Couching The Mind

02/02/2023

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6KmiSS5wEluG3WAzbqu7Re?si=hTSUPjscQUu35IS2xO2gvg

Season 4 - Episode 1

podcast Couching The Mind

Title - Adapt and Overcome

How hard it is too create change from within? …. 🤔
How hard it is too drift apart from a social circle that isn’t bringing out the best ‘you’? … 🤔
How hard is it to a set fitness goal, and actually implement the hard work, to be able to achieve that goal? …🤔

These questions above + more were answered in this week’s episode of ‘Couching The Mind’

Moto of the Podcast (if your a new listener) = —> Clearing the mind one couch talk at a time Taz Savage
> Ben Hardman
> Jignesh Tanwar

A quick ‘Get to know me’:

Who is Taz?
- Heavily involved in cycling, running, and is now currently training for a full Iron Man. I met Taz through a running group called the ‘Megarun’. You’ll find out more about the running group throughout the episode…
- Has an incredibly driven mindset
- Is the king at adapting and overcoming
- Painter by trade
- Is a born leader
- Had overcome a difficult relationship breakup and used it as positive growth. It helped shape him into the person that his is today.

What is Iron man?
- A multi-event sporting contest demanding stamina, in particular a consecutive triathlon of swimming, cycling, and running.

Who is Ben?
- Natural Bodybuilder + Qualified electrician
- Currently in a very happy and successful long distance relationship
- Also has a very incredibly driven mindset.
- Isn’t afraid to speak up and talk about his own emotions / mental health in general
- Was previously a state sprinter back in high school. Has most recently taken a step back in time, to get back into 100 metre sprints
- I met Benny when we both worked for a Solar Panel company.
- Is very much against alcohol consumption

Who is Jigs?
- A close mate of mine, to which I met at a gym.
- Can be very honest and blunt with people, when he needs to be
- Is very work driven.
- Always strives for more
- Is currently doing a body recomp. To ultimately get back into his best ‘shape’.
- Jigs will be a regular on ‘Couching The Mind’ episodes
- Is extremely articulate with his words.

Topics (some of) covered:
- Setting fitness goals
- Getting comfortable running long distance + how to improve
- How to prepare for a Full marathon / Iron man?
- Taking a negative scenario and turning it into a positive moment of growth
- Learn to be your 100% Self
- Becoming comfortable with your own emotions / mental health
- Should you listen to your body and rest, to avoid a possible ‘burnout’?
- Work energy versus gym energy
- Should we always strive for more?
- Improving personal mindset
- Putting your phone away, and exploring nature

Main message from the episode:
No matter what hurdle you’re presented with, no matter what time or what place. Learn to adapt with what’s been presented to you. Turn the negatives into positives. And if you can achieve such a feat, these moments of learnings, will aid in your personal growth journey. In bettering yourself as a person.

Sit back, relax, maybe even jump on a couch… and enjoy this weeks episode!

How to get into contact with Couching The Mind (me):

Email - [email protected]

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/couching.the.mind/?hl=en

Website - https://www.couchingthemind.com/

A MENTAL HEALTH PODCAST SERIES.

21/11/2022

Season 3, Ep.32 Couching The Mind
Topic - Mindfulyes
Interviewee - Monica Posada

In this episode of CTM, founder of Sol Being
(mindfulness course), and Box Femme (female boxing community), Monica Posada, joins me in conversation revolving around the topic of ‘Mindfulyes’. 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙

Topics that Monica and I went over throughout the interview 🎧🎤:
- Box femme - Empowering women
- Natural healing. I.E. Wim Hof breathing method
- Stop and accept the situation for what it is
Sol Being -> Mindfulness course
- The art of being ‘present’
- Reaching ‘flow state’ when in conversation - Think about your actions before participating in them (being 100% mindful of the situation) - Partaking in a ‘silent retreat’
- Can ‘mindfulness’ be used for the wrong reasons?
- Putting together a business / going from an idea, and implementing it
- Define Mindfulness?

Overall message of the episode --> We can put so much time and energy in the idea of putting together our own life ‘plan’. Which would also incorporate in certain goals along the way. But more importantly, majority of the time we forget to enjoy the present moment. And actually feel ourselves being present, whilst not allowing our mind to drift off into future thoughts, or into things from the past. No one truely knows what tomorrow will bring. So being present, and also actually enjoying the present moment, is such an important part of life.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vVilUnu6iXzVqMwzHlxlP?si=5r_MSE1zR3OI9hO1gCi6oQ&utm_source=copy-link

30/10/2022

🎙🎙In this episode of CTM, Former member of the NSW police force / and also well known in the Australian bodybuilding / powerlifting scene, Sonia Williams, joins me in conversation revolving around the topic of ‘I Refuse To Stop’. 🎙🎙

WARNING -> VIEWER DISCRETION… EXPLICIT LANGUAGE IS USED THROUGHOUT THE EPISODE...

Topics that Sonia and I went over throughout the interview 🎧🎤:
- Working in the NSW police force
- Being the first women in the NSW public order riot squad
- Breaking female weightlifting world records - Being discharged from the police force, due to injuries
- Prolapsing the bowl (how does this happen?) - Having 40 + major surgeries
- Falling into a dark mental space (how to find positive resolutions)
- Being put into a psychiatric ward Dog are more then just dogs (Sonia’s German Shepherds)
- Overcoming sexual abuse + trauma / How do you talk about it?
- Temporarily dying on the hospital operating table
- Being diagnosed with Tracheomalacia (definition -> an airway disorder where the trachea (windpipe) is floppy or abnormally collapsible)

Overall message of the episode --> Enjoy every day / moment like it’s your last. As we have no control over what the future may hold for us. And learn to be happy and content with the person that you are. You are unique (positively), and that simply cannot be replicated.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5rOhIT9y0NUYlyg1jw4Dt8?si=v91MGSAwRKiqsT1eDgJ6bg&utm_source=copy-link

27/10/2022

What is 'hurt' if you don't talk about it???

