Podcasts by Mindful Bamboo

A couple of podcasts were videocast as well. You can check out a podcast on practical mindfulness here:

Podcast #1: Intro to Mindful Bamboo

The first podcast in this series is about my personal story, the reason why I created Mindful Bamboo and how I make it work as my mission and passion 🙂 Listen in to get to know me better!

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Podcast #2: Building healthy relationships

Here I’m covering the topic of building healthy relationships as that’s one of the main areas my clients are interested in getting help with.

What differentiates healthy relationships from toxic ones? 

Here I talk about mutual responsibility, finding compromise, trust/control, having freedom to say “No”, abuse/respect, safe space vs “scorecard”, self-love and self-care as a common practice or on a rare occasion.

How do relationships with other people mirror and impact self-image, self-esteem and well-being?

One of the universal laws is “As within so without”, meaning that we attract what we are (i.e. what we think, feel, do). They also say that toxic people are attracted to certain “types” of people. It’s very important to do continuous work on inner fears and blocks, improve self-esteem and forgive yourself and others for mistakes, express yourself through art and hobbies, and generally work on the most important relationship you have – with yourself 🙂

What to do if a compromise cannot be reached?

Here we talk about healthy boundaries and sometimes needing to make a hard decision to end a relationship if it’s not changing for the better. Some people can be quite good at manipulation and passive-aggressive abuse, so they will make you feel they are in the right, and it’s your fault. So it’s important to build healthy boundaries that will help you identify red flags and time to leave if needed.

Healing traumatic experiences from the past is key to truly loving relationships.

It all starts from childhood years. Neuroscientists tell us our identity is built by the age of 5, and psychologists say generally 80% of life-changing trauma happens to us between birth and age of 7. Which means that some fears and unhealthy patterns are not that easy to fix, as the more painful the experience was, the likely it is that our psyche repressed it, and we don’t remember where certain fears started from. Therapy, guided mentoring/coaching, specific meditations and classes can be of big support here. If you want to take steps by yourself, a good idea would be to remember who was in your life as a child, your relationship with those people (talk about it out loud or write it down, words are important), going through childhood photo albums or toys/memorabilia could help, too.

Tarot, chakra clearing work and coaching as complementary tools to your relationship transformation.

I talk about the tools I use in my own life and on a daily basis working with my clients.

Read on how to start loving yourself here – How To Love Yourself.

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Podcast #3: Tools to eliminate anxiety and fear

Nature of anxiety and how it impacts our body.

In this podcast I talk about our nervous system protecting mechanism that generates fear in unknown or potentially dangerous situations. I explain how fear and pain experiences can settle with us on the physical body level.

How anxiety and fear manifest in our behavior, habits, world view.

Big traumatic events or smaller scale repeated events define our character and habits: how we handle certain situations, how we take risks. They make us less comfortable in opening up to people and showing our authentic self to the world. Such events cause anxiety as a surface symptom which in turn impacts our relationships with people and eventually how we raise new generations to come.

I’m giving a few examples from my own life story.

Tools to eliminate anxiety in your life as it’s happening, in the moment.

The tools I’m covering here are: meditation, tapping and affirmations, grounding focus in the now in other ways.

Changing your attitude and approach to life challenges and tirbulations.

IFS psychology school teaches us to love every part of us, free what’s frozen, reparent yourself to reprogram your brain from trauma based mindset. 

Gradually fear and people pleasing habits will step away, and you’ll feel more confident to be you, with respect to others, but most importantly – with love to yourself.

Read more in my blog here – Drop Your Fears and Getting Caught in the Moment.

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Podcast #4: Figuring out life calling

In this podcast I speak of life calling and finding the most synergetic occupation that will not feel like a job but can make you abundant and happy.

Background: why is this topic so relevant?

I get these questions as part of my coaching work with clients, often times when people start to question their lifestyle, values and priorities they inevitably question if their job/occupation is the best use of their time, or at least if there’s smth else they’d like to partake to make life experience more exciting and meaningful (as whether we like it or not we focus our life around work and career a lot). This is part of natural self-actualization and finding happiness.

You asked the question. What’s next?

There are a few ways to understand what is “my calling” or what is the dream job/hobby/career.

