How To Get Your Shit Together

In todays session I share with you a guided meditation that weaves together mindfulness, breathwork, healing visualization, and mantra, inviting you to soften, slow down, and reconnect to the self and the moment. You can follow each cue or simply sit and listen. This space is here for you. Let the words, breath, and stillness meet you as you are.*Don't Play While Driving!This track is taken from The Ultimate Audio Collection, an ever-growing library of guided meditations, wisdom talks, and audio courses designed to help you unlock calm, clarity, and confidence.You can check out more of me free meditations & talks here.Curious to go deeper?Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

Final day of the Master of Counselling intensive and what a beautiful way to close. Today we explored creative therapies: using art in all its forms to support clients in expressing, processing, and healing.In a week or two, I'll be recording a follow-up episode to this series a reflection on what's really landed and how I'm integrating it all into my practice and life.Todays main insights:- Creative approaches like art therapy offer a gentle, powerful way into emotion and inner exploration, especially for clients who are non-verbal, stuck, or struggling to express their stories. - The interpretation always belongs to the client (and only if they want to share). The therapist's role is simply to witness, hold space, and explore if invited.Main Takeaways From the Whole Course:- Soften, and go slow. Listen, and let go.Poem:the thoughts left behindconfined my mind to a moment in time i am scared but ready to unwind i am no longer past definedbut informed and perhaps refined okay to breathe and wait until we both feel safe to confide until then i invite you to walk with me hand in hand listening to the waves and dancing with the tideCurious to go deeper?Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

Today we were observed in live sessions as part of our assessment, a big moment in the week! We also explored how to close a session effectively, which brought up a deeper question for me:“What's the point of being a great counsellor if we can't attract and retain clients, or navigate the systems around our work?”This led me to ask about the business side of practice, because without sustainable systems, people who need support might never find us.Todays main insights:- Be ‘client-led' in everything and trust that if I offer something of value, the right clients will come and be best served.- Consent comes with payment. It marks a conscious agreement to engage, and it carries energetic weight.- Clients (and counsellors!) shouldn't live in constant self-work. As a season of therapy ends, come up for air and ask: Do we pause here, or continue the journey?Curious to go deeper?Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

Trigger warning:Today's episode includes discussion of suicide and crisis intervention.I'm now at Day 3 of my Master of Counselling intensive, and today's focus was crisis management, specifically, how to support clients who may be at risk of harm to themselves or others.It was an intense, emotionally heavy day with a lot to process, but it's already added depth to my practice and revealed some blind spots I'm committed to addressing.Todays main insight:Don't shy away from the hard questions.Ask directly: “Are you having suicidal thoughts?”Be specific, clear, and explicit — it avoids ambiguity and best serves the client.Another powerful takeaway:Know the boundaries of your role and come to peace with them.We can't save everyone, and that can be hard to sit with. But we can be ethical, prepared, and grounded in our professionalism.Curious to go deeper?Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

I'm in the middle of a Master of Counselling intensive this week, and each day I'm sharing what's landing most deeply… today was emotion day and by the end of it, we were all feeling it.Todays main insight:- Emotions are messages, both to ourselves and others. They motivate action, and when we help clients access their emotions, they gain the ability to make clearer, more aligned choicesAccessing emotion activity (TRY THIS!):1: Choose an emotion you've felt recently.2: Describe the context (briefly) - what happened that brought it on?3: Tune into your body - what physical sensations did you notice?4: Use an analogy to describe the emotion (or a metaphor/image, e.g. “a tight knot,” “a rising wave”).5: Reflect:- how did it feel to notice the emotion?- what was the reaction to the emotion?- was the emotion sharing a message?- what did the emotion need from you?Curious to go deeper?Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

