Things I Wish I’d Known with Rachael Welford

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
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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. 

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/
Weekly Room in Clubhouse - https://fb.me/e/17M4l01eW
 
Weekly Workshop in Zoom - https://fb.me/e/3CTzQIwKt
 
The Goddess Within Divinity Weekend Retreat - https://fb.me/e/1m1sWbaE9
 
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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. 

Whether we like it or not the current World model is pretty binary. Whether we look at it from the perspective of gender or right and wrong, healthy and unhealthy, healed and unhealed. Everything has a polar opposite, or does it?
In this episode, Rachael speaks with Sue Hunt, author of Transitory Nature. Sue is looking at the World through a new non-binary lens. Maybe things aren't as black and white as they seem, maybe we can live in the grey areas. 
 
Sue Hunt is a radical Buddhist and has been sharing public teachings on spirituality, living ethics, and the intersectionality of being human, for the past 15 years, all over the US and overseas. Sue just released her first book, Transitory Nature: Breaking Binaries for Integrated Being, in April 2021. With her life partner Dan, she is a co-founder of Live Lightly and Live Lightly Supplements. She is also co-author of The Sister Body Oracle Deck. She lives in Taos, New Mexico. Find her at www.suehunt.com.
Key Points From the Interview:
Radical Freedom- what it means, and how the approach needs to be gentle.
Why the WTF moment is a doorway to spirituality! (Maybe WTF could mean "Wow, That's Freedom?!!")
What a Non Binary World view really means and how it is virtually the opposite of what the prevailing worldview is (but we do seem to be edging in the right direction!)
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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. 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK SPECIAL
**Contains references to domestic abuse, alcoholism and suicide that may be triggering**
 
Welcome to a wild ride, Evelyn's story you could not make up. With more twists and turns than a high octane rollercoaster join us for this incredible conversation.
Key points from this interview:
How she came to the realisation that regardless of what she had been told, that there was nothing wrong at all with her. The "stuff" simply was not hers.....
....and how the soul destroying habit of self blame was finally left behind.
How a spooky incident by the roadside literally saved her life.
No matter what life throws at you it is possible to heal and thrive.
If you want to get in touch with Evelyn...
www.Everlynleite.com
https://www.facebook.com/evelyn.leite2
 
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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. 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK SPECIAL SERIES
 
**Contains references to suicide and violence that may be triggering**
 
I talk to this incredible gentle man Arthur, who shares a traumatic past, which he has not let define him; he shares his experiences in his chosen profession which is an interventionist, or to give him his full title, "CIP, CADC Intervention Specialist"
He has done incredible work in the community, prisons and mental health establishments.
Here, this incredibly gentle man shares wise words, that you can almost feel the healing buzz emanate from!
 
You can reach out to him on https://westinghouseintervention.com/
 
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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. 

**Contains frank talk of mental health & addiction issues that may be triggering to some people**
 
Mark White has held many titles over the years: father, husband, son, brother, CEO/founder, ideas man, but above all, he is a firm believer in not attaching himself to any particular label: “I am a human being first and what comes with that is my expectation around how I will be able to take on the different roles life has presented me and where my curiosity will continue to lead me.”Mark is the founder of a company called Your Town which has live “community up” initiatives/campaigns across various UK towns, including Your Town Runners. In addition to launching Run Grateful, he recently created and founded MEUS, which is a platform to reimagine men’s health in order to support them physically, mentally, and spiritually. In 2019, Mark was voted in the top 15 social entrepreneurs in the UK by Redbull.To keep things interesting, Mark is a children’s book author, having released Dumbleby Forest - centred around a world where children send their dunnies when they are ready to let them go.
 
Key points from the interview:
How Mark started a movement for mens health- physical, mental, emotional and spiritual during lockdown, and how fast it has grown. 60 countries!
How gratitude and movement are connected- or if they are weren't they are now.
How gratitude and the positive emotions renew, regenerate and are darn good for you!
How there is science based evidence for this
The funniest definition of "Woo Woo" that you almost definitely will ethically steal and use in conversation!
If you want to find out more about Mark click the links below: https://www.rungrateful.com
https://www.instagram.com/1gratefulrun
 https://www.facebook.com/1gratefulrun 
 
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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. 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK SPECIAL
**Contains References to Suicide and Mental Illness that may be triggering**
Rachael and her producer, the DJ and radio presenter Neil Long, talk all about mental health, self-care and healing.
 
Key points from this interview:
That although mental illness seems so isolating, you are far from alone.
The "forest for the trees" syndrome, which creates the idea of isolation, but a very obvious reframe as to how that cannot possibly be true!
How too much of a good thing is not necessarily good even with spirituality "esoteric constipation"!
An incredible serendipitous intervention by Rachael.
A 2 word healing phrase (with a small caveat)
Reach out to Neil here for all things radio related and a touch of psychology! Or perhaps you want to learn how to start your own podcast!
www.neillong.com
 
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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. 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK SPECIAL
**Contains references to clinical depression & suicide that may be triggering**
Key Points from the interview.
The healing obsession- is too much information a good thing......
...but after much reading and study she realised she just wanted to understand her own brain!
Understanding the chemical make up of emotions and how we can get stuck or even addicted to certain cycles.
How she built a successful business and began to notice old patterns creeping in, and the fear of admitting she may be relapsing. And, more importantly, how she overcame it.
Reach out to Chloe here. www.chloebisson.com
 
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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.