Changeable Podcast

Looking back at Dror’s life provides a clear illustration of how a life often goes. We settle into something that feels right, only to evolve and grow and change. Then we wake up in a new state of mind, in a new reality. And life changes naturally from there. Sometimes this process is fun and exciting The post EP128: Dror’s Change Story: From Cloudy Vision to Clarity appeared first on Dr. Amy John...

Okay, so I know Hanukkah is over. And Christmas is basically Now.  The holiday episode is a bit late this year because, if I’m honest, this year has felt different. Not worse. Just different. But, I may be redeeming myself with this episode. It’s a mashup of two popular holiday episodes I ran in the past. The post EP127: The Holiday Episode appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

There are a lot of things that are normal, but not natural. Living in your head is pretty normal. But it’s not natural. Feeling caught up in habits is normal, but not natural. Anxiety and depression are sadly normal, but they aren’t natural (feelings are natural–chronic anxiety and depression are not)Focusing outward at the physical world, outward at The post EP126: Normal vs. Natural appeared fir...

Do we “make” decisions? Or is it possible that we realize them? That instead of us being the doer behind a decision, what’s really happening is we’re catching a glimpse of what’s always already available to us beyond the curtain of thought? I’ll discuss some decisions I once felt like I  “made”, but now I wonder The post EP125: Are Decisions Really Just a Peek Behind the Curtain of Thought? appear...

I had a series of massive insights when I was 16 years old. Shortly thereafter, my familiar, habitual thinking slowly came back, masking what I had seen. This happens, but I didn’t know it at the time. I spent a good part of the next 20 years trying to chase down or recreate my former The post EP124: What Losing my Insight Showed me about Feeling versus Knowing appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In this episode, I attempt to describe what’s there beyond our changing, moving, psychological  experience. As you might imagine, it’s not easy to describe in words. But I try, using one of my favorite ways of thinking about it–the purring cat (I got this from my friend Marnix Pauwels).If anything I say in this episode resonates The post EP123: The Purring Cat appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

What if we’re designed with the ability to eat without needing to think much about it? And what if we never, ever lose this ability…we just think we’ve lost it? I know it can look like we have all the evidence in the world to prove that we don’t know how to eat. We overeat. We restrict. The post EP122: You Know How To Eat appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Gina has been the primary caregiver for her father and step-mother, during a pandemic, no less. To make matters worse, her husband has had some recent health challenges and she’s been caring for him as well. As many of you know firsthand, caretaking can be a huge job. She’s felt the enormity and exhaustion and uncertainty The post EP121: Gina’s Change Story: Caretaking and Meeting Your Elderly Par...

Politicians do not determine our overall level of wellbeing. Policies and practices, while very important in a macro sense, do not determine what we feel in a micro sense. In this episode, we’ll explore that macro-micro distinction. When we look out to the macro and think it affects the micro, we suffer. That suffering is our The post EP120: Political Candidates and Outcomes Can’t Affect Your Well...

Sarah’s life today is unrecognizable from how it once was. She spent 15 years in and out of hospital, afraid to eat, often on a feeding tube, with more than one suicide attempt. She didn’t think she could cope with life. She didn’t want to grow up, so she kept herself (literally) tiny and physically dependent. Her The post EP119: Sarah’s Change Story: From fifteen years of anorexia to complete hea...

Humans are said to process 11 Million bits of information per second. Do you know how much we’re aware of? How many bit make it to conscious awareness? 50.Isn’t that an incredible ratio?! How do you suppose the 50 out of 11,000,000 bits are chosen? Which 50 come to life in a way we can see and recognize? The post EP118: What the Ratio 50:11,000,000 Can Show You About What You Think and Feel appear...

People are suffering and we’re bombarded with reminders and images of their struggles. Which, in turn, leads us to suffer for them. In some ways, it’s a beautiful, compassionate illustration of our oneness that we suffer for complete strangers. We celebrate with them too. We are them and they are us and we deeply know it. But The post EP116: Suffering for Others appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Jacqui recently had what she calls a shattering. There was B.S., life Before the Shattering (which she says is aptly named) and there is life now, after the shattering. Before the shattering Jacqui was far less aware of her worth. She believed that her worth came from the roles she took on. Her value was largely The post EP115: Jacqui’s Change Story: Realizing Your Worth Beyond Actions and Roles a...

