The Mindful Path

In this episode, I explore a few misconceptions about the idea of managing our mind, based on your feedback on what managing your mind means to you.

Does managing our mind mean controlling all the th…

A lot of us think that forgiveness is about condoning what someone else has done. We believe that it is saying: “What you did is ok” or "You were right in behaving the way you did".

In fact, forgiven…

As perfectionists, we often think that we simply have unusually high standards. The thought of producing lesser quality work is just not an option in our mind.

But what’s REALLY going on when we are …

Inevitably, we are the hero of our own movie. The movie of our life is played in our mind as life happens and there is only ever one perspective; one narrative: ours. The entire movie is about us, it…

The past no longer exists anywhere but in our mind. It has come and gone. In fact, what exists in our mind isn’t the past but our story about the past, our thinking about the past.

When we look back …

Life involves feeling comfortable and uncomfortable emotions on a daily basis. While most of us have no issue with feeling emotions such as joy, contentment, excitement, and awe, we aren’t so keen on…

As we dive more deeply into training and managing our mind in Season 3, exploring negativity felt like an important concept to share with you.

As Rick Hanson says: “The brain is like Velcro for negat…

Mentioning the word meditation tends to have a bit of a Marmite effect on people. They either meditate and love it, or the word alone  instantly creates resistance.

Perhaps the thought of waking up a…

A very personal episode where I share a glimpse into my journey and the most powerful skills I have learned to tame my overthinking and worrying mind.

From feeling burdened by stress and anxiety to l…

As human beings, pain and suffering are an inevitable part of our life.

When we experience pain, whether it is physical or mental suffering, we tend to do one of two things: we either block the pain …

The brain continually remodels itself as we experience the world around us. Each interaction is a new data point for the brain to process and learn from.

What is fascinating is that when our mind cha…

A lot of us rush through life, living at 200 mph.

The race starts as soon as we wake up. We barely open our eyes and thoughts about all we have to do that day start competing for our attention. Throu…

Most of us believe that our emotional wellbeing depends on what others around us say and do.  We believe that our happiness is conditional on them saying or doing certain things.  

Is it possible tha…

Author and Researcher Brene Brown describes boundaries very simply as ‘what’s ok and what’s not ok’, regardless of the area of your life which you apply these boundaries to.

Boundaries are not about …

The concept of the ‘Exhaustion Funnel’ was created by burnout expert Professor Marie Åsberg of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. It shows how the demands of everyday life can lead us down a spir…

In this episode we talk about how we can deliberately choose who we are being.

Living intentionally means making conscious choices as our days, weeks and months unfold. Every one of these choices is …

In this episode, I am exceptionally joined by the amazing Shira Gura. Shira is a Master STUCK coach and educator. She is the creator of The S.T.U.C.K. Method®, author of the book Getting unSTUCK: F…

In this episode, we talk about emotions and how we can be more intentional about managing our feelings and our emotional wellbeing.

Emotions comes in all shapes and sizes. Throughout our days and our…

A lot of us experience a feeling of 'not being good enough' a lot of the time.  In this episode, we explore why we have a tendency to feel inadequate or not good enough, and how we can let go of th…

In this episode, we explore the power that our thoughts have in shaping our world, and how we can develop a greater awareness of our thoughts to engage with them more effectively.

We discuss 3 very…