Rawinia has faced an extraordinary amount of challenges in her life. She graciously shares the struggles she’s had in her romantic relationships, around self-worth, with her intuition, with trauma, with religion and faith, and with overall self-love.

We go on to discuss the lessons she’s extracted from these challenges along the way, and we talk about how these lessons have positively impacted our lives. We touch on tools and practices that have served us in moving through these challenges as well.

May this conversation and the lessons shared to serve you so that the challenges you face won’t need to be as heavy.

Follow Rawinia

Instagram: @rawinia___

Book: You Are Not Alone

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us.

With love, Kez.

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The what, the why, the how, and the steps to take to truly start to heal from this. Anxiety is an incredibly common human experience that can be very detrimental. We speak scientifically about why it's there, and practical steps you can start taking to begin healing from anxiety. We touch on panic attacks and what to do if they ever arise as well.

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us.

With love, Kez

Kai Jordan is an incredibly influential and impactful coach in his space. He guides us through his journey of self-realisation, and shares with us the deep wisdom that he has on mental health, and life itself. Kai has an incredible skill to simplify the essence of what it means to become your own healer, more than most people that I personally know. It was a blessing having him on the show, and I can guarantee that if you tune in, you will absolutely take many insights away that may enhance or shift your perspective and understanding of the mind, and of life itself.

Follow Kai Jordan

Instagram @kaijordancoaching

Website www.resonancecoachingacademy.com

Email [email protected]

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us.

With love, Kez.

Loneliness will be a part of everyone's life at some point, but it is how we work through it and look within ourselves that determines the effect it will have. This week I explore the road to peace and harmony, where you are able to feel content and therefore loneliness cannot enter your life. I share my own experiences and transformation from a place of deep loneliness, just filling the void, to a place of peace. 

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us.

With love, Kez.

Going through hell-ish experiences, anxiety, sadness, insecurity, all those sufferable experiences we all dabble with at certain stages in our lives, Luke (Abstract) has chosen to live his life facing them and expressing his experiences through rapping. His success has not come easily. The work he's put into his music is extraordinary. Being naturally introverted, he shares how he has gone through challenge after challenge to be able to show up fully and perform in front of large audiences.

His success includes exceeding over 100 million listens on just one of his songs, let alone the 500 odd million total listens he's accumulated on Youtube alone with his work, that's not even counting Spotify.

We dive into what Luke does during his lulls and when moments of sadness or demotivation strike, and what he's done in order to face being an introvert. There's a lot to learn through this episode, be sure to tune in!

Follow Abstract:

Instagram: @abstract307

Twitter: @thetrueabstract

TikTok @abstracttherapper

https://www.abstracttheartist.com/

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Instagram: @moon_fivetwo 

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us.

With love, Kez.

There's a lot of misinformation out there about these "happy chemicals". I stumbled across an image on Instagram sharing a lot of half-truths on these, and quite frankly, it can limit one's ability to enable optimal levels of happiness in their life. I thought, "it's about time that I jumped on and spoke directly about these chemicals, as to what they really are, why they're there, and how to properly stimulate the create them". So, I did.

Here's a fairly succinct episode in some relative depth on the why, what, and how of these "happy chemicals". I highly recommend taking notes. In the future, I will go into extra detail on the chemicals individually so I can cover more ground on each one.

Happy listening!

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us. 

With love, Kez.  

From the man who co-founded and host NZ Spirit, Resolution Festival, and Yoga Day, to the man who has shared the microphone with Donavan Frankenreiter, and opened for Xavier Rudd and Nahko & Medicine, Franko has accomplished a lot. It never used to be that way though.

Franko lived in depression, alcoholism, and confusion at many moments in his life. We dive into his story about what lead him to these depths, and how he was able to climb out of the darkness. He also shares how deepening his conscious awareness and spiritual understandings have enabled him to not just help himself, but many thousands through his festivals, kirtans, music, and coaching.

Follow Franko Heke

Instagram @frankoheke

Website https://www.frankoheke.com/

New song release Jai Shiva Shankar

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With love, Kez.

