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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. 

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. 

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. 

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.   

"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. 

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. 

** 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. 

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. 

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   ----- 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!) ----- 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   ----- 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/   ----- 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    ----- 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   ----- 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   ----- 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 grief, alcoholism & suicide that may be triggering**   Grief. Depression. Is there any difference? Is this whole thing more nuanced than we like to think? Dawn Stemmer thinks so, and shares her wisdom born from an experience of suicide in the family. Key Points From This Interview: The importance of facing things in reality in the present moment. Negative patterns and cycles and how to break them. Dealing with the seeming enigma that is the grief experience. How to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be. If you want to find out more about Dawn you can reach her here:  www.bwrtmerseyside.co.uk Links to Terence Watts Brain working recursive therapies: https://www.benjaminfry.co.uk Terence Watts Brain Working Recursive Therapies; www.BWRT.org and for Professionals www.BWRT-professionals.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. 

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK SPECIAL   **Contains references to death, weight, depression and mental health issues that may be triggering**   Welcome Chelsea to this inspiring episode. After the shock of the untimely death of her mum, and finding out the father of her newborn son had been cheating she fell into a deep depression and used food as comfort. Now she talks to Rachael about her path back to a healthier and more importantly happier version of herself. Key points of the episode: The passion she has to empower other women to help themselves and achieve their own health goals. Her genuine motivation and drive to get out of depression and her "Home Run" - 7 Happy Days in a row! The tough decision she had to make balancing her career and childcare. Her strategy for "getting back on the horse" if she takes a fall -Read: Permission to be human. Progress not perfection is the goal. You can learn about her boot camp too- if you dare! Check her out here: https://www.instagram.com/seas_fitness_/   ----- 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 eating disorders and suicide attempts that may be triggering**   In this episode, I chat to Lily all about mental health with a focus on suicide prevention. Nothing truly is off limits as we share the downs, the ups, and most importantly the maintenance of mental health and wellbeing. Lily is a survivor, a thriver, a certified recovery specialist and loves to support you in finding your Power, Voice and Authentic Self.   Reach out to her on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/recoverywithlily   ----- 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. 

To end this season of Things I Wish I'd Known (I know I am sad too!) I'm speaking with Janey Lee Grace. She has done so many things in her life, it's almost difficult to create an intro for her. During this episode, we discuss the fear of losing control and the pressure on Mum’s when it comes to alcohol. We chat about the need and excitement we both feel for the new alcohol-free alternatives that stop you from drinking diet coke all night and how we will leave a party if it’s sh*t because without alcohol you tend to notice much earlier :-) Janey shares her journey from numbing out uncomfortable emotions with booze, and the shock she felt when she realised the links between anxiety and alcohol, to ditching the booze for more contentment and calm. This is a must-listen for anyone who is sober or sober curious.  Janey's a regular presenter on Radio 2, an author of several books, including her latest one, Look great naturally without the ditching the lipstick. She hosts her own podcast, The alcohol-free life, which I've been lucky enough to guest on (listen here).  Runs the Sober Club membership and is a presenter and speaker who is passionate about ditching the booze and living a healthier lifestyle. You can find out more about her here: https://janeyleegrace.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.   

I'm really honoured to be introducing one of my teachers who got me into gong, Cherub Sanson.  A woman supremely dedicated to sharing the transformational powers of sound, and the benefits of exploring frequency to guide us all into happier, healthier states of mind. She's a sound artist and teacher based in London. The founder of Cherabella, where she makes the most incredible cost-effective crystal bowls and beautiful tuning forks. And she's also just launched, the sister sound circle where you can join her in mainlining new moon sister, sound energy once a month. She says it's the healthiest addiction she's ever had! During this episode we talk about heart centred energy, learning the way of gong and sound healing and how it creates community. Cherub is definitley someone who loves to bring people together and all rise up collectively. We talk about choosing instruments, teachers and community and how important that is and how sound is a leveller bringing all types of people together. This episode is a must if you're into sound healing.    For more on Cherub you can check her website here cherabella.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.