In This Together - Same But Different

The wellness industry is worth around 5.6 trillion dollars, and the dodgy end has learned to talk exactly like the qualified end. In the last episode of season 2, Liz and Bernie get into grifters: the influencers and self-styled healers promising to fix your whole life with a weekend retreat and a well-placed crystal. They talk about what being trauma informed actually means, why declaring a space...

Anyone else feeling like the world has collectively lost the plot? Between politics, wars, rising costs, climate anxiety, social media and the endless stream of breaking news, it's no wonder so many of us are feeling overwhelmed, anxious and emotionally exhausted. In this episode, Liz and Bernie dive into what happens when our nervous systems are exposed to a constant flow of alarming information,...

In Episode 10, we’re talking perimenopause. Not as experts with all the answers, but as two women right in the middle of it. Liz shares her terrifying experience of neurological symptoms, scans, hospital tests and being told it might be MS or a brain tumour, before finally discovering it was perimenopause. Bernie talks about endometriosis, anxiety, UTIs, body changes, overwhelm and the messy overl...

Episode 9: The Quiet Losses No One Talks About What if grief isn’t just about losing people… but losing versions of your life? In this episode, we’re exploring the quieter, less visible side of loss — the kind that doesn’t always have a clear name. From those unexpected moments that catch you off guard (like feeling sad after something lovely), to the lives we didn’t live, the choices we didn’t ma...

In this episode, we’re talking about friendship, and all the ways it can be both lovely and surprisingly complicated. Friendships are some of the most important relationships in our lives, but unlike romantic relationships, they rarely come with a script. There’s no clear beginning, no clear ending, and very little conversation about what happens when things shift, drift, deepen, or quietly fall a...

Episode 7, Season 2: Death, Dying & the Afterlife We’re back for season two, and in true In This Together: Same but Different style, we’re starting with a nice easy one: death, dying, and the afterlife. In this episode, we talk about something most of us spend our lives trying not to think about, even though it touches every single one of us. We explore what happens in our minds when we think...

It’s the final episode of Series 1 and we’re ending on something we both care about deeply: what it’s like to show up in your work as a coach/therapist when your own life isn’t exactly “together.” Because people love to assume that if you’re a coach, you must be calm and wise 24/7… and that stress, grief, anxiety, hormones, parenting chaos and real life admin somehow bounce off you. Spoiler: they...

After a few heavier episodes on burnout and breakdowns, we wanted to talk about something that can feel “lighter”… but is often just as loaded: exercise. In this conversation, Liz and Bernie talk honestly about our messy, complicated relationship with exercise :  not because movement is bad, but because the way it’s talked about has become noisy, pressurised, and disconnected from real life. We ex...

Content note: This episode includes discussion of OCD, mental health crisis, and suicidal thoughts (non-graphic). Please listen in a way that feels safe and supportive for you. This episode is a follow-on from Episode 3 (Burnout & Breakdowns), because after sharing the hard parts, we wanted to talk about the what next : what actually helped us recover, and what we’ve seen help our clients over...

Episode 3 Description for Podcast: Burnout and Breakdowns Trigger warning: Some episodes include honest conversations about suicide. Please listen in a way that feels safe and supportive for you. Burnout and breakdowns rarely come out of nowhere. They build slowly, often in plain sight, until something in us can’t keep going the way it used to. In this episode, Liz and Bernie talk about what burno...

January can be a strange one. In this episode, Liz and Bernie talk about the weird, wobbly in-between space between Christmas and New Year, and the pressure many of us feel to reset, refocus, and make big changes - even when we’re tired, grieving, or just not quite ready. This is an honest, reflective conversation about how January actually feels, rather than how it’s supposed to feel. In this epi...

In this first episode of 'In This Together, Same But Different,' we explore the essence of our new podcast by giving you a taste of what's to come - authentic conversations about the challenges of being human. You know, the type challenges we all have (after all, we’re all in this together), but we often cope with them differently (cos even though we’re the same, we're also different). We hope thi...

Welcome to In This Together: Same but Different . Hosted by Liz Goodchild, Life Coach, and Bernadette Dancy, Stress Management Coach - two friends, two coaches, two humans - this podcast is about the weird, lovely, maddening reality of being alive. This is not a self-help podcast…even though, yes, we are coaches. We're not here to dish out any how-to guidance or advice, and there'll be absolutely...