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Noemie Mooney

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Fed up with wellness that makes life MORE stressful? Me too! Join me as I help you design a life you're obsessed with (without the guru BS, toxic wellness, or cult of hustle). Evidence-based tools that work in real, messy life. Compassion over shame. Experiments over perfection. Ready? Let's go! ⚡️ www.unwrittenpotential.com

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⚡️ My First Live: Spring Healthy Habits + Q&A

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45분
4월 25일

Why You Can't Tell If You're Hungry, Tired, or Anxious

‘Listen to your body’ is the most repeated and least useful phrase in wellness. In this episode, certified health coach Noemie Mooney explains interoception, the science of reading your own body signals, why type A overachievers get it wrong, and the 60-second check-in that rebuilds the skill. What does ‘listen to your body’ actually mean? Nobody tells you. The skill has a name: interoception. It’s how your body communicates through sensations, and a study in Biological Psychology found it breaks down into three things: * how well you detect signals, * how good you think you are at it * and the gap between those two In this episode, I’m sharing how I ignored every signal my body was sending in a hotel gym in Panama City, what a researcher at the University of Washington found after 20 years of studying this skill, and the 60-second check-in that rebuilds the connection. In this episode: * What is interoception? The science of reading your body’s internal signals that ‘listen to your body’ never taught you * Why do type A people ignore body signals? The confidence-accuracy gap in interoception research * How do fitness trackers affect body awareness? When external data replaces internal signals * Can stress make you unable to read your body? How chronic stress scrambles hunger, fatigue, and anxiety signals * What is the 60-second body check-in? The pre-workout pause that rebuilds interoceptive accuracy * Why do people get injured every spring? The annual cycle of overcommitment and burnout Timestamps: * [00:00] “Listen to your body.” Four words. Zero instructions * [02:00] Welcome + why this episode is late (and why that’s the point) * [04:00] The Panama City gym: arriving flat and training anyway * [05:30] What interoception actually is and why nobody taught you * [07:00] The three components: detection, confidence, and the gap * [08:30] How trackers and apps replaced your internal signals * [09:30] Stress scrambles everything: the University of Washington research * [10:30] The spring trap: why people burn out by May every year * [11:30] Your experiment: the 60-second check-in * [12:30] MAKE SPACE Method live cohort + Substack live event Your experiment for this week: Before your next workout, pause for 60 seconds. Ask: how does my body feel right now? Not what the plan says. What is my body actually telling me? You don’t skip the workout. You just notice what’s there before you start. The noticing is the practice. “The body doesn’t shout. It’s more like a very patient colleague you keep putting on mute.” What signal has your body been sending that you keep overriding? Noemie x Noemie Mooney is an ACE Certified Health Coach, ICF-trained Behaviour Change Specialist, podcast host and the creator of the MAKE SPACE Method™, a science-backed framework for sustainable habits and mental health. She writes on Substack about burnout, habit formation, and evidence-based behaviour change psychology for people who want practical tools without the self-help BS. Every week I help 2000+ burned-out humans build sustainable habits for real, messy life. No toxic wellness. No hustle culture. No BS. ⚡️Let's goooo! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

