Smiling makes us feel better. It’s a scientific fact. Chantal and Matthew explore the subject and science of smiles, how they make us feel better and how smiling more can support our emotional fitness and mental health.

Music: Corporate Happy (Long) - Daddy’s Music

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an online free mental health class that builds your emotional fitness.

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After introducing the five pillars of emotional fitness a few weeks ago, Matthew and Chantal delve deeper into the second pillar of Emotional Fitness, Moving. Humans tend to be very sedentary beings when they were built to move! Everyone knows that exercise is important for physical fitness but did you know that movement is vital for ongoing emotional fitness too? This episode explores why.

Music: Swinging Web by SergeQuadrado

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an online free mental health class that builds your emotional fitness.

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Workplace bullying can be difficult to deal with while it has serious long reaching health and wellbeing consequences. It often flies under the radar because of its verbal and psychological tactics. In this podcast, the first of Season 3, Chantal and Matthew explore what workplace bullying can look like, who bullies and who gets bullied and what to do about it.

Music: Summer Surf by AudioCoffee

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending a FREE Emotional Fitness Class: https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Learn more about Shape of Emotion, our tool for emotion regulation, on our Master your Emotions mini audio-course: https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotions

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Who hasn't wanted more peace in their lives? Matthew and Chantal explore how driven to aggression and division we tend to be, and how Hollywood seems to seed a heavily conflict oriented approach to solving problems. The place to start is always with ourselves, finding more peace in ourselves is the first step to finding more peace out in the world. 

Music: Motivational Day by AudioCoffee

• Imagine - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class: https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

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After introducing the five pillars of emotional fitness a few weeks ago, Matthew and Chantal delve deeper into the first pillar of Emotional Fitness, Thinking. They explore the pillar and what it means in the context of building emotional fitness and why it is important for our overall wellbeing.

Music: Save Me by Liborio Conti

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class: https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

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With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up on 10 September, Chantal and Matthew talk about the subject that no-one wants to really talk about - Suicide. A hard subject to deal with but that makes it all the more necessary to face it and talk about it. Matthew shares his lived experience of suicide ideation and attempts and the learning that has come out of that very dark time in his past.

Music: Music by DaddysMusic from Pixabay

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class: https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

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If you or someone you know is suicidal, please use one of the numbers for your country. If someone is in immediate danger, please call your local emergency number (e.g. 911 in the US, 999 in the UK and 10111 in South Africa).

A fascinating conversation with Ben Ahrens who is a chronic illness recovery expert, TEDx Speaker, Neuroplasticity coach, and Co-founder of Re-origin. In this episode Matthew and Chantal have a conversation with him about his passion for healing and recovery, by using the basics of neuroplasticity to rewire the brain for optimal health and functioning.

Music:  AudioCoffee from Pixabay

Visit re-origin and discover a science-based, self-directed neuroplasticity training program for people who suffer from chronic conditions such as anxiety, depression and much more.

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class: https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

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Having been reminded that emotion regulation is key for overall emotional and mental wellbeing, Chantal and Matthew explore the seven elements of the model of emotional fitness that emerge out of the working definition of emotional fitness. They then cover the five pillars of emotional fitness that underpin their practical, holistic and multifaceted approach to becoming and remaining emotionally fit.

Music: Life is Strange by MADiRFAN

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class: https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Learn more about Shape of Emotion on our Master your Emotions mini audio-course: https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotions

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The importance of building emotional fitness in the youth of today is made even more urgent by some scary global and local statistics regarding their mental and emotional wellbeing. Chantal and Matthew interrogate the current situation and the impact that lockdowns, social media and ongoing stigma have had. They explore the drive to find alternative, non-medicinal approaches to attend to depression and anxiety in youth and in the process discover an amazing correlation with their work.

Music: Milk Shake by Coma-Media

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class: https://courses.5th.place/courses/emotional-fitness-class

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National Women’s Day in South Africa inspired Matthew and Chantal to focus on and celebrate women and  how being emotionally fit is of particular importance for women. They consider what is needed to start the journey, some particular challenges and how important it is for women to support women in this drive for equality and acceptance.

Music credit: Music credit: Liborio Conti - Amazing

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