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How to overcome eating disorders.

Overcoming eating disorders is not usually a straight forward process. Published in 1991 Inner Eating by Shirley Billigmeier has never been more relevant than it is today. For over 40 years, this author, speaker and b...

mBraining Interview with Grant Soosalu

In this latest mBraining Show interview I check in with Grant Soosalu.

After almost a year since our last interview we talk about what he has been busy doing, where mBraining is going and what is new in the ma...

Post Natal Depression Recovery

Post Natal Depression Recovery doesn't have to be difficult. First we need to understand what PND is. Post natal Depression effects 1 in 7 women and 1 in 10 men.

According to the website panda.org.au Postnatal depression and anxiety (PNDA) can be devastating and debilitating illnesses that can persist and affect not just a new mother but everyone around her. It is not a modern condition. Each generation calls it something different. What we call PostNatal Depression and Anxiety today may have been called a 'nervous breakdown' fifty years ago.

Post Natal Depression and Anxiety can be mild, moderate or severe and symptoms can begin suddenly after birth or appear gradually in the weeks or months during the first year after birth.

Post Natal Depression and Anxiety occurs in all cultures and can happen to child-bearing women of all ages. Pregnancy is the common factor. It can happen after miscarriage or stillbirth, normal or traumatic delivery, or caesarean delivery. Post Natal Depression and Anxiety happens not only after a first baby. It can occur after a third or fifth baby. Sometimes it happens after a first baby only. Sometimes it happens with a third baby, but not with the first two. Sometimes it happens after each pregnancy.

Post Natal Depression can happen to anyone.

An American expat in Australia, Dawn struggled to smoosh motherhood into her already complex identity but that didn’t stop her looking for bliss (and kangaroos) even without a map.

This particular road lead to a dormant love for acrylic paint which ultimately helped Dawn heal from post natal depression.

Dawn lives with her farm-raised Aussie husband and half-American baby girl. Aside from raising a human and doing laundry, she’s always creating. Creating sentences, recipes, artwork, lists, goals, designs, DIY projects, anything to keep the muses at home and the smiles plentiful.

Listen to Dawns courageous story of Post Natal Depression Recovery and if you found this interview helpful, pleased share it with other on your favourite social media platform. My hope is that people who a going through something similar may come across this interview as well and it may offer them hope while they are on their own path to post natal depression recovery.

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Highlights:

00:19 Introduction

06:36 Before diagnosis

13:49 The identity shift

21:16 Before motherhood

30:26 Follow your heart

37:03 Growing awareness

44:14 The meeting

49:51 Dawn's advice about postnatal depression

Transcription:

Intro 0:04

The transit lounge podcast moving you through life's transit lounge and helping you go from where you are to where you'd rather be.

Introduction

Bill 0:14

Did you know that postnatal depression affects 1 in 7 women and 1 in 10 men? According to the website panda.org.au postnatal depression and anxiety can be devastating and debilitating illness that can persist and affect not just a new mother but everyone around her.

Bill 0:34

It is not a modern condition. Each generation calls it something different. What we call postnatal depression and anxiety today might have been called a nervous breakdown 50 years ago. Postnatal depression and anxiety can be mild, moderate or severe and symptoms can begin suddenly after the birth or appear gradually in the weeks or months during the first year after birth.

Bill 0:59

Postnatal depression and anxiety occurs in all cultures and can happen to childbearing women of all ages. Pregnancy is the common factor. It can happen after miscarriage or stillbirth, normal or traumatic birth, or even cesarean delivery. Postnatal depression and anxiety happens not only after a first baby,

The benefits of Chi Nei Tsang

Hugh Hayward is a student of Chinese Medicine and an experienced practitioner of Chi Nei Tsang for more than a decade now. He completed his studies at the Australia college of natural medicine and has since been working closely with a number of mentors in different modalities in particular Chinese medicine, remedial massage and herbal medicine.

He has practiced in clinics that specialize in addiction rehabilitation, fertility and treating muscular skeletal injury and has recently established his own practice with his partner Emily in the Melbourne suburb of Preston. Hugh's focus has always been digestive health and he has achieved great results for his clients with Abdominal gut massage Chi Nei Tsang.

When I discovered Chi Nei Tsang and found that Hugh had his practice only a few kilometres from where I lived I could not resist the opportunity to experience this unique form of bodywork.

As someone that has experienced several gut related challenges I found the massage very useful and know that it has also gone some way in supporting my brain recover from brain surgery after 3 brain haemorrhages. I hope you enjoy this interview.

To find out more about Hugh visit his website here. http://www.cosmnaturalhealth.com (http://www.cosmnaturalhealth.com)

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Highlights:

00:19 Introduction

05:25 How it started

07:24 Tui-na

14:12 What is Acupuncture?