The correlation between discipline and one's mental health is strong. Various studies have shown how building discipline can decrease anxiety and depression in subjects. Discipline has completely changed my life. I talk about what discipline is, compared to what it's believed to be, and how to build it in your life with simple steps. Naturally, procrastination will come down and performance will go up as a consequence too, let alone more peace and joy. 

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for a free scientific mental health e-book and for my coaching information for overcoming anxiety and enhancing mental performance. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook or Instagram to join us. 

With love, Kez.  

Jodie Bell has her honours in Psychology and is well on her way to a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience. She shares her findings on how compassion practices and meditation practices can benefit those that struggle with mental health, as well as their tie in with helping those that suffer from Dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

We also touch on practical steps someone can take to improve their meditation practice and to improve their overall cognitive ability to process difficult thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

Jodie has shared with me the links to the research she touches on in the podcast. You may head to the links below.

Follow Jodie here

Instagram @jodie_nicole_bell

Auckland University's Website

https://www.auckland.ac.nz

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Head to www.healingwithkez.com for free tools, a free scientific mental health e-book, and to look into the mental health program that I offer. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to the Thrive Organisation on Facebook to join us. May you find all of the peace and happiness that you have available to you.

With love, Kez.

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References

Kral, T. R. A., Schuyler, B. S., Mumford, J. A., Rosenkranz, M. A., Lutz, A., & Davidson, R. J. (2018). Impact of short- and long-term mindfulness meditation training on amygdala reactivity to emotional stimuli. NeuroImage, 181, 301–313.

Esch, T. (2014). The Neurobiology of Meditation and Mindfulness. In S. Schmidt & H. Walach (Eds.), Meditation – Neuroscientific Approaches and Philosophical Implications (pp. 153–173). Springer International Publishing.

Lippelt, D. P., Hommel, B., & Colzato, L. S. (2014). Focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation: effects on attention, conflict monitoring, and creativity - A review. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1083.

Weng, H. Y., Fox, A. S., Shackman, A. J., Stodola, D. E., Caldwell, J. Z. K., Olson, M. C., Rogers, G. M., & Davidson, R. J. (2013). Compassion training alters altruism and neural responses to suffering. Psychological Science, 24(7), 1171–1180.

Lee, D. J., Kulubya, E., Goldin, P., Goodarzi, A., & Girgis, F. (2018). Review of the Neural Oscillations Underlying Meditation. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 178.

Fox, K. C. R., Nijeboer, S., Dixon, M. L., Floman, J. L., Ellamil, M., Rumak, S. P., Sedlmeier, P., & Christoff, K. (2014). Is meditation associated with altered brain structure? A systematic review and meta-analysis of morphometric neuroimaging in meditation practitioners. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 43, 48–73.

Ryan is a naturopath and a breathwork facilitator. He thrives, eats well, and lives well, but it never used to be like that. Ryan would continually run his head into a wall with his depression until things started to shift at 21. From there, although it wasn't easy, and challenges continued to arise, Ryan would continually learn, grow, and transform on his journey of healing himself and helping others to heal as well. With deep teachings all the way from India, to western medicine, Ryan covers in-depth what he's done, and what he does with his clients to move through depression, anxiety, and many other mental health challenges that commonly inhibit people's way of living.

Tune in as we dive into his story and practical applications that you can take away in order to benefit your mental health.

Follow Ryan Bennett

Instagram @ryanbennett____ 

Facebook Community https://urlgeni.us/facebook/plant-based-wellness 

Website https://plantingseedswellness.net/ 

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Be sure to subscribe to the Pocket Coach for more incredible people to come on and share their stories, experience, and expertise! Please remember to leave a review, as it helps me to reach others that struggle. This is completely free, my only ask is that you share it with those you feel it will help. Follow us on Instagram @thepocketcoach and follow Kieran for more content on healing @coachkezza. Send me a message and tell me what you want me to talk about next, and who you would like me to interview next. 

Head to www.healingwithkez.com for free tools, a free scientific mental health e-book, and to look into the mental health program that I offer. If you're in New Zealand and you're looking for a free community for support, head to Thrive Organisation on Facebook to join us. May you find all of the peace and happiness that you have available to you. 

With love, Kez.