Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women

Series 3 – Episode 4: BONUS – Join Julia for her recent lecture as part of the Masters in Happiness Studies on Taking Wholebeing Happiness to the next level - for you & Planet Earth. Explore Interbeing; its definition, where it comes from, who's behind it and why it's important to you and to the Happiness Revolution. We'll touch on the systemic view of happiness from Western thinking and how this relates to the concepts such as dependent origination from Buddhist philosophy.  Along the way, we'll meet Buddhist nuns from Thomsaling in India, clouds, Peter Senge, Thich Nhat Hanh and sunflowers. Together, we'll create an embodied experience of Interbeing that you can take on your own Happiness journey. You'll learn some powerful self-coaching tools to help you navigate your relationship with yourself and with others, including with our Planet Earth. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. ·        Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail ·        Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 3 – Episode 3: INTERBEING – Join Julia to dig a little deeper into what Interbeing actually means and how embracing it will expand the way you see your Midlife Happiness - how we can embrace life and death in our wholebeing and how we can leverage our extraordinarily interconnected for happiness within ourselves, with others and in the wider world. What does it mean to bring the idea of “inter-are” into how you view yourself and your relationship with the loved, the neglected and the rejected parts of you. Get a taster of the new journey we're embarking on - from Peter Senge's systems thinking, butterflies, pieces of strings, clouds and Russian wedding bands; joined by poet, David Whyte and Zen master, That Nich Hanh. This episode I say goodbye to my beloved Mother and step into my own “next phase” on board a plane to Italy and the World Happiness Summit. Do join me to start living into your deepest happiness, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. ·        Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail ·        Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us   Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 3 – Episode 2: BONUS - Looking for a post-pandemic adventure? Join Julia Seal on her new 20-month journey to a Masters degree in Happiness Studies! It's a journey she's embarking on from this week until May 2024 - a journey to deepen her work here in Happiness-Matters; spiralling deeper into what Happiness is around the world, for you as clients and for herself. It's not just another qualification, it's something that's unfolded for Julia in the liminal space of this post-pandemic world... building a community to expand The Happiness Revolution, wallowing in the materials & building a deeper connection to what's greater than us. Join Julia #LIVE on Facebook every Friday to see what's next in this Masters adventure! "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 3 – Episode 1: INTERBEING – Welcome to the start of Series 3 where we'll be crafting our Wholebeing & expanding our Interbeing through the 3 Relationships that are at the core of Midlife Happiness. Embrace it all with me in this new Series – all the scientific knowledge, all the wisdom of our ancient traditions, all the learnings from our multi-cultural world to explore the biggest puzzle of them all... through the lens of THE single biggest contributor to happiness in life. So if you're feeling jumbled up, puzzled, confused, really busy OR just empty after life has backhanded you with divorce, death, empty nest or retirement, here's what to do next... Here's your journey to uncover what Midlife Happiness means for you, what Midlife Wholebeing is, what Midlife Interbeing is. Here's where we start to unpuzzle it all together. 3 Core Relationships, 3 Pathways to HOW to actually do it, live it, Be it. Discover what's at the middle of your Midlife Happiness... & it's not the Midlife spread or that persistent muffin top! Join me to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 3 - Trailer: How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve? Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions & more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relationships or feeling anxious, unfulfilled, discontent, burnt out, overwhelmed or just, stuck! Midlife is a calling to your own metamorphosis: to let go of what's no longer working in your life > to strengthen your Inner Power > to build your Legacy for others > to craft your deepest Wholebeing Happiness... it's the perfect time for you to solve the puzzle of the Midlife Transition & embark on an exploration of living into the Best Version of you, today. Create your new Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle by exploring how to get unstuck in Midlife - discover how to coach yourself every day at home, in relationships & at work, how to purposefully manage your own mind & reconnect to your body, how to “hack” your brain with tools backed up by scientific research, how to unwind your unhelpful habits & how to take the best from the world's wisdom on the pursuit of happiness. In addition to mini-coaching sessions & step-by-step tools, each episode helps you to take immediate action on the most impactful ways to increase your daily happiness, while supporting you on a longer reinvention coaching journey to living a purposeful & intentional life of Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 32: Bonus – Welcome to March, it's Happiness Month! Join coach Julia Seal for a very special month diving deep into all you need to know about Midlife Wholebeing Happiness… what it's about, what are the ingredients & how to go about creating it in your life. So much happening this month, from the World Happiness Report to the UN International Day of Happiness > how do we navigate our Midlife as we emerge into this post-Pandemic world, especially with all that's happening in Ukraine right now?   Don't miss out, sign up now - https://bit.ly/3hW6g9w Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.    "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us   Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 31: INSIGHT – Explore the magic of transitions in your Midlife & how it's possible to really love the unknown, to embrace uncertainty. Julia Seal shares ways to make sense of the Liminal Space of being in-between, what it means to traverse Ancient Greece's River of Misery & the Buddhist Bardo states of consciousness with the Ancient Roman God Janus showing us the way. Find out what it means to step into your own self-evolution by hanging out on The Edge of Comfort, getting really good with Discomfort so that you are truly free to craft an intentional, conscious life - living your purposeful Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife. Try out three ways to hold steady through change so that you can build your courage & resilience, while having some light-hearted fun & delight along the way. Change is upon you in Midlife - roles, relationships, responsibilities, purpose, it's all happening! Today's episode suggests some tools to help you rest & settle into change, to make it more bearable, even how to wallow & dance in your Midlife creativity!   Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us   Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 30: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation

Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation

Series 2 – Episode 28: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation

Series 2 – Episode 27: BONUS – Enjoy this holiday special 4-part conversation on Toxic Conflict in your Midlife Relationships & What To Do. Deep dive into the 4 worst toxic behaviours that show up in our relationships, whether it's at home with our loved ones or at work in our teams, with coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder, Jamie Jenkins. We discuss the most poisonous of toxic behaviours: Criticism & Blame – Defensiveness – Stonewalling & Sulking – Contempt. How to identify each one exactly, where & how it's showing up in your relationships

Series 2 – Episode 26: PATTERNS – Find out today why your Midlife currently looks the way it does – good & not so good – why you're getting the results you want in your life, why you're feeling the way you do, why you take action or procrastinate, why your relationships are the way they are, why you're feeling happy right now or frustrated, sad, despondent, confused... > everything! We're talking the MAGIC formula for creating your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife, how to play with & even change your neurological wiring! Find out the jigsaw puzzles pieces & Lego building blocks of this magic formula. Then, coach Julia Seal goes step-by-step how to use it & how to to play with it to purposefully mix-up these components of your Inner & Outer world. You'll be able to use it to create awareness of what's really going on inside you, to develop a deep understanding of yourself & others in your life & even, to increase compassion – for yourself & others. Julia uses an example with “difficult Uncle Alec at the Christmas dinner table” & your frustration, irritation, your anger about how he always seems to ruin the day. This is how you can enjoy your Christmas dinner no matter how impossible Uncle Alec is & no matter what he says to stir the family drama! Could change in your life really be this easy? Wholebeing Happiness is really just one magic Lego building brick away!   Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 25: BONUS – This live Q&A session is full of strategies & tips for managing tense relationships with your family over the holidays... from how to move through Discomfort & how to choose Boundaries as well as what it means to MeSearch & Gamify your holidays! Join coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder Jamie Jenkins talking about family events, relationships & triggers – what you can do towards having an easier holiday season. If you have alot of problems with relationships, discover what might be the cause & how you can use this insight to set you up for happier family gatherings. Enjoy a quick technique to reset when your emotions get out of control & find out how to set Intentions for your relationships while creating new habits to enhance your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness – evolving yourself every step of the way! Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 24: BODY AS BRAIN – The Dalai Lama has said: “The human mind, at its default setting, is compassionate". Discover how your compassion, your ability to feel empathy & your altruistic motivations are actually wired into you through the action of a specially-evolved bundle of nerves, the Vagus. Responsible for your body's automatic activities when it's at rest – digestion, reproduction, the immune response - the Vagus Nerve is a fundamental biological building block of human compassion & your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife! Join coach Julia Seal for a “wander” through the responsibilities of the Vagus Nerve, from being the superhighway between the gut & the brain in your head to fear management & your resilience in times of difficulty as well as how it affects whether you feel compassion at the sight of someone's suffering. Essentially, find out ways to activate & tone your Vagus Nerve so you can tap into all its benefits – easy, everyday Happiness Habits – from singing in the shower to Yoga's Ujaii or Brahmari breathing to gratitude journals & laughing. A fascinating addition to your self-coaching & a vital piece in your Midlife Happiness puzzle! Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us   Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 23: BONUS – Enjoy this recording from the recent Lemon Rebellion Summit where Julia Seal talks about Wholebeing Happiness & particularly, Emotional Wholebeing Happiness. In this session, explore how to work with your Negative Emotional Wholebeing for your own evolution. Julia shares 4 facts that make stepping into this work a little easier – to help you tap into your own courage & wisdom to walk towards your Negative Emotional Wholebeing. She touches on the Yin:Yang | 50:50 reality of your emotional life as well as how being “emotionally unskilled” in one area or layering judgment onto everything you feel can get you stuck emotionally in your Midlife. Then, Julia's also outlines 3 ways to cultivate your Positive Emotional Wholebeing – hormone hacking, intentional “brain management” & how to actually FEEL our emotions fully in order to experience them, feel them, embody them & then let them go!   Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 22: Bonus – LIVE