I'm away this week on a Master of Counselling intensive, and each day I'm sharing key lessons and insights that are emerging as I dive deeper into the therapeutic process.If you're curious about what therapy training is really like, work in the healing space, or simply want to deepen your own self-awareness, these reflections may offer meaningful takeaways.The insights that landed today:- Use questions sparingly, they can interrupt more than they help.- Silence is a gift and a point of difference. Use it.- Many of us are still waiting for permission from something outside ourselves.- Change the word ‘but' for ‘and'.- Ensure that you are grounded and have a procedure for when a client triggers you.- Reframing life as art is powerfully healing.Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

There comes a time when we know we need to act, but nonetheless find ourselves blocked by fear, or inertia, or confusion, or some other unnamable emotion. It is then when we must take a leap of faith - despite the possibility that we may fail. In this episode I discuss how I have taken a leap of faith and offer guidance on how you can do the same. If you are struggling to do what you know you must, this one is for you!Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching & counselling sessions.

Why is it so hard for some people to stand up for themselves? In this episode I discuss three primary reasons why as well as some solutions that you could implement to overcome them.1: Low self-worth - if you don't believe you deserve to be treated well/get what you need from life, then you will fail to act.2: Unclear goal or direction in life - if you don't know where you are heading/what you value, you won't know what to push for and what to avoid.3: Unable to hold space for their response - standing up for yourself will put people out, if you cannot sit with the negative feelings, moods, emotions, or responses that arise you will continue to give ground in every interaction until you discover that your life is not at all the way you want or need it to be.I offer guidance for each issue as well as way to practice meditation that combines the felt sense of self with positive visualization, inner work, and mindfulness that will help you stand up for yourself.Links mentioned:- Shadow Work Journal PDF (free)- How To Get Your Shit Together - Book (free)- Internal Family Systems Books- My websiteWant to work with me? Click here to find out more about my 1:1 coaching.

Who are you beyond the consequences of your past? Trauma and self identity are inextricably interconnected - you became what you needed to become to survive.These defense mechanisms saved you, but now you are left wondering who you are outside of them. Your interests, beliefs, desires, and goals are shaped by how you managed the past. Thus you may begin to wonder who you are.This lack of knowing can be crippling and it is the topic of this episode.Links mentioned:- Internal Family Systems Books- Dear Little Part Of Me - PoemWant to work with me? Click here.

Here is what to do when someone is being triggered and opening up about their trauma - or at least what works for me:1: Make Sure They Are Safe - out of danger to and from themself and to and from others/the environment.2: Make Sure You Are Safe - physically, emotionally and spiritually available, capable and able to helping the person without being overwhelmed or triggered, or at least only to an acceptable level.3: Ground Them In The Present Moment - this will help stop them from being triggered, get them to focus on what they can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Help them to slow down the breathing and heart rate and get them what they need: food, water, clothing, comfort items, medication, shelter etc.4: Practice Unconditional Positive Regard - Hold space for their truth, even if it doesn't makes sense to you, or seems objectively ‘incorrect', in that moment, it is their truth. Be a loving and accepting mirror. Their feelings are their feelings in that moment. And realise that if they're triggered, they are quite literally biochemically structurally back in that past trauma.5: Listen & Offer- Hear them out and if appropriate and only if you are willing, offer what you can do to help.6: End With A Promise- have them promise that they will reach out to you (or someone specific) if they are at risk or if the triggers and flashbacks return.7: Follow Up- Tell them that you are going to follow up and do so. This shows you care and are extending the care into the future, reinforcing their promise.8: Self Care- Practice self care and ensure your own ongoing physical, psychological, and spiritual safety and wellbeing.- Blackness - Chapter from Under The Influence- Guard Your Mental State At All Costs - Blog- Create A Crisis Plan - It May Save Your Life- Poetry From A Dark Night Of The Soul - BookWant to work with me? Click here!