12분
4월 17일

Sleep Anxiety: The Counterintuitive Fix That Works

The 8-hour sleep rule is a myth, catching up on weekends doesn't work, and the technique that actually helped is counterintuitive: try to stay awake. In this episode, certified health coach Noemie Mooney shares how 3 weeks of teaching across timezones wrecked her sleep, and the evidence-based tools that rebuilt it. Does the 8-hour sleep rule actually matter? Not as much as you think. A 2023 study tracking tens of thousands of people found that sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration. In this episode, I'm sharing how 3 weeks of teaching across timezones wrecked my sleep routine, and the evidence-based techniques that rebuilt it. I'll walk you through why catching up on weekends doesn't work, why the desperate effort to fall asleep is the thing keeping you awake, and paradoxical intention: Viktor Frankl's counterintuitive technique where trying to stay awake actually helps you fall asleep. In this episode: * What is paradoxical intention for insomnia? The Viktor Frankl technique where trying to stay awake helps you fall asleep * Does sleep regularity matter more than sleep duration? What a 2023 wearable data study tracking tens of thousands of people found * Can you catch up on sleep at the weekend? Why consistency beats compensation every time * What is sleep performance anxiety? Why monitoring yourself in bed sends alertness spikes through your nervous system * How to rebuild a sleep routine after disruption using Rooted Routines (implementation intentions) * The Stuff You Should Know sleep hack: why listening to a podcast at minimum volume works when trying to sleep doesn’t Timestamps: * [00:00] The 1am brain: “If I fall asleep right now, I’ll get five hours and forty-three minutes” * [01:57] Welcome + teaching Singapore from Panama City * [04:07] What happens when your sleep schedule is disrupted * [04:28] The 8-hour lie: why regularity matters more than duration * [05:25] The catching-up myth: why sleeping in on Sunday makes Monday worse * [06:14] Paradoxical intention: Viktor Frankl’s counterintuitive sleep technique * [07:25] Why it works: sleep performance anxiety and the nervous system * [08:33] The Stuff You Should Know sleep hack * [09:01] Your experiment: one Rooted Routine for tonight * [10:14] The 7-Day Sleep Reset workbook Mentioned in this episode: * Paradoxical intention: Viktor Frankl’s clinical technique for insomnia, where the instruction is to try to stay awake rather than force sleep * Sleep regularity study, 2023: sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (wearable data, tens of thousands of participants) * SMART Goals episode: the Rooted Routines format for attaching new habits to existing ones [🎧 listen here] 7-Day Sleep Reset workbook: seven days of structured sleep tools, worksheets, and evidence-based techniques. $17 USD. YES, IMPROVE MY SLEEP! https://unwritten.podia.com/sleep Your experiment for this week: Pick one Rooted Routine. Choose something you already do every evening and attach one small sleep-friendly action to it. After I brush my teeth, I’ll put my phone in the other room. After I get into bed, I’ll do five slow breaths. One anchor, hold it for a week. “The thing keeping you awake isn’t the noise or the temperature. It’s the desperate effort to sleep.” What’s your 1am brain’s favourite lie? Noemie x Noemie Mooney is an ACE Certified Health Coach, ICF-trained Behaviour Change Specialist, podcast host and the creator of the MAKE SPACE Method™, a science-backed framework for sustainable habits and mental health. She writes on Substack about burnout, habit formation, and evidence-based behaviour change psychology for people who want practical tools without the self-help BS. Every week I help 2000+ burned-out humans build sustainable habits for real, messy life. No toxic wellness. No hustle culture. No BS. ⚡️Let's goooo! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

11분
4월 10일

Why Everything Feels So Hard (It's Not Just You)

The world is simultaneously on fire and deeply, profoundly ridiculous, and somehow you're supposed to just keep going. In this episode, certified health coach Noemie Mooney shares what collective burnout actually looks like, why looking away doesn't help either, and the 4 research-backed things that do. Does everything feel harder right now, or is it just you? It’s not just you. 14 minutes of negative news is enough to trigger catastrophising about your own life. In this episode, let’s get honest about collective exhaustion: the guilt of looking away, the gap between the scroll and the street, and the four evidence-based interventions that actually help. I’ll walk you through what the research says about subtraction, nervous system regulation, movement, and social connection, and why none of it has to be dramatic to make a difference. In this episode: * How does negative news affect your mental health? The 14-minute threshold that changes how you see your own life * Why does looking away from the news make you feel guilty? The overwhelm-disconnection gap * Are we really as divided as the internet says? What the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer found vs what the street actually feels like * What is cyclic sighing? The Stanford-studied breathing technique that outperformed meditation * Subtractive solutions: why your brain defaults to adding more when removing is faster and more effective (Nature, 2021) * Does exercise really help depression? The BMJ’s 218-study analysis and what it found * Why social connection has the same survival effect as quitting smoking Timestamp: * [00:00] The world is on fire (and deeply ridiculous) * [02:07] Welcome + Lake Atitlán + why tuning out doesn’t help * [03:31] 14 minutes of negative news & why everything feels worse * [04:32] The scroll vs the street: are we really that divided? * [06:42] 4 evidence-based ways to cope * [09:53] Your experiment for this week Mentioned in this episode: * Johnston & Davey, British Journal of Psychology, 1997: 14 minutes of negative news triggers personal catastrophising * Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 2024: news avoidance at record high (39% globally) * 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer: 70% unwilling to trust someone with different values * Adams et al., Nature, 2021: people overlook subtractive solutions, especially when overwhelmed * Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine, 2023: cyclic sighing outperformed meditation for mood (Stanford) * Noetel et al., BMJ, 2024: exercise and depression meta-analysis (218 studies), walking/yoga/strength comparable to medication * Holt-Lunstad et al., PLoS Medicine, 2010: social connection increases survival odds by 50% Your experiment for this week: Pick one of the 4 interventions: * Subtract something noisy. * Try five minutes of cyclic sighing. * Move for twenty minutes. * Or text someone and say “is it just me, or does everything feel a bit f****d?” One thing. This week. “Maybe the distrust lives in the scroll, not in the street.” What’s the one thing you’ve stopped doing that made everything feel a bit quieter? Noemie x Noemie Mooney is an ACE Certified Health Coach, ICF-trained Behaviour Change Specialist, podcast host and the creator of the MAKE SPACE Method™, a science-backed framework for sustainable habits and mental health. She writes on Substack about burnout, habit formation, and evidence-based behaviour change psychology for people who want practical tools without the self-help BS. Join 2000+ readers getting my free, 5-min newsletter to design a life that actually feels good in 2026 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

