Wilde About Woo
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Taking Responsibility for Growth - How Self Blame Keeps Us Stuck
I've let myself DWELL on all sorts of things in the past, either [usually, in my case] believing I was totally to blame for something, or seething with resentment that I had been wronged. The reality is that most events sat appropriately in neither of...
Head vs Heart: My Top 5 Ways to Connect With Your Intuition
In the last episode, I shared with you my thoughts on intuition and gut feeling - and why we should be listening to them more! But I didn't share HOW to tune into that part of yourself, that strange edge between the conscious and...
Intuition Blindness: Why gut feeling might just be as important as our more traditional senses
Do you ever doubt your gut feeling? I do All. The. Time. It's like I believe that logic / science / brainpower are always right, and my heart is always wrong. We trust the more traditional senses, despite knowing we don't all see exactly the...
Become more trustworthy in 5 simple steps: Learn how to recognise online fake news and stop sharing it!
How often have you been sent a 'news' story by someone on Facebook, only to KNOW it's factually inaccurate? Trump was right all along: fake news DOES exist. It's just not normally the news stories HE thinks are fake... There are all sorts of reasons...
Prestige Bias: What it is, and why it forces YOU to make bad decisions
"With hindsight, that was a bad decision." We've all said that, yeah? And we've probably been asked by parents, "If X jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" Annoying, right? But perhaps we are NOT to blame for our desire to copy others, to...
We're a Centenarian: 5 Things I've Learned From Recording 100 Episodes
This is a bit of a selfish podcast release. You see, I'm celebrating!! Today marks the release of my 100th episode - a landmark I never expected to reach! The truth is that the Wilde About Wellbeing podcast isn't Joe Rogan's, y'know, Spotify aren't...
Are Us White People Whitewashing Black History - Again?! White Saviorism and the Statues
History is written by the [so-called] victors. It always has been. That's why I live in a country FILLED with statues of those who oppressed Black people for centuries. I have no argument in favour of statues dedicated to those who were slavers, BUT...
When Your Home Is Your Workplace: 5 ways to distinguish your weekend from your weekdays, and make time for important things
I wasn’t going to post this podcast today, but I realised something important: White people who are saying I DON’T HAVE TIME to educate myself on race issues, like it’s an excuse for saying the wrong thing / continuing to promote their...
Time to Overcome Racism: How George Floyd's death has made me actively anti-racist
Before George Floyd's death at the hands of Minnesota police, how ANTI-RACIST were you? I wasn't racist, but I was a hypocrite. I would SAY I wasn't racist, and yet my IG feed and stories didn't really reflect that. I'd rarely comment on black issues,...
Reducing Your Alcohol Intake in Lockdown: 5 steps to drinking in moderation
Has your drinking increased during quarantine? Mine has... put it this way, if alcohol were a cure all [spoiler alert: it's not!], I'm never going to get any bug, virus, bacteria right now! My relationship with alcohol has varied a lot over the...