On today's ep of GWI, we're talking about how to stop thinking about yourself so freaking much. GWI PODCAST ✨ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2HqznNA2v9McYirvqmUVvO ✨ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grow-with-intention-by-muchelleb/id1720890847 RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ 500 Simple Acts of Kindness - https://amzn.to/3JUFJZi ✨ 500 Simple Acts of Love - https://amzn.to/3QA7NVe ✨ Metacognitive Therapy: Free Yourself from Imprisoning Thoughts -...

Hey! On today's episode I'm talking about some of the most life-changing inner work tools that I've used personally in my own life. RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ Little Treatments, Big Effects: How to Build Meaningful Moments that Can Transform Your Mental Health - ⁠https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Treatments-Big-Effects-Meaningful/dp/1472147227⁠ ✨ The Dark Side of The Light Chasers - https://amzn.to/3UiVJZO ✨ Metacognitive Therapy: Free Yourself from Imprisoning Thoughts -...

Black-and-white pop-therapy phrases are rotting people's brains a little. In this podcast episode, I want to talk about it. SHOP ✨ The Intention App - Manage Your Mind to Create a Life That Feels Good ⇢ ⁠https://www.theintentionapp.com/⁠ ✨ The Life Map - Part eBook, part digital workbook. Use The Life Map (2.0) to create your most incredible year yet ⇢ https://www.muchelleb.com.au/the-life-map CONNECT WITH ME 🧚 On Instagram ⇢ ⁠@muchelleb⁠ 🧚 TikTok ⇢ ⁠@muchelleb⁠ 🧚 Website ⇢...

Hey! On today's ep I'm interviewing Laura Vanderkam, the author of several time management and productivity books, including the new Tranquility by Tuesday: 9 Ways to Calm the Chaos and Make Time for What Matters, along with Juliet’s School of Possibilities, Off the Clock, I Know How She Does It, What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast, and 168 Hours. Her work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and Fortune. She is...

Hey! On today's ep, I'm interviewing Ellen Langer, author of The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Lasting Health, about how to use the mind-body connection to influence your health, happiness and vitality. Buy Ellens Book, The Mindful Body, here. RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ The Expectation Effect - https://amzn.to/3ViQ2Nm ✨ The Way Out - https://amzn.to/4acP5uu SHOP ✨ The Intention App - Manage Your Mind to Create a Life That Feels Good ⇢ ⁠https://www.theintentionapp.com/⁠ ✨ The Life...

Hey! In this podcast episode I'm interviewing Kim Schneiderman, the author of Step Out of Your Story, a book that gives you detailed ideas on how to choose a different version of your story to help you to redirect your energy and narrative toward your desires and goals and reshape your life. Check out Kim's Writing Workshops: https://stepoutofyourstory.com/writing-workshops/ Buy Kim's Book: Step Out of Your Story: https://amzn.to/49zW94q We talk about: Viewing our lives as...

Hey! On today's ep, I'm diving into the topic of *how to exit your people-pleasing era*. I have worked v hard (and tbh continue!! To work) to let go of behaviours akin to accepting icecreams that will make me feel physically unwell (watch the ep!!) - and have SO much to share on this topic. Social Anxiety Episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2BVvBtock4v0PytPB8BqS3?si=3d3a21b3802846f1 CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:38 Step One 3:48 Step Two 6:14 Step Three 11:20 Step...

Hey! On today's ep I'm talkin' emotional regulation. We talk about: Some fun research that's made me rethink things Some super popular emotional regulation strategies that straight up don't work Some emotional regulation strategies that I've found *life-changing* RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ Unwinding Anxiety - https://amzn.to/3SgfYpR ✨ Learned Optimism - https://amzn.to/3vSDDVQ REFERENCES Facilitating adaptive emotional analysis: distinguishing distanced-analysis of depressive...

Hey! On today's ep I'm chit-chatting about 7 self-help books that have (actually, for real) changed my life. THE BOOKS ✨ Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman: https://amzn.to/41YYDX0 ✨ Unwinding Anxiety by Judd Brewer: https://amzn.to/3tR2bOi ✨ The Power of Strangers by Joe Keohane: https://amzn.to/3HnhaTa ✨ Forgive for Good by Fred Luskin: https://amzn.to/3S4VwZc ✨ More than Words: https://amzn.to/3RU0xDH ✨ The Relationship Handbook by Dr. George Pransky PhD :...

Hey! On today's ep I'm interviewing the incredible Susan Ashford, author of The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big Life-Changing Growth. We chat about the idea behind "flexing", how to slowly lean into a better version of yourself, the difference between regular goal setting and flex goal process, the importance of shifting to a learning mindset, and the power of reframing experiences. Buy The Power of Flexing: How to Use Small Daily Experiments to...

Hey! In this episode I’m talking about my personal journey of managing and reducing my social anxiety. I talk about mindset shifts to make to move past your social anxiety, managing rumination and strategies to feel more yourself in day to day life.  RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ Imagery-Enhanced CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder - https://amzn.to/48raIq2 ✨ How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety - https://amzn.to/48s1Gch ✨ Dating Without Fear -...

Hey! On today's ep I'm interviewing Fred Luskin. Fred Luskin, Ph.D. is the author of Forgive for Good and one of the world's leading researchers and teachers on the subject of forgiveness. He is the director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, a series of research projects that investigate forgiveness methods. We talk about the impact of forgiveness on mental health, the importance of setting boundaries and challenging unenforceable rules, the need for gratitude and positive intention...

Hey! On today’s solo ep I’m talking about making friends as an adult and how to enter your community era. We talk about the challenges of finding new friends as an adult and the importance of putting yourself in situations where new people can be met, the importance of personal growth and becoming the kind of person one would want to be friends with, rejection and rejection sensitivity in friendship making and deepening friendships. RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ Danielle Bayard Jackson Friend...

Hey! On today's ep I'm deep diving on manifestation: Is it legit? What parts of it work? How can you “manifest”? I talk about the power and limitations of visualization, explore the concept of self-affirmation and its positive effects and address the idea of limiting beliefs. RECCS OF THE WEEK ✨ Robert Fritz: The Path of Least Resistance and Creating ✨ Mic The Real Trouble with Manifesting Your Happiness ✨ Rethinking Positive Thinking by Gabriele Oettingen SHOP ✨ The Intention App...

Hey! On today's ep I'm interviewing the incredible Michelle Segar. Michelle is an award-winning, NIH-funded researcher at the University of Michigan with almost thirty years studying how to help people adopt exercise and physical activity in ways that bring meaning and joy, and can be sustained within the complexity and unpredictability of the real world. We talk about self-control, good “whys”, how to get motivated to workout, flexibility in behaviour change, reframing shoulds and how...

Welcome to Grow With Intention ✨ A podcast for people who want to create a life that feels good. Grow With Intention explores questions like: ✨ How can you get things done in a way that’s a custom fit for your brain? ✨ How can you react in a more helpful way to your thoughts and feelings? ✨ How can you create habits that you look forward to every day? ✨ How can you change patterns of behaviour in a self-compassionate way?