Room to Grow Podcast with Emily Gough

When we overthink our emotions, we under-feel them. This can have major consequences on both our relationships and our personal growth. Too often when faced with a negative or traumatic emotion, we intellectualize how we are feeling instead of allowing ourselves to accept, allow and feel it.  And by suppressing the bad stuff, we fail to fully learn how to feel the good stuff - the spectrum of emot...

Something new on the Room To Grow™ podcast for 2024: allowing you into some of my real life, unedited coaching calls with clients. We all share the same challenges and questions in our relationships, and my hope is that by inviting you into these incredible sessions, you'll find answers and inspiration to integrate into your own situation. It's also a taste of the incredible successes we can have...

It's time to start fighting unreasonably hard for the life you want. I want this first episode of the New Year to remind you that waiting for things to feel easier, clearer and less scary are preventing you from taking the first messy, but critical steps in the right direction.  Even if you don't have the end figured out, sitting around hoping everything will eventually manifest itself isn't doing...

The most dangerous thing you can possess is self worth. Because from self worth comes freedom and empowerment to choose exactly what and who you want in your life. But because we live in a world that teaches us to look outside of ourselves for validation, accolades, approval, self-worth can be a major struggle. But when we stop auditioning for the approval of others and instead go inward and trust...

It's tempting to want to play the role of "superhero" in a relationship - the guardian, the savior, the teacher, or the protector. But over-prioritizing their needs over your own often has a villainous effect on a healthy relationship. Because if all of your focus is on their safety, wellbeing and nurturing, you then neglect what's more important - your own.  My partner, Kelly Gardner, a Relations...

I'm practicing something that's very uncomfortable for me: asking for what I need. Maybe you can relate. It's scary, because when we ask for something, it can bring up all kinds of issues for us. Old stories from childhood. Risk of judgement, rejection or abandonment. It's something I've spent most of my life avoiding, and instead convincing myself that I can hold it down myself without needing an...

The only thing more painful than brutal honesty is dishonesty. If we're holding in our true emotions to avoid tough conversations, judgment or rocking the boat, we're actually hurting our relationship more than helping it. Expressing how you are feeling is where trust is built and where relationships thrive. If you're not being truly honest in your relationship, it will disintegrate over time, gua...

Nicole Walters has built an empire from virtually nothing. From growing up in poverty, to adopting 3 children off the street, creating a multi-million dollar business, a TV show, podcast and now the release of her new book "Nothing Is Missing: A Memoir Of Living Boldly" she's helped to inspire others by teaching everyday people how to own their power and trust they already have everything they nee...

The next time you find yourself feeling down, lost, full of anxiety or just energetically off, it's time to get back to the basics and reconnect with yourself. This episode covers 6 key questions to ask the next time you just don't feel like yourself: Are you laughing? Are you sleeping? Are you moving? Are you nourished? Are you creating? What are you consuming?  …and I'm not just talking about ea...

From forgetting simple household chores to getting distracted during sex, adult ADHD can have a tremendous impact on a relationship. Today, we're talking with ADHD Life Coach, Aaron Bailey about the frustrations, workarounds and ways of building a strong relationship with someone with ADHD.  In some ways, a partner can feel more like a parent. But that's where patience, knowledge and communication...

When it comes to confidence, we can too often sit in a state of waiting - waiting for something to  magically happen or shift to finally get over our fears and anxieties. But confidence is something that has to be built, honed and practiced. And the only way to practice is to simply do the thing for the first time, no matter how scary.  Today we're talking about how to build the confidence to purs...

My guest on this episode is my partner, Kelly Gardner. He and I met when he was a guest on this podcast  (Episode #359 "Building A Community Of Better & More Present Fathers" With Kelly Gardner) talking about his work as a Personal Growth Coach and Men's Group Facilitator. At the time, it was just an interview. But, things quickly changed, and I can honestly say this is the best romantic relations...

