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In this episode of The JamJarGill Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with the wonderful Hannah, The Hypnotherapist (as she is saved on my phone ). I met Hannah originally through the amazing Wiki Biz Network run by Susie Lodge. Hannah is a Hypnotherapist, Well-being Specialist and Charity Worker with 20 years of experience supporting the emotional well-being of both children and adults.

 

 Join us for this fascinating conversation honing into the
ins and outs of Hypnotherapy, debunking some myths that the media puts out as
well as coming together to work on manifestation. With Hannah’s extensive
experience in both Hypnotherapy and through her charity work, she opens the
door for empathy and compassion and tells us all about her experiences with
both Hypnotherapy herself and becoming a Hypnotherapist and deep delving into
how and why it works.

 

To Learn More about Hannah and what services she offers please
get in touch with her/give her a follow:


Instagram: hannahjardineyouell & thirty_percent_parent
LinkedIn

 

Time Stamps:

. 00:00:00 Introduction

. 00:05:59 Importance of Relationships

. 00:09:41 What is Hypnotherapy?

. 00:16:24 Hannah's Hypnotherapy Journey

. 00:28:36 Natural Protective Mechanisms

. 00:39:05 Anxiety and Tools to Manage it

  00:45:23 Hannah's
Experience with Anxiety

. 00:49:17 Training as a Hypnotherapist

. 00:52:18 Negative Perceptions of Hypnotherapy

. 00:53:53 Building Trust with Clients

. 00:59:33 Subconscious vs Conscious

. 01:06:00 History and Origins of Hypnotherapy

. 01:10:42 Online vs Face to Face

. 01:14:09   Where to Find Hannah and Outro



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Editing & post-production: Gill Perkins  with support from Imogen Cobbold and
Anna Mulvey

 

Intro and outro Music credit: Bensound – Small Guitar

 

My intention with this Podcast is to educate, inform and empower
my audience to approach their health more naturally. I hope you love this
content – if you do please comment/like/share with a friend who you think may
be interested too. 

 

Please also give me a follow here/ wherever you listen to podcasts: https://linktr.ee/JJG_podcast - I so appreciate your support as I build this content – thank you To find out more about my other offerings please visit: https://linktr.ee/jjgcreative

In the first episode of Season 04 on my Holistic Health Podcast, I got to speak to the amazing Stacey Gibson, of Golden Circle Coaching. We shared a fascinating conversation which covered corporate burnout, nature connections, breathwork, and the retreats she now offers alongside another coach. Stacey explained how rediscovering her connection with nature during a period of burnout with her career in HR led her to help others by starting her own business. Stacey offered an interesting insight into how the world around us can provide regulation and calm in our lives.

Stacey is a Career and Life Coach, supporting people to move from burnt-out to balanced business success. She helps clients discover themselves and develop the career and life they want through balance and understanding the self. Stacey offers nature connections alongside a holistic approach to managing stress.

To Learn More about Stacey and what services she offers please get in touch with her/give her a follow.


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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Welcome to the Podcast

00:02:07 - Introduction to Stacey Gibson

00:06:16 - Corporate Burnout

00:12:00 - Identity Outside of the Workplace

00:18:10 - Structure vs Flexibility

00:25:39 - Stacey’s Reconnection with Nature

00:32:35 - Developing Golden Circle Coaching

00:37:56 - Breathwork and Our Relationship with Nature

00:45:14 - Balance and Connection With Ourselves

00:54:33 - The Basics of Breathwork

01:03:10 - Reconnection Retreats

01:08:50 - Exploring Our Emotions

01:11:08 - Challenges and Opportunities Around Collaboration

01:24:00 - Where to Find Stacey



Please like, comment, follow and share with a friend. Editing & post-production: Gill Perkins with support from Anna Mulvey

Intro and outro Music credit: Bensound – Small Guitar

My intention with this Podcast is to educate, inform and empower my audience to approach their health more naturally. I hope you love this content – if you do please comment/like/share with a friend who you think may be interested too. Please also give me a follow here/ wherever you listen to podcasts: https://linktr.ee/JJG_podcast - I so appreciate your support as I build this content – thank you 🙏🏽 To find out more about my other offerings please visit: https://linktr.ee/jjgcreative

In the final episode of Season 03 of my Holistic Health Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with my wonderful friend Debra Russell of Roar Birthing, who is a Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor.

Join us for this fascinating conversation delving into the experiences of childbirth for women. We explored how giving birth can be transformative for some yet daunting for others. Our discussion centred around the fundamental challenges and issues stemming from our own birthing stories, shedding light on the gaps and significant issues within today's medical system, where these ideas came from and what alternatives are out there.

Debra Russell, an accomplished Doula and Hypno-birthing Instructor, is dedicated to guiding women through their birthing experience and beyond with her business, Roar Birthing. Through a range of tailored support and services, she shares invaluable experiences and anecdotes gleaned from her career, supporting women on their incredible journey into motherhood.

To Learn More about Debra and what services she offers please get in touch with her/give her a follow.


