Breaking Down Walls

29/10/2021

Check out what mine is on my story.

25/10/2021

Podcast 30 What do you do when others expect things from you?

If someone is expecting something what is your responsibility, how do you cope when lots of people are looking for something that you need to give them.  At times it can just get on top of you…..and this week it was Abi’s turn.

The modern world, social media, being a parent, friend, juggling jobs, housework.  Normally it’s all ticking over until, one day, maybe an unexpected event comes along, or maybe one job too many and yikes, game over!  Your brain starts to panic and all of a sudden it just seems too much.

Abi and Jess discuss ways to combat this panic and the moments of CRUNCH in our lives.

18/10/2021

Podcast 29 Does Social Media give you FOMO?

Have you ever looked on a social media platform, seen something that some friends are doing and felt like you are missing out?
In fact, does that missing out really make you feel like you have something missing?  What is the lack you might be feeling at the time and what is the social media mirroring to you in your current day?

Abi and Jess discuss what the brain is doing when it is looking at social media, how times have changed and how they are continuing to change for society in this modern world.

With some tips and ideas for how to change this feeling of FOMO, Abi and Jess give you a fab podcast listen.

18/10/2021

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11/10/2021

Podcast 28 - Using our modern world to learn more about culture.

In today’s podcast, Abi and Jess discuss how we can use technology to grow our brain’s plasticity and learn about the different origins of people’s individual approaches to life.
Whether it’s living in a different culture or just experiencing someone else’s approach to work tasks, there is always a story behind why we do what we do.

Through becoming more culturally aware and trying to walk in someone else’s shoes, we gain an understanding but, more than that, we also have lots of fun in the process.

So, asking, finding information, gaining some sensory experience and learning (which is so much easier in our modern world) are all ways to bring our mutual experience of being human a different element and will, hopefully, help us to be curious and respectful of each other.

08/10/2021

Podcast 28 - Using our modern world to learn more about culture.

In today’s podcast, Abi and Jess discuss how we can use technology to grow our brain’s plasticity and learn about the different origins of people’s individual approaches to life.
Whether it’s living in a different culture or just experiencing someone else’s approach to work tasks, there is always a story behind why we do what we do.

Through becoming more culturally aware and trying to walk in someone else’s shoes, we gain an understanding but, more than that, we also have lots of fun in the process.

So, asking, finding information, gaining some sensory experience and learning (which is so much easier in our modern world) are all ways to bring our mutual experience of being human a different element and will, hopefully, help us to be curious and respectful of each other.

06/10/2021

A lot of the time, people ate consumed by the need to fit in and be seen as a normal person. To blend in.
But in a world where you can be anything, be unique.

03/10/2021

Podcast 27 - Does technology prevent ‘letting go’?

In this week’s episode, Abi and Jess discuss what ‘letting go’ is and how our technological world and ways of connecting can act to make this process of letting go of unhelpful emotions / patterns / behaviours all the more difficult.

29/09/2021

Do you agree?

27/09/2021

Podcast 26 - How to fit exercise into a busy day?

Have you ever found yourself saying things like: ‘I just don’t have the time to exercise’ or ‘exercise just isn’t for me’.  Hoorah! There is a way to stay fit, slim, muscular or healthy  for everyone.

Continuing the theme of living your life in the way you want it in our modern world, Abi and Jess talk about how we can fit exercise into our busy lives.

Turns out there are plenty of ways to stay fit, in shape, healthy and finding a way that suits your natural way of doing things is possible: a structured person schedules, a multi tasker adds it to their tasks, a bitesize person makes it bitesize.  Whatever your approach to life can be adapted to being fitter.

Then there’s the underlying meaning of why you are doing what you do and Abi and Jess discuss how these beliefs about self drive behaviour and can also inhibit behaviours.  

25/09/2021

Podcast 26 - How to fit exercise into a busy day?

Have you ever found yourself saying things like: ‘I just don’t have the time to exercise’ or ‘exercise just isn’t for me’.  Hoorah! There is a way to stay fit, slim, muscular or healthy  for everyone.

Continuing the theme of living your life in the way you want it in our modern world, Abi and Jess talk about how we can fit exercise into our busy lives.

Turns out there are plenty of ways to stay fit, in shape, healthy and finding a way that suits your natural way of doing things is possible: a structured person schedules, a multi tasker adds it to their tasks, a bitesize person makes it bitesize.  Whatever your approach to life can be adapted to being fitter.

Then there’s the underlying meaning of why you are doing what you do and Abi and Jess discuss how these beliefs about self drive behaviour and can also inhibit behaviours.  

22/09/2021

My favourite quote this week. By holding on to the past your preventing the future. Often the best thing to do is just let it go and move on…

20/09/2021

Podcast 25 - How do you ensure you eat healthily?
Such a common theme is that people want to eat well and stay healthy; yet more and more of what we put into our bodies is processed or full of preservatives. A recent figure estimated that the average Brit’s diet is 50% processed food. That’s massive. But how do we change it?

Or there’s the ‘I’m just having one biscuit’ reasoning as our brains justify what we are doing. If you eat one at a time, that’s true and our sugar-enjoying brains will give us ways and means of forgetting how much we’ve eaten once it’s added up.

Abi and Jess give some top tips for they hows and whys of eating healthily, changing the emphasis of our internal messaging, really noticing what we are doing and how to change the process.

17/09/2021

Podcast 25 - How do you ensure you eat healthily?

Abi and Jess give some top tips for they hows and whys of eating healthily, changing the emphasis of our internal messaging, really noticing what we are doing and how to change the process.

13/09/2021

Podcast 24 - Keeping Up Appearances
Do you keep up appearances - your family image, your personality, a certain appearance in one place, another in another place? Why do we bother anyway.
Abi and Jess discuss how this practice may help us to both fit in with others and with ourselves. They discuss the meaning of the words, how they have changed over the decades and dig down to specifics of their own ‘appearances that are kept up’.

Finally, giving you listeners a short activity to help discover who you want to be in the world and get specific about that. Once you have these details defined for YOU, life’s decision become easier and those appearances may become something different. Who knows….listen on.

10/09/2021

Podcast 24 - Keeping Up Appearances
Do you keep up appearances - your family image, your personality, a certain appearance in one place, another in another place? Why do we bother anyway.
Abi and Jess discuss how this practice may help us to both fit in with others and with ourselves. They discuss the meaning of the words, how they have changed over the decades and dig down to specifics of their own ‘appearances that are kept up’.

Finally, giving you listeners a short activity to help discover who you want to be in the world and get specific about that. Once you have these details defined for YOU, life’s decision become easier and those appearances may become something different. Who knows….listen on.

08/09/2021

Although it is a children’s book, sometimes those children’s books carry the best messages!