In this episode of the Head Trash & Healing Show, I delve into the topic of trauma therapy and why common approaches often fall short. Join me as I share insights and a powerful metaphor to help you better understand the true approach to healing trauma. Key Discussion Points: - The limitations of traditional methods for healing trauma and the prevalence of unresolved trauma in many individuals. - A powerful metaphor of being struck by an arrow to illustrate the ineffective approach to trauma...
Mar 28, 2024•20 min
In this enlightening episode of 'Head Trash & Healing Show', host Alexia Leachman sits down with the profound Amanda Blau. Together, they delve into the enigmatic world of higher consciousness, human and soul perspectives, the power of acceptance and allowing oneself to feel, tracking change, and spiritual energy transchanneling. They also candidly touch on personal stories and explore the concept of past lives, bringing in a fresh and potent perspective to healing, acceptance, and power. Ke...
Mar 21, 2024•59 min
Join me, Alexia Leachman, in an energising conversation with Melissa as we comb through the uncomfortable snarls of people-pleasing, all in this episode of the Head Trash & Healing Show. In this episode, we go deep into understanding the roots and repercussions of being a people-pleaser. If you're finding yourself always saying yes when you mean no, feel burdened with an unnecessary sense of obligation, or struggle with setting personal boundaries, this conversation is especially for you. We...
Mar 14, 2024•51 min
Today, we delve into the impact of clutter, both physical and emotional, on our lives and feelings of inner peace. I'm thrilled to have with us professional declutter coach Susie, who shares insights from her work helping clients tackle their emotional, mental, and even physical clutter. We discuss the pitfalls of retail therapy, the potential emotional impact of clutter in different areas at home, and the connection between clutter and unmet needs, often labelled lazily. We chat about reframing...
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In this week's episode of the Head Trash Healing Show, I had the absolute pleasure of diving into a rich and candid conversation with the remarkable Allen. Our focus? The fascinating and transformative journey of self-regulation. Allen, with his openness and vulnerability, shared his deeply personal experience of seeking self-regulation as a means to cope with life's adversities. We delved into his powerful four-year self-regulation journey, which began amid business closures and a challenging d...
Jan 18, 2024•55 min
Today we have an incredibly fascinating topic to explore - the map of consciousness - and how it can be used to measure the progress of inner work. In this episode, we'll explore how our consciousness can impact our emotions, perceptions, and problem-solving abilities. I'll also be taking a closer look at the concept of healing work, its effectiveness, and why I think it's important to measure the progress of inner work as we navigate our emotional healing journey. Join me as we explore a powerf...
Oct 12, 2023•52 min
Today we are diving deep into a fear that many people may not even realise is one of the most common fears out there. It's called emetophobia, the fear of vomit. Now, before you think this is just a trivial fear, let me assure you, it's a very serious phobia that can have a profound impact on people's lives.In this episode, we will explore what emetophobia is, how it can affect various aspects of life, and most importantly, how to heal from it. We'll discuss the origins of this fear and how pers...
Sep 14, 2023•27 min•Ep. 130
On this episode of Head Trash Show, I explore the relationship between emotional healing and mental fitness, and how they can impact productivity in our daily lives. Through the discussion, I share that our mental fitness level can reveal patterns affecting emotional health, emphasising the need to tackle both. Regular "head trash clear out" is essential in addressing emotional and mental clutter, just like exercising is better when done consistently. Alexia shares her personal experiences and e...
Jun 06, 2023•32 min
In this podcast episode, I'm chatting with Alex Heath about healing from trauma. I know Alex from my time working in the pregnancy and birth world, as Alex specialises in birth trauma and perinatal mental and emotional health. For me, birth trauma is unique as far as trauma goes. A huge aspect of trauma is the meaning we associate with a root event, and the meanings we hold around birth are off the scale. The emotional aspect of birth is huge, When you consider how parents-to-be feel about the a...
