Series 3 – Episode 4: BONUS – Join Julia for her recent lecture as part of the Masters in Happiness Studies on Taking Wholebeing Happiness to the next level - for you & Planet Earth. Explore Interbeing; its definition, where it comes from, who’s behind it and why it’s important to you and to the Happiness Revolution. We’ll touch on the systemic view of happiness from Western thinking and how this relates to the concepts such as dependent origination from Buddhist philosophy. Along the way, w...
May 05, 2023•25 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Series 3 – Episode 3: INTERBEING – Join Julia to dig a little deeper into what Interbeing actually means and how embracing it will expand the way you see your Midlife Happiness - how we can embrace life and death in our wholebeing and how we can leverage our extraordinarily interconnected for happiness within ourselves, with others and in the wider world. What does it mean to bring the idea of “inter-are” into how you view yourself and your relationship with the loved, the neglected and the reje...
Mar 20, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Series 3 – Episode 2: BONUS - Looking for a post-pandemic adventure? Join Julia Seal on her new 20-month journey to a Masters degree in Happiness Studies! It's a journey she’s embarking on from this week until May 2024 - a journey to deepen her work here in Happiness-Matters; spiralling deeper into what Happiness is around the world, for you as clients and for herself. It's not just another qualification, it's something that's unfolded for Julia in the liminal space of this post-pandemic world.....
Nov 01, 2022•11 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Series 3 – Episode 1: INTERBEING – Welcome to the start of Series 3 where we’ll be crafting our Wholebeing & expanding our Interbeing through the 3 Relationships that are at the core of Midlife Happiness. Embrace it all with me in this new Series – all the scientific knowledge, all the wisdom of our ancient traditions, all the learnings from our multi-cultural world to explore the biggest puzzle of them all... through the lens of THE single biggest contributor to happiness in life. So if you...
Oct 18, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Series 3 - Trailer: How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve? Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions & more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relation...
Oct 11, 2022•24 min
Series 2 – Episode 32: Bonus – Welcome to March, it’s Happiness Month! Join coach Julia Seal for a very special month diving deep into all you need to know about Midlife Wholebeing Happiness… what it’s about, what are the ingredients & how to go about creating it in your life. So much happening this month, from the World Happiness Report to the UN International Day of Happiness > how do we navigate our Midlife as we emerge into this post-Pandemic world, especially with all that’s happenin...
Mar 04, 2022•23 min
Series 2 – Episode 31: INSIGHT – Explore the magic of transitions in your Midlife & how it’s possible to really love the unknown, to embrace uncertainty. Julia Seal shares ways to make sense of the Liminal Space of being in-between, what it means to traverse Ancient Greece’s River of Misery & the Buddhist Bardo states of consciousness with the Ancient Roman God Janus showing us the way. Find out what it means to step into your own self-evolution by hanging out on The Edge of Comfort, get...
Feb 08, 2022•27 min
Series 2 – Episode 30: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Liminal Space of Transition, Change & Uncertainty (10 mins) - Join Julia Seal for this meditation to settle into & embrace the Liminal Spaces of your life for your Wholebeing Happiness – whether you’re transitioning from one year to the next, from one job to another, one relationship to the unknown, one day to tomorrow, from now to the next moment. Discover how to become more comfortable with transition, change & uncertainty, ...
Jan 19, 2022•12 min
Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Loving-Kindness Metta to expand the 4 qualities of Love (15 mins) – Join Julia Seal for this traditional Metta meditation to evoke Compassion & Friendliness towards ourselves & others. This Metta practice intentionally cultivates the four qualities of Love: Friendliness, Appreciation & Joy, Compassion & Equanimity - for yourself, for your most loved ones, for those close to you & then, beyond your circle of influence, ...
Jan 04, 2022•16 min
Series 2 – Episode 28: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Compassion & LovingKindness for you now (10 mins) - Join Julia Seal for this short guided meditation to rest, settle & allow your natural compassion, love & joy to rise up & expand. Practice this to deepen your CONNECTION to YOURSELF – to bring love & compassion to YOU, to heal the relationship you have with yourself, your Past Self, your Current Self & your Future Self. Download the next Midlife Meditation (2.29) ...
Dec 28, 2021•11 min
Series 2 – Episode 27: BONUS – Enjoy this holiday special 4-part conversation on Toxic Conflict in your Midlife Relationships & What To Do. Deep dive into the 4 worst toxic behaviours that show up in our relationships, whether it’s at home with our loved ones or at work in our teams, with coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder, Jamie Jenkins. We discuss the most poisonous of toxic behaviours: Criticism & Blame – Defensiveness – Stonewalling & Sulking – Contempt. How to identi...
