode.
There’s something about this conversation that makes the impossible possible.
For me it was being able to travel freely, live a life (pretty much) free of migraines, take my kids to school easily and be in my business and relationships with far more ease and grace than I thought could be possible for me.
What looks impossible to you right now? Michael shares a completely fresh perspective.
When we’re up to something in the world, it can sometimes feel like our fears hold us back.
Whether it’s writing a book, starting a business, creating a wonderful family or home or travelling the globe – what could be possible for us if we were truly fearless.
In this episode Rachel shares her own struggles with Morning Dread – that churning fear we can often have first thing in the morning and we go off on a tangent about money worries (!) before returning to the whole point of this podcast and Rachel’s new book: what does it mean to live fearlessly?
Many of my female clients put their anxious symptoms and behaviours down to the menopause and this got me curious....can anything other than anxious thinking cause anxiety?
What about hormones? Surely those cause mood swings? Surely the changes in our body and what those represent are scary?
I hooked up with Tania Elfersy, an expert in this area, and asked for her opinion.
What followed was, for me personally, one of the most impactful podcast episodes I've yet to record.
Enjoy. And share this with every woman you know.
A common question I sometimes get from people new into this understanding is 'Why does it get worse before it gets better?' (or actually just 'Why is it getting worse?' as they have no idea it will actually get better).
Here's a snippet from a recent coaching group where I addressed this issue.
A lot of people reach out to me to share their concern about their children who are experiencing anxiety.
I've had my own experience through this journey with my own son, but for this podcast I decided to call in the expert: Brooke Wheeldon-Reece.
So what exactly do you do when your child is anxious? As ever, it's simpler than you might think!
When we don’t understand how the mind really works, we tend to look outside of ourselves to try to change our feelings.
Feel unsettled in the evening? Drink a glass of wine to calm down.
Unhappy in your job? Get a new one.
Don’t like the way your kids are behaving? Make them change.
Unhappy that you’re not out working at the moment? Force yourself to get a job.
But did you know it’s impossible to change a feeling by changing your circumstances?
Did you know it’s way simpler than you think?
Jill Whalen and I discuss this and much more in today’s podcast episode.
Sometimes it can feel like we're addicted to our anxious thinking.
We have the same thoughts over and over - we become so familiar with them - they may have been with us for years.
"So how do we get rid of them?" is the question I get asked time and again.
Well, what if you didn't have to?
Dr Amy Johnson and I explore this more in this week's podcast.
In today's episode, Dan shares how he used to experience anxiety at school and in his part-time job. Now at university, he describes what he learned that has given him a whole different perspective on life.
I was blown away by the wisdom of this 19 year old.
What if all our children had such a profound understanding of the way the mind works? Listen and be inspired.
Earlier this year, John El-Mokadem and I were both putting together programs that were free to join. Yet we noticed that although many people let us know they wanted to join us, when it came to the crunch, a lot of them didn't follow through. That got us curious...why might people be afraid to get well? That's what we explore in today's episode.
In today's episode you'll hear Dr Bill Pettit and Elizabeth Lovius talking about depression. Why did I include this in a podcast primarily about anxiety? Two reasons: 1) Because depression and anxiety can often co-exist for many people and 2) Because depression and anxiety are made of the same stuff - insecure thought. Where they both come from is the same place, and how to move through them with grace requires the same understanding.
Today Nicola's guest, Clare Dimond, speaks about going from feeling, in her words, 'abject fear' at the thought of public speaking, to actively seeking out opportunities to do just that.
In today's episode, Wendi shares her story of her how her experience of life has changed over the last 7 years since her diagnosis of cancer.
This one's for everyone who thinks, 'Yeah, but I'm anxious about something REAL"
So many of the traditional approaches to anxiety and panic attacks ask you to 'feel the fear and do it anyway'.
We look for ways to be braver - to push ourselves to do what we're afraid to do.
To go on the motorway when we're terrified, to stay in the supermarket when every fibre of our being screams at us to leave, to make ourselves walk down the road when all we want to do is stay home.
Well, you'll be pleased to hear I don't ask my clients to do ANY of that.
Why? Well that's the topic of a brand new live webinar I'm running on Tuesday 13th September: The Three Secrets to Overcoming Anxiety Effortlessly.
You can register for that here.
In today's episode you're going to hear Sharon's experience when she gave up trying to force herself to do the things that scared her.
Bonita Rayner-Jones joins Nicola as today's guest. Bonita has been a long-time sufferer from eczema and digestive problems - often associated with anxiety - and in this episode she shares how her understanding of the Principles moved her from not being able to go out and enjoy a social life to one where she, in her words, 'just doesn't go down the rabbit hole of that thinking' any more.
Sometimes we hear stories of massive instant transformation as people stumble across this understanding, but for most of us it can be a gentle, incremental transition.
Helen's is one such story. Everything unfolding little by little, then one day there was a simple insight that changed everything. Such a wonderful story of hope...
In today's episode Nicola and Pete Bailey talk about his journey through depression and anxiety.
"I woke up the next morning and it was just gone."
The simplicity of this understanding is profound.
In this episode, John El-Mokadem and I talk about how we attempt to change our behaviours through willpower and being determined.
We talk about why this doesn't work and how there's really only one way change ever really happens.
And it's always simpler than you might think.
Mary Schiller shares with me her experiences of being up against some of the worst circumstances a woman could imagine - rape and domestic violence.
Her story of how her understanding of The Principles has helped her have a completely different experience is both moving and inspirational.
If you need anxiety to 'go away' then you'll love this coaching session between Claudia and Shannon. Claudia thinks that she's 'not getting' it. See if you can see that she really is...
In this episode John and I talk about how actual or feared physical symptoms are created - and how our reaction to them determines how scared we get.
We also talk about the distinction between pain and suffering.
This all sounds terribly serious and depressing and the conversation we have is actually not.
In this episode, Michael Neill and Nicola Bird discuss how to do less better. Michael unpicks the illusory relationship between effort and results and takes a look at how business owners create a whole heap of unnecessary stress for themselves.
Gail used to experience PTSD, flashbacks and panic attacks. In this episode, she shares with Nicola what helped her move these as they lost her power over her.
Years ago, Nicola's psychologist asked her to say the words 'I'm normal' and she couldn't bring herself to do it. It looked like because of her anxiety she was broken and needed fixing. Well here's the simple truth....
Welcome to the Little Peace of Mind Podcast! In this first episode, Nicola introduces a completely new approach to helping you move through anxiety, panic attacks and stress. Introducing peace of mind from the inside-out.