The Head Trash Show is back. After a long break In this episode I talk about the head trash I've had to wrestle with as I've been pursuing my dream life. Two years ago, we made the decision to leave the UK and move the family to France. We had always wanted to live somewhere sunny near the coast, so we decided to go for it. This was the beginning of a journey that was fraught with head trash for me. It triggered so many fears for me and it's been hard work. A few months into that journey, the CO...
Jun 04, 2021•33 min
Pain is interesting. At least I find it interesting. And I guess that comes from my work in helping women prepare for birth. Pain comes up a lot! In fact it comes up too much in my opinion. More than it should do. And this is because a fear of pain is probably one of the most common fears I come across. Well, it's only to be expected, after all childbirth is the gold standard when it comes to pain. Everything is compared to childbirth. And yet in some countries, childbirth is not considered or t...
Mar 10, 2020•51 min
This week on the podcast I'm exploring the idea of being an introvert or extrovert, and I'm asking the question "Is it fixed? Or can we change?" I don't often hear extroverts wanting to change, but I do often come across introverts not enjoying being an introvert. Or at least, they make excuses for it and make changes to their life to allow for being an introvert. So they might not be openly be complaining about being an introvert, but it sounds like if they could change it they would. What does...
Mar 03, 2020•23 min
The mother wound is a new term for me, but the minute I heard it, it made so much sense. I knew immediately that whatever it was, I had it! Well, let's face it, we all have it. I was intrigued as to how the mother wound would show up in our day-to-day lives. I've done a lot of mother wound work on myself, so I had inklings on how my mother wound has been affecting me, but I'm sure I still have blind spots. And I sure as hell will not have anything of value to add when it comes to other people's ...
Feb 25, 2020•40 min
Have you got sleep stress? We often hear about how stress affects our sleep, but not always about how sleep affects our stress. As in, how sleep CREATES stress! You know, SLEEP STRESS! Yes, you read that right; sleep is stressful. Which when you're already stressed and can't sleep, isn't exactly good news. The thing is as you lie in bed awake waiting for sleep to take over, your mind racing with stressful thoughts about your stressful life, it's not long before your thoughts turn to sleep; why a...
Feb 18, 2020•24 min
Parent and baby mental health are not discussed enough in my opinion. And yet they are incredibly important not just for the families involved, but for society. One of the reasons why I’m so passionate about helping women to build their emotional resilience during pregnancy is that it’s powerful place to start if you want to support the mental health of the whole family. The ripple effects of a positive birth experience for the mother go far beyond the mother; they affect the baby, the partner a...
Feb 10, 2020•46 min
To feel and perform at your best, I believe that head trash clearance and mindset should be a practice. But I realise that not everyone sees things in that way. Once you get your head around the idea of head trash and that it’s something that you can clear quite easily, it’s easy to get excited about it. Well, it was for me. Noticing such huge differences in how I feel in such a small period of time is something that taps into my need for efficiency and my hate of wasting time. Since I’ve been c...
Feb 04, 2020•15 min
On today’s show I’m chatting with Louise Hallam who is a mindfulness and meditation teacher. The reason I wanted to get Louise on the show is because Louise recently did some head trash clearance with me and I thought it would be useful to share her perspective on using meditation and head trash clearance, and how they can be best used side by side. Meditation and Head Trash Clearance We often hear how mindfulness and meditation is the answer to our problems if we want to reduce the stress and a...
Jan 28, 2020•39 min
I’m so excited to bring the Head Trash Show back. It’s been a long break, but one that has been worth it. So in this opening episode this is what I want to share with you; Where I’ve been You might be wondering why I took a break and what I’ve been up to. If I said to you that I had a baby, you’d probably think “oh sure, you’ve been at home with the kids” But that’s not strictly true. The experience of having my second daughter took me on a different trajectory work-wise and head trash-wise. As ...
Jan 21, 2020•18 min
I'm not the first person to say this so it shouldn't be news to you, but if you want to change the world start with yourself. The "world" doesn't have to be some grandiose idea about changing humanity, it can be as simple as changing YOUR world. And this couldn't be truer when it comes to your stresses. If you find yourself being stressed out by LIFE and the people in it, maybe it's time for you to take a look in the mirror, because maybe it's YOU that's creating the stress in the first place. H...
