Charlene Adams

How Can I Make My Life Better?

Education EN ↓ 31 episodes

For women done surviving and ready to start becoming. Hosted by Charlene — single mum, Reiki practitioner, former six-figure business owner who rebuilt her life after a toxic relationship, homelessness and postnatal depression. We blend karmic law, such as the law of attraction, psychology tools and real talk. Topics include manifesting, gratitude, self-love, alternative healing, meditation, visualisation and building financial independence. No toxic positivity. Just honest tools that work. New episodes every Monday.

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Charlene Adams

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Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

When the Practice Falls Apart — What to Do When You Fall Off the Path and How to Get Moving Again 06.07.2026

What happens when you know exactly what you should be doing — and just cannot make yourself do it? This week I am keeping it real. The meditation has stopped. The visualisation has been minimal. The gratitude practice has slipped. And everything that comes with falling off the path has shown up with it — fatigue, impatience, a full moon, a toddler with a lot to say and a co-parenting situation tha...

Your Word Is Your Wand — 3 Ways to Raise Your Vibration and Upgrade Your Life Starting Today 29.06.2026

Affirmations, mirror work and the power of asking better questions — three practical tools to raise your vibration and start levelling up your life today, plus a surprise fourth that I tried for the very first time tonight. This week I am recording from the sofa feeling absolutely rotten but I showed up anyway — because this episode covers something I genuinely believe could shift things fast for...

5 Visualisation Techniques That Will Completely Change How You Manifest — Joe Dispenza and Beyond 22.06.2026

Five visualisation techniques that go far deeper than just picturing your goal — and why most people are only using one of them. Inspired by Joe Dispenza's Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, this episode breaks down exactly how to visualise in a way that actually works. We go beyond the vision board and into character visualisation, process visualisation, negative visualisation and creative...

I'm Manifesting £3000 — Following the Signs, EFT Tapping and Why I Might Stop Counselling 15.06.2026

Manifestation in real time — I am actively trying to attract £3000 and this week the universe started sending signals I could not ignore. From a postcode lottery leaflet and an antiques auction flyer landing on my doormat the morning after I started visualising, to trying EFT tapping for the first time and questioning whether counselling is actually helping my manifestation practice — this week go...

Fear vs Courage — How to Tell the Difference and Why Every Brave Step Is a Quantum Jump 08.06.2026

Fear and courage — how to tell the difference between the fear that protects you and the fear that keeps you stuck, and why every brave step you take is actually a quantum jump to a higher frequency. This week I am breaking down the two very different jobs that fear has — protective fear and resistance fear — and why confusing the two is what keeps most people stagnant. With personal stories from...

Manifestation Is Real — The Small Shifts, Magic Moments and One Question That Will Change Every Decision You Make 01.06.2026

Manifestation proof, the Sisterhood of the Travelling Journal, intention plant pots and a Jen Sincero quote that will stop you in your tracks — this week's episode is packed. I share real specific evidence that the mirror principle work and gratitude practice I have been doing for the last five to six months is actually showing up in my physical reality — from membership payments landing at ex...

Healing After a Toxic Relationship — Reactive Abuse, Brave Steps and Why Self-Love Is Where Rebuilding Begins 25.05.2026

Healing after a toxic relationship, understanding reactive abuse and taking the first brave steps to rebuild your life — this episode covers it all, honestly and without filters. This week I am winging it — no notes, no plan — just a raw and real conversation that went somewhere I did not expect. I share the story of a client who recently left her narcissistic ex and how I found myself being the u...

The Mirror Principle — How Your Reality Reflects Your Core Beliefs (And How to Change It) 18.05.2026

The Mirror Principle changed everything for me this week — and I think it might do the same for you. This concept explains why your external reality is a direct reflection of your subconscious core beliefs, and more importantly, what you can actually do to change it. In this episode I share the profound epiphany I had after discovering this principle through a creator called CosmicAry on YouTube....

When Life Gets Hard — How to Find Your Wins Even on the Worst Weeks 11.05.2026

This week was a shit week. My ex avoided answering a direct question about my son's safety. The scales showed the wrong number. I re-recorded this episode after losing the first version when my laptop died. I sat with a bottle of dessert wine on my own on a Friday night and felt thoroughly fed up. And then I found my wins anyway. In this episode I share why acknowledging your wins — even tiny...

The Real Reason to Meditate — It's Not About Clearing Your Mind (It's About This Instead) 04.05.2026

Most people think meditation is about emptying your mind. It is not. In this episode I share what meditation actually teaches — concentration, focus and awareness — and why awareness is the game-changer that nobody talks about enough. I share how the meditation practice I built in 2015 made my intuition fire so clearly I could predict what strangers at my personal trainer's gym were thinking....

How to Build a Visualisation Practice That Actually Works — The Step by Step Method I Used to Manifest Morocco 27.04.2026

Visualisation is a muscle. And like any muscle, you have to build it before you can use it at full strength. In this episode I share the exact method I used to go from struggling to see anything clearly in my mind, to manifesting a solo five-star trip to Morocco — complete with daily spa treatments and a beach to myself. We cover starting small with chakra colours, how to layer in all five senses,...

How to Balance Your Mind, Body and Soul Using Ayurveda - With my sister Chelsea 20.04.2026

Ever feel like no matter what you try, something still feels off — physically, mentally or emotionally? Ayurveda might have the answer. In this episode I’m joined by Ayurveda consultant Chelsea Greens, who breaks down the doshas, what they are and how understanding your unique mind-body constitution can help you find real, lasting balance. Whether you’re brand new to Ayurveda or just dosha-curious...

