Changeable Podcast

In this episode, we explore exactly how to stay stuck in a habit.Step by step. (Because I love steps). How to dig your heels in and stay right where you are.Do these 5 things and I can pretty much promise you’ll be as stuck as ever.Don’t do them…and you just might start feeling un-stuck.Here’s the article I reference throughout the episode: https://dramyjohnson.com/2018/04/the-definitive-guide-to-staying-stuck-in-a-habit/***The Little School of Big Change begins SOON! Like, really soon. September 23, 2019.Beginning this week, you can catch the incredibly in-depth, totally free 4-part video series Change that Sticks. These videos go deep into why our change attempts don’t work and where we can look instead. Register for the series here so that you receive the videos as soon as they begin on the 12th!  https://thechangeseries.com/The post EP60: How to NOT Break a Habit appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

For decades, Susan rarely left her house.She couldn’t bear to have visitors. Service calls were routinely cancelled last minute. Friends and family knew to keep a distance while she coped with her anxiety the best she could.Little by little, as Sue immersed herself in the New Paradigm understanding, she began to see things differently.She didn’t instantly start running all over town. But she began to feel as if she could. As if she would, someday soon.Then, she did. Sue came to a call with her nails done one day, from a nail tech who came into her home. She had a fresh haircut.She shared how she had made it to the park she dreamed of visiting. Little by little, her bike rides extended beyond her “safety zone”.Sue’s safe zone is larger than it has been in 20+ years. Best of all, she sees that it’s all made up. She absolutely knows that it’s only a matter of time until there is no safety zone.Susan’s story is full of hope and patience and strength. I know you’ll feel it as you listen!***Do you want a sneak peek inside LSBC? Check out The Little School of Big Change Highlights Series at https://www.thelittleschoolofbigchange.com/highlights to see 5 “highlights” from various lessons in the school that will begin to show you a brand new way to view yourself and your experience.The post EP59: Susan’s Change Story: Agoraphobia appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Years ago, I wrote an article about how my little dog Buddha dug into my lap during fireworks season. She’d claw and scratch and burrow her way into me, running for her life from the loud booms all around.Except, she obviously wasn’t running for her life. She had no idea that she was 100%, perfectly safe.I talk with people every day who are exactly like Buddha. Fearing thoughts and feelings that are made up and can’t possibly hurt them.They don’t know how safe they really are.In this episode, I unpack how the very things that make our experience feel scary and dangerous are actually our clues that it absolutely safe.***Here’s the Buddha article (originally written in 2014): https://dramyjohnson.com/2016/07/you-have-no-idea-how-safe-you-really-are-a-story-about-buddhas-fear-of-fireworks/Do you want a sneak peek inside LSBC? Check out The Little School of Big Change Highlights Series at https://www.thelittleschoolofbigchange.com/highlights to see 5 “highlights” from various lessons in the school that will begin to show you a brand new way to view yourself and your experience.The post EP58: You Have No Idea How Safe You Are appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Crystal Saltrelli is a well known health coach who helps people with a stomach issue called gastroparesis. When Crystal began coaching around this issue, her support centered mostly on diet and lifestyle. It didn’t take long for her to see that stress or “mindset” as she called it at the time was playing a big role, too. But as a health coach, Crystal wasn’t quite sure what to do with that. She shared positive thinking and gratitude-type exercises with her clients and helped them manage stress the best she could, but she knew something big was missing. When Crystal’s own anxiety became an issue, she was introduced to the New Paradigm. Relatively quickly, she began to see this understanding as the most helpful thing she could share with anyone, no matter what they are going through. In this episode, Crystal also shares her own candid ups and downs with her physical health and how this understanding has helped her. Whether you have physical health issues or not, there is so much to hear in this conversation! See more about Crystal here: https://livingwithgastroparesis.com/The post EP57: How the New Paradigm Changed the Way a Health Coach Views Health with Crystal Saltrelli appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