It's time once again for my annual Fuck Christmas podcast.For some, the festive season is the opposite of fun - full of triggers and trauma and overwhelm and the forced obligation to spend time with the people and in places that caused you the most pain.It is a time when substance abuse, self harm and suicide significantly rise.It is a time we're loneliness amplified and that all two familiar mask must be put back on in order to save face, and ultimately to save yourself.In this episode, I talk about the importance of saying no when you need to, and yes when you want to.I share a depth of the impact of my own trauma, and aspects that come with healing - particularly around Christmas. I share a story of attempting to explain my past and my pain - only to have it thrown back at myself as I was victim blamed, and thus no longer feeling safe around that person - which is brought up once again at this time of year.This is not an easy episode, and I want to give a massive trigger warning.But if you've read this far, and if you follow me, the episode will probably bring some solace or at least will help you to not feel so alone with the darkness this seems to get amplified by Santa's sleigh.- Blackness - Chapter from Under The Influence- Guard Your Mental State At All Costs - Blog- Poetry From A Dark Night Of The Soul - BookWant to work with me? Click here.

Tendrils of the past manifest in the present and will continue to impact you into the future unless you take action.In this episode I discus the process of to identify and overcoming poverty mindset and other limiting beliefs. Sharing the story of moving out of home at 16, surviving of charity and government handouts, to thriving both personally and financially, whilst being able to ask for and offer products and services at rates that back then I could never have imagined possible.- Free Shadow Work Journal PDF- How To Get Your Sh!t Together- Coaching, Mentoring, & Intuitive Guidance- Immersion Intensive

Anger is a useful inner tool to keep us safe and living a life of purpose - only if it is embraced as an ally not a danger.Unfortunately, for some, our childhoods cause us to fear our own anger - rather than using to utilise it appropriately, we instead repress it and turn it inwards, with catastrophic consequences.In this episode I share how I have been afraid of my anger and how I am learning to reconnect and integrate it.- Free Shadow Work Journal PDF- Hunt Your Own Shadow - 12 Week Self-Paced Course- Curious about coaching? Book a session.

Are we doomed to repeat our past? To inflict upon our children what was inflicted upon us? If we are a product of our genetics intersecting with our environment, how can we break the cycle once and for all?In this episode I story of my past and why that has led me to give away all 17 of my books for free.Want all of my books for free? Just sign up to my email list!Curious about coaching? Book a session!

No talking. No writing. No touching. Just 10+ hours a day meditating for 10 days straight…In this episode I share my experiences on a 10 day silent retreat at Dhamma Aloka, under the instruction of S.N. Goenka where I learnt the technique of Vipassana meditation. Here I share the lessons learnt, the insights acquired, and give my analysis of the experience.Simply put, it was one of the most profound (and painful) experiences of my life.Want all of my books for free? Just sign up to my email list!

What do you do when you are genetically predisposed to have negative reactions to antidepressants, have lost your job, have had little success with talking therapies, and have not yet processed the trauma of the past?Answer: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)This episode is a collaboration with Dr Jenelle Tupek, director and founder of Balanced Membranes Heath Education, and the host of the Rewriting The Script podcast. Jenelle interviews me, discussing my experiences with how TMS saved my life and my mental health journey in general - we talk about the nature of mental health treatments and the different options available.Want all of my books for free? Just sign up to my email list!

What is scarier: sitting in silence or the fact that you are afraid to sit in silence?In this episode I discuss how technology has granted us the ability to endlessly occupy the space that was once filled with silence. The benefits of which are obvious: education, entertainment, content and connection - but at what cost? What do we lose by blocking off access to such a fundamental aspect of the human condition? What is the value of silence?Want to work with me? Check out my coaching, mentoring, and intuitive guidance sessions.