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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Podcast introduction
01:29 - Guest Introduction
05:18 - What is a Doula?
06:05 - Doulas in the UK
09:14 - Potential growth of Doulas in the UK
09:47 - Problems with NHS
12:30 - Changes in consumer behaviour regarding medical services
13:28 - My birthing story.
14:57 - Understanding problems with the current medical system.
17:03 - Intention behind being a Doula.
17:47 - How practising Doula came from ancient culture.
18:40 - Birthing experience in America
19:57 - Community birthing
22:50 - The narrative about hospital births
25:40 - History of Birthing
27:32 - Where do you get the knowledge of birthing from?
29:47 - Importance of empowering birth choices for women
31:40 - Misconception around hypnobirthing
32:36 - Social pressures and norms around giving birth
40:10 - What is hypnobirthing?
44:07 - Relation between Hypnobirthing and the concept of Doula
47:10 - Narrative about mothers being a birth vessel
48:27 - Understanding the process of Doula
50:10 - Discussing postnatal problems
53:58 - Debra's personal birthing anecdote
56:26 - Postnatal anxiety
01:02:02 - Problems with 40-week Pregnancy
01:05:12 - Risks associated with induced Birth.
01:11:18 - Factors determining labour.
01:13:44 - What would be an idealized birth experience in an ideal world?
01:15:20 - Do doulas also guide in preconception?
01:17:20 - Birthing experience in Spain
01:18:56 - Role played by childhood that builds perception of women around birthing.
01:20:48 – Discussion around things getting worse not better since COVID within NHS Maternity and why this is.
01:25:27 – Debra’s various offerings and where to find her
01:28:02 – Outro – please like, comment, follow and share with a friend.

Editing & post-production: Gill Perkins with support from Adnan Sayyad
Intro and outro Music credit: Bensound – Small Guitar

My intention with this Podcast is to educate, inform and empower my audience to approach their health more naturally. I hope you love this content – if you do please comment/like/share with a friend who you think may be interested too. Please also give me a follow here/ wherever you listen to podcasts - I so appreciate your support as I build this content – thank you 🙏🏽

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In this episode, I’m speaking to my friend, ex-client, incredible Resilience Coach & all-round awesome human being Tianne
Croshaw of the Resilience Wellbeing Partnership.

She is a highly experienced Resilience Consultant working across several business sectors, & an expert in delivering corporate programmes. She has also supported leadership in the charity sector & the Royal Navy helping management improve their resilience levels and recognise and improve their impact and influence on their people. 

 

To learn more about Tianne and what she has to offer please connect with her/ give her a follow:


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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Introduction

00:03:16 - Tianne's Bio in her own words

00:04:22 – What is Resilience? (bouncing back)

00:05: 36 – How Tianne’s upbringing and her parent's professions started her fascination with resilience

00:06:56 – The impact of the film “Girl Interrupted” by Susanna Kaysen on Gill

00:08:45 – Generational growth in mental health awareness.

00:10:25 – How to treat yourself with kindness? (best friend/ inner child)

00:11:48 – Post-covid rise in attention to mental health in the corporate world.

00:15:02 – Influence of Brené Brown in mental health space (https://youtu.be/iCvmsMzlF7o?si=lG8xoYuxGzJcFDna)

00:16:11 – Language around mental health changing: openness around terms like Trauma & Toxic-Positivity


00:16:56 – You can change your thinking, you can train your brain, “You are not your thoughts”

00:17:51 – The importance of re-framing the narratives which you have about yourself and others

00:19:10 – The importance of saying “NO”?

 00:20:07 – How Tianne came to Resilience as her specialism.

00:22:00 – Is it “Stress management” or “Stress Mastering”?

00:23:53 – What’s the opposite of Stress? – Resilience.

00:24:49 – Pivoting Career after having children

00:30:58 – What is your intention? - and how to work that out.

00:33:37 – Impact of Yoga on mental health

00:34:51 – How did you train to be a Resilience Coach?

00:36:04 – Resilience Explained (using the analogy developed by MindMatters)

00:39:12 – Personal vs Professional Resilience.

00:44:00 – The importance of developing healthy boundaries

00:47:52 – Addressing 6 psychological needs which drive everything we do (source: Tony Robins)

00:56:22 – How to develop Resilience in your own life? – The 3 A’s (Awareness, Acknowledge, Action)

01:02:01 – How did COVID increase/ change the need for resilience within society?

01:05:59 – Work from home vs In-Office work culture, which is better for your mental health & productivity? The benefits of the Hybrid working model.

01:07:33 - Is resilience both a mental and physical practice for you?

01:08:08 – Mind Matters 6 Principles of Resilience

01:13:13 – How does resilience help to tackle insomnia?

01:17:48 – Relations between resilience and victimhood (Dreaded Drama to Empowerment Dynamic)

01:26:31 – Development of mental resilience in children – How young to start and top tips.

01:38:48 – Railway Children Charity.

01:41:05 – Where to find out more about Tianne and her various offerings

01:42:56 – Outro.

 

Editing & post-production: Gill Perkins

Intro and outro Music credit: Bensound

My intention with this Podcast is to educate, inform and empower my audience to approach their health more naturally. I hope you love this content – if you do please comment/like/share with a friend who you think may be interested too. Please also give me a follow here/ wherever you listen to podcasts - I so appreciate your support as I build this content – thank you 🙏🏽

Click here to find out more about my other offerings.