If you’re scanning these show notes for the one word that is the key to everything you’re looking for…I’m not going to include it here.You have to listen to the episode to find out.Do you have a guess though?It’s the key to everything you’re looking for and the worst advice you’ll ever hear.You find everything you’re searching for when you do the magic word. But someone advising you to do the magic word almost never helps. In fact, the advice usually results in the opposite of the magic word.Enough riddles already, just listen to the episode!The post EP56: This One Word is the Key to Everything You’re Looking For. And, it’s the Worst Advice You’ll Ever Hear. appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Emillie has been around this understanding for a while.She was in and out. She’d hear something profound and helpful, then fall back toward her long-time disordered eating habits and assume she had lost whatever it was she heard.But after a while, something interesting began to happen. Even though Emillie was still binge eating–worse than ever, actually–what she saw and felt about the health she possessed beyond her habit–grew and grew.For a while, Emillie was on a wild ride, knowing that she was peace, love, and health, and yet falling into habitual thoughts, feelings and behaviors often. But the scales were tipping. I could see it. Others in LSBC could see it in her. Eventually her habit began to break up and fall away in large chunks, like an iceberg breaking apart and melting in the water.Emillie’s story is full of insight and wisdom about how it sometimes looks as we shed old habits that no longer make sense.*****Do you want a sneak peek inside LSBC? Check out The Little School of Big Change Highlights Series at https://www.thelittleschoolofbigchange.com/highlights to see 5 “highlights” from various lessons in the school that will begin to show you a brand new way to view yourself and your experience. The post EP55: Emillie’s Change Story: Binge Eating appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

In this episode, I talk about the feeling of hunger.As I experiment with feeling of hunger (as opposed to quickly trying to “satisfy” it so that it will go away), things have opened up that I never imagined.I feel stronger. Safer. Far more peaceful and less shakable.My capacity to feel anything and everything feels as if it has expanded exponentially. The space around feelings—especially those I label ‘uncomfortable’—appears to have massively grown.******Do you want a sneak peek inside LSBC? Check out The Little School of Big Change Highlights Series at https://www.thelittleschoolofbigchange.com/highlights to see 5 “highlights” from various lessons in the school that will begin to show you a brand new way to view yourself and your experience.The post EP54: Hunger appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Before Patricia came to the New Paradigm, she was having frequent panic attacks.She went to the ER regularly, sure each time that there was a physical issue that needed to be addressed.She had trouble leaving the house without water, an energy bar (“just in case I got stranded”), and some sort of self-help listening material to help quiet her mind if needed.In the 9 months she’s been around this understanding, so, so much is different. Patricia has seen so much in just 9 short months. She’s free of much of what held her back, and she’s sharing new insights she’s having in The Little School of Big Change all the time.I know you’ll find so much hope and insight in Patricia’s story.The post EP53: Patricia’s Change Story: Panic and Worrying about What Others Think appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

Are you ready for some light, summer listening? You’re in the right place! Because this episode is all about the fact that you’re going to suffer in life. And you’re going to die.It’s a given.It’s also a given that you’ll not suffer in life. You’ll feel lots of stuff…some you like and some you don’t like.See, I’m not as negative as it may seem.Actually though, as you listen in, you’ll see what great news it is to see that some suffering and eventual death are givens. That means they are non-negotiable and can’t be avoided. Which means that all the stuff you’re doing to try to avoid them is unnecessary and you can stop doing it.Don’t think you’re doing things to avoid death and suffering? Look again.Once you’ve had a chance to listen, reach out and let me know what you want to devote your next 50 or so years to! The post EP52: You’re Going to Suffer and Die appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.

You might know that I’m a huge Lisa Esile fan.Lisa was essentially silent for a year or more of her life. In that time, she did very little and very little “input”.What she saw about how her mind works, and what’s there beyond her mind, is pretty awesome.I especially love the affection she has for her mind! It doesn’t look like the enemy, or a thing to quiet, suppress, or ignore at all to Lisa. It looks more like her best friend, who just happens to act like an overactive puppy much of the time.I know you’ll enjoy this conversation with Lisa. You can see more about her and her work here: http://lisaesile.com/And definitely check out the book she wrote with her husband Franco, here: https://www.amazon.com/Whose-Mind-Anyway-Your-Head/dp/1101982632The post EP51: What’s There When You Stop Moving with Lisa Esile appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.