The Gentle Rebel Podcast

We recently finished reading The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness by Kishimi and Koga in The Haven Book Club.

In this episode of The Gentle R…

How can we nurture environments and habits for playful mischief and gentle rebellion in our lives, relationships, and communities?

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, I chat with Emma Bearma…

Are you spontaneous? Can you go with the flow when plans change or if something catches your attention and invites you to follow it?

In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, we look at the charac…

Confidence grows when we feel safe to fail and make mistakes.

Sports people typically attribute confidence to believing they can beat anyone. So I was surprised when an England cricketer linked the t…

“If you’re not grimacing every time you look at old work, then you aren’t growing.” I was haunted by this tweet from 2021. It suggests that you don’t grow without grimacing at old work.

It made me u…

Where is the self when no one is thinking about it?
That was the central thread running through my conversation with Chris Niebauer, PhD, who is the author of No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology …

It isn’t easy to keep up with the pace of life. It can feel like time is running away, and there’s always more to do than we can manage. So it’s no wonder many people are trying to figure out how to …

You don’t need me to tell you we live in divided times. This is especially true when it comes to beliefs, ideas, and opinions about how things should be. Grappling with these personal differences can…

Serenity is not a destination we are trying to reach. If we can’t find it here, we are unlikely to find it “there”.

Are you waiting for the noise to quieten and the disruption to pass? Are you hoping…

A cornerstone is a core around which everything else takes its shape. It’s the primary reference point, which determines the position and character of the structure around it.

Anything can become a p…

“Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed.” – Deborah Ellis (From No Ordinary Day)

In one of our Haven K…

“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, and troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”

– Jacob Nordby

In my six years as an undertaker…

Deep processing is a core aspect of high sensitivity. But processing is an important thing for all of us to do. And it’s not easy to find the time and space for it in a fast-changing world that never…

Sometimes drift comes through the endless pursuit of goals we hope will make us happy. Or it might come as we passively float along the path of least resistance, hoping something motivates us to take…

Perfectionism and a fear of failure can hold us back from doing what matters to us. But what about fear of success? In this episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast, we look at the role fear can play when…

There are three types of change in life. First; there’s the kind we know is coming but can’t stop. Secondly; the kind we make happen ourselves. And thirdly; the kind we can’t see coming.

In this epi…

“How can I stop being so introverted? Any advice would be very welcome.”

I was asked this question for the first time a few years ago. I’ve been asked it many times since. In fact, the blog post I wr…

I don’t know about you but sometimes I push myself to the limit and something that would normally inspire me feels like an overwhelming noise. We often stretch ourselves to life’s edges. And we squee…

The idea of the inspiratory system reminds us that inspiration is a lot like breath. The word “inspiration” comes from the same place as respiration and spirit.

Just as we need to take in oxygen to l…

There is a huge amount about the topic of habits and I don’t want to regurgitate what is already out there. So in this week’s podcast, I want to look at them through the lens of gentleness, sensitivi…