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.

In this episode I take myself back to a time when I drank and felt completely fine the next day. Unfortunately, those days are gone as I’m well into my forties and now struggle a lot with the after effects of drinking. I also chat a bit about why this happens and some ways that we can help ourselves out in those times when we indulged bit too much, which FYI is completely okay - we’re all human after all.

Did you know that women’s back pain in their forties can be driven by a lack of oestrogen? Nope, neither did I, but welcome to another ‘fun’ symptom of the perimenopause. In this episode I chat about my own story with lower back pain, what other things can cause back pain, what can help and a little bit of the spiritual side of things.

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In this episode I chat about being in the comfort zone. Why we want to stay in the comfort zone with our brains that are hard wired for safety. Why it’s hard to push past it as this can create a lot of discomfort. Why it can be great to push ourselves out of our comfort zone to increase your confidence and resilience and some tips to help you start to push yourself.

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Sleep can start to become quite elusive as a woman in your forties, dealing with the hormonal shifts, hot flushes and stress is not easy. In this episode I chat about my journey with sleep and how much it’s changed over the years and discuss what we can do to try and help ourselves get that 7-8 hours sleep that we’re always hearing about.

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