Start with baby steps; imagine how you will feel when you’re doing it; imagine how it may change your lifestyle and impact people around you; experiment 🙂

Overcoming fear and negative self-talk.

Making a big change may call onto yo fear response (even from yourself, not to mention friends and family who may be not so understanding or supportive). How to avoid a missed opportunity scenario and give yourself a chance to do smth new and different.

Techniques and approaches to find your calling.

I explain the importance of personal astrology (natal chart, major placements) and how I apply this knowledge in my work. Weaknesses can easily turn into successes. One of the ways is Ikigai exercise. Another aspect is discovering intrinsic motivators. Lastly, remember to tune into yourself (feelings, passions, childhood memories).

Read more in my blog here – Find Your Life Purpose With Ikigai.

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Podcast #5: Appreciation and giving thanks

The background to giving thanks from science, religion and mythology.

Here we learn more about energy frequency and vibration, as well as the power of exchange, worship, gifts.

Importance for body and mind, healing quality of appreciation energy.

Appreciation energy helps us be our best selves, notice the beauty of this world and helps us stay healthy.

Manifesting dreams and desires and appreciation. Tarot references.

Here I speak of Universal law of attraction and manifestation. I also speak of certain tarot cards and concepts that illustrate the manifestation process.

Tools and techniques on building appreciation habits. 

Appreciation starts with self-love and forgiveness. It’s also about handling your negative emotions in a healthy way. Find out how.

Read more in my blog here – Why Give Thanks.

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Podcast #6: Mindfulness of sleep

Importance of sleep health and sleep routine on our physical and mental health.

I’ll give some background from anatomical perspective and explain what I mean by sleep routine.

Setting the bedroom scene.

Bedroom should be treated as a sacred temple designed for rest and recharge, that involves certain interior design choices and ways to set up the atmosphere.

Hygiene, cleansing rituals and breathing techniques

All these are important to come back to inner peace and remove the negativity/stress of the day.

Food and drink before bed? Do’s and don’ts.

We all have our guilty pleasures. If you crave a snack, make it smart.

Mattresses, pillows, sleep positions.

What is the defining factor in finding healthy comfort for your body to restore during the night? Why are harder mattresses healthier for your spine?

Communication, using gadgets/TV before bed, self-talk. 

Our smartphones, tablets and laptops became an extention of ourselves, and we spend shocking amount of time in front of the screen these days. Our relationship with gadgets often continues up till sleep time. What are the ways to step away and find inner peace to sleep through the night?

Advice on dealing with insomnia and other sleep issues.

I’ll share some best practices I use for myself if required.

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Podcast #7: Practical mindfulness

These techniques are practical and easy to adopt (with some self-motivation), and will start changing your life within the next week or two. You can start with 1, 3, or all 10 of them. But it’s important to stick to the new practice and make it a habit (calendar reminder or a note could be useful at first).

1. Meditation practices.

2. Skin care/hair care.

3. Sleep care.

4. Anything can happen evening.

5. Body awareness/fitness.

6. Balanced nutrition.

7. Journaling.

8. Art/creativity, decluttering your space.

9. Online/offline time.

10. Social butterfly.

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Read more articles in my blog here – One Step At A Time,

Podcast #8: Mental health hygiene

Here I speak about the importance of mental health hygiene and specifically take a closer look at the emotional abuse from people with emotional personality disorders, e.g. NPD (narcissistic personality disorder). This is quite a common condition (in the US 1 in 200 people have it). 

Mental health awareness month: what does it mean for each of us.

Views on emotional abuse from victim and abuser sides, personal experience with emotional abuse.

Understanding narcissistic personality disorder.

Outline of what it means, its origin, treatment, main ways it manifests for the diagnosed person and for their surroundings.

Toxicity as a trait and as a scale.

Ways to spot a narcissist. When 3 or more aspects are present it’s a red flag. But at the end of the day it matters if you can keep a healthy boundary with such person. Empaths suffer more.

How to out the narc and get them to leave you alone?

Ways to confirm toxic nature of communication. Can people with this disorder change? What to do so they stop bothering you and let you move on with your life (can be harder than you think as a relationship with a narcissist is often compared to drug addiction)?

Extreme cases, consequences of such relationships for “healthy” people, ways to heal.

There’s always a silver lining. What’s the positive side here? How can such connections be an opportunity for personal growth and self-discovery.