This is relatable to men / women / anyone...

25/10/2022

Where's wally???

12/10/2022

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich

Even when people may already have certain opinions about you, never let them define 'you'. The only opinion that really truely matters in the end, is your own. And once you start to believe in yourself, anything that you set your mind too then becomes a high possibility of succession.

First photo taken - Aug of 2020

Second photo taken - Oct of 2022

09/10/2022

2 minutes away

07/10/2022

"I want a way out of loneliness" -

Movie -

Loneliness can be treated. But by praying and hoping that these feelings will eventually go away, nothing will ever be resolved. Find your niche. Rediscover a hobby, that when you involve yourself in it, it puts you in that 'better place'. I guess to a degree it's about finding positive distractions.

Maybe your trying to overcome a break up of a long term relationship, or you've lost yourself, and who you truely are as an individual. Or that your once close friends appear to be quite distant in recent times. Whatever may be the case, find something that can put your overwhelming thoughts at rest, even for a split second. But in retrospect with this, when the darker side of life continues to eat away at you, be sure to expell your struggles onto those that you can fully trust. For if you choose to hold it from within, A, no one else will ever truely know how your feeling (internally), and B, self positive overcomings will be much more difficult to come by....

03/10/2022

S.3 , Ep.31 - 'What's your point of view?' (Solo Ep.)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6o5VUQv71rcr6rPkAeDFUG?si=2K3-17NiQrWDIiIZ40OCVQ&utm_source=copy-link

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>OUT NOW

02/10/2022

S.3 , Ep.31 - 'What's your point of view?' (Solo Ep.)

Podcast - Couching The Mind

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>OUT NOW

01/10/2022

Alchemist 🤞

25/09/2022

It's amazing how much a fluffy little creature can positivity impact your own mental state.

I remember when Odie was alive, and I'd come home from a difficult day at work, and I'd open the back door to let him in. He'd be running of pure adrenaline and excitment that I was finally home. And this is the funny thing with pets. No matter what mood your in. Happy, sad, grumpy... They'll always be excited to see you.

Not long ago, when I really struggled with my own mental health, Odie was my little knight in shining armour. At the time I was overthinking everything. What's the meaning of life? Why is the sky blue? What is my Purpose? And then that 'falling into a slump' feeling would kick into gear. Odie was always that positive distraction. He was happy to chill in your company, plus he loved to run around and play, which helped me attain that endorphin hit. Which is such a great way of dealing with headnoise. Hence why there's alot of people out there that would regularly go to the gym. It keeps them fit, and they get that endorphin hit.

Pets are more than just pets... And it's so important that we treat them right. Abuse, overfeeding, underfunding, etc.... There's no place for this.They do so much for us, with our own mental health and wellbeing. Pets deserve to feel like they belong...

30/08/2022

Wax On, Wax Off... 🧽

29/08/2022

Being admitted into a psychiatric ward...

Interviewee - Zak Adkins (Moto Journalist, and volunteer speaker for )

Epsiode - S3 , Ep.29 -> Foot On The Breaks

Release date -> Sunday the 4/09, at 5pm (AEST)

EPISODE TO BE RELEASED ON:

- Spotify
- Youtube
- Apple Podcasts
- Facebook
- Goggle Podcasts
- Anchor

28/08/2022

Got the Biccies 💥👟



New 10km Pb time - 43.00

It was certainly a challenging run, with the 1km gateway bridge section (1km elevated run), and the other hills that were apart of the track. Plus I was also fighting alot of headnoise at the 7km mark. But once I finally crossed the finishing line, it made it all worth while. 🏃🏃‍♀️💨💨

16/08/2022

with an extremely important message.....

R.I.P ❤

Reach out to someone if your not feeling yourself...

---->It ain't weak to speak

13/08/2022

Such an incredibly important message.

Simple, yet extremely relevant....

Why is it so hard to 'cry' on a mates shoulder when we're going through a rough patch? It is because we find it embarrassing? Or is it because it would then highlight our weaknesses?

Whatever it may be, it really doesn't matter. You going to that extend of talking expressively, rather than internally allow the negativity to simmer. Overtime, it'll do you so many favours. I couldn't ever imagine of having to go to a mates funeral, purely because he didn't feel comfortable enough to talk.

We live in a day in age, where due to the continual rise of social media and other external pressures, the mental health of a high percentage of the world's population, is at an all time low. But, by simply checking in on your neighbours, mates, family members. That one little conversation could well and truely prevent the 'make or break'.

IT AIN'T WEAK TO SPEAK....

11/08/2022

"What happens, happens to us all. The key is what you do about it." - Jim Rohn

09/08/2022

S.3, Ep.29 (PART.2), 'Turn The Frown Upside Down', feat. Jesse Manibusan (Singer / songwriter, the man behind the smiley face t-shirts, and also world-renowned for the ministry work that he does with the Catholic church)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PART.2

09/08/2022

S.3, Ep.29 (PART.1), 'Turn The Frown Upside Down', feat. Jesse Manibusan (Singer / songwriter, the man behind the smiley face t-shirts, and also world-renowned for the ministry work that he does with the Catholic church)

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PART.1

10/07/2022

Work with your strengths...

Constructive conversations 💭 💭 💭

Movie: Peanut Butter Falcon

#2022