Changeable Podcast

The murder of George Floyd has rocked the world. In many ways, it’s been rocking my world and my friend Barb’s world too. In this episode, we stumble through trying to articulate what we’ve been seeing in the past couple weeks. We share our own personal insights and what this has shown each of us in The post EP100: When World Events Wake You Up: A Conversation with Barb Patterson appeared first on...

The human brain hasn’t changed much in the past 200,000 years. But–you may have noticed–the world has changed a lot since then. What this means is that there are many things your brain does that were necessary and adaptive in the world of 200,000 years ago, but that are unnecessary and irrelevant today. Fear, for example, The post EP99: The Evolutionary Reason Your Brain Creates Anxiety appeared f...

Del grew up in some unusual circumstances and her mind did all that it could to protect her. It did all that it could to heal the hurts of the past, as minds do. As a result, Del was caught up in narcissistic relationships and codependency for many years. Now, she experiences things very, very differently. What The post EP98: Freedom from Codependency with Del Adey-Jones appeared first on Dr. Amy...

Our experience is so much simpler than our minds will ever let us know. It’s so much simpler than our minds are even capable of knowing. When people feel badly, they ask things like: “What am I missing?” “Do I just need to see this more deeply?”“Maybe I don’t really get it?”“Should I listen to more? Listen to The post EP97: Simpler, Not More appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

In the past few months, Mary has been diagnosed with skin cancer and Coronavirus. Her young son also had the virus. Oh, and she had her very first panic attack recently. All of these things have shown her something amazing. They have helped her see that she is okay. Now. Always. No matter what is happening within The post EP96: Always Okay (Even with Cancer and Covid-19) with Mary Franklin-Smith a...

There is no such thing as a mean or evil person. Or a kind person, a funny person, a clumsy person. There are just people–always healthy, always pure, always full of love and connection at their core (yes, even Hitler. Even serial killers), who do unkind things, and also some kind things. No different than any of us. The post EP95: You Have No Personality (and Neither do Serial Killers) appeared f...

Giles’ mum died last month…just a couple weeks before this conversation was recorded. A few days after our conversation, Giles and his sister held an online funeral for his mum in the midst of the lockdown.  His experience of grief has been amazing to watch. Giles’ experience of his mother’s death has been night and day different The post EP94: Grief and Death with Giles Croft appeared first on Dr...

Planning + Panicking = PlanickingAre you doing it? In this episode, we look at what happens when we plan + panic = planick. But mostly, we look at how incredibly, unbelievably resilient humans are. How amazing it is that we’re making it through each day as well as we are. How we’re doing perhaps better having this thrust The post EP93: Planicking appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Holly thought weight issues were encoded in her DNA. She was a person with food issues, period. There was no other possibility in her mind. She was born with food issues just like she was born with blue eyes. It was her cross to bear. Finding new ways to bear that cross was as good as The post EP92: Holly’s Change Story: The End of Dieting and the Beginning of So Much More appeared first on Dr. Am...

“The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true.” –Daniel OkrentIt always sounds funny to me when people talk about achieving balance. Or striving for balance. Or working on, or toward, balance. Balance is our nature. It is default. We don’t work toward what’s default. We stop working and find ourselves there. We don’t achieve The post EP91: Balance appeared first...

Fairly recently, Lucy decided to experiment with drinking less. She didn’t quit. She experimented. She became curious and watched what happened as she didn’t drink one time. And then another time. And then another time. She watched what happened as she came up against situations where drinking was the norm. There were a lot of them. She let The post EP90: Lucy’s Change Story: Drinking  appeared fi...

Phobias are one of my favorite things to coach. They are also one of the absolute best illustrations of how our experience works. When you have a phobia, you aren’t afraid of the thing you think you’re afraid of. You’re afraid of thought. Period. It’s amazing to see how a mind defends what it believes. There are The post EP89: Phobias and Other Illusions appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Marnix is a coach and author with a growing sense of joy about life. Less than 10 years ago he was depressed, anxious, and addicted. Marnix and I talk about all sorts of things in this episode. From how and why he woke up to this very different experience of life, while others too often do The post EP88: Living a Perfectly Imperfect Spiritual Life with Marnix Pauwels appeared first on Dr. Amy John...

