Imagine if you could follow your ambition without drowning in it – how much more fulfilling life would be? That’s what Pause Purpose Play is all about – finding balance over burnout by setting you free from needing to be perfect, so that you can take action and get started with what matters to you, instead of getting stuck in procrastination and holding yourself back with self-limiting beliefs your inner critic tells you. In this podcast, Michaela Thomas, Clinical Psychologist, Couples Therapist and founder of The Thomas Connection, shares bite-sized learning around psychology of performance, habits, self-confidence, stress, anxiety, perfectionism, parenthood and couples relationships. The podcast will mix solo episodes with guest interviews; diving deep into their professional zone of genius and learning about how they have found pause, purpose and play in their life and in their work. My new book, The Lasting Connection, is available now from all good bookshops.
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Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Why do we feel so bad at times? Why can’t we just be happy all the time?
Because we haven’t been taught how to understand ourselves, and what it means to be human, and instead chase constant happiness and think we have failed when things aren’t ‘perfect’.
In this podcast episode, Dr Soph, Clinical Psychologist and Author of ‘A Manual for Being Human’, talks about how we can understand ourselves and show compassionate curiosity for the full register of emotions we experience across our lifespan.
- Struggling against our emotions
- Feeling safe and secure in childhood
- Identity forming in adolescence
- Internalising bullying to an inner critical voice
- Pressure from the media to be perfect
- Unhelpful coping strategies making emotions worse
- Taking control vs. accepting and surrendering
- Micro aggressions and prejudice
- Shame vs. guilt
- Self-correction vs. self-criticism
- Tips for coping with emotions
- The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
A Manual for Being Human by Dr. Sophie Mort
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This episode was edited by Emily Crosby Media
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