It feels like every tradition has a prescription on how you should sit; where to hold your hands, what to do with your eyes, and how you should handle sleepiness and pain are all prescribed.For advanced practitioners, these suggestions should be heeded, but for beginners, they can be a hindrance - one that can be so off prescriptive and off putting that it may cause said beginner to stop practicing.Simply put, the perfect posture is the one that keeps you meditating.In this episode, I share with you a talk that I have released on Insight Timer - the #1 meditation app for sleep, anxiety, & stress.Connect:Web: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillipsCurrent offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text Coaching

Part product of the past, part vision for the future, part desire to live a meaningful life, part belief that I can make a difference …In this episode I break down the reasons why I feel compelled to share my soul online, discussing the journey I took to get here and where I am hoping to go.If you are wanting an in depth look at ‘my why', this is for you.Links mentioned:Under The Influence, Reclaiming My ChildhoodHow To Get Your Sh!t TogetherPoetry, From A Dark Night Of The SoulConnect:Web: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillipsCurrent offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text Coaching

How much of our reality do we create? Not from a ‘woo woo' sense, but as a function of the result of the interaction between our past and our particular genetic predispositions?If we have faced significant life challenges, and have a fearful disposition, there is a chance that we will view the world and our future pessimistically.Alternatively, if we have had success, and have a positive disposition, then more than likely we will approach the world with hope.In this Reality Check Podcast episode I begin with my poem ‘Reflections Of The Self', using it as a starting point for discussion and contemplationConnect:Web: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillipsCurrent offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text Coaching

Buy more. Do more. Be more. Consume more. Watch more… This seems to be the mantra of modern society and it is kill us.We are losing our communities, forgetting our art, and wasting our lives, all in pursuit of an ever diminishing in value dollar and ever rising expectations to keep up with the proverbial Joneses.In this episode I read the poem ‘capitalistic desire' from my book Wage Slave: The Unpaid Overtime Edition, and discuss the hypocrisy I feel as an artist living within a capitalistic society.

The difference between expectation and reality is often the source of significant discontent. Life trains us to search for ideals: the perfect partner, job, life, outcome. Unfortunately this almost never arises and even if it did, it would be fleeting. Thus there is a real potential for ongoing and almost contentious self inflicted suffering. Thankfully, happiness is closer than you think. By embracing mindfulness we can begin to see and address the impact of our expectations.In this episode, I share with you a talk that I have released on Insight Timer - the #1 meditation app for sleep, anxiety, & stress. Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

What greater gift can you give someone than the gift of presence? When you are fully present, mindful, and in the moment, you are able to give all those around you access to the best version of you, and thus the moment they are in with you.In this episode, I share with you a guided meditation that I have released on Insight Timer. It is based on the intersection between the following two quotes:‘See how you are literally free of the future, for the simple reason that it hasn't and will never arise. There can be no other moment. Feel how that is so. How it is impossible to get ourselves into some other moment, for there is no other moment, and no other reality but, than what is presently here, this instant...' - John Astin‘If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated, you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace.' – From H. W. L. Poonja a.k.a. PapajiThis track was inspired by my course on Insight Timer, ‘Daily Contemplations For Living An Examined Life'Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

‘Stuck Inside My Mind'Freestyle improve poetry. Watch the video on Instagram, and read the full poem here.Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

The more you know about yourself the better choices you will make and thus the better life you will lead.In this episode I share some recent instances of deep personal insight where I discover things about myself that are both good, bad, and ugly.I share the importance of such discoveries as well as the ways in which I (and you can) foster further insights into your own nature.Resources mentioned:Discover Your Divine Purpose - Insight Timer Course1 on 1 Coaching & MentoringCurrent offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- 1 on 1 Coaching & Mentoring: Video Calls & Voice/Text CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

Yesterday, a friend asked me how to meditate, that talk inspired this episode. Here is my guidance for absolute beginners:1: sit comfortably (no pain or sleepiness)2: set a timer for 5 minutes3: pick a meditation object (breath, vision, sound)4: when you notice a wandering kind, bring it back to focus. A successful session is one that you complete, ideally every day!For further instruction on how to meditate, check out my book ‘Mindfulness, A Guidebook To The Present Moment'.Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