Series 2 – Episode 21: Meditation – Need an alternative to Meditation practice when it all seems too difficult & your mind is completely mad with thoughts? Discover 6 techniques to turn Writing into a meditation practice so that you can develop a relationship with your Mind - a Midlife crazy-wisdom skill! Coach Julia Seal explores how to work with narrative writing, expressive writing, free-flow with journal prompts, Morning Pages & Thought Downloads - even, Professor Dumbledore's Pensieve! Using these alternatives to meditation opens the door to seeing the difference between THINKING & THOUGHT where you're the Observer, the Witness of your own Mind. You'll discover how to brain dump, how to thought-download, how to reframe & how to declutter your own Mind, just like you declutter a cupboard in your house! Brain Management through Meditation or Writing as Meditation is all about how to increase awareness of the thoughts going on in your mind – how to develop impartiality so you can observe your own thinking without judgment (no inner self-critic here!) – how to work with your exact patterns of how you turn Thinking into Thought, where you engage with your thinking mind & then create the Think-Feel-Act patterns that run your life - how to find where unseen bias is holding you back... eventually we even get to explore the independent origination of thought & what this means for your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife – such a puzzle, so exciting!   Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation

Series 2 – Episode 19: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Lemon Rebellion Summit next week on Monday 19 September at 10:30am (New York) / 3.30pm (London) / 2.30pm (UTC). In today's pre-session, Julia talks all about Wholebeing Happiness & how change/adversity are your best opportunity to stop, take stock of your life journey so far & decide how you want to step forward. A crook in the road is nothing less than an opportunity to evolve yourself! Julia shares what Wholebeing Happiness means to her & how it can help you live in more appreciation for life & more joy. Join Julia for 2 sessions at the virtual Summit where you can interact live with her & where she'll coach you through practical steps you can take to become more resilient, creative & thriving. She'll also be running her popular, daily Happiness Challenge to apply some of the best science-backed happiness habits to improve your life. Sign-up to access the entire 5-day Summit at https://www.lemonrebellion.com/ using JULIA5 for your signup discount. Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 18: BRAIN – In today's next Brain Design episode we meet the Executive in your Head who's a key player in your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness! Join coach Julia Seal to discover how to tap into your built-in ability to choose yourself, your goals, your happiness first. Julia looks into the PreFrontal Cortex of the Human Brain to find out who (what) is responsible for reasoning, creativity, decision-making, planning & emotional regulation – who holds all the power in your life to choose yourself first, to choose for yourself – & who chooses to sabotage all your good efforts... Explore Inner Power & discover your Choice Point – the Powerful Pivot point where all your choice for Wholebeing Happiness lies in your Midlife. She looks at the very special skill you have in-built already & how you can harness & expand this skill to deal with those urges for chocolate cake or what makes you just want to snap at your partner, throw your toys in the boardroom or run off stage during that next speech! Eeek Glossophobia

Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE

Series 2 – Episode 16: PATTERNS – Discover where much of your personal power is tied up by the time you get to Midlife. With coach Julia Seal, tap into the delight of playing with Lego bricks as the way to start claiming back this power... how you can build it, brick by brick, until you've created your Wholebeing Happiness & then, how you become unstoppable in the world! All your power for change comes from how you view two essential concepts – your Outer Life Patterns - seeing how they influence Midlife discontent: restlessness in your marriage, boredom with your work, bloated through Menopause, tired friendships, endless household chores, a broken relationship with yourself. Today, expand your exploration into the DNA of your Happiness - your Inner & Outer Life Patterns. They're an essential corner puzzle pieces of Midlife Happiness – of the skill you can perfect right here - Brain Management: how to use your entire Being intentionally & purposefully to craft Wholebeing Happiness that sees you moving into your Next Phase with passion, peace & joy... with power. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favourite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 15: BODY AS BRAIN – This week, Julia Seal explores the Mind:Body Connection, what it's all about & what understanding it means for coaching & living into our long lasting Happiness. It's an episode full of surprising delights about our Midlife bodies – from how visualisation can build us muscles even if we're still in lockdown, away from the gym – where does most of our happiness hormone, Serotonin come from (it's not what you think) – do we really have a second brain - how can a physical nerve build our feelings of compassion – who are the 40 trillion organisms free-riding in our gut... Julia shares several ideas on how you can use the power of this Mind:Body puzzle. You can start tapping into the flow between your mind & body – purposefully & intentionally – as part of crafting your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/  

Series 2 – Episode 14: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Happy & Healthy Midlife Summit where she's interviewed all about Wholebeing Happiness. You'll find out more about what Wholebeing Happiness actually is & what it means for us as Midlife women. Julia shares ideas & tips on how best to get started with unpuzzling your Midlife, creating your very own version of Midlife Wholebeing Happiness. There's a workbook to go with this session as well as a meditation, available in the show notes. Join Julia here on the podcast to starting living into your Best Life in Midlife, today.  "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 13: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation: Heart Breathing (35 mins) - Join Julia Seal for a guided meditation using her Heart Breathing technique. Use it to help when you're feeling unhappy, sad, anxious, angry or frustrated... AND when you want to feel more Calm, Peace, Kindness or Love. AND when you want to expand these good feelings out into the world & towards others. This is a special meditation to celebrate this July's birthdays of the Dalai Lama & Nelson Mandela. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 12: MEDITATION – What's happening inside your brain while you are meditating? Join coach Julia Seal to find out more about your brain wave patterns, which ones are at play when you're meditating & which ones you might want to increase, when. Discover how to switch from one brain pattern to another so your brain is working optimally for you, throughout your day, not only when you're meditating. Go into more detail on how meditation can change your brain as soon as you sit on the mat, as well as how it can help you alter the very structure & function of your brain, including those really deep-seated Midlife character traits! Want to feel calmer, more relaxed, peaceful? Meditation can do this – but how about increasing your mental dexterity, giving you laser-like focus, increasing your brain circuitry for empathy & increasing your capacity for creative insights... wow... Also, find out more about one tricky Happiness Trap just waiting for you when you start out meditating, especially as a Midlife professional woman & how to avoid it, so Wholebeing Happiness & the benefits of meditation can unfold in your life. Special offer too - Jump on a quick coaching call with Julia to help you with your meditation practice: “UNSTUCK - the magic of Midlife Momentum!” Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 11: BRAIN – Today's discussion about a small web in our Brain Stem shows you how to make change easier by working with your brain design on purpose. Julia Seal explores the Reticular Activating System to find out more about its gatekeeping function, how it's part of an unconscious processing system of 11 million pieces of information per second – something very necessary when you think about what's out there in the world: just your taste senses alone are capturing 1000 bits of information per second, never mind the 34 gigabytes of information coming in from our online life every day! Discover how the RAS acts like your very own social media or search engine algorithm – and why switching off Apple's new App Tracking feature might even be to your disadvantage! Despite the RAS working below your conscious awareness, it's possible to use it to our advantage, making change easier for you by reprogramming it. Your RAS is what brings Confirmation Bias & the Law of Attraction to life! Julia shares ways you can access your RAS, so it's working for your best life in Midlife, it's working towards your Wholebeing Happiness. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE

