060 Is your pilot light always on | Dr David James

“Rather than have an on off switch if you would with stress and anxiety…they’re much more like a pilot light on a hot water heater, they’re just constantly going and people are constantly in a state of low grade anxiety”

— Dr David James -

Given how prevalent stress and anxiety is today, I was curious about how anxiety could be treated with hypnotherapy in a lasting way. I had the opportunity to speak with Dr David James, licensed therapist, author and speaker who has a passion to see his clients make amazing life changes. David has real life experience of stress having been a police officer in Los Angeles so his perspective on how we can transform our relationship to stress is beyond purely an academic one.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Dr David James

Note: Apologies for the clicking sound from my guests microphone

We spoke about 

• David’s journey of discovery

• Stress and the impact on our body and creativity

• Changing our response to stress

• Differences between talk therapy and hypnotherapy

• Retraining the nervous system

• Changing our view of stress

• Making an ally of stress

• David’s book ‘Discovering your magnificent mind’

• The value of understanding the power of your mind

Value Quotes 

“Rather than have an on off switch if you would with stress and anxiety… they’re much more like a pilot light on a hot water heater, they’re just constantly going and people are constantly in a state of low grade anxiety”

“For many people what is really helpful is to simply relax and that sounds too good to be true”

“As a hypnotherapist I am a sub-conscious behaviourist”

“The biological purpose of the anxiety mechanism of stress is to alert us, to warn us and so we can make an ally of that”

“Become best friends with your breath and your attention”

“It is a matter of training your mind and your body to work in unison to bring the changes and the kind of relaxation you need”

“Whatever the mind creates it can recreate”

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Episode Links 

You can find Dr David James at:

Website: www.drdavidjameshypnosis.com

David’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Your-Magnificent-David-James/dp/1504374649/

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059 Build your positive self talk muscle | Marla Mervis-Hartmann

“Not liking myself means that I get to play it small. Not liking my body means that I don’t have to show up in the world in a certain way. So some ways it’s a kind of scapegoat to play small”

— Marla Mervis-Hartmann -

Do you have a healthy relationship with your body? Marla Mervis-Hartmann, a Reiki Master and Teacher, has followed her passion for women’s health down many paths of study and helps people to answer yes to the question: do you love your body?

She struggled with the obsession of not liking her body, over-exercising a lot, under-eating and then over-eating and bingeing.  Moving from the stress and negative behaviours to acceptance and self-love changed her relationship with her body and her life.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Marla Mervis-Hartmann

We spoke about 

• Marla’s journey to acceptance

• Why some people aren’t loving the body they’re in

• How we create a negative body image

• The impact of body image on our lives

• Is food really the issue?

• Taking control of your self talk

• A practical way of looking at self love

• Marla’s tips for living fabulously

Value Quotes 

“As we know anxiety just ain’t good for anything”

“We’ve got this crazy ideal of stick thin models who don’t really even look like that themselves”

“So lots of times this not enough feeling that we’re feeling; it shows up physically but it can really be a tell-tale sign of a deeper ‘I’m not enough’”

“Saying that we love ourselves or saying yeah I’m ok with what I look like is not the norm”

“Not liking myself means that I get to play it small. Not liking my body means that I don’t have to show up in the world in a certain way. So in some ways it’s a kind of scapegoat to play small”

“When I work with people it’s not about figuring out what you’re going to eat. It’s about figuring out why you’re so concerned about what you want to eat”

“Get really clear and become very aware of how you are talking to yourself”

“Give some positivity to what you know about yourself to be true”

“If I care about myself and love myself then I am going to take a more positive action”

“When we surrender to what we look like its then that we can actually find ourselves, its then when we can then have more love for ourselves”

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Episode Links

You can find Marla Mervis-Hartman at:

Website: www.loveyourbodyloveyourself.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loveyourbodyloveyourself/

Marla’s TEDx talk - The Secret Ingredient to Feeling: Good in your Body: https://youtu.be/nEVjlT9B6dU

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058 How the gut affects your mood and hormones | Brittney Prendergast

“I wasn’t a person who suffered with tummy related issues… for me it was the emotional and mental struggles with anxiety and depression was how my gut issues were showing themselves”

— Brittney Prendergast

A difficult childhood with anxiety and panic attacks gave Brittney the drive to learn how to heal. Sadly after miscarriages, her thirst for knowledge led her to exploring more about hormones which in turn uncovered the linkage between gut health, mood and hormones. Brittney is an author, holistic wellbeing coach and now trains others to follow their passion in the wellbeing space.

We cover a lot of ground in a short time and you will come away with a clear understanding that your health begins in the gut.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Brittney Prendergast

We spoke about

• From a childhood with anxiety and panic disorder to teaching gut health

• What does good gut health look like

• What is leaky gut

• Linkage between leaky gut and chronic disease

• 3 step process to heal the gut

• Eliminating troublesome foods through substitution

• Relationship between mood disorders and gut health

• The link between poor gut health and your hormonal function

• Appreciating and nurturing our body

Value Quotes 

“We have more bacteria in our bodies than we do human genes and good bacteria have a purpose”

“Foods that would normally have been contained in the gut are now floating free in the bloodstream which was intended to be completely sterile”

“Leaky gut is present in a majority of diseases and therefore leads to this chronic state of inflammation in the body”

“I wasn’t a person who suffered with tummy related issues… for me it was the emotional and mental struggles with anxiety and depression was how my gut issues were showing themselves”

“Foods created in a laboratory are wreaking havoc on our bodies as they do not understand what these foreign objects are”

“There is nutrition in raw honey that there isn’t in refined white sugar and second the body understands it”

“Little by little when you take on just one thing at a time, a year down the road you can have a complete transformation and transition in the way you are eating”

“Beside food culprits of leaky gut, things like pain killers and pharmaceuticals are a big big cause of gut permeability”

“Most of our serotonin, our happy juice is produced in the gut”

“The gut flora is transferred to your baby when it’s born” (by natural birth)

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Episode Links

You can find Brittney Prendergast at:

Website:  www.holisticwellnesscoaches.com

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/holisticwellnesscoachingacademy/

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