Spirit of Enquiry: Wellbeing Conversations for Change

Lily shares her personal experience of panic attacks, derealisation and health and food anxiety/ obsessive compulsions.

This episode will be helpful to anyone navigating any of these and offers a simple and very hopeful discussion. Anyone can get relief and a better understanding of what’s behind these issues if they are open to looking.

Lily is a coach with a community offering extensive support on all these issues - find her on Instagram:

@_peacefromwithin

My special guest today shares the inspiring story of her work in the UK prison system over the past 10 years.

Jacqueline Hollows, coach and author of “Wing of an Angel” offers hope for true rehabilitation and a scalable model of change. The prison residents who are impacted by her program often go on to share and teach others, causing a ripple effect.

Her work uncovers the human potential available to everyone, when we recognise how we all really operate. It takes one simple realisation, or insight, to change your life in the moment.

Her message is empowering for us all. Anyone can have an impact, simply by being present with another human and sharing unconditional love and hope over fear.

Contact Jacqueline at www.jbhollows.co.uk

Buy ‘Wing of an Angel’ at https://amzn.eu/d/1VXGj5p

My special guest, Dr Amy Johnson, has been a Change Coach (specifically) for over 15 years and helps people end unwanted habits and anxiety, without relying on willpower.

We talk about how being curious and really feeling into what’s arising is the paradoxical way real and lasting change occurs.

We talk about anxiety and habits as examples, but what we discuss can help with any apparent personal problem or obstacle.

See Amy’s website https://dramyjohnson.com for details of her courses and lots of helpful resources.

How understanding the True Power of Now can help with work and life efficiency - empowering us to overcome any blocks or obstacles and to have a more enjoyable and fulfilling life.

In this episode, I discuss the freedom from understanding this in overcoming: the need for validation, perfectionism, procrastination and imposter syndrome. As well as the clarity, efficiency and creativity it allows.

Life reveals itself to us, moment by moment. And yet, we think we need to help the process or even drive it.

If every moment is a fresh and new reveal, we can ‘let go’ of the driving and steering.

I explore this and how it’s helpful to simply notice, or be more mindful, in the moment.

Water doesn’t resist, it flows. Life is fluid in the same way. We are part of this flow of life, but we don’t always consider this.

When we allow life to flow freely, allowing each moment of reality to be as it is, we mentally suffer less.

Listen in to hear how this is the case and hopefully you’ll feel some freedom or lightness.

Being ok with the unknown is beneficial and healthy.

Since ANYTHING can happen next, the unknown could be seen as exciting and full of potential (rather than as uncomfortable or scary.)

Our awareness and mental attention is the differentiator and this is what I talk about in this episode.

Awareness of our emotional regulation, in the moment, is so helpful and healthy in life.

If we pause, or become mindful of the tiny gap between a circumstance and our reaction, we can respond more mindfully, rather than react in an automatic instant.

This is healthy, expansive and allows for better connections with others.

In exploring life more deeply, eventually something can loosen and we can become more open and trusting of life and our design.

Join me as I share some things to consider and examples to play with. I point to how we can take life, and ourselves, less seriously, which is freeing and helpful in any eventuality.

What if you’re not broken and don’t need fixing?

If we explore and become more aware of our deeper nature, we can see that mental health and well-being is our natural state, before the habitual, personal mind obscures this.