Open To Happiness

In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Matt O’Neil, Happiness Coach and Best-Selling Author from South Carolina, USA.

Growing up with a tyrant father

The impact of parental abandonment

In therapy at 6 year old

Life in poverty and struggle

Finding joy in family connection 

Between success and addiction

Resilience that follows trauma

Why hardship happen for us

The eternal soul as the essence of happiness

You choose how mu...

In this episode Nicoleta explores yoga and happiness with Chloe Markham, award winning yoga teacher, writer and joyful living coach from York, England.

When life challenges wire our brain 

Feeling life is short in childhood 

When the parent goes through stroke rehabilitation

The joy following loss and trauma

From practicing to teaching yoga 

Living more joyfully through you yoga

About the toll and magic of yoga

Yoga as the reminder of our...

In this episode Nicoleta explores trauma and happiness with Wendy Alexander, mid-life career coach, author and entrepreneur from Melbourne, Australia.

Life as a mixed race in the segregated South Africa

Trapped in protests and social unrest

Laughter and connection in the family home

The experience of migration to Australia 

Domestic abuse throughout pregnancy

Losing the house after divorce

Embraced by the multicultural Melbourne

Growing r...

In this episode Nicoleta is talking about trauma and happiness with Akilah Riley-Richardson, clinical trauma therapist from Trinidad and Tobaggo.

Happiness in living aligned with own values

Trauma and the relationship with happiness 

Understanding own value in the world

How to erect proper psychological boundaries

Moving through rough patches in life

From true pain to authenticity

Receiving validation for our internal experiences

The relat...

 In this episode Nicoleta talks about healing and happiness with Marie Young, Stress Management Coach from Texas, USA.

From childhood neglect to depression

The impact of the absent parents

Coming from divorced families

Lacking role modelling and support

Between the compare and despair modes

About the hardening of the heart

Starting healing in the 20s

The emergence of the post-traumatic growth 

Takings from the corporate world

Happiness in h...

In this episode Nicoleta talks about PTSD and happiness with Garret Biss, retired marine pilot, addiction recovery coach, and TEDx Speaker from North Carolina, USA.

Happiness as the peace in your heart

Joining the Marines in search for connection

Travelling around the world and learning about the human condition

In touch with the pain and suffering of people

Between hedonic happiness and eudaimonic happiness 

The profile of a Marines pil...

In this episode Nicoleta explores emotions and happiness with Andy Brown, author and leadership coach from England.

Happiness in balance and equity

Jumping with joy growing up in Brighton

Curiosity is key to create happiness

Attending the inner child 

Feeling chosen as an adopted child

Living with a strong desire to serve

About the emotional overdraft

Investing in work at the cost of your mental health

The factors that create emotional ove...

In this episode Nicoleta explores healing and happiness with Holly Copeland, scientist, coach and healing practitioner from California, USA

The youth and the false idea of happiness 

Missing the feeling of wholeness within

Happiness as the inside out job

Aligning with the love within

When you naturally connect with the joy in life

Life near a sibling with mental health struggles

From conservation work to Buddhist teachings

Finding purpose...

In this episode Nicoleta explores health and happiness with Mark L Fox, entrepreneur, scientist, and former Space Shuttle Chief Engineer, from Coco Beach, USA. 

Looking forward to waking up in the morning

Happiness in helping others

When you see the half full glass

From love of chemistry to rocket science

Why NASA is not progressive in its production

16 years in the space shuttle industry

What inspired the interest in energy work

How ever...

In this episode Nicoleta explores relationships and happiness with Corey Lyon Folsom, relationship coach from Venice Beach, USA.

Happiness in improving the self

Joyfulness in helping others 

Childhood contentment exploring forest and wildlife

Joy in the connection with the self 

Three divorces revealed the need for personal development

Increasing awareness for relational attunement

Sibling relational trauma

Coaching women and couples

Slow...

In this episode Nicoleta explores relationships and happiness with Jessica Fern, psychotherapist from North Carolina, USA.

How we grow up with the unconscious expectations of fun, pleasure and excitement

When the happiness is more the byproduct than the goal itself

Presence, contentment and gratitude as the source of happiness

The neglect surrounding an “easy child” perceived as not-needy

Understanding transgenerational trauma

Why our n...

In this episode Nicoleta talks about wellness and happiness with Heather Heynen, counsellor and weight loss coach from South Dakota, USA.

Love for rock climbing and psychology

The impact of divorce on teenagers

Insight into binge eating and exercise addiction

Sitting with emotions and self-regulating

Inspired to heal by our own children

The power of mindfulness in healing

Integrating therapeutic tools and interventions

Spirituality and t...

In this episode Nicoleta explores culture and happiness with Philosopher and Professor Jason Lee from Leicester, UK

Is it good to define happiness?

Is happiness the opposite of unhappiness?

Seeing happiness as a mental illness

Drawing joy and happiness from creativity and relationships

Going into teaching to share knowledge and help others

How is culture promoting both madness and wellbeing

Group collective madness and modern social tren...

In this episode Nicoleta is talking about gender and happiness with Ann Pellegrini, psychoanalysts, author and Professor at New York University.

How happiness is shaped by the social and cultural norms

Personal questioning around struggle and flourishing

When early life experiences drive our career choices

Happiness despite sexism, misogyny and homophobia 

How a tomboy learns to live in gender

Why all gender arises out of a relationshi...

In this episode Nicoleta explores dating and happiness with Mat Boggs, dating expert, speaker, best-selling author, from California USA

Happiness as the differential between your expectation and reality

Joy in what is happening in the present moment

Peacefulness when you give up the resistance to what is

Living in an infinite field of goodness

Challenge as the seed of an equal and greater opportunity

Helping thousands of women manifest ...

In this episode Nicoleta talks about mindset and happiness with Juan Campoo, mindset & behavior expert, author, TEDx speaker from Argentina, living in Netherlands.

Happiness, as contentment and wellbeing 

When health struggles lead to coaching training 

Doctors prescribing yoga for life

Using intuition to work with people for people 

Happiness has nothing to do with circumstances

The impact of epigenetics in happiness

Trauma coming t...

In this episode Nicoleta explores relationship and happiness with Lisa Tahir, licensed therapist from New Orleans, USA.

When we measure happiness in units of hertz

From peace and joy to happiness in the little things of life

The old and the new therapy and compassion fatigue

When we integrate spirituality in our therapy practice

20 years in therapy focused on the past

Hope as a precursor to change

Empathy and self-forgiveness key in heal...

In this episode Nicoleta explores sex, intimacy and happiness with Dominique D’Vita, Registered Nurse and Trauma-Informed Master Coach from Texas, USA.

Childhood trauma around alcoholic parents

Happiness in peace and in moments of joyful human connection

Survivor of trauma afraid to go to therapy

Searching for a career to bring purpose and meaning

When you immerse yourself int...

In his episode Nicoleta talks about relationships and happiness with Mateusz Bajerski, fellow psychotherapist, from London.

Life through the eyes of a millenial therapist
When happiness is a choice and internal discipline
The jurney of self-love and self-acceptance
From cognitive science to Reiki 
Awakening to spirituality through an Ayuhasca ceremony
Insight into the human consciousness 
When awake...