In this SOLO episode of joyful. I am talking about our (I think) universal need to create, about making art, and about music -- a form of art in particular close to my heart. I discuss the links between music and emotion, and try to answer the question of whether music, and art in general, can make us happier. I invite you to join me, while I continue to discover what happiness means to me. Do not hesitate to reach out if anything I said resonated, or if you completely disagree wi...

joyful. GUEST SERIES with Jasper Riehm. Today I speak to Jasper Riehm, a passionate guerrilla gardener who tries to connect people living in urban spaces with nature, putting up willow domes around the city of Amsterdam. On instagram he calls himself @thatweirdplantguy, as he questions the established norms on what is normal, inviting people get involved and make an impact on their surroundings. Jasper believes that people who get along with each other are part of a shared mycelium net...

joyful. GUEST SERIES with Fiona Beenkens Fiona transformed her career path and, being quite unhappy working as an architect, she started to shape her way through as a neuroarchitect. In her work she uses her knowledge from domains of psychology and architecture, to help people create homes (and other spaces) that make them feel better in their daily lives. I admire Fiona's passion, dedication and faith with which she engages in her work to help people make their environments more beautifiul...

joyful. GUEST SERIES with Dr Shékina Rochat. Dr Rochat holds a PhD in psychology, with a special focus on career counselling. As both a practitioner and a researcher, her mission is to support professionals in navigating their careers. She is also the author of several influential books on career development and psychology, including one especially interesting for me as it concerns psychology and climbing! Alongside her professional career, Shékina is a dedicated mother and an incredibly wa...

In this SOLO episode I discuss gratitude. A never-ending topic in every book or podcast, that wants to be a part of the „happiness and wellbeing" category. And well, if I want to call my podcast one that’s about happiness, how could I not mention gratitude, right? I could probably skip it. This topic honestly drives me up the wall! But here I am, accepting the challenge, picking up the gauntlet, throwing myself into a gratitude well to talk about it from my own perspective. Do you care to joi...

joyful. GUEST SERIES with: Dr Dorian Dugmore Dr Dugmore has a PhD in cardiovascular health, and years of experience working in this field. Among his many accomplishments, he has developed one of the first programs of cardiovascular rehabilitation in the UK. All his life, he has been also closely connected to sport. He was on his way to become a professional football player, when due to a missed diagnosis, he had to resign from this dream. He went on, to work as a professional football coach,...

In this SOLO episode I am talking about how light may impact our wellbeing. I talk about health optimising protocols and I share my personal view on applying knowledge from podcasts into my life. I invite you to listen and join this reflection around the movement of wellbeing, use of light or other factors to enhance our mood, and I ask you to think about whether there is something that you, yourself, engage in in order to make yourself feel better. 00:00:01 Introduction 00:01:11 Talking a...

joyful. GUEST SERIES with: Professor Russell Foster I have a great pleasure to welcome Professor Russel Foster, Head of the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford in this episode of Joyful. In today's conversation, I ask Professor Foster about the importance of sleep and circadian rhythms for our well-being. We discuss the growing issue of sleep anxiety related to the ongoing social media craze of...

A very long time ago, I saw the film Pay It Forward. It tells a story about a boy named Trevor who is given an assginment in class to do three good deeds to three different people. These three people are suppoused to help another three, this way creating a cascade of kindness, raising the levels of happiness in the world around. Today I want to participate in this mission started by Trevor. I invite you to join me by following us here, at joyful. Today's episode is an invitation, designed to...

(Former Healthy Habits Podcast) Ketamine-based intervention for depression: Potential, history and the taboo surrounding psychedelics. | Dr Joan Obiols & Marta Martin In this episode I am talking with a psychiatrist Dr Joan Obiols and a psychoogist Marta Martin. Dr Obiols's main interests are transcultural psychiatry, schizophrenia, altered states of consciousness and he is en expert in psychedelic-assisted therapies. Marta obtained her diploma in psychology at university of ...