Nov 01, 2022•58 min
Can you relate to this? You decide that you're going to make some kind of change in your life and then you never quite get started. Or at least, you make all the right noises, and you prepare in ALL THE WAYS, but when it comes to actually starting Doing The Thing... you don't. Do you start out with the very best intentions? In this podcast I dive into what might be going on for you, if this is a pattern you are struggling with. You can read the blog that accompanies this video here: https://clea...
Oct 19, 2022•21 min
Healing your emotional wounds is essential if you're to reach your happy place, and stay there. Your emotional wounds can often be the source of your day-to-day triggers, so by healing your emotional wounds you're able to reduce the stress and anxiety you experience each day. The problem is that we're not always aware of what those wounds are. Many of the experiences that are at the root of these wounds probably happened before our conscious memory kicked in and so it can often feel like we're l...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Micro-dosing for mental health is something that has been explored for some time. The pioneer of this is the Czech-born psychologist Stanislav Grof. Micro-dosing is the practice of taking or administering very small amounts of a drug in order to test or benefit from its physiological action while minimising undesirable side effects. So when it comes to micro-dosing psychedelics, this means consuming very low, sub-hallucinogenic doses of a psychedelic substance, such as lysergic acid diethylamide...
Sep 15, 2022•56 min
Your inner masculine and feminine Do you think your inner masculine and feminine energies are in balance? Does this question even make sense to you? I ask that because I’ve had some conversations with people when they’ve looked a bit puzzled when asked. They simply didn’t understand the question. The idea of having inner masculine and feminine energies was a total mystery to them. While I’ve been aware of these differing energies for a while, it’s only really in the last three years or so that I...
Sep 07, 2022•56 min
Healing from Trauma Trauma is something we all have to wrestle with. But not all of us choose to do so. Sometimes we're forced into facing our traumas - as I was recently. This is why I wanted to have a chat with someone who works with trauma, so that they can share their perspective. Brooke is a trauma-informed coach who has experienced trauma throughout her life, and through conquering her trauma, she now focusses her time on helping others to do the same. About Brooke Brooke Bownes an interna...
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min
I recently stumbled on a past trauma that proved to be the key to a lot of the things I've wrestled with as an adult. As someone who hunts down head trash - especially my own - this is a HUGE win for me. When something isn't shifting, I dig and dig until I can figure it out and get rid of it. I had some personal stuff that just wasn't shifting and I needed to figure out why. Trauma feeds fear and anxiety I figured there must be a traumatic experience feeding it. Trauma does that, it's feeder of ...
Jul 12, 2022•17 min
Not all public speaking or presenting is equal, at least when it comes to how we feel about it. Presenting and public speaking sit nicely at the top of any list about fears and anxiety. Thank you primal brain for that! But not all presenting or public speaking is equal in terms of its potential to make us nervous, fearful or anxious. And, this is different for everyone. Speaking in front of a large audience of people you don’t know probably sits at the top of the scary pile for most people. This...
Jul 04, 2022•18 min
If you've been following my adventures in trauma clearance, you'll know that I'm feeling very called to clear my traumas at the moment. If you missed it, I dive into that in my blog: Traumas & Yetis: 2 things they have in common . One theme of emotional pain that has come up a lot for me in my life is around abandonment and rejection so this has been on y Healing-To-Do-List for a while. That's not to say I haven't tried to heal this pain in me because i have. But I know that I'm not fully he...
Jun 22, 2022•26 min
In this episode I get to chat to one of my heroes for the second time - lucky me! Dr Thomas Verny is the godfather of prenatal psychology and the author of the classic book The Secret Life of the Unborn Child. It was this book that was a huge inspiration to me when I wrote my first book Fearless Birthing. In his words.. "As a psychiatrist, I have had a lifelong interest in memory and the mind. At the beginning of my career, this took me into establishing the science of Pre and Perinatal Psycholo...
