In Our Nature

What fun to have coach, laughter expert and vibrant human Dave Berman on the Inner Peace & Other Cool Shit podcast.  Dave has laughed with people in all 50 US states and in 70 other countries, and he has a unique way of working with people to help them have a more joyful experience of life through their own insights and realisations. Please join us to explore:   Dave’s journey from mental illn...

It's time for your insights, realisations, contemplations and ....um...complaints!  Back in the episode Connection, Feelings, Knowing & Trees: A Birthday Special, I shared a few of my own insights since starting the podcast and I invited you to do the same. And you did! And they were great.  Join me on the show today to hear a varied selection of some of insights and stories. We hear from...

What a joy to have the warm, witty and wonderful Lindsey Elliott on the podcast recently. Lindsey is the owner and founder of Lindsey Elliott Coaching based online and in Brighton, UK. She is a former worried and anxious, self-help seeker, who now knows she is always OK (and that you are too). I loved this conversation so much. I laughed, I cried, I had tingles. It was great! Please join us to exp...

Join me for part 2 of our fresh look at uncertainty. We'll look at how to actually deal with uncertainty, AND what to do when the bad-thing-that-our-brain-made-up actually happens.  Part one is here .  Episodes and books mentioned in the show:  "Who We Really Are Is Unbreakable” with Wyn Morgan   But What About When An Actual Bad Thing Happens?   "Security Is Built-In" with Chr...

Ah, us humans hate uncertainty don't we? But why? No, really. Why? Join me to take a fresh look at Uncertainty In this two-parter. Come and explore:   What even is uncertainty? Why it drives us a bit wild  A deep poke at the root of uncertainty  How seeing something new around this helps us navigate life with its never-ending unknowns Mentioned in the show:  Check out the birthday competition...

I was incredibly honoured to have Dicken Bettinger as my special guest on the podcast. Dicken is an author, mentor, speaker, guide, and board member of the 3PGC. He was mentored directly by Sydney Banks  - who first articulated the understanding of who we really are and how we experience life known as the Three Principles - and Dicken has been helping people across the world rediscover their innat...

Stephen Ladd joins me on the podcast today for a hopeful, light-yet-deep and wisdom-packed conversation. Stephen, also known as The Renegade Life Coach , is a ridiculously experienced transformative coach who has worked with many kinds of people for almost three decades. He has a varied and fascinating background in many teachings, practices and philosophies and he now focuses on helping people di...

This special episode celebrates the first birthday of the podcast. The show is a dribbling, babbling, messy one-year-old! Come and explore:   What the show is about (erm, in case it's not obvious after a year) What has deepened for me in the past year, or that I have seen fresh  How this may help you  How to win some trees or coaching together by sharing what you've seen with me Opportun...

I can’t wait to share an intriguing, wisdom-filled and utterly delightful conversation with Wyn Morgan in this episode. Wyn is a highly experienced executive coach who has worked with business leaders around the world, as well as providing mentoring and one-on-one services to coaches and other humans.   Wyn is one of my favourite people in the inside-out conversation and he shares with such humani...

Why are we not seeing the changes we want in life, even when are working really hard to get them? There's a bit we are missing and it's f*cking huge.  Come and explore:   Why we want change in the first place Why it feels hard, or the results don't 'work' the way we want them to How understanding the nature of thoughts and feelings is the missing piece  Well, what is the n...

I can’t wait to share a conversation I had with Gabi Fisher in this episode. Gabi is a wife,  full-time mother to her one-year-old daughter, and part-time teacher and coach. She shares the spiritual paradigm of mental health and well-being that transformed her life from depressed and anxious to happy and thriving.  She’s a warm, kind, funny and smart human and I loved hanging out with her! Please...

Join me to explore the true nature of human beings (including and especially YOU), and how seeing how we are designed changes the experience of thought storms, panic, challenges and other life stuff.  Come and explore:   Human beings ARE nature and we share the same amazing design  How have we come to see ourselves as separate from nature? The mind-blowing features and functions that we get to use...

