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How To Use Your THREE Different Brains (Yes, THREE!)

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021November 10, 2020

THREE brains? Three? Did you know that you have three brains? I certainly didn’t. A brain is a collection of neurons working together. But apart from our brain-brain, there are two other organs in our …

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What Happens When Covid Hits You Hard

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021November 3, 2020

A couple of months ago, my brother, Alan, and I were having the whinge that seems to be on everyone’s lips at the moment: CoVid and the lockdowns & restrictions surrounding it. My kids are …

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What It Takes To Be In An Open Relationship

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021October 27, 2020

Multiple member partnerships are an emerging relationship structure with some studies showing that up to an estimated 20% of adults in the United States have been in some form of open relationship at some stage …

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Why We Need To Free The Vee

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021October 20, 2020

*** WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT *** As a midlife mother of four, as far as I’m concerned, my relationship with my vagina is a kind of mild awareness that it’s had a few intense moments, of both …

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Why Writing Your Life Story Is So Important

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021October 13, 2020

When Joanna Dolan’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer and the doctors started asking for family medical history, Jo realised how little they actually knew about it all. The family believed that Uncle John died from …

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How To Get Off The Dieting Roller Coaster Forever

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021October 7, 2020

Shari Ware spent almost her entire life morbidly obese. By the time she left High School, she weighed 100kgs. At her maximum weight, she was over 180 kgs (she never had the courage to find …

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How To Use Yoga To Help Relieve Menopause Symptoms

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021September 30, 2020

Amrit Kendrick started yoga when she was 30 to help her to chill out a bit and maybe get fitter. She got the yoga bug, learning more and more about the discipline, becoming a teacher …

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How To Rescue Children From Human Trafficking

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 4, 2021September 24, 2020

This is an altered page that I’ve created solely for the purposes of getting FB to allow me to promote the podcast. I’ve removed or altered certain words and changed the graphics because FB says they’re …

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How To Rescue Children From Sex Trafficking

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 4, 2021September 23, 2020

Imagine if your daughter went to the local town to find some casual work and ended up being held hostage, gang raped by four men then being forced to work as a prostitute and if …

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How To Create A Relaxed and Raunchy Relationship With Your Partner

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021September 16, 2020

After spending over a decade in the Spa industry and then achieving her qualifications in Counselling & Life Coaching, Ingrid decided to amalgamate the two disciplines and invent an entirely new way of healing & …

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How To Do Online Dating (Successfully!) In Your 40’s

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021September 9, 2020

“YOU MUST BE MENTAL!” That was my response when my friend, Kylie Mitchell, told me that she was going to start online dating. I mean, dating is an interesting and challenging event at the best …

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Why Community Is Crucial

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021September 2, 2020

Meet the delightful Casey Zhang. Born in a tiny village in rural China to illiterate parents, she educated herself out of poverty, moving to Australia in the mid-1990’s. A few years later, when she was …

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The Pain And Impact of Early Onset Menopause

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021August 25, 2020

Menopause is an interesting enough, never mind life-changing, experience at the best of times, but experiencing menopause when you’re in your 30’s? In this conversation, I talk to Gayle Palmer, Osteopath, who found herself embroiled …

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Not Fit For Human Consumption

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021August 19, 2020

It’s interesting when you try to find out things about Menopause, because all of the information is either really vague or really generic: you may experience this, you might find that, this other thing could …

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A Love Affair Spanning Centuries

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021August 12, 2020

When my conversation with Victoria about our education system and wealth dynamics finished (you can listen to it here), Victoria started telling me about the new book that she was writing: a love story about …

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Why You Need To Jingle Your Spoons

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021August 5, 2020

“You just need to jingle your spoons, Mum.” This was Ryan’s response when I told him that I’d got off a phone call with a friend and felt exhausted. It turns out that there is …

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Why Your Kids Are Failing In School

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021July 29, 2020

When my daughter came back from a 3-month stint in Colombia, she was full of all these entrepreneurial ideas: making money was easy, building businesses was a doddle, and creating new things was just so …

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How This Woman Got Out Of Her Wheelchair Permanently

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021July 22, 2020

What kind of thing would make someone who’d spent several years in a wheelchair, just get up out of it and never sit in it again? That was the question that made Elizabeth Anne Walker …

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How To Spot A Toxic Coach

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021July 15, 2020

Have you ever experienced a toxic coach? Whether that’s a life coach or a sports coach or an arts teacher/theatre director? The amount of damage that a toxic person can do to others is phenomenal, …

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Are They Just A Self Centred, Egotistical, Narcissist?

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021July 8, 2020

THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING TRUE TO YOURSELF AND BEING A SELF-CENTRED, EGOTISTICAL, NARCISSIST Wheeeewwww, no holds barred on that title, then? Let’s go back almost four years. I started working with someone who is all …

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How To Live A Life Of Joy with Chiara Sharp

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021July 8, 2020

I was in a bit of a weird space when I got on the call to Chiara and I needed to just get that out there and get it out of my space.   It …

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TO THOSE PEOPLE SPEWING HATE-FILLED RHETORIC

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021July 7, 2020

I’M REALLY UPSET  Well, more disappointed, maybe a little heartbroken. I’ve certainly had any illusions that I may have held shattered. The posts I put up yesterday about people posting half truths and lies came off …

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I HAVE A CONFESSION: I DON’T LIKE OPRAH

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021July 4, 2020

I’ve rarely admitted this outside of my close family and friends because the whole world LOVES Oprah and they get pretty rabid when I say there’s just something about her that I don’t like. II …

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Why Feng Shui Is The Key To Success

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021July 1, 2020

“What’s a girl from cold, windy Ireland doing living in hot and sweaty Bali and how did you end up there?” It’s a valid question, right? I’m always fascinated by people who have upped sticks …

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When Your Child Suffers Permanent Brain Damage

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021June 24, 2020

Back in 2015, my eldest daughter, Kira, was really into her horse riding. Training for 4-5 hours a day, she lived, breathed and existed all things horsey. Then she was thrown from two different horses …

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WHEN YOUR CHILD SUFFERS PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 6, 2021June 19, 2020

I had a long conversation with Kira about her concussion the other day… …if you don’t know, Kira was thrown from a horse and suffered a severe concussion 5 years ago that resulted in her missing …

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Are You A Pretty Awesome Person?

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021June 17, 2020

I had the comment from my friend about how she believed that she was an amazing person (read about it here) on my mind when I spoke to my mentor, Karly Nimmo, yesterday. We had …

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I’m A Pretty Amazing Person

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 3, 2021June 15, 2020

These are my musings, right? I could turn this into a long-winded lecture about how we could all start accepting ourselves as who we are, blah blah. I’m not gonna. Partly because I don’t like …

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WHY BLACK LIVES MATTER IS BECOMING P*SSED OFF MOTHER

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021June 11, 2020

I’ve been quiet on this one. I’ve really tried not to say anything. I don’t invite negative shizzle into my life and this is as negative as it gets. Only I can’t keep quiet because then …

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When you don’t listen to your kids

by Karen O'Connorupdated on January 5, 2021June 10, 2020

“Which sibling relationship caused you the most problems?” Mildly philosophical discussions about family dynamics are the coolest. Bouncing around ideas about why someone did/does something and the different ways we can each deal with that… …

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