admin, Author at Our Mental Health Rocks https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/author/admin/ Revolutionising Mental Well-being Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:39:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-O-32x32.png admin, Author at Our Mental Health Rocks https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/author/admin/ 32 32 Episode 35 – One Story, many possibilities https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/episode-35/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=episode-35 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/episode-35/#respond Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:35:30 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240889 The post Episode 35 – One Story, many possibilities appeared first on Our Mental Health Rocks.

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Episode 35 – One Story, many possibilities

What if there’s more than story in every experience we have? After an interesting trip to a restaurant, James and Jules explore exactly what is going on when we interact with other people and how any experience we have of them and them of us is ALWAYS coming from the inside and directly from that person.

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Episode 34 – Living without labels

This week, James and Jules explore loneliness.

How it feels to be lonely, how to help others when they’re lonely, how we don’t need to have answers to their loneliness, we can just need one very powerful question.

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Episode 33 – Loneliness

This week, James and Jules explore loneliness.

How it feels to be lonely, how to help others when they’re lonely, how we don’t need to have answers to their loneliness, we can just need one very powerful question.

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]]> https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/episode-33/feed/ 0 You weren’t put on this planet to have to manage your anxiety, stress etc etc… https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/you-werent-put-on-this-planet-to-have-to-manage-your-anxiety-stress-etc-etc/#respond Fri, 06 May 2022 10:45:04 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240859 Why are we still being told to “manage” our anxiety? Or whatever label it is that we get given that slots us nicely into a box where someone can “fix” us? Aren’t you bored of managing it? Coping with it? Do you have a head full of techniques and fixes that you have to trawl […]

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Or whatever label it is that we get given that slots us nicely into a box where someone can “fix” us?

Aren’t you bored of managing it?
Coping with it?

Do you have a head full of techniques and fixes that you have to trawl through every time you feel that label coming on?

When you talk about your label does your sentence contain the words
“I’m managing it”
Or
“I’m learning how to live with it”
Or
“I’m coping”

Who the hell wants to do any of the above?

I bloody didn’t

I wanted to learn what’s actually going on when I got anxious
I wanted to know why I was experiencing my circumstance one way and yet everyone else around me wasn’t

Ring any bells?

I sure as hell did not want to be “managing” it for the rest of my life

So I didn’t

And I don’t

Because I’ve seen that it’s a heads up from my amazing mental health system that I’m not seeing things clearly

Its no longer an invitation to turn to page number twenty bloody two and practice technique 17.4

How about we put the books down
And start tuning into what we have supporting us already?

Can you relate to this?
I’d love to know

James
OMHR

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Episode 32 – Sue’s Story

Meet Sue, one of our OMHR Ambassadors!
She is out in the world helping teens with their mental health.

Having grown up with parents struggling with their own mental health she has literally years of experience and wisdom to bring into others’ lives.

Today we catch up with Sue to find out more about her amazing work, her childhood and her own childlike ability that connects her so easily to the young people she works with.

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]]> https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/episode-32/feed/ 0 Nigel’s Success https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/nigels-success/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nigels-success https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/nigels-success/#respond Fri, 29 Apr 2022 10:26:08 +0000 https://ourmentalhealthrocks.com/?p=240807 Meet Nigel. He joined one of our programmes for support with his phobia. Here is his story of success! Overcoming overwhelm My Fear of heights has been around for a while… Maybe years! It seemed to get worse in the last few years. Not sure why. Age maybe or recent life experiences probably! Social Media […]

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]]> Meet Nigel.
He joined one of our programmes for support with his phobia. Here is his story of success!

Overcoming overwhelm

My Fear of heights has been around for a while… Maybe years!
It seemed to get worse in the last few years.
Not sure why.
Age maybe or recent life experiences probably!
Social Media pressure doesn’t help

”Just Do it! Oh… yes! Because it looks that easy to me!”
Let’s try Facebook, can my friends help? My partner… Does he really get it?
Not sure folk fully appreciate my anxiety on that front.
Read books, read more books, more techniques. Even tried Hypnotherapy!
What can fix it?
Further delving in to this was exhausting….did I need a different approach?
That’s when James and Jules stepped in!
“Stop focusing on that. Explore yourself and your well-being” they said!
Of course I was sceptical! But I went with it. One thing was to focus on the now and not what might happen.
“I have two legs! I can walk. It’s a bridge that’s all.”
So thinking positively and having positive conversations with friends was the new mantra.
No room left for folk draining my energy. It’s what I want and need that’s important and of benefit to me.
Yes ME. Just now.
So tried a few views, a few bridges, appreciating experiences sharing with friends and my partner.
Once I’d done it I even walked to the top of the cliff above the damn bridge I had just crossed. I had come this far. I can go further. I was on a roll.

It felt good. I felt proud. I smiled. I actually enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.
So am I cured?
I don’t think so. But I don’t think James and Jules were trying to cure this in isolation and I think that’s the point. It’s about appreciating what happens at that precise moment. I kinda just went with it.
I felt much less anxious, worried and kinda stopped thinking about the heights thing and just ready to experience the event.
I suppose you could apply this to most things.
Chatting to Julie and James (and it is a chat) A few videos to watch and a bit of self reflection.
That sounds simple doesn’t it! Well not if you have conditioned yourself to think one way for years!
James said to me at the start. “ I want you to forget what you have learnt and come in to this programme with a fresh mind. It took me a few months to get there. But I think I have learnt something here. About myself maybe. About thinking about my next life journey.
Yes I have days I am anxious. But I feel that’s ok now. Days I am happy reading a book for 2 hours and not feeling guilty.

Thank you
Nigel…

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Episode 31 – Ivana’s Story.

Meet Well-being Coach Ivana.

She has been helping people throughout her life with their well-being and is now breaking into the the world of young people with her brand new Changemakers project – an after school workshop for young people to bring change into their own lives and the lives of others.

In todays episode we hear Ivana’s amazing stories of children who have been impacted by the work she does with them.

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Episode 30 – Suzy’s Story.

In this week’s episode, James catches up with OMHR Facilitator Suzy as she shares her amazing story of overcoming anxiety and how she is blending the omhr curriculum with her yoga workshops for kids to help them with their mental health. Check out her Bio below and enjoy the podcast!

Hi Im Suzy and I’m a Holistic Therapist, Breath Coach, Meditation Teacher, Children’s Yoga Teacher and an Our Mental Health Rocks Facilitator. I LOVE what I do , it’s fun, it’s satisfying, it’s helping people and in turn helping me.

I’m passionate about giving children the tools that they need to take them through life as confident individuals who live life to the fullest and for those adults who need a little reminder of how amazing they are too.

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Episode 29 – Your relationship problems have nothing to do with anyone else.

Ok, all we ask is that you listen to this episode with an open mind as we know that for some of you it goes against anything you’ve ever believed about relationships and if you can stay open to what we are discussing then it may give you a refreshing look on what’s actually going on. Love James and Jules

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Episode 28 – Just get to the point.

How often do we find ourselves having to listen to someone while thinking “just get to the point” or “yeah I’ve got it now, you don’t have to explain anymore to me”. How many times do we do this ourselves? In this week’s episode Jules and James explore just how freeing it is when we provide and answer without feeling like we have to add more to justify that answer. The space we are coming from when we reply to someone gives them everything they need without all the extra words

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