The Mindful Psychology Podcast

The Happy Holistic Method.

50. Holistic Psychotherapy and Reprogramming Your Response to Stress with Karine Johnston Sep 08, 2020

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Today on the show I am joined by the wonderful Karine Johnston.

Karine is a holistic psychotherapist, a wellness coach, and certified in Ayurveda and clinical aromatherapy.

In this episode Karine is talking to us about the training she completed, how she incorporated holistic modalities to her work, and why she finds it most effective. She also talks about different trainings, certification, and licensing, as well as their importance and purpose.

Topics include:

- About Karine and her work

- Social Work vs. Psychology

- Traditional therapy and holistic modalities

- Ayurvedic medicine and aromatherapy

- Differences between therapy and coaching

- How holistic modalities allow us to go beyond easing symptoms and dive deeper into healing

- Reprogramming our response to stress

- How to teach our brain to favour calm

and so much more...

You can find Karine:

My signature program helps people reduce stress and create a holistic self-care practice in 28 days, its called The Happy Holistic self-Care Project.

Youtube channel: HolisticKarine, https://www.youtube.com/holistickarine

Instagram: Holistickarine, http://instagram.com/HolisticKarine/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karine.johnston.biz

Programs: https://thehappyholisticmethod.vipmembervault.com/

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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49. Conscious Parenting, Mindful Nutrition, and How to Pause with Amanda Ashy Sep 01, 2020

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Today on the show I am joined by the amazing Amanda Ashy! Amanda is a Clinical Nutritionist, Mindfulness Expert & Yoga teacher specializing in all three of these areas in children & family units. She has worked with children clinically for nearly a decade in nutrition and mental health, incorporating wellbeing protocols to help modify behaviour and teaching children and families how to be calmer, happier and stronger in the family home and in the school system. In this episode, we will talk about how to incorporate mindfulness practices in to nutrition, parenting, and everyday life.

Topics include:

- About Amanda and her work

- How she transitioned and incorporated mindfulness into her clinical work

- How to incorporate mindfulness practices when dealing with children and their diets

- Reprogramming children's relationships to certain foods

- Conscious parenting, un-coupling, and co-parenting

- Educating children about gender, race, same-sex relationships, and diversity

- Taking the time to pause

- Response vs reaction

- Advice for health and wellbeing during a pandemic

and more...

You can find Amanda:

http://amandaashyboyd.com/ + IG @amanda_ashy Lokah Lab @lokah_lab

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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48. Cultivating Community and Finding New Possibilities with Amanda Kingsmith Aug 25, 2020

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Today, on the show I am joined by the lovely Amanda Kingsmith. Amanda is a world traveller, a podcast host, a blogger, a 500-hour registered yoga teacher, and a yoga business coach. She is the host of Mastering The Business of Yoga and Matcha Mornings podcasts, as well as the co-host of the World Wanderers podcast. She and her husband co-host that podcast, along with their other shows, and they are all a part of the Wander Barn Network, which they founded earlier this year. Amanda also manages two Yoga studios and works with client 1-on-1 to help them create sustainable and abundant businesses. She is truly talented, and as always, brings so much insight to the show! Amanda has been on the show before and and it'S always a joy to chat with her. This time, we are talking about building a community online, particularly as a business owner, and how to navigate the online world to find new possibilities. I especially like how this episode can help us cultivate new opportunities even in the face of this pandemic.

Topics covered:

- Some insight into what Amanda does and what her work is about

- Time management, boundaries, and streamlining

- How she has maintained relationships and build a community across her different businesses

- What being a digital nomad has taught her about entrepreneurship, community, and relationships

- Notes about how can we cultivate community in the online space

- Why is it important to cultivate community whether we are online or not?

- Some examples of where we can find like-minded people, piers, and accountability buddies/business besties

- Developing relationships with like-minded people

- Engaging in order to foster new relationships and friendships and more....

You can find Amanda: https://www.amandakingsmith.com + http://www.mbomyoga.com + https://www.theworldwanderers.com IG: @amandakingsmith + masteringthebusinessofyoga + theworldwandererspodcast

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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45. Only You Can Heal You Jul 21, 2020

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Today on the show we are talking about only we can heal ourselves.