Series 2 – Episode 9: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: Belly Breathing for Anxiety & Insomnia (15 mins) - Join Julia Seal for an easy, guided meditation using an age-old technique for managing stress. Use it whenever anxiety is too much for you – when your body feels as if it's on fire from anxiety and your thoughts are spiralling. It can also bring ease to those long nights of sleeplessness during menopause when your body is hot and uncomfortable and your mind just won't settle. Perfect to bring you release when your mind is spinning – when it's just too active with all your midlife responsibilities, particularly in the depths of the night! Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/   "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

Series 2 – Episode 8: BONUS – Join coach Julia Seal for 8 days to explore 8 Happiness Habits, along with 8 tips to integrate these new habits into your daily life… these are 8 of her personal favourites and the ones she practices every day in her own life. Listen in to the Wrap-Up LIVE session here. Even if you missed the Challenge, join Julia here to decide what Happiness Habit you might like to add into your life and get consistent at doing. There's a free workbook that brings the Challenge to life every day.

Series 2 – Episode 7: PATTERNS – It's the 4th corner piece of your Midlife Happiness Puzzle – the next step in how to manage your Midlife brain to create the life you want – your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness. Today, kicks off the exploration of Life Patterns, the wiring patterns that start in your brain and end with you taking action (or not!) in the world. Discover how your Inner and Outer Life Patterns work to connect you with the world you live in and what components make up your Mind:Body wiring. Also, how thoughts, emotions, feelings, body sensations and actions are interconnected and work together to create the life you're living right now. These Life Patterns are the formula for creating your best life in midlife. Coach Julia Seal expands your self-coaching with 2 coaching tools to start decluttering your Mind from the myriad of thoughts you have, every day – somewhere between 12,000 & 70,000: of which 80% are negative & 95% are the same repetitive thoughts as the day before! Today, is all about developing more awareness of the 3 types of Thoughts that run through your brain every day, the difference between Emotions and Feelings, what is your Somatic, Embodied experience of life actually is and why you take the actions or inactions that you do – sometimes despite yourself! Managing our Midlife brains on purpose and intentionally to create the happiness you want starts here with these 4 corner pieces: understanding our brain's actual design + meditation, mindfulness + tapping into our body as brain + working with our life patterns wiring formula   Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us   Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 6: BODY AS BRAIN – It's the third corner piece of your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! We begin our exploration of the Mind:Body Connection and how to tap into its power for your long lasting happiness. Coach Julia Seal introduces one of her favourite tools, one she uses herself every day and one that is foundational to exploring your body's wisdom in our Brain Management journey – your Midlife Red Flag warning System. Look at Red Flags as they're built into our language in order to identify your own Red Flags – from pirates' warnings to sharks and wildfires. Find the “Flight or Flight” system that's unique to you and what's actually happening inside your body when this system is triggered. Then dig deeper into the more subtle signals of your somatic experience – the little sign posts on your day's journey that something is not quite right for you, when you're off track in your life. By following Julia's simple steps to doing this, you can create your own inner reference system and even discover how to use midlife irritation and midlife exhaustion to your advantage – how these can actually show you, moment-by-moment, the way forward to your best life! Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today.   "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us   Find Everything at: https://happiness-matters.coach/

Series 2 – Episode 5: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: 3 Breaths Expanded (20 mins) - Julia Seal guides you through this 20 minute meditation to so you can calm your brain, gather your thoughts and relax your entire Being. Experience how to switch your brain from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention. Then, see what happens as you reduce the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline and instead flood your brain and body with the Happiness hormones, neurotransmitters: Oxytocin, Dopamine, Endorphins & Serotonin Discover “The Pause” – a happiness secret that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond, especially your relationships and even those hot flushes! Using this meditation is your doorway into discovering your Happiness Power in Midlife – it's the perfect tool to get you started with a complete meditation practice. 20 minutes in your day for a for a lifetime of benefits.   Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Everything at https://happiness-matters.coach

Series 2 – Episode 4: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: 3 Breaths to get you started (5 mins) - Join Julia Seal for the easiest way to start meditating so you can enjoy the benefits of calming your brain and slowing your racing thoughts in just 5 minutes. Experience how to switch your brain from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention, while reducing the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline. Discover “The Pause” – a happiness secret that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond, especially your relationships and even those hot flushes! This meditation sets you up with a simple & practical breathing meditation habit to help you to tap into the secret of Happiness! Just 5 minutes at any time in your day, wherever you are.  Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: http://www.happiness-matters.coach

