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Episode 115 – What to do when it feels like no one supports you Have you subscribed to my podcast yet? If not, I’d love it if you would, and if you’re feeling super-kind, I’d be very grateful if you would leave me a review, too. Click here to subscribe and review Google Spotify Apple […]

Episode 114 – Cultivate self-kindness When we are kind to ourselves, it can help us to respond more effectively when we face challenges as it can help us to feel what we are feeling, and by being kind to ourselves it can make it easier to be kind to others.  When we are kind to

Episode 113 – 3 ways to rebuild self-esteem without validation from others Today I want to talk about ways to rebuild your self-esteem, without validation from others, and turn self-doubt into self-belief. Let’s be honest here, we all want and need external validation.  We want to know we are liked and loved.  But, when you

Episode 112 – 3 shifts for keeping house with a chronic illness I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been the type of person that keeps my house immaculate, almost to show home level.  Pre-illness I used to get home from food shopping on a Saturday morning, and would blitz my way through the

Episode 110 – 5 energy vampires making you tired There are a few habits that many of us have that are energy vampires.  Leaving us feeling like our tank is always on empty.  When our various illnesses have us feeling like we’re running on fumes anyway, we don’t need to make it worse by choosing

Episode 111 – Small step strategies for when the world feels against you Do you ever feel like the world is against you?   We all have moments when one problem comes after another, leaving you feeling like the world is against you. You try to stay on top of things but it feels like

Episode 109 – Healthy ways to get your happiness hormones Today I talk about the healthy ways you can get those happiness hormones.  Happiness hormones are the chemicals that our body naturally produces to increase our wellbeing.   If you’d like to know more on how to shift your stories, reach out to me to see if

Episode 108 – Things that happen as you leave survival mode Today I want to talk about the things that can happen when our nervous system comes out of survival mode. Our nervous system is absolutely brilliant. It’s intelligent, and it is intentional. It also keeps us in survival mode for far longer than we

Episode 107 – Simple happiness I want to do is a quick-fire round because instead of giving you something and then explaining my perspective to you, I want to just throw a few things out there and have whatever comes to your mind first, be the thing that you go with.   If you’d like

Episode 106 – Tips for easy journalling,by someone who sucks at it I want to talk about journaling, because, quite frankly, I am rubbish at it.  I have been terrible at journalling my entire life. It’s as if there’s a perfectionism to it that I just do not achieve.  So I made my own rules….

Episode 105 – The power of rest(and it’s not about sleep) Aaah rest.  Something we no longer seem to know how to do.  Our hustle culture has expectations that we have to be on the go constantly, and rest is a reward for working yourself to exhaustion, causing us to feel guilty when we take

Episode 104 – Signs you’re pretending to be happy, & what you can do (from someone who knows) Today I want to ponder on some warning signs that you’re pretending to be happy, and what you can do about it.  From someone who knows. We all have those moments when something doesn’t feel right.  We can get sick

Episode 103 – Decluttering – Spoonie-style I am sure you’re already aware of the benefits of decluttering. An uncluttered home and life promotes mental clarity, and less stuff through choice means less likely to spend money on things you don’t need. Less stuff also means less mess can be created so less mess to be

Episode 102 – 5 ways to develop self-love, and why you need to If given the choice, which would you rather be in?  A relationship where you dismiss yourself, minimise yourself, and be mean to yourself, get irritated with yourself, sabotaging all of your hopes and dreams? Or would you rather be in one where

Episode 101 – A not-to-do list when chronically ill In today’s episode I talk about a not-to-do list when chronically ill.  I absolutely love having a to-do list, I love making lists.  I love crossing things off lists.   When I got sick, my to-do list had to become streamlined and batched.  Long gone were the

Episode 100 – Coming home to yourself 100 episodes!!  Wow.  I didn’t realise that when I was recording, but here we are.  100 episodes.  What a milestone. Today I want to talk to you about coming home to yourself. Sometimes life dismantles the self you’ve known and you have to begin the seemingly complex task

Episode 099 – 7 areas of overthinking you get trapped in Tune in for an unedited episode, because I couldn’t bring myself to edit out the birds tweeting away in the background… Also, along with the birdsong, today I share the 7 ways we overthink, and the super-simple strategy on how to stop it If

Episode 098 – Are you sick of your own shit yet? I got to this point in early 2012, and thanks to the proverbial onion layer, again in autumn of 2022, but didn’t want to face up to it until I had to earlier this year.  What point am I talking about? Being sick of

Episode 097 – Can you trust the process? Today I want to ponder on trusting the process, and ask you if you can.  Honestly, for years my answer to that would be “what does that even mean?!” If you’d like to know more on how to shift your stories, reach out to me to see if my

Episode 096 – Habits that are actually signs of resentment Today I want to talk about habits that are actually signs of resentment. Holding on to resentment can be bad for your mental and physical health. It can cause stress, anxiety, depression, and it can cause chronic health problems. Do any of these bahaviours resonate