Dec 21, 2021•3 hr 1 min
Series 2 – Episode 26: PATTERNS – Find out today why your Midlife currently looks the way it does – good & not so good – why you’re getting the results you want in your life, why you’re feeling the way you do, why you take action or procrastinate, why your relationships are the way they are, why you’re feeling happy right now or frustrated, sad, despondent, confused... > everything! We’re talking the MAGIC formula for creating your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife, how to play with & e...
Dec 14, 2021•25 min
Series 2 – Episode 25: BONUS – This live Q&A session is full of strategies & tips for managing tense relationships with your family over the holidays... from how to move through Discomfort & how to choose Boundaries as well as what it means to MeSearch & Gamify your holidays! Join coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder Jamie Jenkins talking about family events, relationships & triggers – what you can do towards having an easier holiday season. If you have alot of prob...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Series 2 – Episode 24: BODY AS BRAIN – The Dalai Lama has said: “The human mind, at its default setting, is compassionate". Discover how your compassion, your ability to feel empathy & your altruistic motivations are actually wired into you through the action of a specially-evolved bundle of nerves, the Vagus. Responsible for your body’s automatic activities when it’s at rest – digestion, reproduction, the immune response - the Vagus Nerve is a fundamental biological building block of human ...
Nov 30, 2021•26 min
Series 2 – Episode 23: BONUS – Enjoy this recording from the recent Lemon Rebellion Summit where Julia Seal talks about Wholebeing Happiness & particularly, Emotional Wholebeing Happiness. In this session, explore how to work with your Negative Emotional Wholebeing for your own evolution. Julia shares 4 facts that make stepping into this work a little easier – to help you tap into your own courage & wisdom to walk towards your Negative Emotional Wholebeing. She touches on the Yin:Yang | ...
Oct 19, 2021•34 min
Series 2 – Episode 22: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 Join Julia Seal to discover an easy, everyday way to create Wholebeing Happiness. By using the calendar’s Special Days, from Hallmark Holidays to United Nations commemorative days, you can hone the powerful craft of coaching yourself. Find out why you might even want to try this – how it creates appreciation & joy but also how it steadily unpacks what happiness & unhappiness is for you in Midlife. Discover how to do this using Julia’s Coaching Tool ...
Sep 28, 2021•14 min
Series 2 – Episode 21: Meditation – Need an alternative to Meditation practice when it all seems too difficult & your mind is completely mad with thoughts? Discover 6 techniques to turn Writing into a meditation practice so that you can develop a relationship with your Mind - a Midlife crazy-wisdom skill! Coach Julia Seal explores how to work with narrative writing, expressive writing, free-flow with journal prompts, Morning Pages & Thought Downloads - even, Professor Dumbledore’s Pensie...
Sep 21, 2021•25 min
Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Wholebeing Integration for when you’re raw & shredded (20 mins) - Join Julia Seal for her guided meditation to bring your Wholebeing to life. Use it to settle your entire being when you’re feeling particularly tired & over-stretched – raw & shredded. Create peace, a sense of connectedness to yourself & bring yourself back into your entire Wholebeing. Easily connect & integrate your your Physical Body, Cognitive Body, E...
Sep 14, 2021•20 min
Series 2 – Episode 19: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Lemon Rebellion Summit next week on Monday 19 September at 10:30am (New York) / 3.30pm (London) / 2.30pm (UTC). In today’s pre-session, Julia talks all about Wholebeing Happiness & how change/adversity are your best opportunity to stop, take stock of your life journey so far & decide how you want to step forward. A crook in the road is nothing less than an opportunity to evolve yourself! Julia shares what Wholebeing Happiness means to...
Sep 07, 2021•20 min
Series 2 – Episode 18: BRAIN – In today’s next Brain Design episode we meet the Executive in your Head who’s a key player in your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness! Join coach Julia Seal to discover how to tap into your built-in ability to choose yourself, your goals, your happiness first. Julia looks into the PreFrontal Cortex of the Human Brain to find out who (what) is responsible for reasoning, creativity, decision-making, planning & emotional regulation – who holds all the power in your life...
