Podcast appearances and mentions of john el mokadem

John El-Mokadem was highly driven in all aspects of his life – fitness, career, relationships,  etc., and believed his success in all these areas would be directly proportional to the amount of time he thought about, and worked-on, his goals. After a viral infection evolved into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (A.K.A ‘Myalgic Encephalomyelitis',) John approached his illness with the same vigilant formula he had for success in life. After 7 years of struggling to regain his health, his vitality, his marriage, John followed the breadcrumbs laid by mentors that led him in a different direction - inward; and it was this change in direction that not only led to the recovery of all that he had lost, but also put him in the unlikely position to help countless others recover their own health. In this podcast interview, listeners will discover that the vigilance with which we approach illness, and life in general, is the very thing that can cause us to be sick. In this course you will hear John El-Mokadem talk about his experience and the research that he and partner Karen DiMarco conducted to prove the methodology for their own recoveries and others (published in the APA Journal: Spirituality in Clinical Practice). It offers nurses a whole new way to think about ‘The Foundation of Health;' how what goes on in our heads has a profound effect on our biology, our immune system, and our body's innate ability to achieve homeostasis and heal. RNs get a CE for this course on RNegade.pro.    

In this episode, Rani chats to John El-Mokedem, a breakthrough coach helping people facing significant challenges in life. Some of the conversation highlights of this fascinating conversation are:The story of John's own journey from being a chronic fatigue syndrome sufferer to complete remission after he had a deep insight into the nature of his experiences.John's realisation that trying to control every aspect of life with his thinking contributed to his illness.How John found it futile to navigate his illness through his thinking mind.That peace is not the absence of symptoms."It takes energy to be tired."Life and its challenges are not navigated in thinking.The analogy of the leaky bucket - the leaks representing a misunderstanding about the nature of the mind and our experiences.John's research study demonstrating the efficacy of psycho-spiritual mental health education for people with chronic fatigue syndrome. Link to the research paper - https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fscp0000232 Website - https://www.johnelmokadem.com/

John El-Mokadem is a Breakthrough Coach based in the UK with 16 years’ experience, providing both personal and corporate coaching, training, and mentorship services. John has learned from some of the top success and performance coaches in the world, studying and exploring what enables us to really be at our best, to help guide his clients to make their own breakthroughs. The transformations John witnesses are often life-changing, as clients gain a deeper understanding of how their minds work, enabling them to experience a healthier, happier, more successful, and creative life. He works with clients all around the world and has a specialty for helping people with chronic health conditions – a by-product of his own healing journey from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). It was this healing journey that led him to conduct a research study to demonstrate the transformative effects of his approach for other sufferers of CFS and the results of this study are now in peer review pending potential journal publication. You can find out more at: https://www.breakthroughthat.com and https://www.johnelmokadem.com

John is a Breakthrough Coach, speaker and researcher based in the UK.  He has over 16 years' experience working with clients internationally, providing both personal and corporate coaching, training and mentorship services. John has learned from some of the top success and performance coaches in the world, studying and exploring what enables us to really be at our best, to help guide his clients to make their own breakthroughs. The transformations John witnesses, are often life changing, as clients gain a deeper understanding of how their minds work, enabling them to experience a healthier, happier, more successful and creative life. John has a speciality for helping people with various chronic health conditions – a by product of his own healing journey from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). It was this healing journey that led him to conduct a research study to demonstrate the transformative effects of this approach for other sufferers of CFS. The study has now been accepted for publication in an American Psychological Association journal after a full peer review process. Described by the Journal editor as “ground-breaking”, the study results provide further empirical evidence for the efficacy of Three Principles to help individuals find greater mental and physical health. In this show we explore what John and I have seen is the real power behind transformation and healing work. John shared his experiences from his years of work supporting people with chronic health conditions and his own healing journey, and I shared what I've seen about my own recovery from chronic pain. We realised after we finished recording, we wanted to emphasise that in no way are either of us saying 'it's all in the mind' or blaming people for their struggles. We both see this with deep compassion and empathy and only hope to provide some illumination on the things we've seen can help free people from the grip of chronic conditions.

A cool conversation with John El-Mokadem about the misunderstanding of intelligence. How there is an intelligence behind life that is always guiding us.

What is health? What is wellbeing? How do you know if you’re healthy and well? Turns out, the way we answer those questions has huge implications for how well we feel. I talk with John El-Mokadem in this episode about massively expanding our concept of what health and wellness really are. We talk about how we can be well…we are well…despite what we’re feeling. How health and wellness do not necessarily equal the absence of pain or anxiety. They do not necessarily equal a “cure”, or an external change at all. Wellness is the space beyond experience. John speaks about these big issues so clearly, with so much compassion and understanding. I know you’ll hear something helpful in this episode. If you want to learn more about John, you can do that here. And if you are interested in the health course that John teaches with Karen DiMarco, I highly recommend checking that out. Their newest course begins in late May.    

