The Emotional Health Podcast

Today's interview is with the wonderful Jon Toms. Lucy and Jon chat about all sorts of things including the tragedy of Sammy the Seal, the reality of facing pain, the importance of disconnecting emotions from identity and how to use Be Real. You will come away from this episode smiling and encouraged!

Check out Jon’s insta for all the great banter and emotional health wisdom:

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Following on from the episode about what self esteem is, Lucy shares a couple of tips and exercises that can start you on your journey of improving your self esteem. This starts by looking at the impact others have on us and then the impact we ourselves can have on how we feel about ourselves. 

We would love to hear what has helped you from this episode so do get in touch. 

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Fiona Thomas is an author and freelance writer who talks openly about her experience with emotional health, from when she had a mental health breakdown at 26 to how talking about mental health is woven into her work as a writer. This is a great interview to listen to to raise your awareness of how mental health can affect all of us. 

Her most recent book Out of Office: Ditch the 9-5 and Be Your Own Boss has been featured in Stylist, Forbes, Daily Mail and was shortlisted for a Business Book Award in 2021 - go Fiona!!

All Fiona's amazing things:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fionalikestoblog/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fionalikes

Website:  https://fionalikestoblog.com/

Link to buy Out of Office: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/out-of-office-ditch-the-9-5-and-be-your-own-boss/978178956124

Out of Office podcast: https://pod.link/Outofoffice

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In today's episode Lucy breaks down what self esteem actually means. She talks about its definition, how it can impact us, how it gets affected and why it's so important that we build our self esteem. A future episode will go into more detail on how we do that. 

Apologies for the slight background noise for the first half of the episode. 

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Today's episode Lucy chats with CBT therapist Rachael Adams, also known on Instagram as the compassionate approach. A lot is covered in this conversation from her experience of recognising her own mental health needs as a therapist to the use of Instagram in the wellness world (the answer may surprise you) and her love of her dog and iced coffee. 

This is a heart warming episode with a whole heap of wisdom so we hope you find this interview empowering for yourself. 

You can follow Rachael on Instagram @thecompassionateapproach.

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Another educational episode for you all and this time Lucy is discussing how our actions can be very powerful in creating positive changes in your emotional health, specifically around the treatment called Behavioural Activation. We hope this is really helpful in understanding how you can bring intention to what you do to improve your emotional health. 

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Today's interview is with photographer and fitness enthusiast Ollie Baines. Lucy and Ollie chat about his work as a photographer and working alongside his wife for Joe Wicks aka the body coach! Part of this conversation explores Ollie's sudden impactful experience with mental health and his own struggles with body image. He then also shares the 5 things he likes to do in his day to stay emotionally healthy. 

Check out Ollie below:

Ollie's Photography Instagram - @olliebainesphotography

The Body Coach App - @bodycoachapp

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Let's chat about who you are, amazing wonderful you. But do you know who that person is? In today's episode Lucy reflects on how getting to know yourself can be so helpful in strengthening your emotional health. We can easily slip into the person we think others expect us to be and lose our true selves. Coming to understand who you are can be an important step in improving your emotional health and life. 

Some things mentioned in the episode:

Myers Briggs Test

Enneagram 

Love Languages

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On today's episode Lucy chats to Jess Berry, the founder of the Co-Working Club, which is an online community for female business owners. Jess talks about her journey to creating the community, her own struggles with working from home and the reality of living out your dreams. This is such a valuable and encouraging conversation that we hope you all really enjoy. 

Links mentioned in the episode:

Jess' Instagram

Jess' Podcast

Jess' Website

Co-Working Club Instagram

Co-Working Club Website

The 5 Minute Journal

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In today's educational episode Lucy spends the time talking about low mood. What it is, the difference between low mood and depression, how it can feel and what it can look like. Lucy also discusses the importance of sharing how you feel with someone and building your emotional toolkit. 

Lucy hopes this helps bring awareness to your own emotional health and helps strengthen it!

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Our first interview back after a little break! We're so excited for you guys to meet Jodie Rogers. She tells us about training to be a yoga teacher and her transition online to talking more about wellness. They chat about having the bravery to give something a go, getting through dark places, crying over McDonald's adverts and Jodie's emotional 5 a day. Jodie also shares how journaling has helped her and gives us some journal prompts to get started on your journaling journey. 

You can find Jodie on her Instagram, TikTok and her online blog. 

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Lucy and the podcast are back! After an extended break Lucy is catching you up on where she has been. So take some time out of your day, make a cup of tea (or a beverage of your choosing) and settle in to hear about what life has been looking like recently. 

We'd love to hear how life has been for you the last few months and what you would like to hear about on the podcast. You can connect with us via email, Instagram and, new for this year, TikTok! All the details are below. 

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Let's do this!

