iusetime

iusetime

Sophie and Julie share a passion for empowering people to create happiness and fulfilment in their lives. They do this by exploring self-awareness and balance in the 5 pillars of Mind, Body, Soul, Purpose and Connection. Each week the girls deep dive into a topic that relates to one or more of the 5 pillars. They share their understanding of how to approach the challenges we face in our modern world by remaining connected and aware of the things that matter most. Time is an unrenewable resource, how are you choosing to use yours?

Episodes

  1. 04/04/2020

    88 | How is society impacting your health and happiness?

    Are we living in a world that supports our physical, mental and emotional well-being? In this episode we dive into how the constructs of our modern world can negatively impact the five pillars of our lives: Mind, Body, Soul, Purpose & Connection. Although your health and happiness may be challenged by the world around you, you have a huge amount of power to create a lifestyle that makes you feel happy, fulfilled and well. We discuss ways to enjoy the good bits of society, whilst limiting it’s negative impacts. In this episode we chat about: We introduce the topic (0.45) Relating to the 5 life pillars (1.30) What is society and how can you embrace the positive elements (2.15) Awareness and taking ownership of your approach to life (5.00) We aren’t taught how to optimize our minds and process our emotions (6.00) Our minds struggle with the modern overwhelm (7.20) Society pressures you to achieve, so you can buy lots of things (8.08) Self- awareness, personal development and emotional intelligence (10.00) How society profits off your body insecurities (11.00) Our lifestyles don’t allow us to prioritize our health (13.45) A daily reminder that you’re part of something bigger than you (16.40) Gratitude is the place to start (19.55) How we view ‘jobs’ in our modern society (21.05) Money vs following your dreams, and the individual pursuit of success (23.35) False connections and distractions (25.00) Trying to fulfil the expectations of society (26.05) The toilet paper freak- out (27.00) How the media affects our mental health (30.20) How tech takes away our connection with others and with ourselves (31.00) Sophie shares her metaphor (32.00) Julie shares her metaphor (33.20) You have the ability to make a change (34.15) Reference: Lewis Howes interview with Dr Mark Hyman https://lewishowes.com/podcast/build-your-health-to-build-your-wealth-on-dr-mark-hyman-podcast/

    35 min
  2. 26/02/2020

    85 | Living with a chronic illness

    Are you or someone you love dealing with a chronic illness? These invisible aliments are on the rise in our modern world, yet so often they are hard to diagnose and understand. Today we explore how to manage your mental and physical health in the event of a chronic challenge by sharing our own experiences. Acceptance, letting go of blame and not over-identifying with a diagnosis are the foundations of management, and arming yourself with knowledge is the first step on the path to healing. Today we chat about: We introduce the topic (0.50) Sophie’s experience with migraines (1.40) Invisible illnesses can be hard to diagnose & understand (2.45) Sometimes goals have to wait, for the sake of your physical & mental health (4.00) Try not to be mad at your body and rebel against self-care (6.05) Learn as much as you can about your health (7.33) Can you find purpose in the pain? (8.24) Accepting how to live with a new normal and being empowered (9.37) How embracing the pillars can help manage chronic illness (10.50) Learn to let go of blame, you can’t change the past (11.30) Julie’s experience with auto-immune (12.45) Honour your limitations (18.10) Try not to over-identify with your illness (18.30) There are lots of auto-immune theories (19.30) Positive lifestyle changes do help (21.40) Work on avoiding the victim mentality (23.00) Invisible illness can be hard for people to understand, even doctors (25.15) Stress feeds illness, active your parasympathetic nervous system (29.00) Julie shares her metaphor (30.50) Sophie shares her metaphor (32.00) We love to shed positive light on challenging topics (33.20) References: Stress Episode: https://soundcloud.com/iusetime/23-stress

    36 min

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Sophie and Julie share a passion for empowering people to create happiness and fulfilment in their lives. They do this by exploring self-awareness and balance in the 5 pillars of Mind, Body, Soul, Purpose and Connection. Each week the girls deep dive into a topic that relates to one or more of the 5 pillars. They share their understanding of how to approach the challenges we face in our modern world by remaining connected and aware of the things that matter most. Time is an unrenewable resource, how are you choosing to use yours?