When you dedicate yourself to one thing, the lessons learnt begin to help you with everything.In this episode I discuss the quote by Miyamoto Musashi 'If you know the way broadly you will see it in all things' - applying the lessons I have learnt in martial arts, poetry, meditation, chess and life to one another, discussing the intersection between them all, as well as some of the implications and takeaways of 'knowing the way'.I also discuss how there is a silver lining to be found in setback, injury, and illness - if we know how to look for it.Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

Two weeks ago I began transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to treat my depression, anxiety and PTSD. 10 sessions in and I am starting to see significant progress.In this episode I share my experiences of the process and my hopes for the future.Current offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

The moment we label something, it is limited. The label isn't the truth, it is a representation of, it's a finger pointing to the moon, it is a suggestion of possibility that always falls short of reality.In this episode I share the following poem and muse about its implications, leaving you with the spiritual practice of looking beyond the label, to see what it is pointing to, pulling it all the way back to the core, to consciousness.all labelsare an abstractionof formbaring one;consciousnessCurrent offerings:- Hunt Your Own Shadow: free 12 week email course- Insight Timer: guided audio courses & free meditations- Skillshare: video courses on personal development- How To Get Your Sh!t Together: the last self-help book you will ever read- Bound To The Wings of a Butterfly: best selling poetry collection- How To Write Evocative Poetry: a guidebook for unlocking creativity- Work With Me: 1 on 1 Mentoring & CoachingWeb: zachary-phillips.comSocial: @zacpphillips

In this session I share the audio from my presentation in the Breaking Boxes ‘Power Of Connection Summit', where I joined seven other presenters over two days to talk on all things connection.My talk was titled ‘Connection From Within The Darkness' - I talk about the disconnect we often feel to ourselves and the world following trauma and how we can being healing from it.This session begins with a brief introduction of myself and my work, followed by a long form guided meditation/introspection, were we look inwards and begin to heal, reconnect and integrate with parts of ourselves that may have been impacted by trauma.Warning: this session may be challenging to some listeners, so please sure your supports and self-care is in place prior to listening.You can check out Breaking Boxes here.‘Hunt Your Own Shadow' is my free 12 week email course that will help you to identify and release the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you. It features 12 exclusive guided audio tracts, introspective contemplations, expansion challenges, and email coaching - you can read more about the course and sign up here.

Identify and release the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you with this free 12 week email course.Featuring exclusive guided audio tracks, introspective contemplations, expansion challenges, and email coaching - this course will act as a guide, offering insights, prompts and suggestions that will help you to identify and release the limiting beliefs that no longer serve you.To sign up, just put your email here and I will send you an introduction email and week one's content. You can also read more about the course here.I look forward to seeing you in the course!

Life will shoot us with the first arrow - these are real injuries, setbacks, losses and pain. But the greater cause of our suffering comes form ‘the second arrow' - the fear, anxieties, ruminations, and other internal mechanisations that we dwell upon.In this episode I discuss the concept of the second arrow, as well as how we can use it to eliminate significant amounts of excess (and useless) suffering.Check out my Insight Timer Profile & the book ‘Reflections of the Self'

In this episode I share a guided meditation that I shared on the Insight Timer app.What if you were to give thanks in advance for the wonderful things that were going to happen? - And what if you used that question to reframe your gratitude practice into the future? In this session we contemplate this concept and suggest how it could be adapted to reduce anxiety and increase positivity and presence, both now and into the future.Work with me: 1 on 1 coaching and mentoring.

