Episodes
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
57 Liz Joy Hardie | Find Your Joyful Wellbeing
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Tuesday Apr 25, 2023
Welcome to TIWIK- Things I Wish I'd Known, Season 5!
More deep conversations to inspire you to create positive change in your life.
Liz is a Holistic Wellbeing Coach, Yoga Therapist for Stress & Anxiety & Head of Wellness at MoreYoga. After starting her career in the fast-paced world of luxury fashion at Vivienne Westwood & Net-A-Porter, Liz found Yoga after being diagnosed with Malignant Hypertension and Generalised Anxiety and left the Fashion Industry with the goal of helping people feel better holistically. She is a proud advocate for Mental Health Awareness and her writing and commentary has been featured in Time Out, Women’s Health, The Times, The Telegraph, Time & Leisure and more.
https://www.elizabethjoywellbeing.com/
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please like, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
58 Zoe Elizabeth | Emotions and Transformation
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Sunday Aug 28, 2022
Welcome to TIWIK- Things I Wish I'd Known, Season 5!
More deep conversations to inspire you to create positive change in your life.
Based in Mexico, Zoë is an Intuitive Therapist and her practice is rooted in her intuition. With over 10 years of experience working as a remote therapist, she combines Psychotherapy & Energy Psychology, bridging the space between spirituality and psychology.
Zoë has supported hundreds of clients to personally, professionally & spiritually develop by freeing themselves from issues like anxiety, addiction, depression, bereavement, unhealthy relationships & unhealed traumas. Clients include CEO's, leading professionals in spirituality & wellness, film, music, sports and creatives.
Zoe's clients have included Soho House, Samphire Festival and Mind Body Bowl and has been featured in publications like Elle Magazine.
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please like, comment, share and leave us a 5-star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Monday Jun 27, 2022
56 Kavita Golia | Embodied Health
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Welcome to TIWIK- Things I Wish I'd Known, Season 5!
More deep conversations to inspire you to create positive change in your life.
Kavita is a transformation and embodiment coach on a mission to help people to get out of their heads, connect with their bodies and move forward in their lives through embodied decisions. She has a passion for her work because she knows what its like to be stuck. With a background in psychology, she went to Thailand to begin her initial 200 hour yoga teacher training. This process blew her mind and upon her return she immediately embarked on her Masters degree in Consciousness, Spirituality, and Transpersonal Psychology, five further yoga trainings, accredited coaching training, breathwork training, and has just completed her feminine embodiment coaching course. Her own transformational journey has been one of the most powerful aspects of the last seven years.
Key points of this episode:
- How Kavita took an unconventional path to embodiment
- What embodiment is.
- How you can be more embodied for an easier life.
- How to slow the mind down by using the body.
You can find out more about Kavita here www.kavitagolia.com
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please like, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Friday Jun 17, 2022
55 Tamu Thomas | Trust. Trauma and Truth.
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Trigger warning: We discuss trauma, mental health issues & race in this episode.
I have been wanting to speak to Tamu on this podcast for a hot minute and this week it happened! Tamu’s work is informed by her background of sixteen years in social work, somatic coach training, her love of behavioural neuroscience and polyvagal theory, positive psychology, spirituality and joy. Tamu combines these modalities to create a multifaceted body of work that helps her clients begin to tend to their needs, feel safe in their bodies, befriend themselves and begin to enjoy who they are.
Key Points from the interview:
- How trauma can be alchemised into fertilizer that supports your growth.
- How many are only getting "bar snacks" of growth rather than the "full nutrition-rich version"!
- How "Super Positive" messages are not always what they seem and how to discern.
- The Truth of Trust, and how to access it.
Reach out to this extraordinary lady here:
https://www.livethreesixty.com/
https://www.instagram.com/livethreesixty/
------
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please like, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Friday Jun 17, 2022
54 Josh Connolly | Finding and Following Your Truth
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Welcome to TIWIK- Things I Wish I'd Known, Season 5!
More deep conversations to inspire you to create positive change in your life.
*Trigger warning alcoholism & mental health
As one of the UK’s most influential mental health advocates, he regularly speaks on BBC, ITV & Channel 5 news. Josh has also spoken in the House of Commons, contributed to mental health policy and even advised the scriptwriting team on Hollyoaks. He has run resilience workshops for village schools and global brands alike. Additionally, he is an ambassador for Nacoa – a national charity supporting people affected by a parent’s drinking.
Key points from the interview:
- How Josh did not even realise that he had navigated a difficult life hiding behind self-created but unhelpful narratives.
- How avoidance is not the key - "Taking yourself out of yourself to stop you being yourself!"
- How we create dysfunctional behaviours to avoid feeling what we feel.
- Paradoxically, how alcohol was not the (original) problem and saved his life when he was 12.
- A new, functional definition of "true growth"
- Being comfortable with being uncomfortable.
- A true definition of freedom, that does not restrict people and allows people to be who they are in the context of their lives.
- How there is no "one" right answer. Many keys for many doors!
- How our beliefs need a little editing.
Reach out to Josh here: https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please like, comment, share and leave us a 5-star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
53 Emma Martins - Invisible Illness
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
"Oh, you don't look ill"
We have all heard this from time to time, and most of us half know that it's not the thing to say to someone suffering from an illness of some description.
So let's break it down for you here in this fireside chat, and enjoy the uplifting story of Emma's albeit work in progress, amazing recovery and ongoing contribution after a brain injury.
