Changeable Podcast

In listening to one of my Change Coach trainees coach a woman who is struggling with binge eating, two misunderstandings jumped out at me. These are two things I hear from nearly everyone who feels caught up in any habit. I thought these two things myself all the time when I was in my former The post EP205: When a habit looks like it brings peace, here’s what there is to see appeared first on Dr....

This week’s episode is my response to a listener who has repeated physical symptoms like head pain and fatigue. She would like to not have those symptoms any longer. She suspects there is an unhelpful story she’s believing, which she’s unaware of and must have been around for years, behind the pain. If she doesn’t see The post EP204: Do you need to see through a story to let it go? A question from...

In this episode I talk with certified Change Coach Malene Colotla about the interconnectedness in all of life.  We are all the whole. The human world, the animal and plant world, the physical world….all the way down, one single system. In this discussion, Malene shares how seeing that interconnectedness is what can naturally make way for The post EP203: Mitigating climate change with a shift in co...

In this episode I share 6 practices you can experiment with. Six ways to play with feeling into the space beyond thought. Some of them are triggered by suffering. Some lead you to zoom way in, others to zoom way out. Some have you play with sensory information, some with sensation and emotion, and one is The post EP202: Practices appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Horton is a Change Coach and Allen Carr practitioner who works primarily with people who want to stop drinking. In this conversation, he shares two major shifts in his own life that led him to the work he does. The first was experiencing sudden and lasting relief from chronic back pain after reading one of The post EP201: How understanding why we do our habit can lead to instant freedom with Horto...

Why is our attention so easily and frequently drawn to planning and thinking about the future?  Why does retreating into the world of thought feel so comfortable (even when thought is completely uncomfortable!)? It’s a well-practiced habit, no doubt. It’s familiar there. But I think there is more to it than that. In this episode, I suggest The post EP200: How planning and playing out scenarios dis...

Thomas Leamy has a long history working with very high performing leaders, including leaders of world governments as well as leaders in business and industry. He used to study these incredible leaders very closely, hoping to find the magic potion that made them so effective. He watched their every move, wanting to reverse engineer them The post EP199: When a mind is not stressed, everything is pos...

You already know that life is living you. Nothing is excluded from that. There is nothing we must take charge of, make happen, or figure out. Nothing we must gain clarity around. That includes–of course!–seeing more about how life is living you. It can look like there is a path.buy lipitor online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/lipitor.html no prescription It can The post...

Tania Elfersy was experiencing perimenopause symptoms for a few years. Then, she had an insight about the role of thought that led those symptoms to go away.  Since then, she’s been exploring the real purpose of symptoms. Menopause and perimenopause symptoms are not a sign of something gone wrong. They aren’t problems to manage or The post EP197: How hormone changes and menopause symptoms are perf...

This episode was inspired by a question posted on our LSBC graduate forum. It was part of a bigger conversation about a habit that was currently feeling heavy and out of control, but the question at the very end of the thread grabbed my attention.“I think my main issue is my unwillingness to sit with The post EP196: You don’t have to sit with uncomfortable feelings appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnso...

I often talk about how all suffering comes from thought taken as truth. That can sometimes be heard as cold or insensitive. It looks to me like there are three primary misunderstandings at play when this message is heard in this way. Three things that are not what’s being said, but are how it is The post EP195: When this message sounds cold and insensitive appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In today’s episode, I speak to a question that was sent by a listener named Betsy. Betsy says her binge/restrict cycle is the worst it’s ever been, she’s gained weight, and is embarrassed and ashamed by herself. Given that she literally sees this all when she looks in the mirror, how can it be thought? Betsy The post EP194: How Can My Weight Problem be Thought When It’s a Physical Reality? appeare...

