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From Astrophysics to Mindfulness — Dr Mark Westmoquette What happens when a scientist trained to understand the universe turns his attention inwards? Astrophysicist, then Zen teacher and author Mark Westmoquette joins MEATSUITS to talk about a life that has moved through academia, astronomy, Zen practice, pilgrimage and back into the everyday world. We talk about the cosmos and how we are IN the s...

What happens to well-being when life refuses to cooperate? Health changes. Happiness fluctuates. Relationships fracture. Meaning can disappear overnight. Some changes we accommodate; others are seismic enough to break the life we thought we had. In the final episode of our Being Well series, we explore Adaptation — not as relentless resilience or another demand to “cope better”, but as our ability...

Wellbeing isn’t a single ‘thing’.  POWERFUL YOU is a combination... YES your Health improves.   YES your life fills with pleasure.  YES your happiness flows freely.. YES you increase confidence via connection. In this deep dive series, we have seen that contentment and peace expands in our lives through a more detailed examination of the word wellbeing.    This episode takes us to the realm of mea...

Wellbeing isn't only personal... We dont know how much our inner experience affects others in our orbit. Its fair to say that our wellbeing is sometimes more of a concern to our loved ones, before it is to us. Because of this uncertainty (amongst others), we tend to be too easily persuaded into a limiting version of wellbeing, one that does not recognises our need for connection, relationships...

We are all very familiar with happiness! Its linked to our sense of satisfaction and we hold it in high regard as a benchmark for how we feel we are doing in life. However... Do we know all we need toknow about Happiness? Sure we have heard of hedonism and may be aware of the pitfalls of a purely hedonistic lifestyle... But Have you ever heard of Eudaimonic happiness? No? Not a shock. The cultural...

A difficult combination to resist isn't it? The good feelings that come along when we feel we are doing good, or on the right track. Pleasure is a difficult thing to regulate because we are conditioned to chase it; we are simply 'turned off' at the thought of less of it. This simple chemistry obscures an important truth: pleasure is something that wellbeing can attach to - and when the...

Wellbeing is the word no one can define, yet on everyones lips. It might be true nowadays that 'wellbeing' is such a general term it makes us uncertain of what we should expect of it. After all, we all recognise our need to take 'better' care of our physical AND mental realities. Our next 6 episode series takes 6 different perspectives on Wellbeing in an attempt to find out what it...

Empathy is a topic gaining much attention in the world today.. We are social creatures that rely on each other for support and understanding. We do know (from our last Empathy episode!) that the word itself is one that can be open to interpretation. In this episode we look at the way we can validate people on a physical, emotional and cognitive level. We also begin to realise that empathy is appli...

Former language teacher Maria Beadell combined a love of storytelling, performance and history to create Herstorical Tours. Drawn to the women who have too often been left on the margins of history, she set out not simply to tell different stories, but to ask why those stories disappeared in the first place. Maria researches, writes and performs immersive walking tours through London that uncover...

The first of a 6 part exploration of EMPATHY - a word simply too big for us to handle in anything less! EMPATHY is the word of the moment - on everyones lips, in politics and business; completely 'buzzworded' in the ether of modern life. Hang on... if EMPATHY is not sympathy and not compassion, then what is it and have I been doing it wrong? What does it mean? How do we apply it? Can it be...

There is a tendency to call anyone "main character' at the moment - a shorthand for a person seeking to elevate themselves above others, a narcissist perhaps, with negative intentions... Isn't this only one side of the story ? Don't we all need to be the main character in our OWN life more? Better boundaried, and self confident in our own validation... Tune in to explore the diffe...

We never know whether we are on the right track, especially when we are making changes. Sometimes we fear the consequences of our choices - and then our will to make changes in life wavers... that is doubt. Doubt is a positive breathing space, a moment to confirm your ideas, to set sail on your new path. Trouble comes when this safety check results in feelings that limit your perception of freedom...