Aug 31, 2021•26 min
Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 on The Happiness Ladder Join Julia Seal for insights into her Happiness Ladder coaching tool – where it comes from & why it’s such a useful Happiness Habit to practice in expanding your Midlife Wholebeing. She explores how it helps you connect to your Happiness at a very core level, but how it can also hinder your discovery of deep, authentic happiness if not used purposefully & intentionally. She shares how she’s been using the Happiness Ladder in ...
Aug 24, 2021•18 min
Series 2 – Episode 16: PATTERNS – Discover where much of your personal power is tied up by the time you get to Midlife. With coach Julia Seal, tap into the delight of playing with Lego bricks as the way to start claiming back this power... how you can build it, brick by brick, until you’ve created your Wholebeing Happiness & then, how you become unstoppable in the world! All your power for change comes from how you view two essential concepts – your Outer Life Patterns - seeing how they infl...
Aug 17, 2021•25 min
Series 2 – Episode 15: BODY AS BRAIN – This week, Julia Seal explores the Mind:Body Connection, what it’s all about & what understanding it means for coaching & living into our long lasting Happiness. It’s an episode full of surprising delights about our Midlife bodies – from how visualisation can build us muscles even if we’re still in lockdown, away from the gym – where does most of our happiness hormone, Serotonin come from (it’s not what you think) – do we really have a second brain ...
Aug 03, 2021•25 min
Series 2 – Episode 14: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Happy & Healthy Midlife Summit where she’s interviewed all about Wholebeing Happiness. You’ll find out more about what Wholebeing Happiness actually is & what it means for us as Midlife women. Julia shares ideas & tips on how best to get started with unpuzzling your Midlife, creating your very own version of Midlife Wholebeing Happiness. There’s a workbook to go with this session as well as a meditation, available in the show note...
Jul 20, 2021•34 min
Series 2 – Episode 13: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation: Heart Breathing (35 mins) - Join Julia Seal for a guided meditation using her Heart Breathing technique. Use it to help when you’re feeling unhappy, sad, anxious, angry or frustrated... AND when you want to feel more Calm, Peace, Kindness or Love. AND when you want to expand these good feelings out into the world & towards others. This is a special meditation to celebrate this July’s birthdays of the Dalai Lama & Nelson Mandela. Joi...
Jul 06, 2021•37 min
Series 2 – Episode 12: MEDITATION – What’s happening inside your brain while you are meditating? Join coach Julia Seal to find out more about your brain wave patterns, which ones are at play when you’re meditating & which ones you might want to increase, when. Discover how to switch from one brain pattern to another so your brain is working optimally for you, throughout your day, not only when you’re meditating. Go into more detail on how meditation can change your brain as soon as you sit o...
Jun 22, 2021•21 min
Series 2 – Episode 11: BRAIN – Today’s discussion about a small web in our Brain Stem shows you how to make change easier by working with your brain design on purpose. Julia Seal explores the Reticular Activating System to find out more about its gatekeeping function, how it’s part of an unconscious processing system of 11 million pieces of information per second – something very necessary when you think about what’s out there in the world: just your taste senses alone are capturing 1000 bits of...
Jun 10, 2021•23 min
Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 on Buddha Day - Thoughts on Meditation Join Julia Seal for an overview of meditation – from Mindfulness & Calming Meditation to Insight Meditation & what follows on... She shares how she got started in meditation during a very painful divorce & what role it plays in her life nowadays. Also, how we can work together to establish your own quietening, settling & contemplative practice as we coach on your Midlife resilience, creativity & thr...
Jun 01, 2021•15 min
Series 2 – Episode 9: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: Belly Breathing for Anxiety & Insomnia (15 mins) - Join Julia Seal for an easy, guided meditation using an age-old technique for managing stress. Use it whenever anxiety is too much for you – when your body feels as if it’s on fire from anxiety and your thoughts are spiralling. It can also bring ease to those long nights of sleeplessness during menopause when your body is hot and uncomfortable and your mind just won’t settle. Perfect to ...
May 25, 2021•16 min
Series 2 – Episode 8: BONUS – Join coach Julia Seal for 8 days to explore 8 Happiness Habits, along with 8 tips to integrate these new habits into your daily life… these are 8 of her personal favourites and the ones she practices every day in her own life. Listen in to the Wrap-Up LIVE session here. Even if you missed the Challenge, join Julia here to decide what Happiness Habit you might like to add into your life and get consistent at doing. There’s a free workbook that brings the Challenge to...
May 11, 2021•25 min