In this episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with my friend and mentor of over a decade, Kanti Freeman from Divine Harmony. We explore Kanti's personal healing journey and how it led her to embrace holistic health through transformative modalities. Inspired by her own experiences, she pursued certifications as a yoga teacher, reiki healer, and gong practitioner, driven by a genuine desire to share these profound benefits with others.

Kanti, a Sound Therapist, Gong Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, and Reiki Practitioner, is dedicated to helping individuals tap into their essential nature. Through Sound Baths, Yoga classes, and Reiki sessions, she aims to inspire and provide support, particularly during those transitional life moments that hold the potential for meaningful transformations.


To learn more about Kanti and what she has to offer please connect with her/ give her a follow:




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Email: kanti@divine-harmony.co.uk


Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Welcome to the JamJarGill Podcast

00:02:40– Kanti’s Bio read by Gill.

00:05:19 – Living on a boat and why it’s so great

00:07:20 - How Kanti got into holistic health: Mental challenges, GP who was open to holistic health, Day Resource Centre in Bedford, Yoga as a transformative tool.

00:13:31 - Mental health and postnatal depression spectrum and how it affected us both

00:20:15 – Where did Reiki come into the picture?

00:23:10 - Complementary Medicine

00:24:43 - What Reiki Attunement is

00:27:26 – Kanti’s journey with mental health challenges was her inspiration to get her into the world of holistic health.

00:28:03 – Where did Sound Healing come into your healing journey?

00:34:09 – The most powerful instrument is the human voice.

00:36:17 – How Kanti learnt to play and create with gongs – and her teacher Don Conreaux and what he calls “the way of the gong”

00:36:56 - What style of Yoga Teacher Training did you do and how did you get to teaching the blend of yoga you teach (restorative/hatha/kundalini/Iyengar/yin)

00:38:55 – How and why Kanti now primarily teaches Yin Yoga and what Yin Yoga is.

00:43:38 – Deeper dive into Sound Healing as a Modality and its history

00:46:53 - Music vs Sound Therapy, what is the difference, and which came first?

00:48:41 - What’s involved in a personal sound healing session.

00:52:38 – Talk through the different instruments Kanti uses with some examples.

00:55:05 - What is a sound bath or sound journey and different peoples personal experiences them

00:57:52 – Could you speak to the physical benefits of sound baths?

00:59:19 – Do you go to other people’s sound baths and if so, what are your experiences of that?

00:59:47 - The benefits Kanti gets from leading sound baths in her own body

01:01:00 – What do you refer to the group of instruments as? And how did you decide which ones to pick?

01:06:50: - How taking away one of the senses (sight – through an eye covering) enhances people's experience of a sound journey how they really have to trust the person running the session as a result and how Kanti feels about that responsibility

01:09:34 – Have you ever experienced people having a negative reaction to the sound? Can you talk to that a bit?

01:11:07 – Have you ever done sound work with autistic or other sensory-challenged people and what was that experience like if so?

01:13:10: - What people should expect coming to a group sound bath session

01:19:25 – Collaboration of elements; sound whilst in water and collaboration with another holistic practitioner for example someone teaching Yin Yoga whilst you play your family of sound healing instruments

01:22:36 - What Kanti has coming up and how to get in touch with her

Sound Healing Music credit: Kanti Freeman (2023)
Intro and outro Music credit: Bensound

In this episode, I’m carrying on my conversation with Caz Hitchcock of the Gravity Technique.

Caz is an anatomy & human movement expert specialising in fixing faulty movement patterns to alleviate chronic joint pain. (please note this is part 2 so please go back to listen to part 1 if you haven't already )

Her own personal journey paired with her extensive knowledge inspired her to create a unique modality called The Gravity Technique.

For many years Caz was a Yoga teacher but was frustrated with the level of knowledge provided in her training to help her clients with various injuries they'd come to her with. She embarked on a 10-year journey to dissect (literally) the body and learn about the world of fascia and anatomy in motion.

She now teaches and coaches anyone in pain as well as training fellow yoga & movement professionals (and anyone keen to learn) to up-level their skills and help their clients on a whole new level.

Caz's mission is to de-normalise the narrative that pain is just part of life and something we have to put up with.

To learn more about Caz and all her offerings please connect with her/ give her a follow:


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Time Stamps:

00:00:00 – Welcome to the JamJarGill Podcast

00:00:14 – Intro to Part 2 of my interview with Caz from the Gravity Technique along with an announcement of a mid-season break

00:01:39 - Where do the worlds of science, spirituality and holistic health connect when it comes to your specialism?

00:13:52 – What is Fascia and how is it related to your technique?00:21:16 – Yoga Origins and different techniques

00:23:55 – The Gravity Technique

00:33:21 – How can pregnancy affect your body - Caz demonstrates exercises to release neck and arm pain.

01:07:53 – How to reach Caz and more information about the company.

Editing & post-production: Bruno (University of Buckingham)

Music: Bensound – Small Guitar