In this episode, I talk about a one month workshop I recently led for people struggling with health anxiety. What happened over the course of a month is pretty amazing. Three people who were struggling with worry and anxiety around their health began to see that their anxiety has nothing to do with any health event The post EP193: Freedom from Health Anxiety appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

It’s so funny that I refer to these conversations we have here as an “understanding”. That’s not what it is at all, really. It’s before understanding. Way before. It’s so close, so immediate, so oozy that we overlook it. A mind and it’s concepts and stories look right “over” it.   It’s this aliveness that is everything far The post EP192: Overlook appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, I share a quote that deeply spoke to me about how the objectifying mind is “nothing other than it’s own movement”.  How it will “arrange and rearrange its collection of ideas onto a nest and settle down for a little while, but some unexplainable restlessness will prompt it to keep looking for The post EP191: A More Comfortable Nest appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

There are many concepts and ideas that have been incredibly helpful to me. Things like wisdom, empowerment, hope…From a place of feeling completely immersed in the story of me-and-my-life, going from feeling like life is up to me to seeing that there is something called “wisdom” leading the way was unbelievably helpful. Same with hope. From The post EP190: Hope as a Handhold appeared first on Dr....

Today’s episode is based on a question I received from a listener. The gist of her question was this:  “If our thoughts are not real and they’re just making up stories, then how would you explain childhood abuse? Are my thoughts and feelings not true? Is my mind just making this up?”It’s an excellent question, The post EP189: Listener: “Is Childhood Abuse Also a Story?” appeared first on Dr. Amy J...

The mind isn’t a real thing. It’s a concept.  As a concept, it implies some solidity and some continuity. There’s a story about me-and-my-mind that can’t help but arise. My mind appears to be an entity with some solid qualities. I can like what it does or dislike what it does. I can try to change The post EP188: The Mind Isn’t a Real Thing appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this conversation, I talk with parenting coach, change coach, and The Little School of Big Change moderator, Jessica Silverman. Jess shares what’s behind impatience, particularly in parenting. We feel impatient when we think things aren’t going the way they should–our children aren’t feeling the way they should, or they aren’t behaving the way we think The post EP187: Uncovering Patience with C...

If you listened to EP181, you heard me speaking to some questions sent by Alice. In today’s episode, I share a portion of a conversation I had with Alice after she heard EP181. Alice says she feels like a prisoner to thoughts and beliefs she couldn’t change. She said that although it sounded nice to The post EP186: Listener: “I’m a Prisoner to my Thoughts and Beliefs” appeared first on Dr. Amy Joh...

There’s a good reason I talk about the no-willpower approach to change. There is no such thing as willpower.  Well, don’t take my word for it. Explore for yourself, as you listen to this episode. What if there is no such thing as willpower? What if what we call willpower is thought saying “I’m going to The post EP185: There is no such thing as willpower appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Shelly says she used to be overly reactive. She would get defensive at people’s actions and comments, and the feeling that came with this reactivity was overwhelming.  After trying so many things to fix her “reactivity problem”, Shelly sees this “problem” in a completely different light now. Shelly shares how reactivity is simply identification with a The post EP184: Seeing Reactivity in a Complet...

Five years ago this month, The Little Book of Big Change had just been published and I was busy creating The Little School of Big Change.  In the story in my mind, things look remarkably simpler, clearer, and deeper today compared to five years ago. But when I looked back at the original LSBC curriculum in The post EP183: What Looks Different–and What Doesn’t–Since 2017 appeared first on Dr. Amy J...

In this conversation, Clare shares how suffering and seeking are love in disguise. We talk about how the search for something that will make us feel complete can literally never, ever be won. The seeking itself reinforces the misunderstanding that something is missing or needed. And we talk about the fact that all suffering and seeking The post EP182: Clare Dimond: How Suffering and Seeking Reveal...

Alice wrote to me saying that after two years in this conversation, she doesn’t feel any better off. There were several things she said she didn’t get about these pointers, but the biggest was this: “Nothing outside of you can make you feel anything”.That’s just NOT true, Alice said. It’s not that simple and it’s The post EP181: Listener: “Two Years in This Conversation Has Gotten me Nowhere” appe...