Sep 11, 2015•18 min
Do you find that you're holding on to patterns of thought, behaviours and bodily dis-ease that you'd just rather shake? Well, you're going to love today's podcast. Today I chat to Matt Sison, who is an author, speaker and a coach who shares his approach for letting go of what he calls the conditions and programs that hold you back from your authentic voice and action. “ Matt Sison is the guy who other therapists go to when they have problems. I have seen him work with the most difficult cases im...
Jul 10, 2015•43 min
Feeling rejected sucks! I'm saying that because that's how it felt to me when I felt rejected a few weeks back. It all started with an email landing in my inbox. Without going into masses of detail, the email basically said " We don't want you anymore! We changed our minds. " It was a business thing... I had jumped through hoops and done a shed-load of work to be part of this THING, and I passed! I made it... all my hard work had paid off. When I got the email back in April letting me know that ...
Jul 03, 2015•16 min
If you're feeling like life is a bit rubbish and you need to turn things around, then I hope that today's guest will inspire to do just that. Today I'm chatting to Tanya Mann Rennick about how to turn your life around, or more specifually how she managed to turn her life around. Tanya will be sharing her guiding STARR principles that she used to transform her life from a stay-at-home mum who was bored with the lack of sparkle in her life, to a successful entrepreneur and a sought-after inspirati...
Jun 26, 2015•1 hr 4 min
If you've been wondering how to stop smoking then you are are going to LOVE this week's podcast. This week I chat to fellow Head Trash Clearance specialist, Shaun Hopkins, about how to stop smoking using our 5 step process (Reflective Repatterning). I've been asked many times What makes this podcast brilliant is Shaun's story. Shaun has been smoking since he was 14 years old and due to certain life events was also sufferer of PTSD, so smoking was a huge coping mechanism for him. But, Shaun was n...
Jun 19, 2015•41 min
The theme for me over the last two weeks has very much been about letting go. Well, for the last 6 weeks actually! My little ones have had a succession of illnesses which meant that they’ve taken turns at being off nursery and at home. Having them at home has meant zero work for me! Then last week, just as I had shipped the latest ill one back into nursery, two of my websites went down. So not only was I dealing with a mountain of a backlog, but now I had an extra tonne of unplanned urgent work ...
Jun 12, 2015•13 min
There’s a psychologist called Eric Robinson who has a surprising tool for weight loss. Clue: we all have one, but we don’t use it as much as we could and we are always losing it. Our memory! I first came across Robinson’s work in this BBC article How to curb hunger pangs with your mind and immediately I was intrigued. I’ve long believed that we underestimate the role the mind plays in our eating habits, but had not read much about this... until now! Here’s a bit of backstory to save you from rea...
May 29, 2015•24 min
Most of us understand what it means to love another person. The emotional investment coupled with feelings of intense desire and admiration is familiar territory for us. In fact, we consciously take time to nurture and develop our live with others… we say nice things, we offer gifts, we do nice things, and importantly we let them know how we feel. But loving ourselves? Some people just find that plain weird. So what is self love? Well, maybe we should start with what ISN’T self-love... Here are ...
May 22, 2015•22 min
In this podcast I thought I’d spend a bit of time talking about how head trash might show up in your life and to help you to trace it back to its roots cause and what you can do about it. Today I’m going to talk about something that I think we all feel at some point... feeling trapped. What is that all about then? And is there anything that can be done about it? Well, yes there is something you can do about it. If you’re feeling trapped for whatever reason… maybe in your job, in a relationship, ...
May 15, 2015•22 min
If your body is suffering from some physical conditions or dis-ease, then maybe a good place to start is by taking a closer look at what's going on in your head. The link between mind and body is finally being acknowledged by the scientific community and the field of psycho-neuro-immunology (PNI) is where some of the latest scientific thinking in this area is taking place. Using your mind to heal the body In today's podcast I chat to Dr Eva Detko about this new exciting field to try and understa...
May 08, 2015•53 min
In today's podcast, I'm thrilled and honoured to bring you an interview with Kevin Laye . Kevin is one of the leading Jedi masters of the personal change industry who's been personally mentored by the co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, and the creator of Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Roger Callahan. It was his friend Paul Mckenna who encouraged him to start working in the therapy world fifteen years ago and since then he's studied pretty much every method for bring about personal change that exi...
