Changeable Podcast

Today’s episode is based on a question I received from a listener. The gist of her question was this:  “If our thoughts are not real and they’re just making up stories, then how would you explain childhood abuse? Are my thoughts and feelings not true? Is my mind just making this up?”It’s an excellent question,

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The mind isn’t a real thing. It’s a concept.  As a concept, it implies some solidity and some continuity. There’s a story about me-and-my-mind that can’t help but arise.My mind appears to be an entity with some solid qualities. I can like what it does or dislike what it does. I can try to change

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In this conversation, I talk with parenting coach, change coach, and The Little School of Big Change moderator, Jessica Silverman. Jess shares what’s behind impatience, particularly in parenting. We feel impatient when we think things aren’t going the way they should–our children aren’t feeling the way they should, or they aren’t behaving the way we think

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If you listened to EP181, you heard me speaking to some questions sent by Alice. In today’s episode, I share a portion of a conversation I had with Alice after she heard EP181. Alice says she feels like a prisoner to thoughts and beliefs she couldn’t change. She said that although it sounded nice to

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There’s a good reason I talk about the no-willpower approach to change. There is no such thing as willpower.  Well, don’t take my word for it. Explore for yourself, as you listen to this episode. What if there is no such thing as willpower?What if what we call willpower is thought saying “I’m going to

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Shelly says she used to be overly reactive. She would get defensive at people’s actions and comments, and the feeling that came with this reactivity was overwhelming.  After trying so many things to fix her “reactivity problem”, Shelly sees this “problem” in a completely different light now. Shelly shares how reactivity is simply identification with a

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Five years ago this month, The Little Book of Big Change had just been published and I was busy creating The Little School of Big Change.  In the story in my mind, things look remarkably simpler, clearer, and deeper today compared to five years ago. But when I looked back at the original LSBC curriculum in

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In this conversation, Clare shares how suffering and seeking are love in disguise. We talk about how the search for something that will make us feel complete can literally never, ever be won. The seeking itself reinforces the misunderstanding that something is missing or needed. And we talk about the fact that all suffering and seeking

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Alice wrote to me saying that after two years in this conversation, she doesn’t feel any better off. There were several things she said she didn’t get about these pointers, but the biggest was this: “Nothing outside of you can make you feel anything”.That’s just NOT true, Alice said. It’s not that simple and it’s

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Joe Bailey is back on the podcast! Joe’s new book, Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricane: Unlocking Resilience in Turbulent Times, is all about resilience. After this conversation with Joe, resilience felt even truer and deeper and simpler than ever. It’s not that “you” are resilient, or “I” am resilient (whoever “you” and “I” are).

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