Changeable Podcast

Suzanne went through LSBC in Spring 2020. During and immediately following the course, her longtime bulimia habit was nonexistent. This freedom lasted for a couple months. Then one day, as often happens, she experienced some old habitual thoughts and did some old habitual behaviors. At that moment, Suzanne thought “I guess LSBC didn’t work” and she swung The post Bonus Episode: A coaching session...

Kristina Bruce can help you stop hating your body. She helps people see that their body is not the problem…their conditioning is. Kristina says, “Please realize that the amount of conditioning you have experienced to hate fat is the cause of so much dislike about your body, not your body itself.”YES. In this conversation, Kristina shares how The post EP229: Ending the war with your body with Krist...

Euan reached out to have this conversation because, despite years of exploring a variety of spiritual topics and practices, he says it has only landed intellectually. As a result, he has a terrible feeling that he’ll spend the rest of his life with his thoughts getting in the way, missing what could have been. This conversation The post EP228: A coaching session on why this message hasn’t gone bey...

My guest in today’s episode is bestselling author and speaker Kute Blackson. Kute says surrender is a shift from ego to soul. He talks about us going from “What do I want?” to “What does the universe want to express through me?” (or what I often ask, “What wants to happen?”)We talk about misconceptions around The post EP227: The Magic of Surrender with Kute Blackson appeared first on Dr. Amy Johns...

Betty has urges to stay constantly moving.  She believes that if she stops for too long, her metabolism will plummet and bad things will happen. As we discuss in this coaching session, Betty knows this is irrational, but this is the story her mind tells. Bigger even than the story her mind tells is the discomfort that The post EP226: A coaching session on irrational thoughts and the urge to overex...

Alex Manzi had a breakdown of sorts several years ago that turned the tide of his life in a very different direction. In that breakdown, Alex realized how depressed and living in his head he had been, and he saw that he might do some things to change that. One thing turned to another and The post EP225: When a breakdown is a new beginning with Alex Manzi appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

I am constantly hearing from people who have tried everything. They’ve read every book, taken every course, studied every philosophy, self-help method, and religion. Many of them have been doing these things for decades. So you can imagine their surprise when their habit remains. In this episode, we’ll explore the way a mind will take us The post EP224: The way out is right under your nose appeare...

Rob Cook grew up in the inner city around crime and violence. Simply by saying yes to what was presenting itself, life pulled him through to a very different way of life today.  In this episode, Rob and I talk about:Saying yes to the ways life is pulling us through (and sometimes saying yes when The post EP223: How Life Pulls You Through with Rob Cook appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode I’ll share some new tools I’ve been trying out with myself and in my coaching with others. They are all about leaning into what’s arising. Looking at it. Being with it. Saying it out loud and owning it. They are all about breaking up the resistance that leads to suffering. I’ll share how I’m The post EP222:  Looking at your darkest thoughts in a new light appeared first on Dr. Amy...

Could things have turned out differently than they did? Really look at this. Our minds are constantly talking about what should have been, what could be, how things might have turned out if xyz were different…But isn’t that pure fiction? I mean, it’s made up! Things were how they were, period. To make up a The post EP221: Things can’t be other than they are appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this amazing conversation, Change Coach Lindsey Eilliott shares two things in her life that she’s had to “come to terms with”: a divorce she went through several years ago, and having one child when she wanted two.  In the case of the divorce, Lindsey feels completely over it. She describes an insight she had The post EP220: Coming to terms with disappointment appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson...

