The Head Trash + Healing Show with Alexia Leachman

I'm feeling very called to get back to work on clearing trauma at the moment. A few months ago I went all in with it when I was really ill. My mind had pretty much shut down and healing was my sole focus as I kicked off a physical healing protocol, but it would need time; I needed to detox The Thing that was making me ill, and then my body needed to heal from The Thing. I wasn't good for much whil...

Did you ever play hide and seek as a kid? I bet it's a YES. Please don't say no... because that would be a little bit sad. If you did - and you did, right? - then your hide and seek shenanigans could be responsible for some head trashy challenges you might be experiencing as an adult. My kids LOVE playing hide and seek and I'm pretty sure it's something we've all played as kids. I sometimes join i...

In this, my first podcast for a while, I chat to business founder Ela Senghera. Ela is the founder of Virtually Thrive, a mental health business that supports parents. During our conversation, Ela and I talk about founder anxiety an the stresses of creating and building a business the importance of self care for parents what you can do to care more for yourself how you can prevent problems with yo...

Today I want to share with you what clearing self-sabotage looks like. Like EXACTLY. I'm going to share with you an example of someone I worked with so that you can better understand how we self-sabotage. And perhaps this will help you with your own self-sabotaging ways. Self-sabotage is something we can all relate to. Personally, I'm an expert. An expert self-sabotager, but also an expert and get...

I thought I loved planning. But it was all a lie! I've done a lot of planning and I think I'm pretty good at all sorts of planning shenanigans. From road trips across foreign lands and island-hopping holidays to secret birthday parties and complex international product launches. In corporate I used to do high level business planing all the time. As a business coach and consultant people have hired...

Whenever I see a face, I can usually tell whether they have a load of head trash. this is because whenever we have lots of stresses and anxieties, the tension that this creates shows up in our bodies, and our faces. We're familiar with the aching shoulders, tension head-aches and other bodily aches that come from being stressed and anxious, and in my experience these tensions show up in the face....

Getting stuff done and generally being productive requires the mind to stay focussed on singular tasks until they are complete. Sounds fairly straightforward, right? And yet this is where most people fall down, including you. Why? Simple. You get distracted You look away from what you're doing. Perhaps you open up another browser window to check Facebook. Or maybe you look outside through an actua...

With so much uncertainty around right now, the only certainty seems to be this: COVID anxiety is a thing and it's becoming more of a problem as time goes by. COVID anxiety is affecting mental health for a lot of people and we need to do something about it. What is COVID anxiety? It's the various aspects of  COVID that are creating additional anxieties in people. For me this is not the same as simp...

Anxiety is something we have all experienced a one time or other. Or at least I'm assuming you have by the very fact you're on this site. Here are some fun facts about anxiety that I found here; An estimated 284 million people worldwide experienced an anxiety disorder in 2017, making it the most prevalent mental health disorder on the planet (Ritchie, Hannah and Roser, Max. "Anxiety Disorders." Ou...

The Head Trash Show is back. After a long break In this episode I talk about the head trash I've had to wrestle with as I've been pursuing my dream life. Two years ago, we made the decision to leave the UK and move the family to France. We had always wanted to live somewhere sunny near the coast, so we decided to go for it. This was the beginning of a journey that was fraught with head trash for m...

Pain is interesting. At least I find it interesting. And I guess that comes from my work in helping women prepare for birth. Pain comes up a lot! In fact it comes up too much in my opinion. More than it should do. And this is because a fear of pain is probably one of the most common fears I come across. Well, it's only to be expected, after all childbirth is the gold standard when it comes to pain...

This week on the podcast I'm exploring the idea of being an introvert or extrovert, and I'm asking the question "Is it fixed? Or can we change?" I don't often hear extroverts wanting to change, but I do often come across introverts not enjoying being an introvert. Or at least, they make excuses for it and make changes to their life to allow for being an introvert. So they might not be openly be co...

