The Baggage Reclaim Sessions

It can be super frustrating when you have a negative experience of someone, and everyone else thinks the sun shines out of them. Natalie talks about why our experience of a person can differ due to context.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop  

When somebody fakes a future to get what they want in the present, the disappointment, confusion, self-doubt and sense of rejection can leave us reeling and distrusting. Natalie revisits Future Faking and why we must, ultimately, be careful of deceiving ourselves.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop    

Natalie talks about why the infamous piece of advice, 'He's just not that into you' from the 2004 book of the same name, can easily be misinterpreted as 'You're not enough' or 'They behaved as they did because they didn't feel enough'.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie talks about why we resist blocking, unfriending or deleting even when continuing to engage harms our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Boundaries are widely misunderstood, so it's no surprise that so many of us struggle to have that at work. Natalie dives into what it means to have work boundaries and why they matter.    Instagram  |  Reclaim Your Work Boundaries  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie delves into our messy relationship with rest, including acting as if we owe everyone our 'free time' to others and our fear of appearing 'lazy'. Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie talks about the three vulnerability habits we all need to embrace: admitting what we don't know, admitting when we've made a mistake, and admitting when we're in the wrong. Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie talks about shifting our relationship with trust to a healthy place, including recognising where some of the things we do to foster trust or 'make' someone prove that they are trustworthy are precisely the source of us feeling unsafe in the first place.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie talks about why we need to shift our perception of what a breakup is and what it means about us so that we can let go of old stories and painful feelings that still affect us today.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie talks about why we need to change our relationship with criticism so that we stop investing so much of ourselves into trying to control the uncontrollable and being self-critical.   Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie talks about how we've been socialised to keep up appearances and why this pretence, whether it's about nothing being wrong or that who we are is not OK, is damaging to our wellbeing and relationships.    Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Sometimes we try to 'manage ourselves' too much instead of articulating a need or a boundary. Natalie shares her insights from a recent experience of this and how it's revolutionised her attitude towards her needs and what sets off anxiety.    Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie explains why it's time to recognise that people can be more than one thing and stop denying, rationalising, minimising, excusing, assuming and generalising ourselves into feeling stuck because we can't reconcile who we think someone is with other things that don't fit that image.  Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie explores the unease we experience when we believe that things seem a little or a lot too perfect and what we can learn from it Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

Natalie shares how we can use our awareness of certain habits as a notification that we are anxious about *something* so that we can take better care of ourselves.  The Anxiety Sessions | Instagram  |  Blog  | Shop

In the first episode of 2021, Natalie breaks down compatibility, our ability co-exist harmoniously with someone or something.    Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  | Shop

What does a project shifting dramatically, increased work responsibilities or hours beyond what was originally agreed, an overbearing and critical partner who always 'knows best', and someone in a casual relationship thinking and behaving as if they're in an actual relationship have in common? They're all examples of scope creep.    Download The Emotional Baggage Sessions for free.  Instagram  | ...

So many of us have been conditioned to feel shame about loneliness and to misunderstand what it is and why we and others experience it. Natalie talks about shifting our perception of loneliness and how to understand our own loneliness experiences so that we can break out of any habits that fuel it but also be more supportive of others.  Download The Emotional Baggage Sessions for free.  Instagram...

Some of us are waiting to have sex. It might be until marriage, it might be until the relationship has reached a certain point, it might be that we haven't had it yet and so we're waiting to trust someone enough to. Natalie talks about what we need to be mindful of if we are waiting and some of the issues we can come up against.   Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  

The trap that so many of us fall into when we recognise our discomfort or that we don't want to do something is having a passive response. Natalie shares four steps for having a more assertive response that allows you to feel good about yourself and evolve your boundaries.  How To Say No: The Scripts Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  

Natalie talks about a subject that many people grapple with but often feel ashamed. Even if estrangement isn't something you've dealt with, this episode is also about how we need to update our perceptions of family and be empathetic and supportive of people who have a less than 'great' family experience.  The Intuition Sessions Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog  

Natalie does a deep dive into a subject that creates a level of discomfort in a lot of humans to answer a question that befuddles so many of us even though we put so much effort into trying to enjoy the benefits of intimacy or avoiding it: What is intimacy?   Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Course  |  Blog |  Membership

It's 2020, and yet, so many of us have a confusing, complicated and even shameful relationship with sex that causes us to be and do things that don't reflect who we really are or what we really want. In what will be the first of several episodes over the coming weeks and months about sex, Natalie talks about why we need to evolve our relationship with sex.   Instagram  |  Break The Cycle Online Co...

While it isn't a new issue, disappointment about online interactions not blossoming into something bigger and better in real life seems to have been heightened by the pandemic, thanks to it limiting our social interactions. Natalie talks about the importance of managing our imagination and expectations so that we don't end up falling for a hologram or setting ourselves up for a fall.  Instagram  |...

To celebrate the 200th episode of the podcast (yay!), Natalie sits down for a chat with her very first guest (and the one who came up with the idea for the show!), her husband, Em. Using questions from listeners, they give a little insight into their relationship, including how they met, how they knew they were each other's 'one', and overcoming conflict.  **Please note**: This episode was recorde...