11분
4월 3일

SMART Goals Don't Work: A Guy at a Water Company Ruined Yours

Do SMART goals actually work? No. A 2022 systematic review published in Health Psychology Review analysed 147 studies on goal-setting in health contexts and found zero evidence that SMART goals outperform other approaches. In this episode, certified health coach Noemie Mooney breaks down why the world’s most popular goal framework was never tested, never validated, and may actively be getting in your way. So why do your goals keep failing? I’ll walk you through the science of what actually works: process goals (which outperform outcome goals in research), intrinsic motivation and self-concordance theory, implementation intentions (what I call “Rooted Routines”), and why borrowed goals — goals that look right on paper but don’t connect to your values — may be the real reason you keep quitting. This is Part 2 of The Spring Clear-Out series. In this episode: * Why SMART goals have zero scientific evidence (and the wild origin story behind them) * What is a “borrowed goal” and how to tell if your goals are actually yours * Process goals vs outcome goals: what the research says about which one works * What are implementation intentions? How “Rooted Routines” use habit stacking to build lasting change * The cognitive distortion link: why outcome goals are an all-or-nothing trap * How to set goals that actually stick without worksheets, deadlines, or willpower Chapters: * [00:00] Do SMART goals actually work? * [02:19] SMART goals have never worked for me either * [03:15] The origin story: George Doran, 1981, a water company memo * [04:46] If SMART doesn’t work, what does? * [05:40] Borrowed goals: why you keep chasing someone else’s life * [06:53] Shift 1: process goals vs outcome goals * [07:53] Shift 2: Rooted Routines and why the “after” matters * [09:28] Your experiment: write one Rooted Routine this week Mentioned in this episode: * George Doran: “There’s a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management’s Goals and Objectives” (Management Review, 1981) * Health Psychology Review: systematic review of 147 studies on SMART goals in health contexts (2022) * Self-concordance theory: why goals aligned with your values sustain effort and improve wellbeing * Implementation intentions: the psychological research behind “if-then” planning and habit stacking * Previous episode: The Audacity of Your Own Brain — cognitive distortions and all-or-nothing thinking (The Spring Clear-Out Part 1) Your experiment for this week: Pick one area where you keep starting and stopping. Forget measuring it. Forget deadlines. Ask yourself: does this actually matter to me? Then write one Rooted Routine using this format: “After I [existing habit], I will [tiny action].” Put it somewhere visible. Do it for two weeks. That’s the whole experiment. “You don’t need a worksheet. You need a goal that’s actually yours, rooted to something you already do.” What’s your Rooted Routine? What are you anchoring, and to what? Noemie x This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

11분
3월 28일

The Audacity of Your Own Brain

You’re having a perfectly fine day and then your brain decides to ruin it. “You’re falling behind.” “This isn’t going to work.” “Everyone’s figured this out except you.” It arrives with zero evidence but total certainty, and because it sounds like you, you believe it. This week, we’re pulling that apart. Psychiatrist David Burns identified the specific, predictable ways your brain lies to you, and once you can spot them, they start losing their grip. This is the first episode in The Spring Clear-Out! In this episode: * The thought I had by the Bacalar lagoon that was so ridiculous it made me laugh * The 4 cognitive distortions that would ruin my life if I let them * Why “always” and “never” are red flags in your own self-talk * Albert Ellis’s A-B-C-D-E framework (brilliant psychologist, terrible branding) * The one shift between reacting to your thoughts and choosing what you believe Chapters: * [00:00] Your brain is lying to you * [04:14] 6,000 thoughts a day and most of them are unchecked * [05:08] The 4 cognitive distortions running your life * [07:37] Where the lie actually lives: the A-B-C-D-E framework * [09:06] D is for disputing: “show me the receipts” * [10:03] Your experiment: name the glitch Your experiment for this week: When a thought makes you feel like s**t, don’t fight it. Get curious. Ask: which distortion is this? All-or-nothing? Catastrophising? Overgeneralising? Labelling? Name it. Out loud or in your head. Because the moment you name a pattern, it stops being the truth and becomes a thing your brain does sometimes. “You don’t need to fix your thinking. You just need to stop believing all of it.” Which distortion do you catch yourself in most? All-or-nothing, catastrophising, overgeneralising, or labelling? Noemie x This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