17:20 Addiction rehabilitation

24:04 Chinese dietetics

31:44 How Chi Nei Tsang works

39:29 Healing the gut with probiotics

43:30 mBIT balanced breathing

Transcription:

Intro 0:04

You're listening to The mBraining Show, a show about the new field of mBIT, where you'll get a blend of neuroscience-based research with practical applications for wise living. And now here's your host, Bill Gasiamis.

Introduction

Bill 0:19

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of The mBraining Show. It's been about three months since I last recorded an interview. And that's because I was enjoying some time on holidays overseas, with my family where we got to escape from wintery Melbourne.

Bill 0:34

And spend seven amazing weeks traveling Italy in Greece, where the weather was 30 degrees Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit every day for the entire trip. So why am I sharing this, first because I had such a great time and learned so much that I highly recommend that if you've been putting off a trip for some time now, for the right time to come like I was?

Bill 1:00

There's no right time. So get organized, save your coins, arrange it with work, and your children's school and just go. The other reason I'm sharing this is because the change of weather really made a huge difference to my health and how I felt physically. Just before we traveled, I had surgery to remove half of my thyroid gland.

Bill 1:21

Which was enlarged and causing an interference to my esophagus and windpipe. And the cold weather made conditions after the surgery a little more hostile for the thyroid and interfered with the remaining thyroid function as well.

Bill 1:37

So what has this got to do with the latest mBIT radio interview I hear you ask? I'll introduce my guest and then I'll explain. My guest today is Hugh Hayward, who is a student of Chinese medicine and an experienced practitioner for more than a decade now.

Bill 1:54

He completed his studies at the Australian College of Natural medicine, and has since been working closely with a number of mentors in different modalities in particular remedial massage, acupuncture, and herbal medicine.

Bill 2:09

He has practiced in clinics that specialize in addiction, rehabilitation, fertility and treating musculoskeletal injury, and has recently established his own practice with his partner Emily, in the Melbourne suburb of Preston.

Bill 2:24

Combining Horse Therapy with mBraining.

Cheryl is a facilitator of horse therapy and has lived and learned life's lessons through horses. She feels that horses are amazing teachers and great co-facilitators of human growth and development, as they provide instant feedback into how you are living your life - who you are being and how you show up in the world – the only thing we need to do is listen.

Discovering Tai Chi 30 yrs ago, led to Cheryl’s growing explorations in the energetic and emotional connections between horses and humans and the links and concepts of the 3 tan tiens, breath and energy, to connect with the mind, body and spirit of horse, opening up a whole new way of practicing horsemanship, that she subsequently discovered, could be applied to learning, personal growth and authentic leadership.

With a BA in Recreation Leadership and Outdoor Education, she is passionate about nature based interactions and has been involved in the field of experiential growth and learning, having been a facilitator of human potential, for most of her life, along with tutoring in this at the University of Hong Kong.

Horse Therapy

The rise in neuroscience research over more recent years provided additional insights, and with it, increasing explorations in how human emotions and the functioning of the nervous system affected horse/human connections.

Formal training in the field of Equine Facilitated Learning beginning 10 yrs ago, led her to officially combine her love of horses and human development. Cheryl is trained in a number of coaching and facilitation models in this field, and with a passion for integrating body, mind and spirit, conducts horse therapy for personal and professional development and embodied presence and leadership programs, both in house and in the field in partnership with Horse.

With her discovery of mBIT just over 3 years ago, Cheryl embraced the science behind the practice, and with its strong alignment to her work, became an mBIT Coach and Coach Trainer. She also is a co-founder at The Centre for Equine Experiential Learning which provides facilitation and coach training for those wishing to embark on a career of partnering horses and humans.

She conducts Head, Heart, Hara and Horses programs, - with her practice and programs going beyond traditional head based learning and explicit knowing of concepts, to embrace Somatics as a change theory, by which people can embody transformation, both individually and collectively. The power of embodied transformation being the foundational change that shows in our actions, our ways of being and doing, relating, and perceiving.

She conducts programs for Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Embodied Presence and somatic awareness, and works with managers, leaders, coaches, educators and therapists to be more effective and embodied leaders and professionals, who have increased capacity and resilience for supporting themselves and their clients.

She feels that whether leading your own life, leading others, or leading a horse, requires the ability to be fully embodied, present, aware, clear, consistent and congruent and her programs are courses of study that move participants through and from the explicit facts and knowledge, to the embodiment of skills and implicit knowing, which are ultimately the practices that create the balance between being and doing.

In the words of Dr. Thomas Hanna, "If you can sense it, you can feel it. And if you can feel it, you can change it."

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Where Neuroscience & Ancient Herd Wisdom Meet

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Highlights:

00:19 Introduction

03:53 Cheryl Cruttenden

Raising Autistic Children a mums perspective.

Raising Autistic Children. Christel Land an mBIT Coach and Trainer and was born to an American father and a Danish mother, who were in to health foods (macrobiotics) and grew up around the health center that they ran for many years. The international flavour of her upbringing has given her the gift of being fluent in 4 languages (Swedish, Danish, English, German), and she has since learnt an additional two languages (French, Mandarin Chinese).

When it was time to choose her field of study, Christel wanted to make a difference in the world and in some way concluded studying international politics was the best route to go :-)

During her studies, Christel started working in a European based company and quickly ended up in the management of the company and later completed an MBA from the University of Leicester.

In 2008 while living in the UK, Christel met her husband, and joined ActionCoach, the world’s biggest business coaching organisation. Learning business coaching through them taught her a lot of the hands-on, practical tools that are useful for smaller businesses, especially in the area of marketing.

Christel never had any experience what it's like Raising Austistic Children until she became a mother. Her first born Kian who is 5 has autism diagnosis and Felix who is 2 does not.

What may help when Raising Autistic Children

About a year ago, a friend of Christel's in the UK told here about mBraining and she instantly bought the book. After reading it she immediately signed up to become a coach and a trainer.

In the beginning of May Christel will be running the first ever Coach Certification in Danish here in Copenhagen, and will be running the first ever Coach Certification in Sweden in Stockholm in the beginning of June.

The past 15 years of her professional life have centred around leadership, change management and entrepreneurship. Since 2015 Christel has been running her consulting company, One Degree Consulting, where she coaches and consults small to medium sized businesses across Europe.

Christel loves to cook as a creative outlet, as well as yoga, travelling and exploring new cultures and places. Today's chat with Christel is amongst other things about how mBIT gave her unique insights into her sons Autism.

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Highlights:

00:19 Introduction

07:33 Emotional trauma could cause physical damage

15:47 Dealing with the diagnosis

22:34 Most things can be learned

32:33 Inflammatory food

42:30 Behavioral observation

51:24 Food is a tool

58:07 How to reach Christel

Transcription:

Intro 0:04

You're listening to the M, brining show, a show about the new field of ambit, where you'll get a blend of neuroscience based research with practical applications for wise living. And now, here's your host, Bill Gasiamis.

Introduction

Bill 0:19

As a coach, one of the things that I've learned since I began, this part of my journey is that in order to turn up and be able to hold the space for my clients, so that they feel safe and nurtured, I must be able to sit without judgment, whilst not projecting my model of the world, on my client, as this will not be honoring their process.

Bill 0:40

Projecting would make me no different to the caring friend that's offering advice that comes from the right place, but is often not that useful. I realized early on that I myself needed regular coaching.

Bill 0:54

And the more I engage with amazing coaches, helping me to deal with my own challenges, the better coach, I became, I still receive regular coaching. Because like a sports team, the coach doesn't turn up once and the team wins the league. The job is not done in one session.

Bill 1:12

The top sports people making a living from their craft who remain at the top in their field know the power of ongoing coaching.

Recovering from bi-polar disorder.

A true story about bi-polar disorder. During his initial years in Australia David began to realise something was not quite right with his brain. Having experienced a series of depressive episodes in the past, he then experienced his first psychotic episode lasting some six months. Some time later he was diagnosed as having bi-polar disorder.

Practically fully recovered now, he has written his memoir ‘WTF! Life is Not Always What it Seems’ as a way of sharing his insight into what life is about and how we need to take control even when we are not in control.

David is the founder of The Lime Green Solutions. His mission, to be delivered through his website www.calmercoaching.com (http://www.calmercoaching.com) is to empower people to achieve their full potential through “calm and graceful wisdom”.

He previously worked internationally in organisations seeking to improve outcomes for their communities. Roles including leading training projects in Bulgaria, Estonia, Denmark and Russia.

David headed up a training team based within the UK’s National Audit Office which subsequently led to a secondment at the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office followed by a life-changing decision to move half way across the globe to connect with a sunnier way of life.

Tools that help manage bi-polar disorder.

As part of his recovery David has built up a substantial toolkit of knowledge into human behaviour and is now entering a new chapter of his life. He is sharing his insights through - for a better life! He believes wholeheartedly that we are all capable of being awesome. Through his toolkit, accredited as an NLP Master Practitioner, an mbraining coach and a DISC Advanced behavioural profiler, he is able to enlighten, empower and energise people to realise their awesomeness.

 

 

 

Highlights:

00:43 Introduction

07:59 Something wasn't quite right

15:56 Seeking help

22:49 How mBraining helped

29:25 Considering diet

30:46 WTF

37:17 Dave's advice

44:55 MBIT

Transcription:

Intro 0:04

You're listening to The mBraining Show, a show about the new field of mBIT, where you'll get a blend of neuroscience-based research with practical applications for wise living. And now here's your host, Bill Gasiamis.

