Pleasure often gets a bit of a bad reputation. People talk about hedonism or chasing pleasure as if it's something frivolous or shallow as a pursuit. But I believe that prioritising pleasure is actually essential to the work that we're doing here.

Are you being nice enough to your body? Did you know that studies have shown many receptors in your body can serve multiple different purposes? This basically means that these receptors can detect both pain and pleasure depending on, yes, the stimulus, the experience itself, but more importantly, depending on what you're expecting to feel.

Is there strength in forgiveness? You might think that forgiving means forgetting, or that it minimises the issue, or perhaps you believe it weakens your feelings, or even your or even invalidates them, leading you to hold onto grudges. In reality, forgiveness is less about excusing a wrongdoing and more about choosing to give over the emotion, deciding to put it down.

Let's talk about anger. You may associate anger with being fiery, and while fire can be destructive, it can also fuel you when you're channelling it positively. Recognising your anger and how to use it could be the difference between warming your house, burning it down.

Today we're going to explore a deeply personal, yet universally experienced emotion, grief. Now, grief is a complex emotion. It's often difficult to discuss, and it's even harder to experience.

Today, I'm going to speak about the difference between pain and suffering. I've spoken about pain in various other blogs and podcasts, and I often say that pain is your friend and numb is your enemy. This is because I believe that the ability to feel pain and understand what needs to be done about it is a huge gift. It’s a key—perhaps the key—to understanding what it means to be a High Functioning Human with a deep connection to your body and to your intuition.

Today, I've been inspired to talk about creativity from the great quote by Pablo Picasso, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up." This statement resonates with me deeply because I believe that keeping joy and play in your life is as essential an exercise to remain vital as you age.

Let's explore how being overly attuned to the world around you might lead you to overlook your own inner emotional landscape, essentially feeling everything that's outside and missing what's inside.

In today's episode, we're going to discuss a profound yet overlooked aspect of emotional health, what I like to call Emotional Infiltration. This is about how the emotions and moods around you, from the media that you watch to the people that you interact with, can subtly affect and influence your own emotional states. Sometimes, this can happen even without you realising it.

In the last few years, as I've brought my work into the online space, aiming to help and reach more people, I have become increasingly aware of the overwhelming amount of insincerity flooding this space. It often leads to what I term wellness exhaustion, where the relentless floods of half-hearted advice cause many to dismiss some even things that are like valuable information.