Resilience Unravelled

Karen Liebenguth is an accredited mindfulness teacher, certified coach, mentor and facilitator.  She is also the founder of Green Space Coaching and a life and executive coach, eco-therapist and mindfulness trainer.  She was one of the first people in the UK to start coaching while walking in nature after finding that both she and her clients get far better results outside rather than sitting indoors.  In this podcast:

• Karen explains why she became interested in coaching in nature
• The benefits of being in nature
• Why we need to experience mindfulness for ourselves

Dr Alex Hershaft was just 5 years old when the Nazis

invaded his homeland of Poland. He and his family were forced into the

Warsaw Ghetto but he survived and after escaping Nazi persecution and

immigrating to the USA, he worked as an environmental consultant.

In 1972, a routine inventory of a Midwest slaughterhouse changed the course

of his life. He is now the President and founder of Farm Animals Right

Movement (FARM), an international nonprofit working to end the use of

animals for food. 

Lisa Broderick has worked with entrepreneurs and established companies to create lives of presence and purpose for four decades.

Her approach of integrating science with metaphysics and her own personal experiences to help others with little or no scientific or spiritual training master their innate abilities with practices designed to improve their lives, their relationships, and how the world sees them.

In this podcast:

• Lisa talks about how it’s possible to slow down time
• The science behind ‘All the time in the world’
• Controlling the perception of time

This week on the Resilience Unravelled podcast, Dr Russell Thackeray talks to Arman Vestad who spent a lot of his life on the run!

Through a series of poor life choices and unfortunate circumstances, he found himself dealing drugs and engaging in other criminal activity. After leaving prison for the 10th time, it wasn’t long until Arman found himself under arrest once again.

This time, however, a policeman on the case sat down with him and asked what he could do to help. He showed that he cared, and those few moments changed the course of Arman’s life forever. In this podcast:

• Arman talks about the importance of young people having boundaries and limits
• The power of community
• How one person can turn someones life around

The Soberful Life with Veronica Valli

This week on the Resilience Unravelled podcast, Dr Russell Thackeray talks to Veronica Valli who struggled with alcoholism through most of her twenties.

A binge drinker, she was aware for some time that something was wrong but was unable to define what it was however a chance meeting led to her finally getting help and turning her life around. At the height of her addiction, Veronica was unable to go to work without the aid of a drink and her life and confidence were in tatters. She got sober in 2000 at the age of twenty-seven and now uses this experience to help and inspire others. In this podcast:

• Veronica talks about the signs that someone might be struggling with alcohol
• How alcohol affects the genders differently
• The importance of connection and community.

Jonathan Joseph saw a lot of toxicity and negativity when he was working in the luxury womans fashion and sportswear industry. This not only affected people working in the industry but also consumers through marketing and advertising. He thought that it would be possible to shortcut some of the issues such as the body dysmorphia created by unrealistic standards by empowering children rather than fixing broken adults. He feels that by using fashion as a lens to talk about and deconstruct complex issues, conversations can be brokered between children and adults because fashion is infinitely relateable. It can then help play a role in how children navigate the world

The type of conversation that many couples have often doesn't help their relationship. Often it boils down to a debate, a checking in about who knows what and whose ideas are better. What’s needed is an enlivened conversation that builds resilience and allows both people to explore and learn together. They can then move out of an adversarial mindset to a place where they can learn and be resilient together.

Learning is the most important thing that a couple needs to do. A relationship can be demanding and needs energy and an inspiring vision, something to aim for that learning can be added to. The vision is what you’re going to learn to do together not who you already are when you start the relationship.

Welcome to 2022!

This week Dr Russell Thackeray muses on the recent arrival of 2022 and suggests some ideas to make the most of the year.

He focuses some thoughts on the nature of resolutions as opposed to goals and challenges us to think more creatively about where and why we are aiming as people often understate their long term ambitions. There will also some thoughts around choices and the nature of willpower, whether it depletes along the lines of decision fatigue, or whether it’s more of a belief system.

Hopefully there will be a few ideas or nuggets that you may find useful.

As we enter our next phase of podcasts, we would like to wish you all a tremendous and fulfilling New Year!!

Critical thinking is essential in helping teens work through a problem and realise what is going to move them forward so they get the result they want. Schools can’t be responsible for everything so parents need to be responsible for the provision of a parent model. A parent helping guide their child through making a decision is extremely powerful but Valerie often finds that although great strides have been made on parenting there is still some thinking in society that adults know best. It’s up to the parent to create a connection and allow their child to make mistakes and decisions and to figure out their own path

Another chance to listen to last year's Christmas podcast from Dr. Russell Thackeray. In it he talks about why resilience is so important at this time of year and also explains the need to stop and rejuvanate ourselves and/or invest in ourselves to plan forward. Finally, he discusses how the narrative we use can help our mental state and how confirmation bias can help give us the things we believe in.

The only other thing to say is that we hope you have a happy and safe Christmas and we look forward to catching up with you again in 2022!