In this episode, Brooke and Ashley invite John El-Mokadem to join them as they explore what it means to parent, knowing that their children will be okay and resting in that, rather than a place of "should-ing". You know, the my kids should be doing this, I should be this kind of parent, my kids should do well in school. They share stories of their parenting fails, as well as lessons they've learned while navigating the ups and downs of parenting.

In today's episode, you'll hear John El-Mokadem and I do our best to answer the question: "Yes, but what about my physical symptoms?" John shares a beautiful metaphor that I know will speak to many of you, and we answer a handful of questions from 'real, live people' with 'real, live problems'. Here's to peace with physical symptoms instead of needing them to be gone.

Earlier this year, John El-Mokadem and I ran a training that was helpful to so many people that I wanted to turn it into a podcast to share with you today. In it we discussed: What's the big deal about living in a quieter mind? Why do we think it's so hard to 'get there'? How dropping the resistance to what is can be a fundamental gamechanger How the way we feel doesn't need to have any bearing on what we choose to do All about physical symptoms - anxiety, panic attacks, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia There is a bit of dodginess in some of the sound due to the internet connection, but please don't let that spoil your enjoyment!

What looks and even feels like failure may well be exactly what needs to happen to move you towards what you really want. In this episode John shares how going back into his I.T. work helped him become much more free as a coach and helped him increase his impact on his clients. And how those clients are showing up from seeds he has been planting for a very long time, often without even realising it… Here's a little more about John: John El-Mokadem is a Breakthrough Coach based in the UK with 14 years' experience, providing both personal and corporate coaching, training and mentorship services. John works with a Three Principles grounding to share a deeper understanding of how the mind works that can enable clients to experience a healthier, happier, more successful and creative life. The transformations John witnesses are often life changing as clients settle down into a space of ease and possibility. Most recently John has conducted an academic research study to demonstrate the transformative effects of this approach on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A large part of his client work is now health focused and helping clients to access their own innate wellbeing. John has in recent years also worked on the faculty of Michael Neill's Supercoach Academy and developed his own programme teaching coaches how to create Breakthrough results with their own clients. For John, this work is a more of a passion to serve and help others as the understanding he now shares had such a profound impact on so many areas of his own life. http://breakthroughthat.com/

” What you're looking for is a quiet mind” – Sydney Banks. When you're struggling with an anxious, panicky experience – it's easy to feel as far as you possibly could be from a quiet mind. Peace. Quiet. Calm.  Where does that come from? What's possible from that space? How do we get there? All of these questions and more are answered by John El-Mokadem in this special podcast episode.

Earlier this year, John El-Mokadem and I were both putting together programs that were free to join. Yet we noticed that although many people let us know they wanted to join us, when it came to the crunch, a lot of them didn't follow through. That got us curious...why might people be afraid to get well? That's what we explore in today's episode.

In this episode, John El-Mokadem and I talk about how we attempt to change our behaviours through willpower and being determined. We talk about why this doesn't work and how there's really only one way change ever really happens. And it's always simpler than you might think.

In this episode John and I talk about how actual or feared physical symptoms are created - and how our reaction to them determines how scared we get. We also talk about the distinction between pain and suffering. This all sounds terribly serious and depressing and the conversation we have is actually not.

this week's show is with John El-Mokadem and Karen DiMarco, RN, BSN, iRNPA. John's a Breakthrough Coach who helps people to overcome the challenges in their life, such as anxiety, chronic fatigue, relationship and business issues. John helps them to reach a level of insight to make a significant breakthrough to allow them to move forward and past whatever their particular challenge is. Karen is a healthcare visionary with more than 20 years of nursing experience who has been a catalyst for transforming the way we deliver and conceive of "health care" and personal wellbeing. Her work blends functional and integrative medicine - which targets root causes as opposed to treating symptoms of disease - with a strengths-based approach to wellbeing.  In this show we explored John and Karen's recent work conducting a study around the effectiveness of using a fresh approach in treating chronic fatigue. We dived deep into how and why a deeper understanding of how the mind works can be effective in people recovering from chronic fatigue, leading to measurable improvements in health and wellbeing. This is two part show, in this, part two, we focused on Karen's personal journey of overcoming chronic fatigue, their study and its results. This is such an interesting and inspiring show that it's one that's worth listen to whether you suffer from chronic fatigue or not. What you'll learn from this episode: How we think about something has a huge effect on whether it impacts us negatively or positively. Just stress is only bad for us if we believe it is, much of the natural fluctuations of our body's cycles only become harmful when we think they are. They talked about overcoming chronic fatigue using the metaphor of a leaky bucket. You can fill the bucket up with the right supplements, diets and lifestyle but unless you plug the holes in the bucket, you'll likely still suffer from chronic fatigue. Karen talked about man as part of nature rather than apart from nature. Just like trees know when drop their leaves and animals know where to find their food, humans have the manual to their own happiness built in.

