#055 - Welcome 2021 - How To Use My Free Guide to New Year Journalling
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FREE New Year Journalling Guide on my website elizabethdhokia.com - I share the process and why it's beneficial to start the year this way rather than New Year's resolutions. It's great for reflection, focus, and starting an uncertain new year with kindness and flexibility.
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#054 - Leveraging Instagram To Start a Business and How Scent Can Boost Your Wellbeing with Hannah Chapman of Ava May Aromas
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Hannah Chapman is a 25 year old entrepreneur with a passion for home fragrance. She started her business Ava May Aromas in July 2018 and now runs the business alongside her Dad (Daryl) who is also her business partner.
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#053 - A Few Ideas on How To Cope with Lockdown 2
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Solo episode with Elizabeth Dhokia on day 1 of lockdown 2 in England. Talking about how to cope with loneliness, what is different this time, ideas for adapting, and generally reaching out.
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#052 - Value-Driven Business That Feels Good with Kayte Ferris
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We chat with Kayte Ferris from Simple and Season, a business coach and blogger who left the corporate marketing world and moved to Snowdonia in 2017. Since then she has helped over 100 creatives launch and build their businesses online, winning awards and launching a top-rated podcast along the way. Kayte’s approach is all about creating a business that feels like you, ignoring the rules and should do’s and trusting your soul.
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#051 - The Value of Procrastination
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In a culture that prizes being busy and productive, I argue that there is a value in procrastination.
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#050 - The Power of Centering People and Their Knowledge of Themselves with Holland Otik (pt.2)
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Part 2 of Holland Otik interview.
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#049 - Create a transitional activity to cope with working from home
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We need to way to create space between work and home life. We need to give our brain time to switch where it’s functioning from. We need our nervous system to switch gears.
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#048 - Rituals, Symbols, and Personal Spiritual Practice with Holland Otik (part 1 of 2)
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In today's podcast episode I chatting with Holland Otik, a maker, chef, teacher, researcher and animistic object enthusiast who incorporates magic and ritual into everything they do. She currently owns a small shop and studio in Hereford.
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#047 - How To Choose a Coach
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How to choose a coach - For the 'too long, didn’t read' crowd the simple answer is this - choose somebody you resonate with. It’s a simple as that.
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#046 How Growing Your Empathy Can Improve Your Wellbeing with Mimi Nicklin
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Empathy levels have declined by a staggering 40% in the last 30 years and as Michelle Obama mentioned in her latest speech - the empathy deficit is having a devastating impact on personal relationships and our communities - causing polarisation, division and unhappiness.
info_outlineIn today's podcast episode we chat with Mita Mistry, a mindfulness-based cognitive therapist, acupuncturist, and newspaper columnist.
She talks about how she went from a career in the city to making a change and going back to university to learn acupuncture. Mita shares why she was drawn to the therapeutic profession.
Acupuncture is over 3000 years old. Mita shares a bit about the Chinese philosophy of energy meridians in the body, and how the acupuncturist can look help with unblocking when there are issues. There is a lot more depth to it including elements, and where patterns of disharmony lie.
Mita shares what actually happens in an initial consultation for acupuncture, the detail they go into to get a whole view of your life, lifestyle, health, etc.
We talk about moxibustion as an alternative to acupuncture for those of us with needle-phobias. There are several other options for those of us who would still like to access the acupuncture framework.
Mita shares some of the most common struggles she has noticed amongst us all. She tells us how to decide what the best therapeutic approach is for each individual and how to decide who the best therapists are. She reminds us the need for rapport with a therapist, and someone you feel safe with.
Good life is a stress-free life, being around good people, and feeling like giving back. Being healthy and being in the moment.
The key is to find what a good life means to you as an individual and living intentionally that honours who you are as a person.
We talk about how therapists, of all different kinds, can be such a useful way to help you figure out what you need as they are supportive with your own best interests at heart in a non-judgemental way.
Walking meditation, awareness of sensations in the body as you walk. Meditation can bring more creativity. Talk about mindfulness that brings us out of our auto-pilot of being in our head, and be more present with our body and less so with our thoughts.
Show notes: https://www.elizabethdhokia.com/mitamistry/
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