Most of us spend a surprising amount of life on autopilot - replaying the past, predicting the future, missing the moment we’re actually in. 

In this episode, I walk through the POINT model in full: my approach to presence, awareness, and mental clarity that sits at the heart of my work and my book, The Point of Now.

This isn’t mindfulness as a technique, or another set of tools to add to your already-full life. 

It’s a recognition that now is the only place life actually happens - and that genuine presence doesn’t have to be effortful or elusive.

Whether you’re new here or have been following for a while, this episode gives you a clear, unhurried look at what The Point™ actually is and how it works - no jargon or performance, just a quiet and direct conversation about what it means to be here.

If you’ve found mindfulness hard to practise, spiritual content increasingly hard to trust, or simply want something grounded and real - this one’s for you.

📧 Email me directly here: [email protected]

📕 Buy my book, ‘The Point of Now’, here:

https://amzn.eu/d/5fyskTl

🔻The episode cover art shows the point visual, which this episode speaks through. 

Neuroscience is fascinating - neuroplasticity, epigenetics, how the body holds patterns. Multi-day retreats and deep processing work can transform lives. But what if there’s something simpler beneath it all?

This episode explores why presence isn’t something you achieve after processing everything - it’s available right now through direct recognition.

The past exists only in this moment’s thinking.  Mental busyness keeps patterns alive by rehearsing and re-performing them. The shift happens when you notice: “Am I here, or am I in my head in thoughts and imagination?”

For clients who’ve done all the practices but can’t live what they know - this simple recognition is usually what’s missing.

Every moment is genuinely unknown and unique. The Point is noticing that, rather than trying to make it safe through mental time-travelling.

The Point of now is the smallest moment but the greatest doorway - and it’s always open.

Next episode: Why discernment is your greatest superpower - how to recognise the difference between direct experience and the story your mind adds.

Contact me by email here: [email protected]

I still forget and catch myself closing - contracting around a situation rather than meeting it with presence. The Point isn’t something I’ve mastered, it’s something I keep returning to.

In this episode I share how The Point shows up in the middle of real life: 

• the pressure to be consistent with this podcast,
• chaotic school run mornings with two teenage boys,
• and what actually helps when someone’s already stressed and gets shouted at for being late.

I also look at the suggestion that kindness makes you a weak leader - and why I think that misses something fundamental. 

Real kindness isn’t softness or people-pleasing. From presence, you can be kind and direct, kind and let someone go, kind and say no. It’s not a strategy. It’s what naturally comes when you’re not operating from self-protection, or the need to be seen a certain way - when you’re simply responding to what’s actually here.

The challenges don’t disappear. But how we meet them changes everything.

🎙️ New to The Point? Episode 1 is a good place to start:

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/spirit-of-enquiry-wellbeing-conversations-for-change/id1713782727?i=1000632736561

📕 My book “The Point of Now” is available on Amazon:

https://amzn.eu/d/5fyskTl

I’d love to hear how this lands - get in touch via the links below.

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🕸️ My website shows more on my work and you can download the first two chapters of my book there: https://www.sychangecoach.com

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In this episode of The Spirit of Enquiry, I explore AI - not from a “good or bad” perspective, but as an invitation to notice how we meet uncertainty itself.

Like many people, I’ve felt a subtle sense of concern about AI - particularly around work, jobs, and the pace of change. But as I noticed my own moment of contraction and threat-based thinking, I realised this is the same human pattern that shows up whenever we encounter something uncertain or thats seems uncontrollable.

This episode is an exploration of what becomes available when we slow down, open, and step out of fear-based mental management - and how AI may actually be pointing us back to what is uniquely human.

Rather than trying to outthink or compete with machines, I invite you to consider what AI can’t do: be present, feel connection, access inner intelligence, and respond wisely in the moment.

We look at how fear narrows perspective, how the mind’s “operating system” goes into autopilot, and why continuous optimisation has diminishing returns - both individually and collectively.

This conversation isn’t about bypassing real concerns or pretending change isn’t happening. It’s about staying open and curious in the face of disruption, and recognising that fear and tension are signals - not the whole truth.

AI may be advancing regardless, but how we meet that change makes all the difference.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why AI often triggers fear and threat-based thinking

• What happens when the mind contracts around uncertainty

• The “spotlight of attention” and the operating system of the mind

• Why mental management can’t solve everything

• AI as a possible invitation away from over-optimisation

• The difference between the map and the territory

• What remains irreplaceable about being human

• How presence, curiosity, and openness create wiser responses

• Why fear and stress are information, not the whole truth

If you’d like to explore this work more deeply, my book The Point of Now expands on these ideas, and how we meet uncertainty without being limited by fear. 

And if you have questions or reflections, I’d love to hear from you - you’re welcome to reach out and continue the conversation:

📩 Email me directly at:

[email protected]

In this episode, we explore the paradox of language - how the words you speak to yourself (and others) create real physical changes in the body, and yet how they also don’t have inherent meaning.

Discover:

- Harvard Medical School research showing how self-talk reduces inflammation and changes your nervous system

- Why the placebo effect proves words can be more powerful than drugs

- The difference between positive affirmations (another technique to try) and recognition (noticing what’s actually here)

- How “should” language creates stress and pressure

- A practical invitation for the holiday season: notice the expectations you’re carrying about Christmas

The invitation isn’t to control your self-talk - it’s to notice it, feel its effect, and return to present moment awareness. To allow what is rather than fight it with words. Your body hears everything your mind says.

