Is This All There Is?

In this episode I am joined by dating and relationship coach Jenny Richardson to discuss all things conscious and mindful dating. Jenny opens with discussing how loss led her to examine habitual patterns affecting her own relationships, and how this process inspired her coaching journey. We unpack the importance of mind and body connection, particularly through somatics and meditation. Jenny illustrates the importance of understand...

In this episode I am joined by April Dávila, an accomplished author, meditation instructor, and founder. We delve into April’s journey from her beginnings as a writer learning her craft to a skillful writer’s coach incorporating mindfulness into her practice. April sheds light on the extraordinary influence of mindfulness on creativity and we discuss how writers can manage conflict, navigate discomfort, and overcome common mental h...

In this episode, I give discomfort a much needed rebrand. We’re so used to viewing discomfort as a feeling to avoid, and as an indicator that we must be doing something wrong. In this episode I flip this paradigm on its head: what if we used discomfort as our north star? Discomfort is an important indicator that we’re heading in the right direction, and I take the episode to explain this. I share personal stories and insights on ho...

Today’s episode is all about the power of saying 'no' and setting personal boundaries. I explore how the fear of being seen as rude or unlikable, coupled with societal expectations of compliance and people-pleasing, can result in chronic over-commitment and burnout. I detail practical advice on how to navigate this saying no: this includes taking time to reflect before responding, being aware of one's feelings and th...

In this episode I explore the subject of confidence: what it is, what it isn’t, and how to build it authentically and sustainably. I break down the 3 pillars of true confidence, explaining their importance and gentle ways of incorporating them into your daily life.I also break down some misconceptions about confidence, such as the false equating of arrogance as confidence, and delve into why confidence is vital in both leadership a...

With 2024 on the horizon it felt prudent to discuss resolutions, why they fail, and how to make better ones. At the core of every goal is desire and good intention. Despite this, many of us don’t stick to them. There is a self-critical narrative around failed resolutions but the truth is that not sticking to them isn’t a personal failing - it’s a structural one. In today’s episode I discuss how our approach to resolutions set us up...

Holiday season is in full swing and as we all know, the fun, festivities and family time comes with its own flavor of stress. In today’s episode I discuss three ways to manage holiday stress, that (spoiler alert) work all year long:

* How to ditch perfectionism by making peace with ‘good enough’,

* Understanding how to stop you brain's natural tendency to spiral into negativity,

* And, how to be more present and why that&apo...

You get to decide each day how you will live your life.  

Many people think life is just something that happens to them and it's their job to keep up.  

But living that way is exhausting.  It's like you're reacting to live rather than living on purpose.  

In this week's episode of Is This All There Is? I teach you how to stop reacting to life and start living it. 

In this episode, I cover: 

1. My life update one year...

Today’s episode is about confidence: the benefits of it, the consequences of lacking it, and how to cultivate it authentically. This topic is much more complex than one might first imagine due to the conflicting messaging we’ve received about it, women especially. We are encouraged to be confident but then programmed to outsource our power and intuition to others. We’re reminded to be authentic but then told to ‘fake it til you mak...

Nobody teaches us how to actually feel an emotion in our body. 

We resist it, we avoid it, we react to it by overeating, drinking alcohol, taking drugs, spending money or other means of escape. 

We think if we're feeling an uncomfortable emotion like disappointment, guilt, or shame that something has gone wrong and we need to "fix" it. 

But there's nothing to fix.  Uncomfortable emotions are part of being human.  

O...

44. You 2.0 - Creating Your Identity From Possibility 

So, who is You 2.0? Who is the person you want to become? How is she different? This isn’t the time to go into a perfectionist fantasy of telling yourself that future you is going to be 50 lbs thinner and a marathon runner and only eats vegetables and lean meat and never drinks and never swears and gets up at 5am every morning to meditate and drink a green juice and sets perfec...

Picture this: you’re yearning to make a change in your life, you know what you want and why you want it, but you don’t act because you can’t guarantee your success. This is a common narrative in many people’s minds: that we must have all the steps figured out before taking a risk. Besides the fact that this is totally unrealistic, it’s also a form of self sabotage in that we delay and even put off our progress entirely because of o...

As women we have been conditioned to doubt ourselves, second guess and constantly default  to others for guidance. Asking for opinions isn’t inherently problematic, but an overreliance on them can result in accidentally outsourcing your power and weakening your intuitive muscle. I call this ‘living from the inside out’. In today’s episode I discuss this gendered conditioning and detail how it might be holding you back from living t...

You’ve done the courses, read the books, gotten the degree and yet you’re still not where you want to be. And it’s not because you’re lazy; it's ironically because you’ve worked too hard and overrepresented passive action. In today’s episode I reveal how to work smarter and not harder by leveraging massive action. Many of us remain in our comfort zone of passive action which is only 50% of the success equation, so I begin the ...

We’re all too familiar with the sociopolitical glass ceiling holding people back based on their gender, race, age, disability and more. Today, however, I want us to turn our gaze inwards to address the often unchecked INNER glass ceiling: limiting beliefs.  Limiting beliefs are our brains' way of keeping us safe from the unknown, and unfortunately we’ve repeated them so many times that we can’t separate their fact from their f...

When we want to affect serious changes to our physical health we hire coaches to give us a systematic plan for how to get from where we are to where we want to be. Life changes require the same deliberate planning and strategy which I unpack in this episode.

All change begins with mindset shifts, and mindset shifts can only occur when you identify and take accountability for your limiting beliefs. Learn my 5 step system to re-train...

Most of us have tried and failed to achieve work-life balance at the expense of our health and interpersonal relationships. Work-life balance is an oppressive ideal that has women doing ‘the second shift’: working full time, just to come home and do it all again in the domestic sphere. In this episode I encourage you to shift from ‘wanting it all’ to identifying what genuinely matters to you, and then pursuing that. Th...

We all have those days where we just can’t bring ourselves to be productive. Maybe we’re coming down from the high of a holiday, or had bad sleep the night before, or we’ve woken up on a Friday and simply have nothing to give. Unproductivity can freak us out because we think that its the beginning of the end; that its confirming our deepest fear that if we break the habit of being high functioning, we’ll never get on that horse aga...

We’ve all experienced confirmation bias. It’s the tendency to search for, interpret and favor information that confirms our prior beliefs or values. Think back to that one teacher you felt was hard on you, or a colleague who always took credit for your work, or the in-law who always undermined you at family gatherings. It’s true that bad actors exist, but our minds also play a role in interpreting their behaviour in a way that fits...