In this second part of a two-part explorations of honouring our reality and truths, we will be discussing ego, response vs reaction, and how to let go of attachment to certain ideas,

Topics explored:

- Understanding denialism and how it can be projected onto others

- Contextualising and understanding someone's story

- Respecting another person's story does not mean that we excuse what they have done

- How context and compassion allow us to see someone human to human and now "ego vs. trigger"

- Letting go of our attachment to the notion of "fixing" or "change"

- Letting go of our attachment to the belief that "changing" or "fixing" can heal us

- Why dynamics or relationships changing can be great, but still, only you can heal yourself

and more!

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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Ep. #4: Let Go Of The Judgment: Shed The Shame + Stick It To The Stigma! Jul 02, 2019

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Hello everyone!

Today's episode is about letting go of there people's judgment, giving them back their narratives, and coming back to ourselves. Your life is yours, your thoughts and feelings are yours. That is the power you possess. No one can take that from you. No amount of judgment or denial on their part can change that!

Also, we talk about utilising compassion and kindness in a sincere way and not to control others or assert power over them. If we send love and light to people, or if we detach and move on, it comes from a place of healing and love.

It's so easy to be taken away by what people say, especially as sensitive beings, but ultimately, only you are in charge of you and your life. People will sy all sorts of things and that's on them. Equally, the way you receive that and deal with it is on you. They have ZERO affect on your life. Fundamentally, their opinions and nonsense have ZRO effect on your life. It is your life and as the person you are inside, you need to reside in truth and in love. That is how you can spread it.

As a Yogis, our lifestyle is about cultivating love and peace. People often end up resenting us or sometimes we lose some people. We heal from that. But at the end of the day, we are aware of resistance and aware of the work that needs to be done. The work of a Yoga is not to analyse what is wrong or what is missing in the world. It's about knowing what is wrong and missing and trying to heal it and fill it with kindness, compassion, and love. This applies to all humans, not just Yogis, in fact.

Go live out loud. Shine your light.

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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Ep. #3: Why We Must Feel In Order To Heal Jul 01, 2019

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Hiya! Coming at you from Brighton today as I navigate the tricky waters of pain, heartbreak, and how to come out stronger, wise, and more powerful. I will also be discussing the complexities of pain and grief, particularly when trying to heal and move on as we walk a fine line between bitterness and caution. In this episode, I will encourage you to look inside yourself, be honest, and cultivate healthy habits for your self, first of all, in order to develop happy patterns that will benefit you and the people you share your life with. The goal is to recognise, investigate, assess, accept, connect, and live on. Living on is much more powerful than simply moving on. Enjoy!

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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Ep. #2: Feel Your Feelings, Find Your Balance, and Cultivate Peace Jul 01, 2019

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Today's episode is about balance. Balance between being and doing. Balance between what's in need of your attention and what isn't. Most of all, it's about internal balance. It's about cultivating the right amount of all that you NEED in order for your existence to be harmonious. Like an ecosystem. We will talk about some of the things we face the most in life, especially in our culture, and that I have helped my clients and myself overcome. This Podcast is meant to foster openness and authenticity, so there are some honest sentiments in my episodes and I encourage you to feel comfortable enough to share as well, if you so wish.

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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Ep. #1: Taking Yoga beyond the mat. How can we find OUR Yoga and what can we learn from Yoga? May 22, 2019

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Hello!

What is Yoga? Is it a religion, a philosophy, a science?

Today I want to talk about Yoga. I want to unpack the philosophy of Yoga and its misconceptions. I will discuss the various ways in which someone can have a yoga practice, and the many forms it can take. I will bridge this to incorporate awareness of Mental Health, Movement, and our fellow living beings.

I will also introduce the different aspects of the practice, the limbs of Yoga, the various considerations that the teachings offer, and of course, how we may incorporate this in our daily lives.

Perhaps today, you can reflect on your Yoga. Maybe you'll rediscover your Yoga. Even if it's your first encounter with Yoga, let's all connect with our Yoga!

Happy listening!

With love,

G 🌸

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