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If you’re lonely then you’ll know how physical it can feel, how painful.  Maybe you don’t know why, and you’re not even very comfortable talking about it, then you’re not alone.   It’s a subject we don’t care to discuss much, even with our friends, because people often feel a sense of shame confessing to it.  It can feel like admitting to the world that you’re a failure, a loser, you’re not enough, not normal, not like other people, there’s something wrong with you.  But, it’s so common and it’s reaching epidemic proportions, affecting our health and wellbeing, and society too, but it’s something we often avoid bringing into the open.  In this episode I’m going to help you better understand the loneliness you feel.

If you’re sick of the restrictions, struggling with anxiety and feeling despair because you can’t see any end of it stay with me because I’m going to talk about something that can help you to get through the pandemic and emerge stronger than before.   I specialise in helping people with anxiety, overwhelm, low self-confidence and any other issue that stops them from living their dream life and in this episode I’m going to talk you through an exercise that will help you through this challenging time.    If you’re sick of the restrictions, struggling with anxiety and feeling despair because you can’t see any end of it, stay with me because I’m going to talk about something that can help you to get through the pandemic and emerge stronger than before. I’m going to talk you through an exercise that may help you through this challenging time. 

 If you can feel your mood plummeting and you are tired of winter already, If you can only see the dark, the cold, the rain, gloom and doom and can’t wait for it to be over, you’re in the right place.  I’m going to tell you how you can make winter much more bearable.  And even enjoy it!  In this episode I’ll help you reframe how you think about winter so that you could enjoy it more and not wish your life away - and how doing this can help with any challenge you face in life.  So listen in for top tips on how to survive and even thrive this winter. 

Are you licking your wounds because someone broke up with you or did you do the breaking up but you’re still sad.  In this podcast I’m going to tell you how you can survive a break up – it doesn’t have to be the end of the world, destroy your confidence or leave you scarred.  I’m going to help you navigate the choppy waters of true love.   ‘Breaking up is hard to do’ as the song goes and it can feel like that.  First of all, whether you’re the one who did the breaking up or were broken up with accept that you are going to experience a roller coaster of emotions.  Even if you were the one who wanted to leave, even if it’s the best thing you could have done, even if all your friends and family are popping the champagne as they always knew that he/she wasn’t good enough for you, there’s still loss.   But there are things you can do to make it easier so listen up.  

Stress has a habit of creeping up on us and it can easily go unnoticed because we have busy lives and its only when its causing real problems with our health, relationships, in work that we are forced to acknowledge it.  But by recognising it as early as you can,  knowing the various guises it shows up as means you can think about doing something about it.  We can’t change what we don’t know so being aware is the very first, important step to managing your stress in a whole new way - and even learning to use it to your advantage!  In this episode I’ll tell you about the signs and symptoms of stress then, next week, I’ll go through ways you can turn stress around and begin to take control of IT instead of it controlling YOU.  

Do you put things off, then miss your chance or you’re scrabbling at the last minute? Sick of never getting things done and wasting energy on worrying about it? In this episode I explore why we procrastinate and how you can overcome it to get done the things you want to – to get the life you want. What are you waiting for? Listen now!

Would you like to try mindfulness but don’t know how? Or you’ve tried and found it too hard and you’ve given up?  Listen here for easy ways to practice mindfulness without sitting and struggling for hours. With suggestions for short practices you can fit into your daily routine and a couple of longer, guided meditations for you to try.  Get the benefits of increased focus and concentration, be more present and alert and enjoy mindfulness without the stress.   

We all feel lonely from time to time. I know I have in the past and more recently too. Feelings of loneliness are personal, so everyone’s experience of loneliness will be different. One common description of loneliness is the feeling we get when our need for rewarding social contact and relationships is not met, it can be like a physical pain affecting our focus, our decision making and even our health. But loneliness is not always the same as being alone. You may choose to be alone and live happily without much contact with other people, while others may find this a lonely experience. Or you may have lots of social contact, or be in a relationship or part of a family, and still feel lonely – especially if you don’t feel understood or cared for by the people around you  Learn more about loneliness and what you can do about it in this recent episode.     

Take the stress out of Christmas.  Learn how to be less stressed, more calm and contented over Christmas.   We put so much pressure on ourselves to get Christmas right that it can take all the fun and pleasure out of it.  We run around decorating, shopping, socialising so that by the time Christmas arrives we’re all knackered.  Do it differently this year. Take the drama out of Christmas so that you can actually enjoy it.  I will give you four techniques to help you to be more calm, less anxious, less stressed and less likely to blow a fuse over the festive season. 

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at your life and wondering – what happened? How did I end up here?  Or maybe you know you are not in the right lane, there’s another life you want to be living.   You can see it but its are just out of reach and you ask yourself, why am I here, why am I not there? In this week’s episode I’ll be sharing my story of how I radically changed lanes and what may be holding you back from finding your true direction – and what you can do about it. This is for anyone who may be at a crossroads of their life, or lost their way and doesn’t know what to do next or just woken up to the fact that the life they are living is not their authentic one.