12분
3월 22일

🎧 3 Books the Wellness Industry Doesn't Want You to Read

I got conned by a bestselling author and I didn’t even see it coming. She was on one of the biggest podcasts in the world, super confident, full of bold claims about nutrition, and I bought her book before the episode was over. Within chapters I knew something was off. The wellness space is flooded with charismatic people saying things that sound true but aren’t. So this week I’m doing something different: sharing three books that actually changed something in me, how I think, how I treat myself, how I treat others, written by people who are actually qualified to write them. In this episode: * The time I got conned by a bestselling author (and what it taught me about the wellness space) * Book 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow by the late Daniel Kahneman, and why smart people make terrible decisions * Book 2: What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey, and why your habits aren’t character flaws * Book 3: Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown, and why you can’t process what you can’t name * Why none of these books tell you to try harder “What they do, in different ways, is help you understand yourself better. How your brain works. Why you do what you do. And what’s actually getting in the way. That to me is what good self-help looks like.” Chapters: * [00:00] I got conned by a bestselling author * [03:40] Book 1: Thinking, Fast and Slow — why smart people make terrible decisions * [05:10] Book 2: What Happened to You? — your habits aren’t character flaws * [06:51] Book 3: Atlas of the Heart — you can’t process what you can’t name * [08:32] The one thing all three books have in common Mentioned in this episode: * The late Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow * Dr Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You? * Dr Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart (+ her TED talks) * Full list of all 8 books: unwrittenpotential.com The 3 books at a glance: * Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — Why your brain makes terrible decisions and how to design better systems instead of relying on willpower. Also increasingly relevant in the age of AI. * What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey — Why your habits are adaptations, not character flaws, and how childhood experiences shape behaviour. * Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown — Why you can’t process what you can’t name, and how a richer emotional vocabulary changes everything. Self-knowledge starts with having the words. Want the full list? Head to unwrittenpotential.com for all 8 books that actually changed my life. Tell me: what is one book that has changed your life, or changed how you see yourself, the world, or others? 💛 Noemie X This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

10분
3월 14일

The Life Audit You've Been Avoiding

I’ve been working on something for a while now, and this week I’m doing something I’ve never done before: giving you a full lesson from my brand new course, right here on the podcast. This is Lesson 1 of the MAKE SPACE Method™. It’s called The B******t Audit, and it’s the exercise my coaching clients say changed how they see their own life. What is the B******t Audit? The B******t Audit is a simple but revealing exercise. You rate eight areas of your life on two separate scales: how satisfied you are, and how much energy that area is draining. Those numbers are almost never the same, and that gap is where the insight lives. You might be perfectly satisfied with your job but completely drained by it. Or deeply unhappy in a friendship that barely costs you any energy at all. Most of us have never looked at our lives through both lenses at the same time. Grab the free worksheet at unwritten.coach/audit. It takes about 20 minutes, a pen, and a bit of honesty. Why start here? Because the MAKE SPACE Method™ doesn’t start with goals, habits or motivation. It starts with seeing what’s actually going on. Before you can design a life that works, you need to stop pretending the current one does. The B******t Audit gives you a map of where your energy is really going, so everything that comes after it (the clearing, the designing, the sustaining) has something real to build on. This is Module 1 of four. The full course covers UNCOVER, SUBTRACT, DESIGN, and SUSTAIN. Eight lessons, seven tools, and a system for when everything falls apart. It’s $97, designed for a weekend, and the cart is open now. Three Key Takeaways 1️⃣ Satisfaction and energy drain are two completely different measurements. You can be satisfied and drained at the same time, and that disconnect is exactly what most people miss when they try to change their habits. 2️⃣ Before you add anything new to your life (goals, routines, systems), you need to see what’s already taking up space. The B******t Audit shows you where your energy is leaking so you stop building on top of a mess. 3️⃣ The MAKE SPACE Method™ starts with subtraction, not addition. This lesson is your first step, and it’s completely free. Do the exercise. The gaps will surprise you. Resources Mentioned * Free B******t Audit Worksheet: unwritten.coach/audit * Full MAKE SPACE Method™ Course ($97): unwritten.coach/space Join the Movement! If you enjoyed this episode, you’re going to love my newsletter! I dive deeper into these topics and share exclusive tools, guides, and behind-the-scenes insights that I don’t share anywhere else. It’s like getting your own coach in your inbox every week. Subscribe at www.unwrittenpotential.com to join our community to get unstuck, grow and unleash your Unwritten Potential! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.unwrittenpotential.com

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Fed up with wellness that makes life MORE stressful? Me too! Join me as I help you design a life you're obsessed with (without the guru BS, toxic wellness, or cult of hustle). Evidence-based tools that work in real, messy life. Compassion over shame. Experiments over perfection. Ready? Let's go! ⚡️ www.unwrittenpotential.com

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