I was ridiculously excited to talk with John Dicey, CEO of Allen Carr’s Easyway Method. Allen Carr’s Easyway books have sold over 14 Million copies worldwide. Fourteen MILLION. They’ve applied their method to smoking, drinking, overeating, and a growing handful of other issues. The essence of their approach is so much in line with the essence of The post EP113: Dismantling False Beliefs to End Add...

Clare has gone from living with quite a bit of anxiety, to being mostly free of it. She’s gone from worrying about everything, to being diagnosed with an eye condition that could possibly lead to blindness at some point, and facing that with a kind of gratitude, ease, and grace that is quite remarkable. She’s now a The post EP112: Fearless in the Face of Health Uncertainty with Clare Assante appea...

This episode was inspired by a woman who said she feels a lot better since she stopped listening to the podcast 🙂 We’ll discuss why this happens and how you can follow the incredibly simple, incredibly clear guidance life is providing. If you don’t feel good listening to this episode please don’t listen to it! Seriously. It’s The post EP111: Don’t Listen to this Podcast appeared first on Dr. Amy...

Dave came to The Little School of Big Change in the Spring of 2020 to see something around writer’s block. He ended up getting a lot more than that. As he shares in this episode, he saw that all problems are the same. He watched  a 20+ per day Diet Coke habit he had for years fall The post EP110: Dave’s Change Story: How Writer’s Block and a Diet Coke Habit Led to Not Believing His Brain and Invit...

This episode is all about memory! I’ll explore: How memory is different from other types of thought (or actually, how it isn’t) How it works in a reconstructive–created in real time–way, and what that means for usHow memory for traumatic episodes is sometimes created in a different way than memory for other thingsHow memory plays into habits The post EP109: Memory appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson...

Judy came across the New Paradigm accidentally when she was googling “How to commit suicide and have it look like an accident.” In the few years that followed, she’s come to see her near constant suicidal ideation in a very different way. Those suicide fantasies went from looking like a serious problem to looking like the The post EP108: Judy’s Change Story: From Suicidal Fantasies to Peace of Min...

What if the future is nothing but your mind having a made up conversation designed to help you feel safe and secure? In that mind made conversation, your mind calls upon what it knows which, relatively speaking, isn’t much. It looks past the infinite source of all experience to focus on what’s solid and already created. Your The post EP107: There is Nothing in Your Future appeared first on Dr. Amy...

Connie and Bill DeKramer are two incredible coaches who love health and healthy cooking. They’ve been supporting people through food and health for a long time.buy suhagra online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/themes/mabvi/images/new/suhagra.html no prescription And, they’ve been on their own spiritual path for many years in a variety of ways. In the past several years and especially since comin...

Everything is present and true at once. What we experience out of, well, anything and everything, is down to our current perspective. Sometimes we’re in perspective of separation, identity, personality, the real, physical world “stuff” in front of us. Wonderful. Other times, we’re sliding to the other end of perspective where we feel our oneness. We’re always sliding. The post EP105: Perspective a...

Nicole used to have chronic fatigue and eating disorders. Now she helps people rediscover who they are, waking up to new levels of creativity and peace. In this episode, we talk about how things changed so much for Nicole. We talk about creativity–Nicole is a writer and all-around creator. We talk about pregnancy and how it’s The post EP104: The Birth of Creative Ventures, Thriving Health, and Bab...

It has been incredible watching Michele change over the past few years. Not long ago, she lived and died by her planner. She scheduled life from her estimated death date backward, to the present day. Really. There is nothing wrong with a good plan. But as she describes in this episode, it felt heavy to her. It The post EP102: Freedom from Planning and Control with Michele Vineyard appeared first o...

Changeable is about the ironic way change works. Ironic, because the less we push, manipulate, and try to make change happen, the more we see that change is always already happening. Change is unavoidable. We simply miss it when we’re lost in our heads in our efforts. Why does it work this way? Isn’t it too The post EP101: Unchangeable appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .