Episode 6 - Dr Carrie Hayward on Building Psychological Flexibility

Dr Carrie Hayward is a clinical psychologist , ACT therapist and author and is passionate about providing practical tools to support us to show up and connect more authentically with ourselves, other and our lives. In this episode, she explains how we can develop psychological flexibility - meaning we can choose how we relate to our thoughts, feelings and behaviours by connecting to our core values. When we do this we can live a richer and more purposeful life as we are living anchored by a solid sense of self.

Her first book “The Woman Who Lost the Sun” is a short but beautiful parable exploring how we can weather all the storms in our life when we connect to something that is deeply within us - how we want to live. She shows very clearly that by aligning our behaviours with our core values, we can once again find our smile. Her book can be purchased at her website https://www.carriehayward.com/ , on the online stores or directly via her publisher, Ocean Reeve Publishing.

Episode 5 - Clea Wallage on Burnout and Building a Better Relationship with Stress

Clea Wallage is a Registered Psychologist who worked within a clinical practice at the beginning of her career before working in the Corporate space for 15+ years. In 2019, Clea had her own experience of burnout and now her life’s purpose is supporting others going through a similar experience. She is also passionate about providing preventative education and training to both individuals and organizations.

In this conversation, she and Liv reframe stress and our relationship with it as well as with the big hairy emotions we all face as part of this human life. They explore the personality characteristics that can make us more susceptible to burn out (ouch!) as well as the tendency many of us have to be even harder on ourselves when we are struggling. Clea shares pearls of wisdom when it comes to preventing and recovering from burnout and lays the responsibility for our wellbeing fair and square in our laps - ouch again!

Episode 4 - Fleur Chambers on Moving from Go Go Go to Slow Slow Slow

Fleur Chambers is one of Australia’s top meditation teachers, with her own app named The Happy Habit and thousands of followers on Insight Timer. She has helped many many people learn and maintain thier own meditation habit and does so with grace, warmth and humour.

In this chat, Fleur opens up about her own struggle with pain and how building a deep understanding of how her body communicates has been key in her ongoing healing. She shares with us many tips for navigating our own pain, some of these include: shifting our mindset around rest and our contribution to life, building self-compassion to sooth and support our body and getting to know our thoughts and how we speak to ourselves.

We dive deep into what meditation can really feel like when we first start (hint: it ‘aint always pretty!) and how meditation doesn’t always have to be a “quiet mind and back straight”. We explore the lighter side of our personal and spiritual development through cultivating joy, play and gratitude. She brilliantly highlights that while these things are lovely, in order to maintain and grow them, we need to first do the deep work of building our self-awareness and uncovering the “weeds” in our thinking. He motto is: “pull the weed then plant the seed”.