This week's show is with John El-Mokadem, a Breakthrough Coach who helps people to overcome the challenges in their life, such as anxiety, chronic fatigue, relationship and business issues. John helps them to reach a level of insight to make a significant breakthrough to allow them to move forward and past whatever their particular challenge is. In this show we explored John's recent work conducting a study around the effectiveness of using a fresh approach in treating chronic fatigue. We dived deep into how and why a deeper understanding of how the mind works can be effective in people recovering from chronic fatigue, leading to measurable improvements in health and wellbeing. This is two part show, in this, part one, we focused mainly on John's own experience of chronic fatigue and his incredible recovery, and then next week in part two we'll go deep into the study and its results. What you'll learn from this episode: John's own story of going from life-limiting chronic fatigue to recovering from it completely in a short period of time shows what's possible for everyone. Living in a cultural norm of experiencing chronic stress means that we tend to misunderstand its negative effects on our bodies. The more we try to take control and manage our health, the more we experience stress rather than allowing our natural resilience and wellbeing to surface.

John El-Mokadem is a breakthrough coach based just outside of London in Tunbridge Wells, UK. He’s a Certified Advanced Transformative Coach but he’s quick to point out that more importantly he’s a human being who has lived and struggled like all of us do. He sees his struggles as a gift these days - an opportunity to open up and understand more about what this life is and to share what he has learned to help others to live happier lives. And one of the interesting things about John is he’s spent a lot of time working with individuals with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and other chronic health syndromes and has been amazed at the progress that his clients have been able to achieve with a deeper understanding of how their minds really work. For full show notes, please visit http://www.jamiesmart.com/yepp25  

This week's show is with John El-Mokadem, a Breakthrough Coach who helps people to overcome the challenges in their life, such as anxiety, chronic fatigue, relationship and business issues. John helps his clients to reach a level of insight to make a significant breakthrough to allow them to move forward and past whatever their particular challenge is. In this show we explored creating from the unknown - both as a topic and literally on the show! We didn't plan what to talk about but we wound up talking about creativity, purpose, unconditional love and surrendering to what's happening! What you'll learn from this episode: When we show just show up, open to the moment and how we can possibly help then all kinds of surprising and awesome stuff can happen! We never know what's going to happen or how long things will take... but apparently we find ourselves doing what we're doing. We can ever only join the dots backward as Steve Jobs once said. What about when we have got something on it? Maybe ask yourself... "Is there another way this could play out? Can I be open to life unfolding in another way?"  

This is the second time that we get to be a fly on the wall to a coaching session between certified transformative coach John El-Mokadem and his new client Kate who wants coaching around issues in her relationship. Kate believed that past trauma had set her on the course for her current relationship issues but she discovered in this session that the past isn't always how it appears. This episode was a wisdom-bomb-a-minute but here were my absolute faves! Kate's big insight! "I realised that there was never anything wrong. I was always OK, I just thought I wasn't"This is a huge realisation that her past self wasn't broken and that means that the past can't dictate her life in the present or the choices she makes going forward. Yesssss! How do we meet our partner's needs without subjugating our own  needs?John described how the more of his beliefs about needs have dropped away, the less he seems to need on the outside and the more he sees that his needs are already met on the inside. Life doesn't need to be a certain way for him to feel happy. How do we get into a quiet space?John explained how the very act of noticing an icky feeling and realising where it comes from [thought], the more he seem to settle down and start to look into the direction that fresh thought and insight comes from. How do we stop just drifting along in life?Kate's concern is that she needs agency - she needs control over her life and circumstances, John described how he's seen that his happiness doesn't come from illusory control, and his previous attempts at control were making him less happy. The destination that we're all working towards, it's all here in this moment. What about dealing with real life issues like a shortage of money?The more we're coming from insecure thought (life has to be like x, I need to be like y, i need to earn z) all get in the way of allowing success and happiness to flow through us. Life is already being handled, we don't need to make it happen. The more we let go of insecure thought, the more ideas, answers and opportunities that we notice.

This week we get to be a fly on the wall to a coaching session between certified transformative coach John El-Mokadem and his new client Kate. Kate would like coaching around some issues in her relationship. There were so many gems here about handling relationship issues, here were my favourites: Does the past create our relationship problems in the present?Kate feels angry that she's made decisions in her relationship because of trauma in her past and maybe she would have chosen a different life, if it hadn't been for her past. John explained that the anger would make sense if it was being caused by Kate's circumstances and not by Kate's 'noisy thinking' about her circumstances. That laundry list of things that need to happen before we'll feel OKWe can believe there's a whole load of things that we need to happen in our relationship (or life in general) before we'll be OK. As we recognise that the laundry list is just more noisy thinking we see that we already have everything we need to be OK. How do we cope with a noisy mind?We don't need to quieten our minds, ignore our thinking or try to change it, when we recognise that the noise is simply just thinking. What about when we want different things?The more we see that our wellbeing always comes from inside, the more freedom we have to watch how life unfolds without getting so caught up in our thoughts about needing life to be a certain way so we can be happy.