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episode 205: How to Feel Confident in Any Situation
If you’re in a job where you use your brain a lot, it can be easy to feel disconnected from your body and emotions. This in turn can lead to a lack of self-awareness and even difficulty in expressing yourself. That lack of awareness changes how we outwardly express ourselves, even in ways we’re not aware of.
But by becoming consciously connected with our body, we can get a bit more control over our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, and over how others see us.
This week, Rachel is joined by coach and trainer Helen Leathers, who shows us how our posture, our movements, even the way we dress, can affect not only our mood, but how we’re perceived at work. She also shares a practical exercise that can help us cultivate stillness, so we appear more confident and open.
It’s natural for those of us in cerebral jobs to see the body as just a vessel for the brain. But if we disconnect for too long, we can find it harder to tap into, understand, and express difficult feelings like stress and overwhelm.
But there are simple things you can do to reconnect with your body, to literally shake off those negative feelings, and to “fake it ‘til you become it”.
Listen to this episode to- Learn practical steps to cultivate self-awareness and express yourself more effectively
- Discover how becoming consciously connected with your body and emotions can lead to positive changes in your life
- Understand the practical applications of embodiment, and separate it from the pseudoscience
Episode highlights
- [00:04:50] Consciously connecting body and mind
- [00:13:28] How posture and movement affects how we're perceived
- [00:16:34] Fake it 'til you become it
- [00:17:41] How we dress is a signal to our body
- [00:19:52] Embodiment and overwhelm
- [00:28:08] Acknowledging where feelings sit in our body
- [00:32:37] Shake it off
- [00:38:58] Does it matter where in your body you feel something?
- [00:43:35] Helen's embodiment tips
About the guest
Helen Leathers is a transformational coach with expertise in helping people use their body to access thoughts and emotions. She helps women who feel lost or overwhelmed to find their way in life again, and teaches doctors coaching and communication skills.
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Resources- THRIVE Weekly Planner
- Watch the video version on YouTube
- Tiny Habits, Big Changes – Episode 2, with Dr Katherine Hickman
- What Happens When We’re Really Listened to – Episode 180, with Tom Dillon
- Doctors’ Transformational Coaching Diploma – Use the code FROGSPAWN for an exclusive discount
- Download the episode’s podsheet. You can use it for reflection and to submit for your appraisal as part of your CPD.
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