#22: Change Your Mind with Maxime Maanders
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Meet Maxime Maanders, a clinical psychologist and plant medicine specialist with a holistic perspective on human healing. His approach brings together ancient wisdom and evidence-based psychology offering an integrative understanding of what it truly takes for us to heal from psychological trauma. KEY THEMES Psychology, Mental Health, Western Science, Ancient Wisdom, Emotions, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Human Connection, Our Connection to Nature, Music, Group Therapy, Pain and Suffering. BOOKS A Course in Miracles: Scribe – Helen...
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#21: Feel It to Heal It with Frits Van Den Heuval Van Varik
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Meet Frits Van Den Heuval Van Varik, the founder of BaseQamp. Through his work with the Dutch Marine Corps, Amsterdam Police, Amsterdam Fire Department and in youth services, Frits recognised two fundamental human needs: a safe space to develop self-awareness and practical tools for navigating life’s emotional challenges. He invites us to see our ‘emotional backpacks’ filled with joy, struggle, and trauma – not as burdens to carry but as sources of insight and strength. Through BaseQamp, Frits helps people reconnect with their hearts, transform lived experience into...
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#20: Discover Your True Nature with Robbie Fenlon
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Meet Robbie Fenlon, a leadership coach and meditation practitioner drawing on more than 30 years of real-world experience from guiding mountaineering expeditions in the Alps and the Himalayas to coaching executives, scientists and athletes. With a deep interest in meditation, neuroscience and human development, Robbie helps people tap into their own intelligence, strength and experience to find practical solutions to their own challenges. KEY THEMES Experiential Learning Spirituality Climbing, Interacting with Nature, Mental Health, Leadership, Coaching, Meditation, Self-Awareness,...
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#19: Yoga Is Mental Health with Dr Anuranjan Bist
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Meet DR ANURANJAN BIST, who, in his quest to help people find health and happiness pursued a traditional medical training, moved from India to set up a practice in the US. A surprising turn of events lead him back to the Himalayas where he was born, to discover that ‘we are the medicine’ and ‘yoga is mental health’. KEY THEMES Mental Health Traditional Medicine Psychology Yoga Yoga Guru Lineages Kundalini Yoga Yoga Practices Your True Nature Consciousness The Himalayas, India BOOKS Osho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohjan Jain) taught, without ever writing anything. The books published...
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#18: Find Your Flow with Derek Tate
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Meet DEREK TATE, who will reveal the key factors to finding your flow on the ski slopes, at work and in your life. As a trainer of ski instructors and novices alike; Derek is on a mission ‘to help as many people as possible experience the health and wellbeing benefits of sport and mountain life whatever your level of participation and involvement’. KEY THEMES Focus Flow Growth Mindset Personal Growth Dedicated Practice Role Models Optimal Performance Mindfulness Meditation BOOKS The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Life’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl FILM High...
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#17: Coming Back to Our Senses with Nicole Schwab
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Meet NICOLE SCHWAB, who will reveal how our health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and what we can do to look after both. The founding director of the forum of young global leaders, Nicole is actively involved in creating a ‘restoration generation’. BONUS Watch a special video version of this episode's message here: KEY THEMES Ecopreneurs Restoration Generation Diversity Durability Adaptability Biodiversity Balance of Nature Health of our Planet Flow BOOKS Poems by the Persian Poet Hafiz FILM The Whale Rider – story by Witi...
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#16: Ten Good Reasons to Go for a Walk with Thierry & Mary Anne Malleret
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Meet Thierry & Mary Anne Malleret, who reveal the life-changing benefits of walking in nature. Not only is walking good for our bodies, it stimulates our brains, gives us access to our creative and strategic minds, and helps us to make good decisions. Compelling evidence from leading institutions such as Harvard, Stanford University, and The Wellness Institute support movement as not just being important, but essential for us to be able to enjoy physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
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#15: Becoming MovementWise with Tania Cotton
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Meet movement specialist, film producer, and host of LifeWise, Tania Cotton, as she reveals how she helps individuals & elite athletes overcome health & performance challenges to do things in their lives they'd believed impossible. You'll hear Tania's secrets to living life, loving life and performing at your best. She wants everyone to know that most pain, injury and disease is completely avoidable & that becoming MovementWise is the gateway to opening up a life of active opportunities.
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#14: Pain Is Not Part of Your Job Description with Guy Evans
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Meet GUY EVANS, a sedentary ‘office worker’ (trade lawyer), world champion triathlete and a family man with 2 sons who understands the importance not only of a work-life balance, but also of keeping your whole body in balance. Learning to move efficiently has not only enabled him to perform at his best, moving regularly also enables him to access his creative and strategic mind. Guy wants everyone to know that pain is not part of their job description or a natural part of aging.
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#13: Our Health and the Health of Our Planet with Nicole Schwab
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Meet NICOLE SCHWAB, who will reveal how our health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked, and what we can do to look after both. The founding director of the forum of young global leaders, Nicole is actively involved in creating a ‘restoration generation’.
info_outlineMeet Maxime Maanders, a clinical psychologist and plant medicine specialist with a holistic perspective on human healing. His approach brings together ancient wisdom and evidence-based psychology offering an integrative understanding of what it truly takes for us to heal from psychological trauma.
KEY THEMES
Psychology, Mental Health, Western Science, Ancient Wisdom, Emotions, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Human Connection, Our Connection to Nature, Music, Group Therapy, Pain and Suffering.
BOOKS
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A Course in Miracles: Scribe – Helen Schucman, Editor/Collaborator – William Thetford.
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
FILM
Dune based on a novel by Frank Herbert: Dune is not just a sci-fi adventure, it’s a meditation on power, ecology, and how inner transformation can reshape the outer world, for better or for worse.
QUOTES
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"You don’t have to do it alone but you have to do it yourself"
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"The longest (or hardest) way men travel is from the head to the heart" -- Various
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"Trauma that starts in relationship heals in relationship"
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"How can people who are not in touch with themselves expect to help patients get in touch with their true self?"
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"Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside of you as a result"
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"Connect to everything, attach to nothing"
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"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional"
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"Let food be that medicine and medicine be that food"
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"Don’t worship the gate but go inside the temple"
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