Do you ever feel like something is off? That things aren’t as they appear? You missed the punchline to a joke that everyone else is in on? Me too. It’s not just you, and you’re not crazy. Something is off. It’s all off, actually. Things are not as they appear. This thought-identified experience is not the truth of The post EP219: Something is off appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Lisa Inlow is a Change Coach who–now, more than ever–is thriving with ADHD. As is often the case with diagnoses, it was initially a relief to Lisa to have an explanation for some of the things she struggled with. Then, as her relief began to fade, she sometimes felt boxed in by her label. All of The post EP218: Seeing ADHD through a much wider lens appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Is change up to you? What, if anything, do you really have control over? If we don’t have control, why do anything? Why talk things out in relationships in hopes of more closeness, or join The Little School of Big Change in hopes of freedom from habits? I’ll explore these excellent questions in this episode. I The post EP217: Is change up to you? appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Trying to change through willpower has a massive downside that’s rarely discussed: shame. If we believe that change is up to us–we simply need to work hard enough or want it badly enough–that means it’s also on us when our change attempts don’t work. Believing that we make things happen in life through effort or will The post EP216: Willpower and Shame appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Christina Brittain is a Change Coach who loves to notice, feel, look at, and talk about energy. She notices that there is an energy of moving experience and a somehow different, more stable and subtle energy that she calls “the energy of me”.Christina loves to swim in the energy that’s arising. She loves to say The post EP215: Saying hello to what arises with Christina Brittain appeared first on D...

The Little School of Big Change celebrated its 5th birthday this summer. So much change has happened in 5 years, both for the school, for the no-willpower movement, and for the 100,000 or so people who have been impacted by the no-willpower approach shared in the school. Today’s podcast shares a free class I recently taught The post EP214: How habits and anxiety change the no-willpower way appeare...

Rebecca left the religious institution that was a huge part of her life for 18 years.  The process of deconstructing her identity and the beliefs it was based upon was a somewhat messy one with moments of anger, fear, guilt, and sadness. It was a process of grief. As Rebecca shares, it was also a process The post EP213: Rebecca’s Change Story: Deconstruction and shedding beliefs that no longer fit...

In this episode, I share some brand new things I’ve been seeing about food, weight concerns, diet and binge eating. Much of it is around physical and mental restriction of food. Diet mentality, good and bad foods, things we will and won’t try, striving to eat as little as necessary…these are all forms of restriction. The post EP212: How food and weight have been in the nine years since I stopped b...

Do other people’s opinions bring you down? You’re doing great, but their opinions threaten that. Do other people trigger you? You don’t agree with what they say at all, but you can’t help but feel triggered by their words. Guess what? Other people only exist as thought showing up within you. If “they” aren’t in your The post EP211: Other people don’t have opinions. Only you do.  appeared first on...

In this episode, I speak with Stephen Ladd in conversation inspired by his new book, Spiritual Constipation: Discover your True Nature & Get Shift Moving. We talk about how to know the difference between truth and a belief, how oneness is radically different from connectedness, and how sensing our unity with all things is a The post EP210: Spiritual Constipation with Stephen Ladd appeared first on...

Are there reasons for things?  Your mind definitely thinks there are. Not only does everything have a reason (according to your mind), it’s very important that you know the reasons. Reasons equal control, and control equals survival. So, yes…we often seem to reside in a world full of separate things with lots of reasons that explain The post EP209: There is no reason appeared first on Dr. Amy John...

Melissa Ford has been coaching for almost 30 years, before coaching was even a thing.  She went on a personal development journey around that time and was eager to share her new insights with others, but she had a problem: she was terrible at selling so she had no clients. Melissa vowed to change that and The post EP208: How selling, service, coaching, relationships and all of life looks different...

Patricia is looking for the key that unlocks the grip her procrastination habit has on her. Aren’t we all? Interestingly, she says she senses that procrastination is not really a problem to be solved. It definitely feels like a problem, but she’s on to the fact that things are not as they appear. Patricia asks some great The post EP207: If I just [BLANK], my habit will go away. What goes in the bl...

All of life is a projection. Perhaps one of the easiest places to see this is with money.  In this conversation, Dr. Giles Croft and I have a conversation about the made-up, projected nature of life, particularly around money. We discuss made up ideas like “enough”, security (which Giles says means free of care), that money The post EP206: Money with Giles Croft appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .