Body-Mind Axis: Lighting your way to more loving relationships and innate resilience

In this episode I asked Dicken to speak about his work with young people. He tells the story of a young man he worked with who "hated everybody" and never spoke in school. Dicken's approach of meeting his client where they are led this young man to the realisation that his hatred was entirely based on his own thought-created experience, and this led to a profound change that transformed his life....

In this episode I am in conversation with Dr Kalen Hamman, who is also a relationship coach. After years of trying to save his marriage, things turned around almost miraculously. It was an unexpected insight which gave him hope that things could be different – the fact that calm could descend after a period of arguing simply by a half-hour spent apart. As he says when you realise you’re in a hole,...

Lucinda Sykes is a sleep coach who works with women in their 50s and beyond. She is a Canadian and a retired physician, who threw away her prescription pad in the 1980s. With 15 years' experience working as a Jungian psychotherapist and 23 years teaching mindfulness based stress reduction, Lucinda now uses a holistic approach to support women clients who are over 50 years old to overcome sleep dis...

In this episode, I am in conversation with sobriety coach, Sam Goldfinch. Sam will be a speaker at the upcoming Post-Traumatic Growth Summit (November 18th-25th):  https://www.sorrelpindar.co.uk/the-post-traumatic-growth-summit Sam talks about his teenage years when he drank to  manage ADHD and OCD. His journey took him to a deep exploration of  Eastern traditions in a quest to find...

In this episode, David Bird and I talk about addictions and the concept of the addictive personality. David starts by talking about his own experience of drinking, what that meant to him and how he was able to let go of it. We then move on to talk about how an addiction can feel like a place of safety when we are running away from a (metaphorical) bear. And what happens when we turn round to look...

In this episode, I'm in conversation with Dr Rani Bora. In this episode we talk about the concept of mental wealth, which captures the understanding that we all have innate mental well-being. Rani compares innate mental well-being to the blue sky that extends everywhere and is the same for everybody, while the clouds (our thoughts and feelings) are temporary and come and go across the blue sky. We...

In this conversation, Sorrel is in conversation with Dr Ally Jaffee. Ally talks about her experience of integrative medicine during a year she spent in the USA, and contrasts it with her experience of medical school in this country (UK). Ally talks about her advocacy of lifestyle medicine, and nutrition in particular. She is a champion of nutritional approaches in the treatment of both chronic ill...

Sharon Strimling is a transformational coach and consultant with 30 years experience in psychological and physical health. Sharon shares from experience about human consciousness and our innate and always unbroken connection to the brilliance that guides and heals all of nature and humanity. She speaks to our capacity for immediate psychological freedom, and how life conspires to thrive through us...

In this episode I talk about how winter is a time for rest, recuperation and reflection, and that if we want something of value to emerge in the coming year, we need to get it in the ground now. I also look back at 2021 and notice that one of the things I learned from a client is the importance of being able to breathe through the mask - that's the "mask" that we wear to protect ourselves when we...

In this podcast, Wayne talks about what lies behind men's challenge to share their emotions and the pain they feel. While men may be very present  when they are in action (fire-fighting or combat for instance), they  often find themselves caught up in a thought-storm when faced with mundane domestic chores. A lifetime of unwillingness to open up can make men hard to reach emotionally. A...

In the final part of our interview, Chip told the story of how he came to forgive his father for the violence he had suffered as a boy, and how eventually his father who was close to death, recovered and lived a further seven years. 

In the fourth part of my interview with Chip, he talked about how his coaching style changes for different types of clients. But that the underlying model remains the same, as we are all the same underneath.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to coping with anxiety. But it always starts with acceptance and with the recognition that anxiety is an inside-out phenomenon, like all of our experience. Learning to accept that you are anxious and that like most other people you might fear the anxiety or judge yourself for being anxious is a good place to start. Ultimately though no emotion will leave town...

This is the full interview with one of my mentors, Chip Chipman. It's about 55 minutes long, and covers a number of topics including relationships, addiction & work with prisoners, and the story of Chip coming to forgive his father who had been a violent alcoholic. The interview is also available in five separate episodes if you prefer not to listen to the full interview.

In this part of the interview Chip talks about how people's experience of life changed during the 2020 lockdowns.

In the second part of my interview with Chip, he talks about how meeting Syd Banks gave him and his wife Jan a new understanding of themselves, which in turn helped to save their marriage.

This is the first part of a one-hour interview with my mentor, Chip Chipman. In this first seven minutes he talks about what he learned in his friendship with Syd Banks & his own approach to coaching.

Anxiety is not something to be feared. It enabled us to survive and evolve over 100s of 1000s of years. But it has a downside, because we tend to "futurise" - to ask endless "what-if" questions. Anxiety comes with a physiological reaction, which forms the basis of our fight or flight response. And prolonged anxiety has some serious health implications. Understanding how anxiety works is the first...

In this episode, Sorrel talks about nutrition and M.E./C.F.S with Magalie Paillard nutritional therapist and fellow well-being coach. Magalie has an interesting perspective – she is French, she currently lives in Spain and she has lived and worked in England. I've known her for a while because we trained together with Chrysalis Effect Health who train specialist M.E. coaches. Magalie suffered from...

We all create our own experience from the inside-out; we all have separate realities; understanding that this is the case means we can begin to investigate and understand each other’s experience. 

Rob Morgan is a leadership coach and another fellow Clarity Coach. Here Sorrel & Rob talk about mental health in the workplace and how our thinking can get in the way of calm and innate wisdom. Contact details for Rob Morgan: Email: rob@robmorgan.co Or find him on Facebook or LinkedIn

In this episode Sorrel is in conversation with her oldest friend, Claire MacDonald, whose career has spanned performance, writing, teaching and most recently becoming a Unitarian minister. An interest in religion and ethics has run throughout Claire’s work. Her writing has explored questions of what it means to be human in a secular world, and what the relationship might be between the sacred and...

This is a short episode in which I talk about the ways in which our bodies try to communicate with us, and what happens when we're not listening!

All our experience is created in our minds. And to do this, the brain uses the same neural networks as we use to create dreams. The model our brain creates during our waking hours is known as “controlled hallucination” because it is constrained by the data from our eyes, ears, etc. The fact is that all our experience is generated from inside, and we call this the  inside-out model of rea...

Jane Gray is a fellow Clarity Coach. In this interview Jane talks about her work with women who feel like they have lost themselves - perhaps after losing a job or at the end of a relationship. But of course no-one can lose herself - the true self is always there. Contact details for Jane: Facebook: @theunstuckcoach Email: info@janegraycoaching.co.uk