In this session I share a guided meditation that I shared on the Insight Timer app.This track is an invitation to explore the beauty of the present moment. To stop the rush and to settle into the now. It begins with a discussion of the benefits of finding opportunities to meditate through out the day and then goes into a mindful story. Join me on a journey towards the peace of the present moment and embrace the beauty that is all around us.Follow me on Insight TimerWork with me: 1 on 1 coaching and mentoring

This is the story of a dark night of the soul, of traversing the depths of despair, and of rebirth.It is the story of transformation from a shadow version of myself into my embodied fullness.It is the story of reintegration with my body after years of trauma, and of letting go of old wounds and identities that no longer serve me.It is a story of reframing my inner world, from victim hood into strength. It is a story of how I am now hunting my own shadow.Work with me: 1 on 1 coaching and mentoringWho I worked with: Miroslav Petrovic, Victoria Redbard

Will mindfulness meditation lead to enlightenment? In this talk I respond to an email from follower on Insight Timer who has found some contradictory advice relating to their meditation practice and the goal of enlightenment.I go deep on the different interpretations of awakening presented by different practices/instructors, and offer some guidance for everyone moving forward. Work with me: 1 on 1 coaching and mentoring

Every Christmas season I talk on this topic, because every Christmas season I am reminded of just how overwhelming, panic inducing and confusing it all can be.Thankfully I am learning from the past and have realised the need for intervention, prevention, and pre-emptive attention to self-care and preparation to stay sane over the next few months.So with that said I want to share with you the following podcast and blog post. If you, or someone you know is neurodivergent, you will get a lot from this one.Read the blog: https://www.zachary-phillips.com/podcast/asd-overwhelmLinks mentioned:I teach on Insight Timer, Skillshare, and Udemy. I also offer 1 on 1 coaching and mentoring.

Last night I woke enraged. At the world. At my family. At my job. At myself. I was lying in bed in a state of utter tension; with a headache, racing heart, and complete emotional overwhelm.Then, a moment of detachment. A breath. A reminder of my mindfulness practice and the realisation of two fundamental truths of my current predicament.1: All of my pain was coming from inside of me. In that moment there was no external forces that was ‘causing' my pain.2: I know from experience that thoughts come and go, and that mindful observation facilitates this process.Holding those two truths in mind, I decided to mindfully observe my mind and almost immediately the thought dissipated…How to practice mindfulness resources:Blog PostMindfulness: A Guidebook To The Present Moment - Book Audio Courses & Guided meditations: Insight TimerVideo courses: Skillshare and Udemy. I also offer 1 on 1 coaching and mentoring where I can guide you though the process.

Perhaps like me, you are struggling with a collection of symptoms and functionality issues. Some days are amazing, but other days you just fall apart. The people around you have suggested that perhaps you may have ADHD or ASD or some other kind of neurodivergence, but you are unsure if you should seek a diagnosis.The stigma, shame, and self blame block you form acting, yet you know that if you do nothing, nothing will change.So the question is, should you seek a formal diagnosis for your mental health condition?On the one hand it may provide validation, clarity, and community; giving you deeper insights into yourself and a guide out of suffering towards functionality, but on the other, it may be limiting and become a self fulfilling prophesy, causing you to be labelled by yourself or society at large.In this episode of the Reality Check Podcast, I share my thoughts and experiences of diagnosis.Growing Into Autism - Sandra Thom-JonesInsight Timer - Meditation App~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

Dissociation is a feeling of unreality; a fog over consciousness that makes everything, even the self, feel ethereal. A barrier to connection that blocks most everything, leaving your goals, dreams and hopes to merely bleed through the window of mind offering little more than an opaque view of life. Until of course, that window cracks, letting in the cold winds of anxiety, depression and the harshness of a reality that was all but ignored.In this episode I share my current mental state, as well as the poem ‘For As Long As I Have Eyes' from the book A Requiem For What Could Have Been: Poetry For The Broken~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

Today I share the audio from my live talk on the Insight Timer app, titled "Stop Quitting On Yourself", inspired by my 10 day course - “Discover Your Divine Purpose”This session will begin with a guided meditation that will prime you to be ready to sit in contemplation a question designed to evoke transformation. We will then sit in silent contemplation together for 1 minute. The session will end with a shared discussion of the question and our discoveries.~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