What a treat for you guys - another interview! This week is with the beautiful Charlotte Jones whose background is in dance and is a qualified yoga instructor. It was a delight to catch up with Charlotte and chat about how injury affected her emotional health, finding joy in yoga and of course her 5 a day. You can find Charlotte in the following places:

Amala Movement Instagram

Amala Movement YouTube

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Much love from Lucy x

This week Lucy interviews the podcast's no.1 fan aka the editor of the episodes, the amazing Angus Butcher!

Tune in to hear them chat about his experience with going full-time self employed, burnout in the creative industry and driving failures.

You can follow Angus on instagram here and his video work here. Also, check out Not My Kitchen cooking show with Angus and Archie here.

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Much love from Lucy x

This week Lucy interviews the lovely Ruth Marsden. They chat about Ruth's experience with starting a business, raising children and building lego! 

Find out more and give Bettercup a follow and follow Ruth on Instagram here.

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Much love from Lucy x

We get practical today as Lucy shares a way of challenging unhelpful thoughts. Listen to hear about how you can start to transform your thoughts! We’d love to hear how this helps you. 

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Much love from Lucy x

Our next interview on The Emotional Health Podcast. This week is Lance Matongo. Tune in to hear them chat about Lance’s experience with emotional health, fashion, marketing and wet sandy beaches!

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On this weeks episode, Lucy is chatting all things thoughts again. This week she dives deeper into what thoughts are and how they work, as well as a tiny bit of science which Lucy was very proud to share. We hope this encourages you to take back control over your thoughts!

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This week our interviewees are Sam and Tish Crocker-Green. Listen to them chat about their experience with emotional health, their 5 a days, and discussing The Wellbeing Journey.

You can find out more about the The Wellbeing Hub and sign up to their online exercise classes here. 

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Much love from Lucy x

A special episode for you today! The first Q&A. You guys came through with the questions and Lucy answers some of them. Listen for some advice on how to continue looking after your emotional health as well as a peek into Lucy’s life a little more. This is the video that Lucy talks about in the episode. 

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Our next interview on The Emotional Health Podcast! This week is the wonderful Tom and Elle Limbear. Tune in to hear them chat about their experience with emotional health, their 5 a day, and sitting on and around a piano.

You can follow Elle & Tom on Instagram as well as their Lockdown baby, Brighton in a Box. You can also find their website here. 

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It’s all about thoughts in this episode! Lucy chats about what thoughts are and, as the title suggests, the power of them. Listen to hear about why you should be paying attention to what you are thinking about. 

Here is a link to a couple of resources that you can download and use in your thoughts awareness journey.

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This week Lucy interviews Max and Jacob Avard, aka The Chuckle Cousins. Listen to them chat about their experience with emotional health, their 5 a days, and discussions surrounding breakfast cereals and toenails. 

You should definitely go check out their music podcast here if you want to hear more from these two guys. 

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An educational episode for you all looking at the importance of understanding anxiety. Lucy takes a deep dive into what anxiety actually is. Referring back to the F word episode, she explores what the window of tolerance is, how anxiety grows and an example from her own life of how to start overcoming anxiety. If you want further info on anxiety, check out a link here.

If you feel you are struggling with your anxiety, please do reach out to your GP who can help point you in the right direction of getting support.

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Our second interview on The Emotional Health Podcast! 

This week is Youth Pastor Lizzie Evans, who is Lucy’s friend. Tune in to hear them chat about Lizzie’s experience with emotional health, her 5 a day, and an in-depth discussion surrounding Netflix shows. You can find Lizzie on Instagram here.

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On today’s episode Lucy spends time discussing the fight, flight or freeze response, aka the F words. We look at what it is, why we have it and why it’s so important to understand for helping our emotional health. Below is some further resources you may find helpful with this topic:

Fight or Flight Video

Fight or Flight Worksheet

This response will be talked about in further episodes so not one to miss!

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Our very first interview on the emotional health podcast! 

Kicking things off is Sam Dracott, who is Lucy’s husband. Tune in to hear them chat about Sam’s experience with emotional health, his 5 a day, and a surprising conversation about the appearance of a couple green fruit and veggies. Enjoy! 

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It can be hard to know where to start when wanting to strengthen your emotional health, so in this episode Lucy shares a simple activity you can do to start you on this journey. In future weeks, guests will be sharing on this topic - so it's not one to miss!

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The very first episode of the emotional health podcast! Lucy talks about where her heart for emotional health came from and begins the conversation around why emotional health is important for everyone. 

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Welcome to The Emotional Health Podcast! A podcast to encourage and equip you in your emotional health through education, interviews and real-life experiences. I'm so excited for you to hear the first episodes. Stay tuned for more and follow us on Social Media @emotionalhealthpodcast for updates!