How to Actually Plan Your Year — The Quarter by Quarter Method That Keeps Me On Track as a Single Mum 13.04.2026

Planning a year when you only have three days a week to work requires a very different approach. In this episode I share the quarter by quarter method I got from Francesca Amber's Hogmanay goal setting party — and how breaking my year into four quarters with specific action steps in each has been one of the most grounding things I've done. I share my Q1 wins, what I let go of without guilt...

Why Change Isn't Linear — Understanding the Cycle of Change So You Stop Beating Yourself Up 06.04.2026

If you feel like you're doing all the right things but not seeing results — this episode is for you. In this episode I introduce the cycle of change model and use the story of opening my salon to show exactly how it works in real life: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. We talk about why setbacks during the maintenance phase are completely normal, how enviro...

Why Your Affirmations Aren't Working — And How to Fix Them So They Actually Do 30.03.2026

Affirmations get a bad rap because most people use them wrong. In this episode I explain exactly why they fail as a singular tool, how to combine them with action steps so your brain starts building genuine evidence, and why the words we use — including the ones we use about ourselves — are quite literally spells. We cover present tense language, positive framing, the can't funeral I held in m...

I Asked AI to Read My Birth Chart — And It Unlocked Something I'd Been Blocked On for Years 23.03.2026

I went into a conversation with Claude feeling low, suicidal ideation had returned for the first time in a year, and I wasn't sure what I needed. I came out with a business strategy, a clearer understanding of my natal chart, and a fire in my belly I hadn't felt in months. In this episode I share that experience. We talk about natal charts as blueprints for your life, what my Jupiter in th...

The Secret Language of Your Chakras — How to Know Which One Is Blocked and What to Do About It 16.03.2026

Your body gives you clues. Your chakras are the map. In this episode I walk through all seven chakras — from the root to the crown — explaining what each one governs, what symptoms show up when it's blocked, and the practical steps you can take to get it moving again. As a Reiki practitioner of over 15 years I have seen how commonly blocked chakras show up in my clients — and it is almost alwa...

Why I Chose Homeopathy Over the NHS During Pregnancy — And Why It Worked 09.03.2026

When the NHS couldn't help me with extreme heartburn and an agonising skin rash during my pregnancy, I turned to ahomeopath. Within three days of taking the remedy, both conditions were completely gone. In this episode I share the full story— including my genuinely hellish pregnancy, the depths a homeopathic consultation goes to, and why I now put my full faith inalternative medicine for any c...

Expectation Is the Real Secret to Manifesting — How to Stop Hoping and Start Knowing 02.03.2026

We don't attract what we want. We attract what we expect. In this episode I explain the law of assumption, why expectation is a muscle you can build, and how small low-stakes experiments can train your brain to expect good things — so that bigger things can follow. I share Pam Grout's experiments from E Squared, the vacuum principle from Francesca Amber's book, and the story of how cle...

A Devotion to Self Love — What It Actually Means to Love Yourself (It's Not Bubble Baths) 23.02.2026

Self-love is not buying yourself flowers. In this episode I go deeper than the surface-level version and talk about what genuine self-love actually looks like — how you speak to yourself, how you plan for your future self, how you set boundaries, and how you respond when someone offers you help. I share the signs that you're not loving yourself, why positive framing is one of the hardest habit...

The Invisible Muscles That Will Change Your Life — Self-Love, Gratitude, Visualisation and Manifestation 16.02.2026

The muscles that matter most are the ones nobody teaches you about. In this episode I walk through the invisible muscles — self-love, gratitude, visualisation and manifestation — and explain exactly how to build each one using the three key ingredients: patience, regular practice and consistency. I share how my gratitude practice physically changed my commute, reduced my road rage, and led to mone...

The Benefits of Self Appreciation — Why Acknowledging Your Wins Is the Most Underrated Tool in Personal Development 09.02.2026

We are our own worst critics. In this episode I make the case for self appreciation as a genuine personal development practice — not vanity, not ego, but a powerful tool for building belief in yourself and opening you up to receiving more. I share my wins jar method, the compliments jar my friend Amanda made me for my 30th, why accepting a compliment gracefully is actually a form of energetic rece...

Understanding Depression and Compassion Focused Therapy — A Conversation with My Sister 02.02.2026

This week I'm joined by my sister for a conversation on depression, compassion focused therapy and the three systems thatgovern how we feel: the drive system, the threat system and the soothe system. If you've ever wondered why you can't just snapout of it — this episode will explain why, and what actually helps. We talk about what compassion focused therapy is, how it differs from oth...

Journaling, Scrapbooking and Memory Keeping as Healing Tools — Why Your Thoughts Need Somewhere to Land 26.01.2026

Memory keeping saved my life. In this episode I talk about the deeply therapeutic power of journaling, scrapbooking and memory boxes — not as hobbies but as genuine tools for emotional processing, grief navigation and personal development. I share what neuroscience says happens in the brain when you write your feelings down, how I used my journal to process the grief of losing my cat Edie while he...

How NOT to Attract a Loving Relationship — What My Healing Journey Taught Me About Men, Boundaries and Self-Worth 19.01.2026

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode discusses abuse and its impact on mental processes and may be sensitive for some listeners. This was the episode I almost didn't record. But someone out there needed to hear it. In this deeply personal episode I talk aboutthe trauma I've experienced at the hands of men, why I became a self-described man-hater, and what a psychiatrist assessmentunlocked abou...

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