Jun 15, 2022•50 min
I’m feeling very called to get back to work on clearing trauma at the moment. A few months ago I went all in with it when I was really ill. My mind had pretty much shut down and healing was my sole focus as I kicked off a physical healing protocol, but it would need time; I needed to detox The Thing that was making me ill, and then my body needed to heal from The Thing. I wasn’t good for much while this was happening so I thought I’d double-down and support my physical healing with emotional hea...
Jun 08, 2022•26 min
Did you ever play hide and seek as a kid? I bet it's a YES. Please don't say no... because that would be a little bit sad. If you did - and you did, right? - then your hide and seek shenanigans could be responsible for some head trashy challenges you might be experiencing as an adult. My kids LOVE playing hide and seek and I'm pretty sure it's something we've all played as kids. I sometimes join in and my favourite time was when my daughter and I hid under the blankets that cover the sofa in our...
Jun 01, 2022•23 min
In this, my first podcast for a while, I chat to business founder Ela Senghera. Ela is the founder of Virtually Thrive, a mental health business that supports parents. During our conversation, Ela and I talk about founder anxiety an the stresses of creating and building a business the importance of self care for parents what you can do to care more for yourself how you can prevent problems with your mental health imposter syndrome, and how Ela wins it more than she doesn't how Ela practices self...
May 24, 2022•55 min
Today I want to share with you what clearing self-sabotage looks like. Like EXACTLY. I'm going to share with you an example of someone I worked with so that you can better understand how we self-sabotage. And perhaps this will help you with your own self-sabotaging ways. Self-sabotage is something we can all relate to. Personally, I'm an expert. An expert self-sabotager, but also an expert and getting rid of it (thank God!). The thing is, it's much easier to clear in others than in yourself. Thi...
Aug 04, 2021•36 min
I thought I loved planning. But it was all a lie! I’ve done a lot of planning and I think I’m pretty good at all sorts of planning shenanigans. From road trips across foreign lands and island-hopping holidays to secret birthday parties and complex international product launches. In corporate I used to do high level business planing all the time. As a business coach and consultant people have hired me just to do their business planning. This usually meant doing the business or marketing plan for ...
Jul 16, 2021•19 min
Whenever I see a face, I can usually tell whether they have a load of head trash. this is because whenever we have lots of stresses and anxieties, the tension that this creates shows up in our bodies, and our faces. We're familiar with the aching shoulders, tension head-aches and other bodily aches that come from being stressed and anxious, and in my experience these tensions show up in the face. They are so prominent that I tend to notice a difference in the faces of my clients over the course ...
Jul 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Getting stuff done and generally being productive requires the mind to stay focussed on singular tasks until they are complete. Sounds fairly straightforward, right? And yet this is where most people fall down, including you. Why? Simple. You get distracted You look away from what you're doing. Perhaps you open up another browser window to check Facebook. Or maybe you look outside through an actual window and just stare. It doesn't really matter what is causing the distraction. What matters is t...
Jun 25, 2021•23 min
With so much uncertainty around right now, the only certainty seems to be this: COVID anxiety is a thing and it's becoming more of a problem as time goes by. COVID anxiety is affecting mental health for a lot of people and we need to do something about it. What is COVID anxiety? It's the various aspects of COVID that are creating additional anxieties in people. For me this is not the same as simply having a higher level of anxiety due to the pressures of living with COVID.Some people are reporti...
Jun 18, 2021•27 min
Anxiety is something we have all experienced a one time or other. Or at least I'm assuming you have by the very fact you're on this site. Here are some fun facts about anxiety that I found here; An estimated 284 million people worldwide experienced an anxiety disorder in 2017, making it the most prevalent mental health disorder on the planet (Ritchie, Hannah and Roser, Max. “Anxiety Disorders.” Our World In Data. Accessed May 14, 2019) Anxiety disorders are the most common of mental disorders an...
Jun 11, 2021•31 min