In times of uncertainty, minds can get restless. They can make up stories and scenarios in order to give you some semblance of certainty. Knowing how your mind works, helps. It helps you see what’s beyond its stories. What is beyond the mind’s stories? Now. Where we’re all okay, doing the best we see to do, present and The post EP87: You and Your Mind in a Pandemic appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnso...

Some things in life feel like driving with your parking brake on. Other things feel simple. Effortless, even. What’s the difference? And how can we more naturally do the things that feel really hard? What if I said that no activity is inherently hard, ever? None. No exceptions. What if I said that paying taxes is not inherently less The post EP86: How to Do Your Taxes (And Other Hard Things) appea...

 Imagine what it might be like to truly see your physical health as loving feedback. Not good versus bad. Not healthy versus diseased. Your health is how the energy of life happens to be flowing through you, expressing itself through your physical container, at a particular moment in time. Imagine viewing physical health challenges as an offer The post EP85: Health is Not Good or Bad with Scott Ke...

There was a new mother who was very caught up in doing everything right for her baby. She saw her baby’s weight, eating habits, and moods as personal reflections of how she was doing as a parent. She worried about what people would think if her baby cried in public. Her B-A-B-Y.We talked and looked and listened. The post EP84: I Know It’s My Thinking, But… appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

It’s been so fun to watch things change for Tom. Shortly before we met last summer, Tom was not feeling great. It was a feeling he had expressed off and on at times in his life. His doctor called it Recurrent Major Depression. Then, as Tom says, he snapped out of it. He began to turn a The post EP83: Tom’s Change Story: From Major Recurrent Depression to Moods that Fix Themselves appeared first on...

At first glance, the New Paradigm can appear to be inconsistent with the idea that memories are “repressed”, or that the effects of old thought and memory are manifest in our bodies. After all, if we are 100% free and innately well, feeling only Thought energy that is constantly in motion, how would repression fit? This is The post EP82: Are Memories Repressed and Stored in our Body? appeared firs...

I’ve seen so many people suffer over the idea that they don’t know their “purpose”.It’s not purpose’s fault. But “purpose”, or  better yet “soul purpose”, as Kirk Souder often talks and writes about it, just sounds so big. So important. And sometimes so mysterious. We make up how it would look and feel if we were The post EP81: Listening to Your Soul and Blowing Your Own Mind with Kirk Souder appe...

In this episode, I talk with Teri Whiteman and Claudette Dietlin about Nature. Human nature. Mother nature. “Inside” nature. “Outside” nature. Same same. No, seriously. Same same. We humans are nature, and we operate by the same Principles as nature. Do you know that? Like, really know it? The difference between you and a tree is that you have a The post EP80: The Nature of You: How You and Nature...

Okay, so they aren’t exactly “right” and “wrong”, but there are two very, very different ways we tend to “wait for insight”, each with their own set of consequences. Are you waiting the easy, helpful, guided way? Or the powerless, insight-come-save-me way? Listen in and find out! The post EP79: The Right Way–and the Wrong Way–to Wait for Insight appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

So many things in life look like either/or. It’s either black or it’s white. It’s either up or it’s down. When we’re thinking conceptually, life is full of either/or. Full of two things that seemingly can’t both be true. That appears to be the case when our intellect is engaged, and we’re view life through concepts and The post EP78: And appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

This is Part 2 of Dave Fry’s conversation with me. I hope you’re enjoying the tables turned! Check out Part 1 of this conversation here: https://dramyjohnson.com/2019/12/ep76-dave-fry-interviews-me-part-1-of-2 The post EP77: Dave Fry Interviews Me: Part 2 of 2 appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .

Dave Fry is interviewing me in a very long episode that we’ve split into two parts. Dave came to me with the idea of him interviewing me a couple of months ago. He already had a list of questions he’d love to ask, if I agreed. I was hesitant…only because I feel like you all hear from The post EP76: Dave Fry Interviews Me: Part 1 of 2 appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson .