The Wellness Ninja Podcast

It's January 2020 and reality check, you are the same person you were on December 31, 2019. There is nothing magical about the new year that transforms you into a new person. You have the same baggage, the same bullshit in your way. Let's take the pressure off to suddenly show up "new" and instead focus on what's really going to get us where we want this year. This episode is about how to actually use this New Year excitement in a healthy supportive way and how to set standards, not resolutions.

Today I get to talk with the fabulous Kristin Pierce. She is an award winning author, an Advanced BodyTalk Practitioner and a Mindscape Instructor. We dive into her journey through cancer, the pivot in career that it caused, all things Mindscape and her new journey into being an author. We discussed unlearning all the crap and moving through all the layers of BS we accumulate. Kristin's childrens books are so much more than just a story and we discuss the impact she hopes they make (they also make a great gift!)

We can have the best intentions, we can have a plan, we can believe we have changed for the better. But when it comes to stressfull situations, like holidays with family, its surprisingly easy to suddenly be thrown back into your 14year old self and yelling at your brother while rolling your eyes at your mother. One key strategy to prevent this is to have a pattern interrupt cued and practiced. Listen to todays episode to learn what pattern interrupts are and one of the easiest ones to use.

Today I'm talking about the one thing everyone lets get in their way. Drumroll...it's fear. The truth is that fear is never going away, the jerk. There will always be things we are afraid of, most of them being the stories we tell ourselves. So we have to do 'the work' to get through. Only it's always pissed me off when people say that because I was frustrated as to what 'the work' really meant. Today I'm sharing my new understanding of what it means to do the work and hopefully it will clear up the frustration for you too and give a new perspective on handling the fears we all have.

We all have know that an apple is healthier for us than a donut. We all have habits that we know make us feel good, yet we aren't doing them. Today's episode dives into doing what works and issues a challenge for you.

Amanda Perrot spent 47 days traveling around Saskatchewan, holding events for women to gather and share real conversations. Then she wrote a book about it. The book, 47 Days: A Journey Home, was so much more than I expected that I immediately had to interview her. In the interview we talked about worthiness and questioning your own thoughts, needing to back your words up with action and her one night stands. This is a woman who is deeply skilled at looking at her own mental crap with compassion and humour. Amanda is so easy to talk to and we skip all the light and fluffy stuff and dive into the good stuff. It was a damn good interview!

This is a story about my hate of the air bike. Except it's not really. It's about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. It's about how those stories can limit us. It's about choosing to change the stories. It's also about that f**king air bike.

Have you ever been really enjoying yourself and then suddenly found yourself with a feeling of dread? Or have you ever looked at your child and been filled with love and then pictured a horrible accident? Author Brene Brown refers to this as forboding joy. In todays episode I share my own experience with this recently and discuss Brene's solution.

Ever had a thought, an idea, a project that had you really excited? Then the more time you thought about it, and more specifically the more you thought about people's reaction to it, the less excited you got? So you keep quiet. You silence your excitement and keep the thoughts bottle up inside until they die from lack of oxygen. This is something I have struggled with my whole life, and as I begin to share more with this podcast, it has become even more noticable. So I want to get a discussion going on it. I want to get people questioning their overthinking. I probably have no answers, but I do like good questions. Come and listen to them on this weeks podcast episode.

So a crazy thing happened last month- I turned 40! And to be honest it felt a lot different than I expected. Listen to hear how it really felt, all about your give-a-f*&k meter, and why it might matter to you.