Perfect for anyone struggling with inner criticism, holiday stress, anxiety, overwhelm, or looking to understand the mind-body connection, nervous system regulation, and presence.

Wishing you presence, ease and joy this Christmas (and in each moment!)

Thanks for listening. Please subscribe to the show and a rating or review would be much appreciated if you enjoy it.

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In this episode, I share a simple but powerful metaphor from Chapter 11 of my book - Traffic Lights for the Mind.

We all know traffic lights. We see them every day, and they can become your reminder to drop out of mental overwhelm and back into present moment awareness.

The three lights as a practical navigation system:

- Red Light (STOP)- Recognising when you’re caught in the speeding mind

- Yellow Light (WAIT)- The pause where conscious, mindful moments become possible

- Green Light (GO)- Operating from the quieter, clearer space of present moment awareness

When you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or overwhelmed during your day, the traffic lights offer an immediate way back to what’s actually here right now.

Not another technique to master, but a simple visual reminder that’s already everywhere around you.

This isn’t about controlling your thoughts or forcing yourself to be calm. It’s about recognising what’s happening and allowing your system to naturally downshift from reactive mode to responsive presence.

Your real excellence doesn’t live in multitasking or managing everything at once - it lives in the full presence you bring to whatever’s right in front of you.

When you operate from present moment awareness rather than scattered thinking, you naturally access clarity, better decisions, and more effective action.

Let traffic lights be your reminder this week. When you’re at a red light (physically or mentally) feeling rushed or tense, notice that’s your cue - pause, breathe, and feel into what’s here in this precise moment.

Life is just this one breath, one step at a time. Let’s slow down to now.

If you enjoy this episode, please let me know, or share it with someone who might benefit from listening. If you leave a review it really helps the show be shown to others too. Thanks for listening.

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📕 The Point of Now: https://amzn.eu/d/5fyskTl

Welcome to Episode 43 of The Spirit of Enquiry.

This is Chapter 2 from my new book “The Point of Now”, where I introduce The Point model - a simple visual framework that shows the natural movement from mental overwhelm back to present-moment clarity we often miss.

What You’ll Hear:

• The Point Model - An inverted triangle pointing to this moment, where your natural intelligence is

• Lorna’s Story - The lifelong “fixer” who tried every strategy to heal herself, only to discover peace came from stopping, not adding more

• Life as Feedback - How stress signals you’re in mental analysis rather than present reality

• The Subtractive Approach - Why this reveals what’s already here instead of building something new

This isn’t about learning techniques. It’s about seeing what’s always available in present moment awareness.

“The Point of Now” is available here: https://amzn.eu/d/5fyskTl

Thanks for listening. If you have any questions, please email me at: [email protected].

If you’ve already read the book, I’d be really grateful if you’d add a review to Amazon to help the book reach others who may benefit from it.

Welcome to a special episode of The Spirit of Enquiry.

I’m sharing Chapter 1 from my new book, The Point of Now, releasing on 11th November.

This is the story of the night in February 2016 that changed everything - a fire at my parents’ house that revealed something profound about resilience and how life actually works.

If you’re exhausted from trying to fix and manage everything, this is for you.

What you’ll hear:

- The fire that changed everything

- What I discovered about resilience

- Why capable people end up most exhausted

- The beginning of “The Point”

Book releases November 11th, 2025 on Amazon.

Contact me at www.thepointofnow.com

What if business and life could unfold effortlessly - not as something you create, but as something you simply allow? 

In this conversation, I sit down with Brigette van Tuijl, who works with women entrepreneurs tired of the endless cycle of self-improvement and the pressure to constantly “be on.”

Brigette shares her journey from believing she had to make everything happen - to discovering that life already flows beautifully when we stop getting in the way.

We explore how resonance, not strategy, draws the right people to our work, why words can never fully capture what we’re pointing to (especially in non-dual spaces), and the simple power of just being here now.

Key insights from our conversation:

• Why trying to achieve inner peace can become another trap

• How successful women can step off the treadmill of constant doing

• The difference between creating flow and allowing what’s already flowing

• Why your thoughts don’t mean what you think they mean

• How to trust the effortless unfolding of business and life

Whether you’re carrying too much, feeling stuck in old patterns of achievement, or curious about what lies beneath the mental noise, this episode offers a gentle invitation to remember what you already know.

Connect with Brigette here:

https://brigittevantuijl.com/

Visit Suzie’s work at:

https://www.sychangecoach.com for coaching and resources.

Email any feedback or questions on the podcast or this episode to: 

[email protected] - I’d love to hear from you.

Remember - life is already happening effortlessly. Sometimes we just need to stop trying so hard to make it work.

Lorna came to coaching during one of the hardest, most challenging chapters of her life. The pressures didn’t let up. The circumstances didn’t magically improve. On the surface, nothing changed.

And yet - everything did.

In this deeply honest conversation, Lorna shares how she let go of the pressure to fix it all and discovered a quieter strength. A new way of being with herself, and a deep sense of peace - even when life was still hard.

We explore what real transformation looks like when it’s not about doing more, but seeing differently.

This isn’t traditional coaching. It’s not therapy either. It’s something simpler, deeper - and profoundly life-changing.

If you’re navigating emotional overwhelm, burnout, or the hidden cost of always coping, this episode is for you.

We talk about:

• Emotional resilience
• Healing without fixing
• And the powerful ripple effect when one woman finds clarity within herself.

I hope you enjoy this episode about the real possibility of change.

Have questions or feedback? Email me at [email protected]

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