One day my grandfather punched someone in the face over some disagreement. The recipient of the blow, wounded more in pride than body, wobbled to a seat on the curb and began yelling, “Iodine! Police! Iodine! Police!”
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Shay Seaborne is a trauma survivor, educator, and activist dedicated to demystifying trauma and helping people heal from – and with – Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD).
In our far-ranging conversation, we covered the origins of trauma, the mistaken societal beliefs that reinforce trauma and get in the way of healing, and ways of empowering trauma survivors to reconnect with their bodies.
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Mark Silver helps solo entrepreneurs and micro-businesses thrive through heartfelt business practices. The tagline for his company, Heart of Business, is “Every act of business can be an act of love.”
I wanted to pick Mark’s brain on behalf of the many listeners who are in some kind of career limbo in the age of pandemic – unemployed, underemployed, unsure about the future, sick of being a cog in the capitalist system, tired of relying on yucky tactics to make payroll – and want a way forward that meets their needs and is in service of a More Beautiful World.
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One of the hot trends in behavior modification is gamification – that is, turning our goals and activities into behavioral chunks in order to win points and, sometimes, prizes.
Gamification has its place, but there are a couple of pitfalls to watch out for.
How best to gamify, and when not to – these are the subjects of today’s podcast.
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Often a coaching client will end a session by saying, “Wish me luck” after setting a goal and making a plan to achieve it.
In health coaching, this phrase is a huge red flag that the client is going to fail.
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What’s the most important dietary rule? Is raw better than cooked food? Why shouldn’t I always avoid foods that give me an upset stomach? This conversation with Dr Will Bulsiewicz, author of the just-published Fiber Fueled, will make you rethink everything you know about the link between diet and health.
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Sometimes I hear from clients that they’ve done all they can, and they can’t move the needle. They’re stuck. They’ve hit a plateau.
And there’s simply nothing more to be done.
What do we do then?
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Say you want to stop eating junk food, or drinking soda, or watching porn, or whatever.
Maybe you’ve read a motivating article or seen a video, or gotten a scary medical result, or just got fed up at your current reality.
So you set an intention, and then… you end up doing the same thing again. And again.
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Lots of us are moving less during this stay-at-home time. But we’re often eating just as much, or more, or more frequently, or worse.
It’s easy to say, “Just eat less,” but it’s not that easy to do.
In this short episode, I share three strategies for reducing caloric intake without feeling deprived.
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Will Bonsall is a self-described “back-to-the-land hippie homesteader,” and author of two extremely important and prescient books: Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical Self-Reliant Gardening, and Through the Eyes of a Stranger, an adventure novel that explores what a sustainable society might look like following what he calls “the calamitous times” of the 21st century.
I took the gardening book off the shelf as soon as my family and I returned from South Africa, as we were several weeks behind in setting up the garden for this year, and I foresaw a need to grow “calorie crops” like wheat, buckwheat, corn, and sunflowers in addition to the usual tomatoes, basil, okra, pepper, onions, eggplant, and summer squash.
The introduction of the book caught me off-guard, as it was speaking specifically about the societal collapse that is occurring in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Not specifically as in “coronavirus from Wuhan in March 2020,” but in terms of the cascade of breakdowns that will threaten our food and energy supply, and leave people to fight over scarce resources.
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