There are always 3 dimensions in any situationship and in this episode I invite my Husband in to the studio to talk about the types of circumstances you can expect to encounter as a team as well as on your own. In a committed partnership you are in a life long project of mutual change. It could be said that we marry the people we love now BUT that we should be marrying the people they are becoming...

We can get confused between EGO and Personality. EGO is not bad but it tends to push us a little more and promote us a little further than the truth might support. The inner Optics on this then serve discomfort, worry; cognitive dissonance, if you like formality. Personality is a tool we only loosely understand but it is the powerful operational lens you use in the world to bring you 'success...

Welcome to a world of pattern - habits colour our lives, often unseen or unnoticed... more frequently accepted and relished. There is always extremes of good and bad - but the chemical result in your brain is the same :) Honestly discussed. We are in recognition of our own choices (good and ill) which is a refreshing change for us, realised through the path of self work.

In this *SPECIAL REPORT* episode of Meatsuits , I sit down with Steve Nobel — spiritual teacher, channel, and founder of The Soul Matrix. This conversation centres on the lived reality of transformation — how to recognise life transitions as they arise, why change can feel uncomfortable, and what it takes to move through it. Steve shares openly from his own journey, exploring the role of belief, r...

You might get paid to do a job of work for a business, but if someone suggested you were "only' that one thing - be it barista, soldier or solicitor: you are correct in feeling that your life worth is not solely based on what you are paid to do... Our habits (actions) reinforce the things we believe about ourself to others - and its wise to think about the messages you send out to the world non ve...

Join us for a really honest conversation about something that can be hard to put into words: the feeling of slowly disappearing behind the responsibilities and roles of everyday life. Anna works with Women, who from the outside, appear to be holding it all together - but on the inside feel overwhelm, disconnection, and more worryingly, unsure of who they are anymore. Anna explains how that happens...

Beginning to explore my own experience, from the inside of MEATSUITS has produced some interesting results. Launching the podcast has bought a wide range of reactions from friends, family and newer acquaintances. Observing those responses has been revealing in ways I didn't fully expect While the outward act of making a podcast is visible, the more interesting changes have been happening inter...

I know the Big G word, but don't panic - this ep is not about Bereavement, but that we have had the word Grief taken away from us as a process to deal with ongoing change in life. We DO lose things as we go through life and that is definitely not all bad! Jobs come and go, as do friends, relationships, diets, exercise, health, schools and houses. Sometimes it is our will that moves us onward t...

Confusing isn't it? Mainstream modern thinking asks us to believe we are alone, zipped inside a meat suit. Separate. PLOT TWIST - Science does not support this. In fact it is beginning to look as if we are ONE thing. Connected at a psychological level at least... So what does this mean practically? In this episode we consider our connection and how, when we act in the space of connection, we p...

Caroline Williams the respected science journalist and author, joins me in the studio to discuss her work with Interoception: a fascinating and little explored avenue of science. We live in a well explored world of the 5 senses; as we were all taught at school. However, the sixth of the senses is very real and discernible, located INSIDE us. INTEROCEPTION is our inner processing of stimuli. Caroli...

If I asked you what the tone of your inner conversation was what would you answer? Our Meatsuit comes equipped with a fabulous inner voice or "aspect of ourself" who we trust with important tasks; keeping us authentic, hard working, creative or fun Trouble is - we never really define its job role do we? It was helpful once, but a few years on, it hassles us day and night, often criticisi...

PERI is the root of the word PERIL and it sits at the centre of your life exPERIence... The word itself feels big and heavy doesn't it? think and feel it as you consider this episode... You might even think do I want to hear about FEAR? Whatever comes up constitutes your perception at this moment in time... Of course not all fears are Fear, are they? how do we tell the difference any more? Mod...

The world makes us very untrusting of emotions - those we encounter on the outside as much as our own. Often we do not recognise what emotions we are experiencing and - if we do - they seem big and complex in their own right. Emotions are non negotiable! It would serve us well to re-aquaint ourselves with them because they are the key MOTIVATOR of our life. Cash value of such emotional literacy is...