It is impossible to judge people objectively - your basis for forming an opinion is a function of the unique circumstances of your life (location, time, genetics, environment etc), thus your conclusions are dependent on factors external to you.No one is privy to your inner world and you are not privy to theirs. How then can we ever know what they should or shouldn't do?In this talk I break down the pitfalls of judging others and discuss the implications for a life well lived. ~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

In this episode I share a chapter on changing habits.The best advice I've heard to change habits is to implement new habits that superseded the old.Eg: if you struggle to go to bed at night/want to quit partying etc, establish the habit of morning exercise (with a friend to keep you accountable).The insertion of the new habit will force you to curb the undesirable habits. Just make sure to take your time and implement change in a way that is appropriate for your life.To quick and you risk blowing out and failing. To slow and you risk not seeing any benefit or change before motivation is lost.Grab a copy of How To Get Your Sh!t Together~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

Today I share the audio from my talk on the Remotely Possible Community, titled "From Blog to Bookshelf: How Entrepreneurs Can Publish Their Content," here we unveil the secrets to transforming your online presence into a tangible book.Designed specifically for aspiring authors and entrepreneurial minds, this informative session will guide you through the entire publishing journey, from turning your blog into a manuscript to navigating the world of traditional or self-publishing. Get insider tips from poet, author and solo-preneur Zachary Phillips, learn how to overcome common writing challenges, and gain the confidence to embark on your literary journey. Don't miss this opportunity to turn your ideas into a masterpiece. Register now and unlock the secrets to becoming a successful author!Want me to coach you through the publishing process? Click here to find out more and book a discovery call.~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author, podcaster and coach. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

In this episode I introduce my YouTube channel ‘Ask A Poet' and share a poem.~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

The concept of inner child work is vital to recovery. The body holds trauma and it often ‘feels' like it is held at the age that that trauma happened.In this episode I share my discovery of issues with my inner child as well as my plans to reconnect and heal. I also share a chapter ‘Give Yourself A Break' from the book ‘How To Get Your Sh!t Together' ~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

When you are at your lowest point, perhaps it is time to celebrate. You are in a state of healing, of shadow work leading to growth, of transformation - towards beauty, towards abundance, towards every possibility that life can offer you.In this short talk I share how my life fell apart and how I am celebrating the process of putting it back together, better than it ever has been. Who is willing to join me for a look into the dark night of the soul?~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

When you are at your lowest point, perhaps it is time to celebrate. You are in a state of healing, of shadow work leading to growth, of transformation - towards beauty, towards abundance, towards every possibility that life can offer you.In this short talk I share how my life fell apart and how I am celebrating the process of putting it back together, better than it ever has been. Who is willing to join me for a look into the dark night of the soul?~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

The medication is making it worse and I am sick of it. In this episode I share my how anger and anxiety feels preferable to apathy and why I am choosing to stop the medication I was on.I also read out the poem ‘elated' - from my new YouTube channel, as well as the chapter ‘give yourself a break', - from the book How To Get Your Sh!t Together~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

Today I talk about the how it can take longer than you think to even begin to process emotions, particularly when you have a history of dissociation/trauma.I begin the episode with the poem:“by the timei feel safe enoughto process my emotionsso much time has passedbetween the eventand my response to itthat i fear being judgedas patheticor hypersensitivethus i tend to close offand instead suffer in silencealone with all the emotionsi never learnt how to feel”~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com

In this episode I share my latest blog post, I Don't Know How To Be A Dad, where I talk about the impact of having a neglectful, addicted father and how not being shown what to do/the ways to be a good father impact me with my childrenIf you resonated with this piece, I encourage you to read my story in the book ‘Under The Influence, Reclaiming My Childhood', there I share the raw, honest, and vulnerable reality that was my childhood.~ Zachary Phillips is a poet, author and podcaster. You can find him on social everywhere @zacpphillips, and at zachary-phillips.com