what if nostalgia is quietly shrinking our dreams? Is it possible to honour our history without letting it cap our expectations for our future? Let's take a stroll through HiLy's thoughtful perspective and see how we can gently tip the scales towards optimism - without losing touch with what makes us, well, us.

what if nostalgia is quietly shrinking our dreams? Is it possible to honour our history without letting it cap our expectations for our future? Let's take a stroll through HiLy's thoughtful perspective and see how we can gently tip the scales towards optimism - without losing touch with what makes us, well, us.

Spam Filter for Your Brain: make space to simply be. Notice the quiet beneath the busy. Step away from your to-do list, even for a short while. You might just discover the kind of clarity, joy, and self-possession that no ticked box can ever give you.

Where are we deprioritising our own needs in the hope that someone else will notice what we’re doing and give us the recognition we’re not giving ourselves?

It stole the air from my lungs. The movement from my limbs. The storage for my brain. The thief.

I wanted to give to you on today's podcast is some real life situations as to where boundaries are important and why it's of benefit to you to be able to put these, "yes, I do want this in my life", and "no, I don't want that in my life". Strategies around the life that you live in.

what do I choose on purpose? What I mean by this is quite often we can get distracted by all kinds of decisions, thinking there's a right answer and a wrong answer. And actually, what I have decided, the older that I've gotten, is to ensure that the decisions that I make align with my values and align with my morals and my ethics and who I want to be in the world.

Where are we deprioritising our own needs in the hope that someone else will notice what we’re doing and give us the recognition we’re not giving ourselves?

Uncertainty feels a lot like danger to our brains. And we want to get out of there as soon as possible. And it's very instinctual to try and move away from this in any which way that we can. So, we think that if we just make the right choice, we'll be able to stop feeling rubbish. But often, the problem is that we're also telling ourselves that if we don't make the right choice, everything will go horribly wrong.

I really appreciated the calm presence and clarity Kathryn brings when she enters the room. It was a gorgeous afternoon filled with incredible people. This is a portrait of Kathryn.

I really appreciated the calm presence and clarity Kathryn brings when she enters the room. It was a gorgeous afternoon filled with incredible people. This is a portrait of Kathryn.

Spam Filter For Your Brain - Episode 149 I know I keep banging on about body image to you in these podcasts, and there's a reason for...

This week's podcast is here to try and show you how you can move through them a little bit more quickly and try and make some use out of them, rather than just being something really awful that we have to have to endure as humans. This podcast is about how to turn negative emotions into positive outcomes.

When we're on our own personal journey of growth and transforming ourselves from endless people pleasers, we can sometimes find that other people are not quite as on board with our healing and personal generosity as we might like them to be. And sometimes it's going to hit a little bit hard. And this episode is about navigating your relationship with other people whilst prioritising your own personal growth and your own personal choices.

Most of us think about the idea of certainty as this idea that when we have a whole load of things in front of us or we have a really big decision that we need to make, we're going to know what the right thing to do is because it's going to feel right. And that is us putting the idea of our feeling of certainty or our feeling of confidence to be on an external circumstance, which is us making the right decision, and that decision making us feel good.

Spam Filter For Your Brain - Episode 145 Most of us have narratives about our bodies that we've been telling ourselves for our whole...

Spam Filter For Your Brain - Episode 143 There's a sly little sneaky thought that I think most of us fall into the trap of, even if it...

Old friends ask how I am, and I often answer: “Overall, my soul is good, but my life is very small now.”   It's a strange thing having...

Spam Filter For Your Brain - Episode 143 One of the things that I noticed when I started getting into thoughtwork was I was worried to...

Spam Filter For Your Brain - Episode 142 One of those sound bites that I think we all hear quite often is "just be kind to yourself. Just...