Unconditional Self-love (in your 40s)

In this week’s episode I chat about the value of getting to know your core values. I didn’t even know what core values were until about 2019 when my spiritual journey began, but I’d started using them within my life without even knowing it. When I discovered the importance of knowing my values I delved into discovering what mine were. Since then mine have changed as I’ve grown through my journey but they really are a great thing to know about yourself, so what are yours?

We know we should all be doing it more and that it helps us be healthy so why is it so hard to get more exercise in?! I talk about my own experience of exercise, from dancing to trying to go to the gym, exercise for women in their 40s, to giving some tips to help you move more. I think the main takeaway from all this is to enjoy it, that way you’ll keep on doing more.

In this week’s episode I chat about food and what it means to me. From my simple home cooked meals, to being a teenager and navigating the 90’s diet culture, to now learning more about food and health, this is my food journey. I finish with a few simple steps to eat a little more healthier, with the caveat that I’m not a nutritionist but these are things that I’ve implemented to help me along the way.

In this weeks episode I give some updates to some of my past podcasts, including perimenopause, deleting instagram and challenging yourself and coming out of your comfort zone. Often when we look at things and analyse them we can think, okay that’s done with now, but as we know with life is doesn’t exactly follow a linear path so sometimes we have to look at things again and reassess where we’re at.

Years ago I lost my joy and it took a lot of curiosity and self-awareness to get it back. To be able to find joy in simple moments and everyday habits, I think, is the key to a life of deep wellbeing and contentment. I also chat about how you can begin to take action and go on your own joy journey.

In this week’s episode I talk about my story of friendships from school to now, why having good friends is important and how to create lasting friendships, because apparently “you are the average of the five people you spend time with”, so choose wisely.

It’s back to basics and the reason why I called my podcast unconditional self-love. I chat about self-love and what it means to me, my own journey, practices that I do and what it isn’t, because it’s certainly not being selfish or perfect.

In this episode I chat about stress; what it is, why it can be good for us too, how it can affect our bodies physical and mentally, how we can look after ourselves to help our stress and also why it’s worse for women in their forties (hint - it’s our pesky hormones running the show again)

In this episode I talk about Instagram and what it was like for me deleting it from my phone and what that has done for my life. I also chat about my history with social media and how much it’s changed, how it keeps you coming back, how to help if you want to use it less and also some of the ways that it’s changed my life. I love Instagram, but I now know what my life is like without it, and guess what, I don’t miss it!

In this episode I chat about the perimenopause. So many women are suffering in silence because they are going through the perimenopause with varying degrees of symptoms and aren’t being listening to at their GPs or are being wrongly prescribed. I include the long list of symptoms that women can have and some of the ones that I’m currently going through and some of the ways that we can help ourselves.