Bill 0:19

Everyone, welcome to another episode of the training show. If you would like to have someone speak at your next event about the applications of mBraining in your delegates, businesses or personal lives, go to Billgasiamis.com and fill out the contact form, and I'll be in touch to see how we can make that happen, for now, it's on with the show.

Introduction

Bill 0:43

Today's guest is David Clark. David is the founder of Lime Green solutions. His mission to be delivered through his website, calmcoaching.com is to empower people to achieve their full potential through calm and graceful wisdom.

Bill 1:01

David previously worked internationally in organizations seeking to improve outcomes for their communities. They've headed up training. A team-based within the UK is National Audit Office, which is subsequently led to an economist at the Victorian Auditor General's office, followed by a life-changing decision to move halfway across the globe to connect with a sunnier way of life.

Bill 1:28

During his initial years in Australia, he began to realize something was not quite right with his brain. Having experienced a series of depressive episodes in the past, he then experienced his first psychotic episode lasting some six months, practically fully recovered.

Bill 1:45

Now, he has written his memoir, WTF, life is not always what it seems as a way of sharing his insight into what life is about, and how we need to take control, even when we are not in control. As part of his recovery, David has built up a substantial toolkit of knowledge into human behavior, and is now entering a new chapter of his life.

Paul is a life coach who just turned 80 himself. So he has learned first hand that most of us have a good 10 years of mobility and social interaction in our 70s. But when we hit our 80s, physical challenges begin to weigh heavily on our psychological a...

Is Resilience something you are born with?

Mal Winnie knows a thing or two about resilience.

He would best be described as an Adventreprenuer, in that he combines his love of the outdoor adventure with his passion for business and professional development.

Mal has spent half his adult adventuring around the world both professionally and personally. He has rock-climbed, canyoneered, mountaineered, kayaked and hiked through NZ, Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA and continues to do so. He has been in some of the most remote and wilderness environments in the world and it is in these places that he says he has learnt the most about himself.

Resilience can be tested.

Mal's resilience has been tested a number of times as he has overcome some considerable physical and mental setbacks along the way and has used these to further inspire him and to work on and develop his own levels of resiliency including breaking his back twice and his neck once. In total he has broken his spine in 5 different places.

Mal is also the founder and managing director of Stand-Out Leadership Ltd, a leadership development business that works with individuals and organisations across NZ and Australia to help grow their leadership capability and employee engagement levels. He also works one on one as a leadership and transformational coach.

Mal is highly regarded by his clients as being insightful, inspiring and practical in his approach and style.

He has undertaken tertiary and non-tertiary based studies in multiple areas such as Psychology, Sport and Recreation, Positive Psychology, Neuro-Science, NLP and Coaching and includes these aspects of science and research in the development of practical applications people can use to enhance their lives and careers. He is an mBIT Coach and Trainer as well as an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer.

Mal has worked in people development and teaching resilience for 23 years now in many different industries and sectors and has worked across New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom with in excess of 20,000 people.

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Highlights:

01:27 Introduction

03:43 Adventurepreneur

11:30 Past injuries

17:45 Feeling angry

24:31 A powerful experience

35:45 Neuroplasticity

44:16 Pushing the limits

52:38 Resilience

Transcription:

Intro 0:04

You're listening to The mBraining Show, a show about the new field of mBIT, where you'll get a blend of neuroscience based research with practical applications for wise living. And now, here's your host, Bill Gasiamis.

Bill 0:19

know the reason the mBIT coaching model is so unique is because in mBIT we coach not only to the client's head brain, but also to their heart and gut brain. It's not just the brain and community that calls the Heart and gut brains.

Bill 0:34

Many doctors and researchers around the world are doing the same. Recently research in the field of neuro cardiology, and euro gastroenterology have shown that the heart is not just a pump pushing blood around our body, it has up to 120,000 neurons, which is the same amount as a lobster's brain. And the guide is not just some stinky plumbing, removing all that we do not need.

Bill 0:58

It has approximately 500 million neurons and that's the same amount as a cat's brain. In the past, you will have noticed how you and many of your friends say things like follow your heart, or listen to your gut. And that's because there is a level of intelligence there that ancient wisdom traditions have been talking about for two and a half 1000 years now.

Bill 1:20

And which is now being validated by modern science. So when you engage an mBIT coach, you are getting someone that is skilled in helping you unlock the wisdom in those intelligences and discover what your heart desires, and what you truly value.

Bill 1:38

The action you need to take and how to listen to your gut to take gutsy action,

Lyn Christian is a quintessential coach’s coach, teaching revolutionary principles that galvanize change in others, while living according to those same principles in her own life. As the founder of SoulSalt, Inc., Lyn guides private clients, organiz...