This week on The Thought Trap, we explore how quickly the mind makes life personal. Why can two people experience the exact same moment so differently? Why do neutral situations suddenly feel loaded? And what happens when we begin to notice the stories the mind automatically creates about “me”? A warm, funny, reflective episode about the personalising mind, survival wiring, and seeing life with a little more ease.

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This week on The Thought Trap, I’m joined by a special guest, Vicki Montague, a wellbeing and possibility coach. We explore parenting, societal pressures, and all the ways we can get pulled into thinking we need to figure everything out… or get it right. But underneath all of that, there’s something much simpler. A quiet knowing that’s always there, even when the mind gets loud. This conversation isn’t about answers or strategies, it’s a gentle pointing back to what "you already know".

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This months trap talk speaks to a very relatable question

Becca, I will often feel really clear about doing something… like it’s a yes… and then I end up talking myself out of it. I usually take that as a sign that I shouldn’t do it, but then I just feel stuck. How do I know what to listen to?

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As a Certified Change Coach trained by Dr. Amy Johnson, PhD, and a member of the Association of Coaching, I approach wellbeing from a holistic perspective. Coaching can be incredibly powerful and life-changing, but it is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or medical treatment. I am not a licensed medical professional, and the information shared in this podcast is based on my coaching training, lived experience, and work in my private practice, The Missing Peace. Nothing shared is intended as advice or a replacement for professional care. Please take what resonates, leave the rest, and always seek support from a licensed medical or mental health professional for any psychological or physical health concerns

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What if the feeling that something is missing… is just something we’ve learned? In this episode, I share a moment from my own journey of trying to fix myself, and how that led me to see something very different. Through children, emotions, and the way we’re conditioned to relate to our experience, we explore what happens when we stop trying to fix… and start to see

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As a Certified Change Coach trained by Dr. Amy Johnson, PhD, and a member of the Association of Coaching, I approach wellbeing from a holistic perspective. Coaching can be incredibly powerful and life-changing, but it is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or medical treatment. I am not a licensed medical professional, and the information shared in this podcast is based on my coaching training, lived experience, and work in my private practice, The Missing Peace. Nothing shared is intended as advice or a replacement for professional care. Please take what resonates, leave the rest, and always seek support from a licensed medical or mental health professional for any psychological or physical health concerns

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Do you remember when sleep was just… sleep? I do. And then somewhere along the way it became something to be tracking, analysed and talked about.

In this episode I get honest about my own experience of the sleep spiral and what I started to notice on the other side of it. What I share isn't a sleep hack or a bedtime routine. It's something quieter — and when you see it, it changes far more than just your nights.

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As a Certified Change Coach trained by Dr. Amy Johnson, PhD, and a member of the Association of Coaching, I approach wellbeing from a holistic perspective. Coaching can be incredibly powerful and life-changing, but it is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or medical treatment. I am not a licensed medical professional, and the information shared in this podcast is based on my coaching training, lived experience, and work in my private practice, The Missing Peace. Nothing shared is intended as advice or a replacement for professional care. Please take what resonates, leave the rest, and always seek support from a licensed medical or mental health professional for any psychological or physical health concerns

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One year into the podcast, and I’ve been reflecting on consistency…and the idea that we should always finish what we start. For a long time, I believed I wasn’t a finisher — and that meant something about me. But what I see now is something much simpler… and much more freeing. This episode is an invitation to look at what’s really going on when we start, stop, change direction… and what we make that mean about who we are.

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As a Certified Change Coach trained by Dr. Amy Johnson, PhD, and a member of the Association of Coaching, I approach wellbeing from a holistic perspective. Coaching can be incredibly powerful and life-changing, but it is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or medical treatment. I am not a licensed medical professional, and the information shared in this podcast is based on my coaching training, lived experience, and work in my private practice, The Missing Peace. Nothing shared is intended as advice or a replacement for professional care. Please take what resonates, leave the rest, and always seek support from a licensed medical or mental health professional for any psychological or physical health concerns

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This episode is going live on April Fools’ Day…which felt like the perfect timing. In this episode, I explore something we don’t often notice…the quiet trickery of the mind…and how easily something can look and feel real even when it’s being created in the moment. And it’s not random. There’s a reason the mind does this. A really understandable one. But what’s even more interesting…is what’s available when we begin to see it.

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"The Thought Trap — a space for quieting the busy brain, turning down the noisy chatter, and stepping more fully into life"

Disclaimer:

As a Certified Change Coach trained by Dr. Amy Johnson, PhD, and a member of the Association of Coaching, I approach wellbeing from a holistic perspective. Coaching can be incredibly powerful and life-changing, but it is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or medical treatment. I am not a licensed medical professional, and the information shared in this podcast is based on my coaching training, lived experience, and work in my private practice, The Missing Peace. Nothing shared is intended as advice or a replacement for professional care. Please take what resonates, leave the rest, and always seek support from a licensed medical or mental health professional for any psychological or physical health concerns

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Why do I make such a big deal out of things that aren’t that important?

This week’s Trap Talk question felt perfectly timed, landing right in the middle of my own recent Thought Trap. This episode is sparked by a slightly chaotic couple of days involving a very weird cold, a podcast recording, and a missing phone. A simple situation quickly started to feel urgent, personal, and overwhelming… especially when I wasn’t feeling myself. A gentle look at why that happens, and what’s really going on in those moments.

"The Thought Trap — a space for quieting the busy brain, turning down the noisy chatter, and stepping more fully into life"

Disclaimer:

As a Certified Change Coach trained by Dr. Amy Johnson, PhD, and a member of the Association of Coaching, I approach wellbeing from a holistic perspective. Coaching can be incredibly powerful and life-changing, but it is not a substitute for counselling, therapy, or medical treatment. I am not a licensed medical professional, and the information shared in this podcast is based on my coaching training, lived experience, and work in my private practice, The Missing Peace. Nothing shared is intended as advice or a replacement for professional care. Please take what resonates, leave the rest, and always seek support from a licensed medical or mental health professional for any psychological or physical health concerns

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