Key Points from the Interview:
- The unbelievably complex journey back from a brain injury.
- How picking up a cup unaided was a massive victory!
- How Rachael believes complete healing is possible! And why.
- Emma's delightful philosophy on life.
- And the sweet spot of doing enough (and no more) of what is right for you.
Listen to Emma's Inspiring Podcast here: www.thelongestbattle.co.uk
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please let, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
52 Dr. Peta Stapleton - Tapping the Inner Healer
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
EFT.
Emotional Freedom Technique.
Thought Field Therapy was accidentally discovered by Roger Callaghan and it evolved and was developed into EFT by Gary Craig. It looks crazy and off the wall, but practitioners were noticing how it could create almost instant relief and change within clients.
Now, Dr Peta Stapleton takes it to the next level.
Key Points From the Interview.
- How EFT has been researched and is looking more miraculous than ever.
- How gene expression (the difference between being ill and not being ill) can change dramatically.
- How the conservative medical establishment were astonished!
- How war veterans have benefited, how symptoms have not returned, and how their genes agree!
Tap her Wisdom here: www.petastapleton.com
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please let, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
51 Ceri Ashe - Bipolar. The Ups and Downs
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
Tuesday Jun 08, 2021
** CONTAINS FRANK DISCUSSION OF BIPOLAR DISORDER, SUICIDE AND RECREATIONAL DRUGS THAT MAY BE TRIGGERING**
Bipolar. Most of us have heard the word, but not all of us have experienced it. Welcome to a frank, spirited and funny discussion with the conditions articulated from personal and present experience - learn more about it, and how to understand someone who suffers from it better. Key points from the interview: How Ceri found freedom and manages her condition. A perversely funny reason that Bipolar is hard to diagnose. How the brain needs love and care, just like any other vital organ. Incredible creativity side by side with this misunderstood condition. How medication is important - some of the time.
Reach out to Ceri here:
https://www.instagram.com/_bipolarme https://www.instagram.com/poptypingproductions https://www.facebook.com/nodramanannies
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please let, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
50 Shauna Cummins - Wishcraft & mind massaging
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Trigger warning: This podcast has mentions OCD, CPTSD, parental death, childhood illness and hospitalisation, pandemic and mental health.
When you think of hypnosis, what do you think of? People clucking like a chicken on a stage with all their mates laughing at them? Me too! But not after this fascinating chat with Shauna. Oh no, this Woman will teach you how to make your mind work for you, not against you. That when you tap into what you appreciate about yourself and learn the art of the Wishcraft, you really can turn wishes into actions and make them a reality.
We talk about how Shauna went from being burnt out working in the fashion and publishing industry to finding more meaning and purpose in her life through hypnosis and self-directed neuroplasticity. How through tapping into and reclaiming our childlike states we can use fantasy and imagination to transcend difficult experiences and build a better future for us all.
Key points from the conversation:
- Suspending disbelief - the difference between having a somatic experience whilst watching a movie (ie: don’t go up those stairs!!) and watching a behind the scenes where you are aware that it’s not real.
- How the brain doesn’t know the difference between something we vividly imagine and something that is real.
- How you can work through childhood trauma and shame using the medicine of the imagination.
- How building compassion can help us embrace more positivity to stop us from getting stuck in negativity bias.
- Being a sceptic and how to find balance the spiritual world and being a grounded, present human being.
- How water was believed to be sacred and the gods lived in it which is how wishing wells in the UK were created. A way to communicate with the gods.
- Can you be too spiritual? Does spirituality give you a judgement and empathy bypass?
Shauna Cummins is a certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner with a private practice in New York, author of Wishcraft (2021), holder of ceremonies, multi-disciplinary artist and founder of Divine Feminine School of Hypnosis and Mind Massage Hotline.
She is the resident event hypnotist at The Four Seasons Hotel New York Downton and regularly teaches workshops and conducts ceremonies in NYC and abroad. She also creates hypnotic sound art and installations. Her work has been featured at various wellbeing centres, galleries, events and publications across the globe.
The method she developed and works with is called Wishcraft™. Wishcraft is self-hypnosis that teaches the art of well-wishing as a practice for changing thought patterns and beliefs, turning wishes into action. She currently lives in the woods in a magical healing house with three wishing wells in upstate New York.
Reach out to Shauna here:
https://www.shaunacummins.com/
Grab a copy of Wishcraft here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=shauna+cummins&ref=nb_sb_noss
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please let, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.
Wednesday May 26, 2021
49 Gina Atsu - The Divine Feminine
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Trigger warning: This episode discusses being a child/ teenage parent, mental health and sexuality.
Some enlightened teachers say we have male AND female energy within us.
Let's unpick it in a fascinating fireside chat.
Key points from the interview.
- The fascinating balance of energies in us all.
- How Gina overcame massive challenges and re-created herself into an awesome empowered Being!
- Power dynamics and how they play out.
- How cultural memes control us and how we can be free.
- And if you ever wondered what the text speak bae means...you will be enlightened! (but don't ever call Gina that!)
Reach out to Gina and enjoy her offerings here:
https://www.thegoddesswithin.org/
-----
Things I Wish I'd Known Podcast is brought to you by Rachael Welford - Women's Anxiety Coach and Therapist. For more information head to www.rachaelwelford.com or follow on Instagram www.instagram.com/rachael_welford
If you liked this episode please let, comment, share and leave us a 5 star review. It really does help us reach more people and change more lives! Thanks for listening.