Series 2 – Episode 3: MEDITATION – It's the second corner piece for your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! We begin our exploration of all things Mindfulness & Meditation so that you can setup your own Practice, expand it & then establish it into your life, long term. We look at everything from simple but powerful Breathing Practices, Mindfulness & Mindful Meditation, Resting Meditation, the cultivation of compassion & loving-kindness as well as the deeper Insight Meditation – so much fun ahead! Today, coach Julia Seal (& long term meditator) starts with the easiest – & most foundational of all practices when it comes to Managing our Brains with Mindfulness & Meditation – Breathing! Yes... this simple hardly noticed automatic behaviour that we all have to do to stay alive is the start of our journey – our journey to go from being stuck in Midlife or suffering in emotional pain & confusion to our Midlife resilience, creativity, thriving – our Wholebeing Happiness – it's that easy :-) Julia walks you through a step-by-step process into how to start a Breathing Habit & then expand it into your life permanently, expanding on her free Coaching Tool: 3 Long Strong Breaths. Also, find out why something so simple has such happiness power - what's actually happening in your brain & why it works. Look into how to switch from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention. Also, how to reduce the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline, flooding your brain & body with the Happiness hormones & neurotransmitters: Oxytocin, Dopamine, Endorphins & Serotonin. If that's not enough for you, you'll discover “The Pause” that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond – a happiness secret ingredient that will transform your life, especially your Midlife relationships! Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"   DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: http://www.happiness-matters.coach   Everything at https://happiness-matters.coach

Series 2 – Episode 2: Brain Design – It's the first corner piece for your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! The first episode to begin our exploration into how to manage our Midlife brains on purpose and intentionally, so that we can live into our best lives. Today's episode introduces one of coach Julia Seal's 4 Basics of Brain Management: Brain Design – how understanding the internal structure and workings of your brain can expand your ability to craft and coach your own Midlife Wholebeing Happiness. Find out how just a simple way of viewing the structure of your brain can make all the difference. Discover how to become more aware of what's happening when you're triggered, REACTING automatically to life's difficulties and  when you're skillfully RESPONDING. What happens in road rage or in arguments with your spouse and children! Start the journey here to unpuzzle your life & manage your Midlife brain to expand your resilience, tap into your creativity and thrive in your Midlife. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: http://www.happiness-matters.coach

It's a special episode today, the start of our Series 2 coaching on Brain Management & your Midlife Happiness! Join Consultant-Coach Julia Seal for an overview of what's ahead in Series 2: Brain Management - what's next in crafting your Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle while discovering how to coach yourself and create your deepest Happiness. Explore more on why your Happiness in Midlife is so Puzzling and how, by enjoying the current Covid-19 jigsaw puzzle revival, you can create and live into your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it's all about your crafted version of Resilience > Creativity > Thriving - your own Wholebeing Happiness formula! Discover the 4 cornerstones of your Jigsaw Puzzle: the 4 Basics of Brain Management and how these four skills are core to shaping your Midlife Happiness. .. ...from understanding and working with your Brain's Design and how to use the power of Mindfulness Meditation in your life to why the Mind Body Connection is an essential source of wisdom in our Midlife and how to unwind Habitual Think-Feel-Act patterns and create more helpful habits. Also, find out how this new venture ahead of you ties into all our coaching on the podcast to date in Series 1: the core 6 episodes and 50 deep-dive episodes where we explored everything to do with how you're Defining your Midlife Happiness, how you're measuring it and tracking it and how you're Visioning your Future. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: http://www.happiness-matters.coach  

How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve? Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions and more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relationships or feeling anxious, unfulfilled, discontent, burnt out, overwhelmed or just, stuck! Midlife is a calling to your own metamorphosis: to let go of what's no longer working in your life > to strengthen your Inner Power > to build your Legacy for others > to craft your deepest Wholebeing Happiness... it's the perfect time for you to solve the puzzle of the Midlife Transition, your MiddlePause, your Midolescence (Middlescence) and embark on an exploration of living into the Best Version of you, today. Create your new Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle by exploring how to get unstuck in Midlife - discover how to coach yourself every day at home, in relationships and at work, how to purposefully manage your own mind and reconnect to your body, how to “hack” your brain with tools backed up by scientific research, how to unwind your unhelpful habits and how to take the best from the world's wisdom on the pursuit of happiness. In addition to mini-coaching sessions and step-by-step tools, each episode helps you to take immediate action on the most impactful ways to increase your daily happiness, while supporting you on a longer reinvention coaching journey to living a purposeful and intentional life of Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON'T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia's Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife' to finds us Find Everything at: http://www.happiness-matters.coach