When we try to force a relationship with someone who isn't a good fit, it's time to do some serious work on our own self-worth. People often end up "chasing" the same type over and over, hoping they'll uncover something about ourselves we just aren't seeing. But to have a healthy relationship with someone else, we first need to recognize our own innate self worth - with and without them.  It may i...

Trust is like the oxygen that fans the flames of a relationship. When you can fully grant trust to your partner, it allows each of you to fill each other's needs within the relationship. Not trusting your partner is often not a sign of their untrustworthiness, rather lack of trust in yourself - which is where the work then needs to happen.  Today we're talking all about the beautiful benefits of t...

Usually when we think about hormones, we think about mood swings, bloating and weight gain. But our hormones play a massive factor in everything from emotional control, to alleviating pain, bloating and inflammation, better sleep, steadier eating patterns, stress management and sex drive.  And knowing how to control our hormones means having much greater control over how we show up physically, men...

Writing is one of the most powerful things you can do to heal and grow. Having just penned a book on relationships (coming spring 2024) with my incredible friend and host of the  Next Level Human podcast, Dr. Jade Teta, we're taking you behind the scenes to explain the whirlwind physical and emotional process of writing an entire book in just 9 days. But we're not just talking about outlines, stor...

This short episode covers two very fundamental questions I ask my self routinely that have completely changed my relationships and the way I communicate: Am I acting out of fear or out of love right now? How can I show up in a way right now that I'll be proud of 5, 10, 20 years from now?  Both questions likely require a lot of unpacking, vulnerability and digging inside to face some hard truths. B...

Like the saying "once burned, twice shy," a healthy relationship can be hard to trust if you've been burned in the past. The best relationships might even bring up more resistance because they can feel like unfamiliar territory.  But one of the best things we can do to heal from past scars is to lay our defenses down and be open to allowing love and all its potential beauty the chance to come in. ...

This time, I'm answering the questions.  This special episode of Room to Grow™ was taken from my guest appearance on the Between Heaven and Earth podcast hosted by Intuitive Coach, Lisa K. Lisa invited me on her show to talk about how to successfully approach dating, including how self love, intuition, trust, loneliness and playfulness all play a major factor in both new and long-term relationship...

Fear of change can often leave us dangling on the cusp of our own massive success. Consequently, instead of unleashing our full power to the universe, we lock ourselves in the subconscious "safe zone" of the things, relationships, situations and habits that minimize our power.  Change is indeed scary as hell. But stepping into your full power requires letting go of the doubts, uncertainties and pe...

"How do I know if they're the one?" I get this question more often than I can tell you. But truthfully, I don't believe there's only one person in the world for us. And trying to fit that perfect someone into your preconceived love story presents a number of challenges and very, very often keeps people in bad relationships longer than they should be. Instead, we should all focus on how we can beco...

Not everyone deserves a place in your heart. But closing ourselves off isn't the answer either. Boundaries can become fortresses. And then we wonder why no one can ever break through.  Yet it's not always about setting every boundary under the sun with each individual person in your life. It's about showing up as the person you want to be, and watching the magic that unfolds as a direct and specif...

The journey to self-love begins with liking yourself first. But doing this work can present one of the biggest battles we all face as humans: loneliness. It's one of the things that keeps us in mediocre relationships far past their expiry dates, because being in the company of another seems, in theory, better than being alone. But relationships with others are not the cure to loneliness. And belie...

There are more "labels" than ever floating around out there, especially in the areas of self-help and personal development. Occasionally, labels can be helpful by helping us to feel less isolated and alone in our "weirdness." But identifying too strongly with any particular label has the potential to do more harm than good. They prevent us from viewing individuals (including ourselves) as a whole,...

This conversation is hands-down one of my favourites to date on this podcast. We're speaking with Traver Boehm , an author of two books, 2 time TEDx Speaker, men's coach and founder of the UNcivilized Men's Movement , which is radically redefining the way men around the globe experience their masculinity by uniquely blending both primal elements of manhood with massive doses of consciousness. In 2...