Life in Align podcast

How many times today have you told yourself you "should" be doing something? 

After a year of hospital visits, loss, and learning to say no, I've discovered something important about those relentless…

Do you feel like your family and friends don’t support you with your illness?

I’ve been there.  

We all want the world to give a monkey’s when we get sick.  We’ve had a life-altering experience, why …

When we are kind to ourselves, it can help us to respond more effectively when we face challenges as it can help us to feel what we are feeling, and by being kind to ourselves it can make it easier t…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been the type of person that keeps my house immaculate, almost to show home level. 

Pre-illness I used to get home from food shopping on a Saturday morning, and…

Do you ever feel like the world is against you?  You just want one thing to be simple and straightforward so you can cross it off the list.

We all have moments when one problem comes after another, l…

Today I talk about the healthy ways you can get those happiness hormones.  Happiness hormones are the chemicals that our body naturally produces to increase our wellbeing.

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Today I want to talk about the things that can happen when our nervous system comes out of survival mode.

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Quick-fire round of a few questions for what springs to your mind, not mine, on what you can do to bring more calm than chaos to bring a bit of happiness into your day

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I want to talk about journaling, because, quite frankly, I am rubbish at it. 

I have been terrible at journalling my entire life. It’s as if there's a perfectionism to it that I just do not achieve. 

Aaah rest.  Something we no longer seem to know how to do.  Our hustle culture has expectations that we have to be on the go constantly, and rest is a reward for working yourself to exhaustion, causi…

Today I want to ponder on some warning signs that you’re pretending to be happy, and what you can do about it.  From someone who knows.   We all have those moments when something doesn’t feel right. …

I am sure you’re already aware of the benefits of decluttering.  An uncluttered home and life promotes mental clarity, and less stuff through choice means less likely to spend money on things you don…

If given the choice, which would you rather be in?  A relationship where you dismiss yourself, minimise yourself, and be mean to yourself, get irritated with yourself, sabotaging all of your hopes an…

Today I want to talk to you about a not-to-do list when chronically ill.  I absolutely love having a to-do list, I love making lists.  I love crossing things off lists.  

When I got sick, my to-do li…

100 episodes!!  Wow.  I didn't realise that when I was recording, but here we are.  100 episodes.  What a milestone.

Today I want to talk to you about coming home to yourself.

Sometimes life dismantl…

Also, along with the birdsong, today I share the 7 ways we overthink, and the super-simple strategy on how to stop it

Tune in for an unedited episode, because I couldn't bring myself to edit out the …

I got to this point in early 2012, and thanks to the proverbial onion layer, again in autumn of 2022, but didn’t want to face up to it until I had to earlier this year.  What point am I talking about…

Today I want to ponder on trusting the process, and ask you if you can.  Honestly, for years my answer to that would be “what does that even mean?!”  

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