The mother wound is a new term for me, but the minute I heard it, it made so much sense. I knew immediately that whatever it was, I had it! Well, let's face it, we all have it. I was intrigued as to how the mother wound would show up in our day-to-day lives. I've done a lot of mother wound work on myself, so I had inklings on how my mother wound has been affecting me, but I'm sure I still have bli...

Have you got sleep stress? We often hear about how stress affects our sleep, but not always about how sleep affects our stress.  As in, how sleep CREATES stress! You know, SLEEP STRESS! Yes, you read that right; sleep is stressful. Which when you're already stressed and can't sleep, isn't exactly good news. The thing is as you lie in bed awake waiting for sleep to take over, your mind racing with...

Parent and baby mental health are not discussed enough in my opinion. And yet they are incredibly important not just for the families involved, but for society. One of the reasons why I'm so passionate about helping women to build their emotional resilience during pregnancy is that it's powerful place to start if you want to support the mental health of the whole family. The ripple effects of a po...

To feel and perform at your best, I believe that head trash clearance and mindset should be a practice. But I realise that not everyone sees things in that way. Once you get your head around the idea of head trash and that it's something that you can clear quite easily, it's easy to get excited about it. Well, it was for me. Noticing such huge differences in how I feel in such a small period of ti...

On today's show I'm chatting with Louise Hallam who is a mindfulness and meditation teacher.   The reason I wanted to get Louise on the show is because Louise recently did some head trash clearance with me and I thought it would be useful to share her perspective on using meditation and head trash clearance, and how they can be best used side by side.   Meditation and Head Trash Clearance We often...

I'm so excited to bring the Head Trash Show back. It's been a long break, but one that has been worth it. So in this opening episode this is what I want to share with you; Where I've been You might be wondering why I took a break and what I've been up to. If I said to you that I had a baby, you'd probably think "oh sure, you've been at home with the kids" But that's not strictly true. The experien...

I'm not the first person to say this so it shouldn't be news to you, but if you want to change the world start with yourself. The "world" doesn't have to be some grandiose idea about changing humanity, it can be as simple as changing YOUR world. And this couldn't be truer when it comes to your stresses. If you find yourself being stressed out by LIFE and the people in it, maybe it's time for you t...

Do you find that you're holding on to patterns of thought, behaviours and bodily dis-ease that you'd just rather shake? Well, you're going to love today's podcast. Today I chat to Matt Sison, who is an author, speaker and a coach who shares his approach for letting go of what he calls the conditions and programs that hold you back from your authentic voice and action. “ Matt Sison is the guy who o...

Feeling rejected sucks! I'm saying that because that's how it felt to me when I felt rejected a few weeks back. It all started with an email landing in my inbox. Without going into masses of detail, the email basically said " We don't want you anymore! We changed our minds. " It was a business thing...  I had jumped through hoops and done a shed-load of work to be part of this THING, and I passed!...

If you're feeling like life is a bit rubbish and you need to turn things around, then I hope that today's guest will inspire to do just that. Today I'm chatting to Tanya Mann Rennick about how to turn your life around, or more specifually how she managed to turn her life around. Tanya will be sharing her guiding STARR principles that she used to transform her life from a stay-at-home mum who was b...

If you've been wondering how to stop smoking then you are are going to LOVE this week's podcast. This week I chat to fellow Head Trash Clearance specialist, Shaun Hopkins, about how to stop smoking using our 5 step process (Reflective Repatterning). I've been asked many times What makes this podcast brilliant is Shaun's story. Shaun has been smoking since he was 14 years old and due to certain lif...

The theme for me over the last two weeks has very much been about letting go. Well, for the last 6 weeks actually! My little ones have had a succession of illnesses which meant that they’ve taken turns at being off nursery and at home. Having them at home has meant zero work for me! Then last week, just as I had shipped the latest ill one back into nursery, two of my websites went down. So not onl...

There’s a psychologist called Eric Robinson who has a surprising tool for weight loss. Clue: we all have one, but we don’t use it as much as we could and we are always losing it. Our memory! I first came across Robinson’s work in this BBC article How to curb hunger pangs with your mind and immediately I was intrigued. I’ve long believed that we underestimate the role the mind plays in our eating h...