How to be Okay (so that everything else doesn't have to be)
As humans, we just want to be okay. But most of us have forgotten how. Or rather, we have forgotten how to find this feeling within ourselves so we look to the outside world to provide it for us. And this works great - so long as you do the right thing, say the right thing and look the right way 100% of the time to everyone you ever meet and their dog. Hi! I’m Laura Hudson. A seasoned “okayness outsourcer”, I’ve decided it is time to bring things in-house because well…it’s exhausting needing everyone else to be okay with us and I have a sneaking suspicion life could be a whole lot more enjoyable if we figure out how to provide this for ourselves.Whether you struggle with perfectionism, depression, anxiety, addiction, disordered eating or you just feel like your mind seems to make life unnecessarily hard, this podcast is for you. Because spoiler alert: all of these seemingly different "problems" are just our mind’s well-intentioned (but misguided) solutions for ONE problem - we all just want to be okay but we've forgotten how to do that for ourselves. So join me as we talk to guests from all walks of life about how this phenomenon manifests in their life and how they are figuring out how to be okay (so that everything else doesn’t have to be)
Episodes
16 episodes
What about SELF-integrity? Habits, whole-human dating & growing up Mormon with Tash Pieterse
#016 - New Zealand-based Confidence & Clarity Coach Tash Pieterse (@tashtasticnz) opens up to us about her experience growing up in the Mormon church, her difficult decision to lea...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:07:01
Rejecting Toxic Positivity with Kirsty Baines
#015 - Kirsty Baines is a Trauma-Informed Yoga teacher and training to become a Children and Young Person’s Well-being Practitioner. From alcohol to exercise bulimia, Kirsty sought okayness outside herself from many avenues after experien...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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57:12
Living with Borderline Personality Disorder (Alana Cooper)
#014 - Today I sit down with host of the Stomp the Stigma Podcast, Alana Cooper. Alana lives with Borderline Personality Disorder, a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others and can lead to intens...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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1:00:32
Why do we keep buying sh*t? Business, the environment & mental health (April Hoffort)
#013 - Today, my friend and fellow socially-minded business nerd, April Hoffort, and I are asking the hard questions found at the intersection of business, the environment and mental health: how do we as individuals navigate climate grief? How ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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53:56
Making peace with our pasts: human trafficking, addiction and breathwork (Sophie Jones)
#012 - In her early 20's, Sophie Jones was a victim of human trafficking. Now a successful entrepreneur, business coach and breathwork healer, Sophie shares with us her journey returning to the "burning building" of her past and the unexp...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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53:04
Mental health...it's not all mental: whole body healing with Dahlya Brown Shook
#011 - With talk therapy and medications at the core of my mental health recovery for the last decade, my approach to mental health has always been largely...well, mental. In today's episode Dahlya Brown Shook helps me see why the body has a mu...
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1:04:37
F-f-f-feedback: from estranged siblings to best friends (Sarah Hudson)
#010 - From estranged siblings to best friends and roomies through a global pandemic (the ultimate test of any relationship), this week's episode is the tale of two sisters and a classic case of over-functioning and under-functioning; of over-p...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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51:29
Co-dependency: the root of all addiction? Loneliness, skin picking & shame with Haley Sciola
#009 - Today we sit down with BFRB Dogs Founder, Haley Sciola to discuss one of the most poorly understood, under-diagnosed and untreated disorders there is: body-focused repetitive behaviours, or BFRBs. An umbrella-term for hair pulling disord...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:11:51
Our body's 'check engine' light - How did we get here? Part 2 (NURTURE)
#008: What if I told you that the part of yourself you've been trying to control/get rid of for years has all the answers you've ever looked for? In Episode 008 we take another deep dive - this time into how we got here (relying heavily o...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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33:36
Is there a downside to making people laugh? Romance, self-love & comedy with Cam Chomyn
#007 - In a space often dominated by women, Cam Chomyn brings a refreshingly male perspective to the world of vulnerability and mental health. From self-love and body image struggles to dating and his shitty roommate "depression", Cam off...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:00:20
The invisible illness nobody talks about (Fabienne Clough)
#006 - What does being okay look like when your body is literally not okay? Fabienne Clough lives with endometriosis - a chronic health condition that affects an estimated 1 in 10 women during their reproductive years (1). From dating and...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:07:32
Can you be a depressed therapist? (Brittney Giacchetta)
#005 - Today we are joined by Registered Provisional Psychologist, Brittney Giacchetta. Brittney specializes in trauma, addiction and mood disorders and gets candid about her own experiences with mental health (primarily health anxiety and pani...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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54:36
Metaphorical lions, tigers and bears - oh my! How did we get here? Part 1 (NATURE)
#004 - In part one of the 'how did we get here?' series we take a deep (like 70,000-years-deep) dive into the history of our species to figure out why we tend to look outside ourselves to feel okay. The bad news? Our brains are wired for negati...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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30:23
"You're too young, beautiful and happy to see a psychologist" - Eating Disorder Recovery (Michelle Okere)
#003 - CEO, blogger, and health coach Michelle Okere joins us as our first guest on the How to be Okay Podcast to talk all things eating disorder (ED) recovery. We discuss how it is far from a linear journey and how there is not a "one size fit...
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59:05
What does it mean to be okay?
#002 - 'Okay' has to be one of the most overused words in the English language. So why did I choose it for the title of this podcast? In Episode 002 we begin to unpack this illusive feeling we are all searching for. In a world obsessed wi...
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Episode 2
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26:25
Welcome to the 'How to be Okay' Podcast!
#001 - Have you ever felt like your brain makes like more difficult than it needs to be? Do you find yourself needing other people to be okay with you constantly and leaning heavily on your vices (hello Ben & Jerry's Half Baked) to fill som...
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Episode 1
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13:56