Armchair Talks

This is Episode #1 with Ross Ferguson talking about men's mental health and why so many men don't seek help with their mental health. He also talks about what he has learnt that has helped him to change from someone with some mental health issues into the confident young man he is today.

In this episode Oleg Caraus and I talk about the 4 pillars that underpin his work (Understanding, Creation, Action and Results).  From there we moved on to Thoughts, how we create our reality, what feelings really mean and then finally to who ME is. Oleg Caraus dedicates his life to serving people with love, honesty, respect and understanding. He is a husband and father, State of Mind Coach, Blogger and Power of Insight Podcast host. He helps people identify and create new possibilities in their lives.

Sharon Withers is soon to be 57 years young. In 2009 she was diagnosed with Multiple  Myeloma. After a drug regime, extensive chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, she achieved complete remission and lived a normal and active life until a recent relapse of the condition. Essentially the treatment regime she has just completed was and has been exactly the same, gruelling.  On the news of her relapse she experienced disbelief followed by an abject fear. However, 10 years on and with more understanding around what awareness and consciousness is, she came to realise  that her feelings were a projection of her thought process around the reoccurence and not experiential. At that particular point, she realised she  was "feeling" her thoughts around something that, other than in her head, hadn't even occurred. That insight allowed her to  100 percent choose to either continue to suffer those feelings or allow what was going to unfold and to just go with it. She chose the latter. Sharon says “I am human, I have my moments but overall I'm more at peace because I experience rather than think.”  Sharon has once again achieved complete remission.

My guest is Catherine Anness. She lives in a small town in North Western Ontario, Canada . Catherine gives us clarity on how to have healthy relationships by loving ourselves first and foremost. When we do this, boundaries arise automatically when we are authentic.  Catherine has a deep understanding of how life plays out in each of us and shares her wisdom so that we can understand how this amazing process happens so that we can also reconnect to our own inner Wisdom and well-being.

Diane Xuereb was born in Malta and now lives in the Netherlands. She is the host of a podcast called “Permission to be You”. Through surviving difficulties in her life she wants to help people find the freedom to express who they really are. Diane has a wonderful fascination with story telling and recently discovered that fairy tales hold information that can be used for personal transformation.  In this episode she talks about the television series “Once Upon a Time” and how she started to see the archetypal patterns within the stories that on closer inspection can elicit change. 

My guest this week is Michael Spencer, a Home Energy Coach and Reiki practitioner who helps soulful, sensitive people declutter their homes to create space for what truly matters most.  She is the creator of a high vibration method of decluttering called Home Energy Purification, which incorporates intuition, mindfulness, and energy work into the process Michael is the founder of Let's Purfiy, her online coaching business, and the host of The Let's Purify! Podcast. Michael shares with us how we ultimately use our inner Wisdom to let go of things around our home and to create space.

Catherine Anness has worked for over 25 years in the social services field and seasonally for 20 years as a Park Ranger on a wilderness park.  She lives in a small town in North Western Ontario in Canada.  Catherine taught yoa and had a Reiki practice for many years and is now a health and well-being coach and podcaster.  Her passion these days is supporting her clients in reconnecting with their own inner Wisdom and well-being.  In this episode Catherine and Marion talk about how we experience our inner Wisdom in difficult moments of our lives and how Wisdom is available to us at all times.

Laurie Holmes is an Author, Transformative Coach, Women’s Group Facilitator, Massage Therapist, Grandmother and curious explorer of life’s endless highway of opportunities, creativities and adventures just waiting to be uncovered and discovered. She lives in Hardeeville, SC with her bossy cat Chloe, and see’s each day with fresh eyes and a contagious zest for life. In this episode, 

Marion and Laurie talk about the importance of being  visibile within all types of relationship.  Being authentic and able to receive is the way we ensure we navigate lifes challenges.

Anke Herrmann the host of the Passion Business Podcast.  She is a business coach and mentor and is an expert at helping people create their passion business.  

Anke and Marion talk about her journey from working in IT, to moving to Spain and starting a sewing business that made flamenco dresses.! She then listened to her inner wisdom and became a well known coach helping people start their passion businesses.

Jenny Schmal lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is an author and reset facilitator who specialises in showing her clients how to regener8 and connect to their authentic powerful self.

Jenny and Marion discuss how it is only possible through being authentic and using our inner wisdom that we are able to have healthy relationships.

Find out what the Armchair Talks are all about, my intention and my hope for you.

As the “Armchair” Talks suggests, my guests and I meet to have an open and honest conversation, which at the heart of all of them are authenticity and inner wisdom.