This one’s for all my diasporic and immigrant peeps! You know that feeling of always being ‘not Asian enough’ when you’re in Asian communities but ‘too Asian’ in other spaces? Or the other way around: Not British / American / White enough wherever you’re living but too ‘western’ when you’re with your Asian family?

My guest this week, Rakhee Verma, and I get into all that: cultural identity, family and community expectations, what it means to be belong or identify with one culture or another and that messy, infuriating but wonderful experience of always living between worlds.

We get into:

• Confessions about the parts of our culture we felt embarrassed by and later, rediscovering pride in them
• What it means to ‘be British’ today
• The subtle and not-so-subtle ways we're made to feel different
• Challenging family expectations around education, marriage and what a successful life should look like.
• The tension between individual freedom and family responsibility, particularly when it comes to caring for ageing parents.
• Accent shame, code-switching and the different versions of ourselves we learn to present in different environments

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> Connect with Rakhee on on LinkedIn > Learn more about what Rakhee does on her website: Tigris Consulting & Mediation > Rakhee’s podcast Brenda You’re on Mute

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Solution-focused hypnotherapist Jess Johansson joins me on the pod this week. She shares her journey from chronic shyness, grief and a mysterious health crisis to a fuller understanding of exactly how the mind affects the body; and how tuning into that connection can help us to shift from merely surviving to fully thriving and tangibly move closer to the things we want for our lives. In this convo, we explore safety, boundaries, body wisdom, and the small shifts that can completely change how we live and work.

We get into:

- Jess’s journey from being a very shy child to finding her voice - The health crisis that made her question the way she was living and coping - What the “survival brain” can teach us about symptoms, stress and protection - Moving from fighting the body to becoming curious about what it might be communicating - Bringing together body wisdom and a neuroscience-informed perspective - The power of small shifts over forcing large transformation

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Follow on Instagram: @wings_of_change_hypnotherapy

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Book a discovery call and find out more on Jess’s website:  www.wingsofchangehypnotherapy.co.uk

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Wellbeing and rest coach Emma Longbottom joins me in this episode to refine rest as one of the most rebellious things we can do for ourselves (and the world!). We explore how busyness, productivity and exhaustion have become so deeply embedded in how we live and work, and how we can start to resist these pressures to bring more rest into our days.

We talk about:

• Emma’s journey from corporate burnout to becoming a rest mentor
• How our identities have become so tied to work and productivity
• What it means to make rest a rebellious act
• Why stopping can feel so uncomfortable (and how to feel better about that discomfort)
• Micro-rest, pre-emptive rest and finding ways to interrupt the cycle of depletion
• How rest helps and heals more than just the physical body

🎧 When you’re ready to stop barrelling through your days and finally allow in that deep rest, this episode is right here for you.

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Purchase Emma’s book Why Prioritising Rest Will Change Your Life: Join the Rest Revolution!

Get Emma’s free 10 Minute Rest Reset here

Access free Yoga Nidra practices and meditations on Emma’s YouTube: youtube.com/@Wellbeing-with-Emma

Website: wellbeingwithemma.com/

Follow Emma on Instagram @wellbeing.with.emma

👯‍♀️ Come hang out with me!

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