Two Trying Birds

Welcome to a new series of Two Trying Birds Radio where Jennifer and Carlotta try something new. All the usual banter and silly chat but with a new theme. For the next six episodes we will be exploring parts of London that we think are interesting, this one is Guildhall in the city of London. Hope you get as excited as Jennifer about the hidden treasures and stories! We have new features and guests, thanks to George at the Guildhall and Jo for the tunes - please excuse the mistakes, still learning the best way to do it.

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Come back show of chit chat and political ranting. Unfortunately superstar Trying Bird Jennifer O'Donnell couldn't make it as she was poorly. Carlotta's husband Andrew bravely steps in and makes his radio debut! its the usual mishmash - a few mistakes are made, but we were a bit rusty - includes interview between Edie Goulden and Amelia, and a poem by Carol Anne Duffy, but now from Feb we are back to a monthly show with Jen and I taking it in turns to lead 

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Back with another instalment of our radio show, the terrible twosome Carlotta Allum and Jennifer O'Donnell witter on about all sorts. Here we discuss some ideas around beauty, huge topic. We are both mothers of girls, what people get done and why ? how normalised has treatment become?

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Two Trying Birds have taken over a monthly slot Brixton Radio and this is our Election Special where we are trying to do politics!! with interviews and roving mics and the usual banter and this time with music!!

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Hello lovely people

BIG WELL DONE TO EVERYONE who got to the end of dry Jan and (even if you didnt don't sweat, everyones journey is different) . Here one bird is happy its over, Jennifer is drinking moderately and Carlotta is powering on, work to do -

Both of us a bit sad as we have to bring this series to an end as we have  lots of life stuff to be getting on with - its hard work promoting and editing, securing guests, we are going to pop back with a few one-offs and if we secure our mega famous guests or raise some funding ... 

Hasta Mañana baby, we'll be Back

Our guest this week is the very impressive Caroline Milne who has won numerous awards for her Health Coaching activities - giving us some much needed inspiration!!

Love you all - keep in touch

https://www.coachingwithcaroline.co.uk/coaching 

https://www.instagram.com/coaching.with.caroline/

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/health-hacks-with-caroline-milne/id1498969880

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Hello all and a very happy full moon to you all, can you feel the Kenergy tonight? last night - we think the vibes were coming is strong, we were certainly howling  - how is every one getting on, the end of dry Jan is in sight, I know Jennifer cant wait, but Im powering through  - how are you doing ? what are you doing?

The lovely Mollie Huckerby is our guest she's like a breath of fresh air for us, she's set up tech start ups, battled with serious illness and now a wellness coach all at 26 ... what a star

We might be finishing this series soon, life gets in the way and we dont have the headspace for marketing, but we would LOVE to hear your thoughts please talk to us on all the usual platforms

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Hello everyone and welcome to another wittering session with the Two Trying Birds. This week we are talking about things we do to beat the blues on this journey. How are we all feeling? Blue Monday been and gone, we look forward to better times. I think we decide we are alright in the end!
Our guest this week is Tom Hawkins, Nurse, Soundscape Artist, Sober person, interesting guy - we decided he is very calming! have a listen, please feedback and let us know how you're getting on

A few things he talks about:

I met Tom through his partners Drawing classes that I attend (Carlotta)

https://londondrawing.com/

Tom mentions this book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/RECOVERY-2-0-Tommy-Rosen-ebook/dp/B00KSF7W4O

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Another episode of the Trying Birds waffling on about our last week, all the trials and tribulations of Dry January and things going wrong and right. We have our 'friend of the show' Jane Peyton with us and her irrepressible knowledge of Gin and all things historical but also her wise word on the 'low and no' market - and she has given us a discount code for her amazing books from The British Library about the philosophy of booze - 

Please share and big us up and respond - leave us feed back 


I have a £2 discount code on my books for your listeners.  The discount is available on any of my book titles.  If the buyer adds this code at the webshop checkout it will deduct £2 off each title.

Code:  2OFFDRINK 

Books link. 

https://www.school-of-booze.com/product-category/books/

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Welcome to our first dry witter of 2024, we have on the programme great friend of the show, the irrepressible Mickey O'Brien, broadcaster, musician and lovely person. Mickey hasn't drunk for a couple of years after a self hypnosis session in Lockdown and is blooming quite obviously. Here are some links and words from Mickey

As I said, for me, I need to know why something works and because I proved to myself - totally unexpectedly - that it does, I had to work out what was going on under the bonnet for me to have responded so effectively.

Here are the links I wanted to share with you!:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP9byfvQoLs - Dan Jones Hypnotherapist (Ericksonian Hypnotherapy - Sir Milton Erickson)

2. https://www.hypnotherapy-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/the-meaning-of-ericksonian-hypnosis-and-how-it-differs-from-traditional-met - this explains more about the method of clinical self-hypnosis that worked for me. It reiterates why it worked when I talked about the choice of images I put into the TV screens that the YouTube script was asking me to do - were personal and related to my fears and hopes only.

Ericksonian hypnosis is a modern hypnotic method which taps into the potentials of the subconscious mind through a rather subtle, respectful and personalised method which usually involves the use of such tools as body language, stories, metaphors and other hypnotic techniques that are tailored to improve the condition of patients.

3. https://www.udemy.com/user/danieljones11/ - The person who did the YouTube video has his own course online, so I bought it (for about £15) to help me understand the science about why and how hypnotherapy worked for me:

"Different types of therapy on its own and then looking at people that have had those different types of therapy but had hypnosis with those therapies, have found that the therapy is more effective because they've had the hypnosis as well.

And the reason behind that is that hypnosis is accessing the optimal learning state. It's accessing the part of the brain that updates patterns in your brain.

So when you learn something new, what happens is you update the pattern for whatever that is. So when you're learning a language, whether it's at birth and growing up as a toddler and learning your native language or whether it's learning a language in school when new words stick.

What's happened is the patterns in your brain, so the neurons in your brain have wired in such a way that makes it so that now there's the connections to make it.

So this is a new pattern.

So it could be that you're saying a word wrong until that point. And then all of a sudden you start saying the word right. Everyone reaffirms that tells you, yes, that's how it's supposed to be said.

So your brain updates and says, right, we'll keep it at this point, this is how this is supposed to be.

With psychological problems, if someone has a problem, whether it's depression, anxiety, a phobia, an addiction, whatever it is; the whole time they're going to therapy, hopefully it's working on the patterns and trying to alter the way they think or relate to whatever that problem is.

But once change actually happens, what has happened for that change to be lasting is that the patterns have updated and there was some research done on looking at.

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests

Soooooo we are back! we are not sure about anything but we are going again, we do it for ourselves and our friends really - its a year since we started this journey and its been so interesting. Dry January is round the corner and we are embracing the change - already sick of ourselves !!

Will you join us?

Jennifer O'Donnell and Carlotta Allum witter on about trying not drink, with special guests