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Series 1 – Puzzling Your Happiness. Discover how your Happiness is actually just like Puzzling and how by enjoying the current Covid-19 puzzle craze you can learn to create your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it's all about your crafted version of Happiness and Success - your own Happiness:Success formula! I take you on a walk through the last 14 months and 56 episodes of coaching here on the podcast – so you can see how we've explored everything to do with how you're Defining your Happiness, how you're measuring it and tracking it and how you're Visioning your Future. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Balance & your Right to Disconnect Two big questions: The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it? Explore what's most useful to your own happiness & success with coach Julia Seal. We learn from Prof Jon Kabat-Zinn and poet Jenny Joseph, Superwoman, #TheRightToDisconnect & the Happiness Parenting Gap to decide what artisanal unbalance we might want instead! All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – How Menopause & Work can evolve your Happiness Join Julia Seal exploring Menopause knowledge while exploring more about how to coach yourself, using free tools for 4 types of negative emotions. Review physical, emotional symptoms & cultural differences to discover why Menopause is your best kept secret to happiness, to evolve & fuel the changes you want in your Midlife. Consider work policies to ensure we're effectively manage Menopause in today's multi-cultural workplace and then, jump start your own life with Julia's blog:The Menopause Midlife Bardo. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Your Superhero, Shokunin version of Happiness. Review your self-coaching through Series 1 and what you've decided is your version of "happy & successful, no matter what". Sense-check it against the world of artisanal craftsmanship, the spirit of Shokunin, your own Inner Power & coach Julia Seal's free coaching tool, The Happiness Checklist. Tap into inspiration from Wonder Woman, the WHO One World:Together at Home concert, Damien Hurst's rainbows, Smile Awhile poetry, Thomas Jefferson & Wonder Woman. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Smiles, silly hats & coffee... This week we celebrate World Smile Day, International Coffee Day and Mad Hatters' Day! Learn more about what these three days are all about with coach Julia Seal and how you can use them for your self-coaching. "Do an act of kindness, help one person smile" comes alive where you can  apply all that you've learnt about Smiley, smiling, smiZIng and coaching yourself in your daily life. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Coaching in a Nutshell, how it all comes together. The world needs people who coach themselves beyond their fears & towards kindness & contribution every day! Discover how to respond to a crisis, like COVID-19, so you can be of service to your family, friends & colleagues as well as a contributor to the greater good. With Coach Julia Seal, learn step-by-step tools to coach yourself through spiraling thoughts & emotions, using Neptune's Trident, the Wuhan foot-tap and Copenhagen pandas to guide you. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – My Best Coaching Tool for toxicity in your relationships. Explore conflict in your Midlife relationships, looking at what to do when we use toxic behaviours. Discover your 5 afflictive emotions while walking with me through my 3-step coaching process to support you in difficult relationships. Find out why Breathing is so transformative in your daily self-coaching and what "Taking The High Road" has got to do with accessing your Inherent Wisdom behind your Afflictive Emotions. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – 2 Powerful Coaching Tools to get you started on your coaching journey. In this episode, start the journey of coaching your Midlife Unhappiness and your negative emotions by pushing Charon's boat out into the River of Misery and jumping in with Wally (or Waldo) joining us. Expand and explore all your negative thoughts and emotions, all the obstacles blocking your happiness and success. I offer you some immediate relief from the discomfort of your negative emotions with 2 of my most powerful FREE Coaching Tools – learn how to clear out the clutter in your brain and create spaciousness with breath. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Special days to practice coaching yourself, bringing our tools to life These 8 Episodes show you how to coach yourself no matter what the day is – from World Smile Day, Coffee Day, Mad Hatter's Day and Pay It Forward Day to this week's focus on Fun at Work Day. These sessions bring my coaching tools into your everyday life where every moment is an opportunity to practice your self-coaching in Midlife. Special days to practice coaching yourself & bringing our tools to life