Join me to explore the incredible power of NOTICING when it comes to finding freedom from overthinking, worry and anxiety.  'Noticing' sounds unsexy, boring and nebulous. How can something as little and benign as"noticing" help jostle us along the path to peace? That's what we are talking about! Come and explore:   What even is 'noticing' and how do we do it? How...

I can't wait to share a conversation between me and Kristy Halvorsen in this episode. Kristy is an author, a guide, a mentor and a nomadic world traveller, who helps people completely reimagine what it means to be human. Kristy has a gift for sharing how we can move through life from a place other than logic, reason and the conventions of society.  Please join us to explore:   What it means t...

URGH. If you're tired of the usual goal-setting malarky at this time of year, join me for the second part of our fresh look at this whole thing** **thing = persistent and unquestioned compulsion to improve ourselves via goals and plans.  Come and explore:   A quick recap of part one , where we talked about the drivers and influences of our goal-setting culture How to take a fresh look at what...

It’s that time of year when we are bombarded with messages to set goals, review our year, make plans for the next year, improve ourselves and generally be better humans. We are told that if we set and meet goals, we will feel good.  Huh. Is that true? Let’s do some poking around these internalised ideas in another two-parter! Come and explore:   Why we are obsessed with goal-setting and planning ...

I loved having Christine Heath and Judy Sedgeman as my special guests on the pod! Chris and Judy have been working with groups, individuals, couples and classes for - literally - decades to help them find freedom beyond their personal thinking and see life in a completely new way.  They also co-host the incredible podcast Psychology Has It Backwards , which completely reimagines mental health awar...

Hang out with me for the second part of our two-parter on 'thought work' and what we should be doing with this incessant, powerful thought-thingamabob. Come and explore:   A round-up from part one where we took a look at what thought is and when it may be helpful or not to poke it and try and change it How to tell the difference between helpful or unhelpful 'thought work' What...

I'm recovering from a cold so if you can handle the un-edit-out-able sniffles, then join me while we take a look at managing, controlling or changing our thoughts.   Come and explore:   What is thought work?? Should we be doing it? Why? When? What is thought anyway? (Erm, we talk about this all the time!) How does understanding the nature of thoughts and feelings help us decide whether to pok...

I loved having Daniel Magnusson as my special guest on the pod! Daniel is a coach with a zillion years of experience and extensive professional training. A couple of years ago, he came across the inside-out nature of how humans work that is shared on this show and it transformed his own life and those of his clients.  Please join Daniel and me to explore:   How seeing how our experience is created...

Join me while I share your stories of returning to peace and calm after feeling intense anger, hurt, overwhelm and panic. Come and explore:   Tales from your fellow humans on how thoughts and feelings changed without intervention What do they make of that? What did they see? How does noticing our experience change even help us? How to see this more for yourself around the self-settling mechanism o...

It was brilliant to have Clare Downham, Queen of Calm , on the show. Clare was a busy and successful headteacher before burning out and becoming a hypnotherapist on a self-development kick. But then she came across the principles of how humans work (that this show is based on) and she now works with people to help them uncover their calm, clarity and confidence.  She's also a smart and funny...

We recently explored how we don't create our thoughts. We can't control them and we don't 'think' them up. So where do they come from?  Come and explore:   Why do we have the thoughts we have? The visible and invisible influences which may inform our thoughts  How seeing this is enormously helpful when it comes to our experience of anxiety, overthinking, worry, stress and...

It was brilliant to have Matt Roberts on the show. Matt is a psychological performance coach and former international high jumper who now works with athletes and business leaders to guide them to their own source of flow and peak performance. He's also an exceedingly nice human and I loved hanging out with him.  Please join Matt and me to explore:   What is psychological freedom…and how can w...

Welcome to part 2 of our exploration! Perhaps you may be on board with the idea that you are not your thoughts (part one is here if you missed it)...so who are you then? Come and explore:   Why, if we come to see we are not our thoughts, we instead think we are the things we DO: our behaviours, habits, actions and responses... ...But are we really though? If we are not the things that change, what...