This week we decided to finish the series with a freestyle episode - no topic planned, just talking and seeing where it goes. We cover anger, fear, identity, attachment, emotions, letting go, spirituality vs religion, parenting, and more… With all that we reckon there’ll be something for everyone!

As often happens in these conversations, we quickly identify that procrastination isn’t a true ‘thing’ that can be defined or identified. It’s a mind-made label given to an activity that the self-narrative ‘thinks’ should happen in THIS time frame and which is happening in a different time frame. The tension arises when ‘we’ do battle with life, believing it should go our way and not life’s way.

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, the world is confused and reeling with the horror of what was seen on our screens. In this episode, we intend to bring the conversation to a deeper level, to the love and connection that we are, and from which we act with greater humanity, from wholeness, and therefore in the direction of real inclusion - not just removing the symptoms of racism from a fundamentally racist system.

Give us a yes if you’re a people pleaser!! Ha - classic people pleaser joke!! (Just made it up btw!) Join us for this episode to explore all the way from the tangle of rules created in childhood through to the experiences of people-pleasing as adults, how we get lost and suffer when believe our wellbeing, our good enoughness and our sense of value in this world relies on pleasing others.

We’ve all been there. It feels like we need to shout to be heard like we’ve been known to do with someone who speaks a different language; as though volume will help them understand us better. Does it help? No. Does it create friction and frustration? Yes. So what instead?

Lonely in isolation because of coronavirus? Talk of a loneliness epidemic?  What’s true about an experience of loneliness, and what’s illusory and transient? The mind will attach to an idea of loneliness, turn it into an imagined constant, and start on a quest trying to solve the suffering through other people or work or the pub. But most of those ‘solutions’ have disappeared in the current situation, so now what?

Whether we’re comparing ‘up’ to others who look like they’ve got it sorted, ‘down’ to others who don’t and feeling guilty that we have it better, or comparing ‘nowhere’ into an imagined future self or job or situation - the moment we identify with any of that, we’re lost.

At these times of change, businesses are going out of business, people are losing jobs or waiting at home wondering if they’ll have a job or company to go back to. It can look scary and impossible and inevitably feelings of insecurity will appear within all that. What we invite here in this conversation is the possibility to see more than we have been trained to first jump to.

What we point to in this episode is that, for all these years, we’ve been trying to reverse-engineer a natural process, a natural capacity within each of us. The mind has grabbed hold of an experience it likes the look of, it’s attempted to fix it in place as ‘wanted’ and deny the ‘unwanted’ and then it’s set about gathering strategies and tactics to ‘do’ positivity. All in pursuit of that nice feeling it remembers - and which deep down we know is available, we’ve just been told to look

Welcome back to Series two!  We’ve kicked off this season - of course - with the topic of the moment - coronavirus and isolation, as we share our various experiences of the last 4 or 5 weeks.  We begin with our experiences of the early weeks where we all had experiences of turmoil, confusion, frustration and grumpiness. Being dropped in at the deep end of a whole new experience of life that was confronting our various tightly-held beliefs was inevitably gonna feel like that.