To Follow Your Head or Your Heart?
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I have been at a complete crossroads for a little while now. I describe it like one of those you find in the outback of Australia. Where you can see for miles and miles either way, yet you have no idea what might be on the horizon of either – so you just stay sat in the middle sweating it out under the scorching sun, until you fall into a complete and utter burnout. And burn I did. You see, when you feel so drained and exhausted, your decisions feel muddled and so you ask everyone around you for their advice – well at least this is what I did. But for every nugget of wisdom that was...
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Healing From Abandonment
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What comes to mind when you hear the word 'abandonment.' Perhaps, it takes you back to a difficult time and place in your childhood. Maybe you recall a story you heard on the news of a baby being left on the doorstep. Perhaps it reignites the pain you felt when your partner left you for someone else. Or maybe the humiliation you felt the time you spoke up at work and were immediately shut down. No matter what kind of picture the word abandonment paints - feelings of being left behind, unlovable and unimportant can infiltrate every relationship you encounter. The word abandonment hadn't...
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It's Never Too Late
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Have you ever looked at someone else's life and wished it was yours? Maybe you feel stuck, unfulfilled and as though you are just going through life on autopilot. Or perhaps you have a longing for something more, but think that it’s all too late for you. We are conditioned to think that the way to win at life is to have a 2.4 family, a stable job and a nice house with a garden, so why is it that so many of us who seemingly have all of this, are unhappy? It was a question that kept nagging away at my guest for this week, who at the beginning of the second half of her life, made...
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What Is Love?
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It’s something so intrinsic to our very being, yet at the same time, almost impossible to define. From the moment we enter the world, to the moment we depart it, love is the one thing that we all search for. Like the air we breathe, we cannot live without it. We seek it in people, places and things, yet the purest form of love surely demands nothing in return and must be nurtured from within first. My own relationship with love has been complicated and was tested a few years ago, when my heart was broken in ways I didn’t even know was possible. Like a tsunami, it engulfed me...
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My Story
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Content warning- This episode contains mentions of eating disorders. Welcome to Season Two of Flip It! It feels so wonderful to be back, and to be sharing more stories and voices, from more incredible humans. And so to begin the next Chapter of Flip It, I have, after some gentle encouragement from you, decided to start flip the script and begin the season by sharing my story. So, I hope that what you hear may give you a little insight into my own storybook and how all the chapters that came before, led me to creating Flip It, and to you. But more than anything, I...
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Coming Soon: Flip It Season Two
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I’m thrilled to share, that the new season of Flip It is here! Kicking off on January 20th, this next chapter is filled with more stories and voices that will make you laugh, cry and offer you powerful insights to help you navigate the beautiful messiness of life. This season, we’ll explore themes like love, surrender, survival, acceptance and success. Through heartfelt guest interviews and my personal reflections, we’ll embrace life’s highs and lows together. It is only by sharing stories that we can help each other to look at our own experiences through another lens, and flip the...
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What Heartbreak Taught Me
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There are no words to describe it. Heartbreak is like an explosion of your soul. It shatters every part of you, leaving you in pieces that you have no idea how to put back together. You can read, watch and listen to as many stories as you want, but nothing can prepare you for the brutality of heartbreak. You will never be the same again. Your heart won’t ever be the same again, but you will be ok and your heart won’t stay empty for long. In the aftermath of its destruction, you will discover a whole new chapter full of characters, who will hold your hand as you climb your...
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Heartbreak - A Scientific Inquiry With Florence Williams
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There has to be a reason why we risk having our hearts broken over and over again, when the experience is enough to leave you fighting for survival. The narrative of heartbreak is woven into our life from childhood. The cartoons, books, TV shows and films we are exposed to are littered with stories of love and loss. From Disney’s 'Beauty and The Beast' to Shakespeare’s 'Romeo and Juliet' and everything in between, we are well acquainted with heartbreak. But when it actually happens to you, everything you thought you knew about heartbreak evaporates into oblivion. There is...
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Rejection - The Rewards of Rejection With Patty LaRoche
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It’s a story we could all write, it’s a script we have all read and it’s a page that all of us will turn again. The plot is centred around the universal experience of Rejection. Why me? What’s wrong with me? Why wasn’t I enough? What was it about me that they didn’t like? The sting of rejection can wound the most resilient of souls and can leave you questioning the very fabric of your being. But the truth is not all of our dreams are meant to be fulfilled and we are not everyone’s ‘cup of tea.’ But even more true, is that when one door closes...
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Lost and Found With Tansy Jane Dowman
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Most of us go through moments of feeling as though something isn’t quite right - as though perhaps we have taken the wrong path. But when the path you had been walking suddenly hits a dead end without warning, it can leave you completely and utterly bewildered. When we feel lost, we can feel a million miles away from where we once were or where we want to be. We look for the answers in places, people and things in the hope that we will be shown the way back. But there is one place, a place that if we pay attention to and greet with curiosity, we can find all the answers we ever...
info_outlineThere has to be a reason why we risk having our hearts broken over and over again, when the experience is enough to leave you fighting for survival.
The narrative of heartbreak is woven into our life from childhood. The cartoons, books, TV shows and films we are exposed to are littered with stories of love and loss. From Disney’s 'Beauty and The Beast' to Shakespeare’s 'Romeo and Juliet' and everything in between, we are well acquainted with heartbreak.
But when it actually happens to you, everything you thought you knew about heartbreak evaporates into oblivion. There is nothing that can prepare you for the stabbing, then throbbing, then aching pain it leaves in your body.
The only way to not suffer its brutality, is to never love at all and what kind of life would that be? But perhaps if we paid more attention to this unique and universal emotional pain, then maybe we could find a way to knit our hearts back together with a fragility that is even stronger than before.
My guest for Part One of my exploration into heartbreak is the journalist Florence Williams, who went on a deeply personal and scientific inquiry to find meaning again after saying goodbye to her 25 year marriage.
So, I hope that wherever you are in your own journey of love, our conversation will not only comfort you, but also help you to realise that not only is there is good reason for the pain you feel, but that there is also a way out of it.
Connect with Florence Williams: https://www.florencewilliams.
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