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Clarifying Concepts: Q&As (2) In these 4 Q&A episodes, I take the most popular questions and explore them more deeply. I look at Work:Life Balance, the shame of Emotional Immaturity, how Employee Engagement applies to you and easy ways to start a meditation habit. The focus this week is the Q&A episdoe all about the interplay between Happiness & Success in your Midlife and when to use outward or inward measures. Clarifying concepts: Q&As (2) End of Series 1 > deep dive Q&As #1.42.Q&A Employee Engagement – the same as Happiness? #1.43.Q&A – Your Happiness vs Success Formula #1.44.Q&A – Meditation tips, Habit hacks & EQ shame #1.45.Q&A – Work:Life Balance – the great divide! All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Clarifying Concepts: Q&As (1) In 7 Q&A episodes, I answer a variety of your questions, clarifying the core coaching concepts & tools. It's your chance to find out how other Midlife women have applied the insights from the podcast into their own lives – from understanding Buffering, using the 2 degree shift and framing to when you might need therapy vs coaching.   The focus episode this week is the Q&A from the mini-coaching journey on your Negative Emotions. Here I look at your Inner Power & Powerlessness: what to do to balance power and when to intervene in unhealthy conflict and toxic behaviours at work and home. Clarifying concepts: Q&As (1) Core Coaching episodes #1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really? #1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey #1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10 #1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness #1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness? #1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you? Coaching your Negative Emotions Series #1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – The Science of happiness In 8 episodes, we expand the 4 leading academic models of Happiness, looking at what constructs they have included in their definitions and why - as well as the detail of each of the key ingredients of happiness & success. Today's spotlight is on the work by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar  - creator of Harvard's most popular course in its history & one of my own teachers - who is the first to develop a field of studies dedicated to an inter-disciplinary academic approach of Happiness. Find out more about SPIRE Wholebeing and how to expand your own Physical & Intellectual Wholebeing. Deepening your Happiness Definitions: The Science of Happiness #1.33 The Science of your Happiness #1.34 Science of Happiness: PERMA #1.36 Science of Happiness: GGSC #1.37 – The Science of Happiness: SPIRE & Wholebeing #1.38 – The Science of Happiness at Work: PERK #1.39 - Business Consulting & the Science of Happiness #1.42 Deep dive: Happiness + Engagement #1.43 Deep dive: Happiness + Success All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 ALL episodes, show notes, free tools, subscriptions,etc: We're taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I've been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we'll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! You can: SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK's FOCUS – Using your Negative Emotions to create Happiness This mini-coaching journey of 17 episodes addresses how Unhappiness shows up in your life and gives you ideas of how you can choose to use it to fuel your growth, evolve yourself and expand how you define and vision your future Happiness. I look at the Balance of Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, Buffering, Anti-Fragility, Resilience and Evolution. I offer you a simple yet powerful way to start Allowing your Feelings: the actual process of FEELING and processing your negative emotions. This is a wonderful coaching skill that you can practice over and over again through these months of the Covid-19 Pandemic - there are so many opportunities to do AND this is such a core skill in your self-coaching toolkit - there really is no better time! To along with these episodes, download: Overview to Negative Emotions Coaching Journey Quotes to inspire you on this Journey Along the way, we'll spend time with Dr Seuss, Carl Jung, David Wyhte, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross – not to mention: pandas, Charon the River Guide, Wally/Waldo, Guy Fawkes and Cowardly Lion! These are sessions rich with insights and some of my best coaching tools that I trust will help you along the journey of How to FEEL better. #1.17 – Unhappy is the story of Happy #1.18 – Unhappy, what to do about it? #1.19 – Coaching your Unhappiness #1.20 – Negative Emotions & Emotional Intelligence #1.21 – Emotional Immaturity & your Happiness Wisdom #1.22 – Happiness is 50:50, always! #1.23 – Are you Buffering your happiness away? #1.24 – Are you Anti-fragile? Courageous? #1.25 – Your next step, Evolution! #1.26 – How to FEEL better now! #1.26.Q&A – How to FEEL better now! #1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day! #1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions #1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1) #1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2) #1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others #1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness! #1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions #1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1) #1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2) #1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others #1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!   All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1