May 01, 2015•53 min
This week on the podcast I chat to Kathryn and Julian from the Changeability Podcast . The Changeability Podcast is based on Kathryn's book Changeability: Manage your Mind - Change your Life . In a nutshell, Kathryn has made sense of many of the approaches and techniques that exist for managing your mindset. But what makes her book, and the podcast, so interesting is that she has created a framework for weaving all of these techniques together so that they get you results. During our chat, Kathr...
Apr 09, 2015•42 min
Would you like to know how to sleep better? That's what I want to help you with and I've got the perfect guest to help me. In today's podcast I'm chatting with Holistic Psychotherapist and Author, Keri Nola . Keri's book 44 holistic tips for peaceful sleep is a real gem if you are looking for ideas on how to sleep better. And, it's a nice quick read too - well worth just getting your hands on! Today's podcast chat ( and Keri's book ) is ideal for people who: Appreciate natural and holistic remed...
Mar 27, 2015•50 min
Stress is here to stay. So instead of fighting and resisting it, how about you make stress your friend instead? I’ve talked about how we can stop those things that normally stress us to stop stressing us in my podcast episode how to elimniate your stress triggers . But, that’s not all you can do when it comes to stress… you can make stress your friend! Now as you know, I’m a big advocate of recognising the good and bad in everything. So while many think that stress is bad, there is also a lot of...
Mar 20, 2015•16 min
What are your deepest darkest fears? to have a life-threatening accident? fear of death or dying? to risk losing use of your arms / legs / eyes etc? What if it were possible to find out what it's like to experience all of those? And what if you actually found out that they're not as bad as you might imagine? Well, stop right there... you can! Just by listening to today's podcast. On today's podcast, I'm hugely honoured to have Catherine Holland on the show. Catherine is the survivor of a horrifi...
Mar 13, 2015•36 min
Pregnancy, while a beautiful and wonderful thing, can also be hugely stressful. It's a time of massive change, both pysically and emotionally. If it's your first pregnancy, then your life is about to change forever. Not only will you trying to prepare mentally for something which is impossible to prepare for, but you will also be mourning the passing of your current life.. the end of an era.. the end of the time when it was just the two of you. None of this is insignificant. By the end, you’re m...
Mar 06, 2015•18 min
The aim of this site, and my podcast, is to help you to clear your head trash. There are loads of methods and approaches that exist to help you to do that. Some work better than others, but also, some people respond better to some methods than to others. So, that's why, I want to bring you alternative approaches for you to try. It maybe that out of all the things that you've tried so far, that you've not had any luck... but maybe all of that could change once you try something else. So in today'...
Feb 27, 2015•46 min
Insomnia and not being able to sleep is a nightmare. Not only can it be horrible when you're in that dark sleeplessplace, but it's the aftermath and the rubbish day that follows when you've not had enough sleep. Persisent insomnia can soon spill into other health issues as the body becomes stressed from lack of sleep, and it struggles to maintain a healthy balance and keep the healing function working 100%. The thing is, it can be difficult to pin down WHY we're suffering from insomnia and not s...
Feb 20, 2015•46 min
Are you stuck in your thinking? Do you continually repeat the same unhelpful and self-sabotaging behaviours? Well, how about trying to expand your thinking so that you can see things from new persepctives, find new solutions, experience new ways of thinking and surprising people with new behaviours.... DOESN'T THAT SOUND AWESOME?! In today's podcast I encourage you to tap into the law of opposites by having some F.U.N! But serious fun.. serious because by doing so you can create real change in y...
Feb 13, 2015•12 min
Childbirth without fear: why FEAR equals PAIN in childbirth When I first found out I was pregnant for the first time, along with the delight at my news, I was also utterly terrified. It wasn’t the idea of having and raising a child; it was the idea of GIVING BIRTH! I’d tell anyone who would listen that I’d want to be given ALL THE DRUGS in the WORLD just to COPE with the PAIN! And then one day I was having a conversation with someone while I was on a course (the advanced course of the method beh...
Feb 06, 2015•20 min
In this week's podcast I bring you the Brain Stare , the EASIEST technique EVER to clear your stress, fears, negative emotions, traumas... in fact anything negative that's impacting your head space. Chris Milbank, the founder of Reflective Repatterining, the technique that is behind our 5 steps to clearing your head trash , has come up with yet another incredibly powerful technique for clearing head trash - the Brain Stare. It's ridiculous how easy it is. Put simply, it just involves staring. No...
Jan 30, 2015•34 min
