Life in Align podcast

Today I talk about 5 energy vampires that can cause mental, physical and emotional fatigue.

Today I talk about the healthy ways you can get those happiness hormones.  Happiness hormones are the chemicals that our body naturally produces to increase our wellbeing. Click here for shownotes

Today I want to talk about the things that can happen when our nervous system comes out of survival mode. Click here for shownotes

Quick-fire round of a few questions for what springs to your mind, not mine, on what you can do to bring more calm than chaos to bring a bit of happiness into your day Click here for shownotes

I want to talk about journaling, because, quite frankly, I am rubbish at it.  I have been terrible at journalling my entire life. It's as if there's a perfectionism to it that I just do not achieve.  So I made my own rules.... Click here for shownotes

Aaah rest.  Something we no longer seem to know how to do.  Our hustle culture has expectations that we have to be on the go constantly, and rest is a reward for working yourself to exhaustion, causing us to feel guilty when we take a break.  So today, I want to ponder on what rest really is, and different ways we can add it to our day. Click here for shownotes

Today I want to ponder on some warning signs that you're pretending to be happy, and what you can do about it.  From someone who knows.   We all have those moments when something doesn't feel right.  We can get sick and/or we go through a period of grieving, and everyone understands it. For a while.  But there's something you can't shake, and as everyone around you expects you to be moving on by n...

I am sure you're already aware of the benefits of decluttering.  An uncluttered home and life promotes mental clarity, and less stuff through choice means less likely to spend money on things you don't need.  Less stuff also means less mess can be created so less mess to be tidied up. Which is an absolute win for spoonies, because it means less work and less feeling like we're not getting anything...

If given the choice, which would you rather be in?  A relationship where you dismiss yourself, minimise yourself, and be mean to yourself, get irritated with yourself, sabotaging all of your hopes and dreams? Or would you rather be in one where you cultivate self love? Every day you are kind, gentle and you work towards your hopes and your dreams and you go to bed every night knowing that it doesn...

Today I want to talk to you about a not-to-do list when chronically ill.  I absolutely love having a to-do list, I love making lists.  I love crossing things off lists.   When I got sick, my to-do list had to become streamlined and batched.  Long gone were the days of being able to do all the things on all the days.  One list I had to create, and probably stuck to the most, was a not-to-do list. ...

100 episodes!!  Wow.  I didn't realise that when I was recording, but here we are.  100 episodes.  What a milestone. Today I want to talk to you about coming home to yourself. Sometimes life dismantles the self you've known and you have to begin the seemingly complex task of starting over, rebuilding, and finding your new compass and anchor.   It can be a shock to the system.  I often hear "I didn...

Also, along with the birdsong, today I share the 7 ways we overthink, and the super-simple strategy on how to stop it Tune in for an unedited episode, because I couldn't bring myself to edit out the birds tweeting away in the background... Click here for shownotes

I got to this point in early 2012, and thanks to the proverbial onion layer, again in autumn of 2022, but didn't want to face up to it until I had to earlier this year.  What point am I talking about? Being sick of my own sh*t. Today I share a few questions for you to ponder on to help move you forward. Click here for shownotes

  Today I want to ponder on trusting the process, and ask you if you can.  Honestly, for years my answer to that would be "what does that even mean?!"   Click here for shownotes

Today I want to talk about habits that are actually signs of resentment.   Holding on to resentment can be bad for your mental and physical health.  It can cause stress, anxiety, depression, and it can cause chronic health problems. Do any of these bahaviours resonate with you?     Click here for shownotes

Recently I had to ask myself, do I want to do more, or do I want to keep thinking I'm doing enough.  Listen in for the thing I'm referring to, but in the end I have to decide that I am doing this for me.  It makes grief easier to deal with.  It makes my illness easier to deal with.   The reason I called this episode Ask More of Yourself is because to get better it requires you to do more.    Click...

After many years of tears, hatred, and basically mistreating myself, I made a vow to be kind to my body, and owed it an apology.   There's plenty of research around the body keeps the score, and how suppressed emotions around trauma can manifest into illnesses.  So the path along the healing journey also includes befriending our bodies.  For when we can like our bodies, we can start to feel safe i...

An episode about believing in yourself.  Even when.   Even when you are feeling scared.   Even when you are feeling overwhelmed.   Even when you are doubting that you can get better. And I get it.   Over 10 years ago, after living with my illness for nearly 3 years, I had to believe that I could either figure out my health struggles, or I could keep on feeling rubbish about it.   I decided that my...

When was the last time you felt lucky?  I'd hazard a guess that most of the time you think that others are lucky, and the only luck you tend to find is bad luck.   Fate.  Destiny.  Kismet.  Serendipity. Whatever you want to call luck, it's as if it's always connected to our most happiest moments.  Sometimes, it turns out our most difficult times were a wonderful stroke of luck too.   And what abou...

A super-quick episode this week, even by my standards, mainly because sometimes we just need to be told some things to do to get moving out of the overwhelm to a space where we can then look at the whys. If you're feeling sad, overwhelmed, anxious, helpless, frustrated, please know that you're in good company, and you are not alone.     Click here to sign up to the free mini-SHIFT Click here for s...

I get asked all the time "I want to get better, but why do I sabotage myself?  I think I know what I need to do, but I don't do it".  Variations on this are lacking willpower, unmotivated, even scared. It's not as if the internet isn't full of solutions to google.  If you want to lose weight or increase your fruit and veg on a daily basis, there's a ton of suggestions.  If you want to try increasi...

I talk a lot about life with a chronic illness, and for this episode I want to share for those who support us, and are not always sure what to say or do.   It's not just one life that changes. Click here to sign up to the free mini-SHIFT Click here for shownotes

Decluttering a home can be difficult, especially if you have years' worth of memories stored up.  Equally, a lot of those memories could also be causing you stress.   Mindfulness has been proven to be an essential practice in managing stress, lowering blood pressure and helping to increase focus.   If you think about how much information you take through your eyes for your brain to process, the mo...

Everyone seems to be at a default mode of constantly stressed, so much so that it's not often I hear other emotions get mentioned.  It also seems easier to tell ourselves that we're stressed than to have to think about how else we might actually be feeling, and stress is usually easily blamed on external sources and not ourselves whereas admitting feeling something else might mean we have to ackno...

Today I want to chat about something that can be very detrimental to your recovery and that's how you talk to yourself, about yourself.  Both in what you say out loud, and what you say in your head.   Click here to sign up to the free mini-SHIFT Click here for shownotes