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Listen to the reading of Compassion, a topic from Gratitude Prompts

We all like to feel that we come from compassion. Yet, sometimes, it can be tricky. Listen and do one of the activities at the end of the episode.

This is a short topic and is under 5 minutes

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Listen to the reading of compliments, a topic from Gratitude Prompts

Listen to the reading of compliments, a topic from Gratitude Promots

Compliments are great to receive and to give. Even when you give, you receive. Listen and do oe of the activities.

This is a short topic and is under 5 minutes

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Listen to conversations, a topic from Gratitude Prompts

Listen to conversations, a topic from Gratitude Prompts

We have many different types of conversations each day. Some are easy, others not. Listen to this short episode and reflect on how you use conversations

This is a short episode of under 6 minutes.

  If you would like to have support and meet up with other people on developing and deepening their gratitude practice, check out the Gratitude Community

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Susan Young shares how repressed feelings surface with grief

Listen to this conversation how Susan became nomadic whilst she was repressing the unwanted feelings of grief, guilt and shame

Through a relationship, Susan there was a link between the manipulation and abuse she experienced then and that of her family.  After Susan had a skin cancer removed, she felt increasingly as if she was living in a cage. Susan felt she was in a situation she couldn’t escape and felt immense shame and guilt for what she had created for herself.

Inside the cage, Susan desperately wanted…

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Car, a topic from the book Gratitude Prompts

Car, a topic from the book Gratitude Prompts. Listen to the topic - under 7 mins

Today, we are dependent upon the car. Yet, how many times do we give thanks for this amazing vehicle.

This is a short topic and is under 5 minutes

If you would like to have support and meet up with other people on developing and deepening their gratitude practice, check out the Gratitude Community

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Listen to how Tracey Walker overcame violent upbringing

Listen to how Tracey Walker overcame violent upbringing to being of service to young people like she was. Listen today

Tracey Walker realised she had a choice in how she lived her life. Live as she had been brought up or find a new way. She chose the latter. Through her own admission, Tracey effectively started puberty at age 39 and she has certainly made hip for lost time. Listen to this thought-provoking episode.

Tracey’s bio

Tracey Walker was born into a violent alcoholic home life and she dealt with multiple…

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Clouds, a topic from the book Gratitude Prompts

Clouds, a topic from the book Gratitude Prompts.. Listen and get in touch with your inner child

This delightful topic appeals to the child in us. when was the last time you went cloud gazing.

This is a short episode – under 7 minutes. This is a straight reading from the book.

If you would like to have support and meet up with other people on developing and deepening their gratitude practice, check out the Gratitude Community

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High flyer in the corporate world to serving due to a brain injury

Winnie Anderson was a high flyer in the corporate world to serving introverts all because of a car accident. Listen here

Winnie Anderson was a high flyer in the corporate world until, a car accident resulting in a brain injury changed all that. It wasn’t until she really needed to process the unresolved childhood trauma that Winnie found some peace. Listen to her story of being totally self-reliant and how that became the stumbling block to healing.

Winnie’s bio

Winnie Anderson focuses on helping people and…

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Listen to the topic Body from Gratitude Prompts

Listen to the reading of the topic Body from the book, Gratitude Prompts

Our body is the vessel for this lifetime. Yet, often we look at it with disgust. comparing it to others and how it looked years ago. Loving your body is essential for loving yourself.

This is a short episode – under 10 minutes. This is a straight reading from the book.

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Carole Henderson speaks about how the loss of her husband led her to be a leading grief recovery specialist

Carole is now founder and MD of Grief Recovery Europe a training company dedicated to teaching the Grief Recovery Method both to people with significant emotional loss and those who wish to help others with loss.

In 2006, her husband was diagnosed with return of the cancer from malignant melanoma removed the previous year. He died in November and life as she knew it ended. It was this & a chance…

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Listen to the topic from Gratitude Prompts - Beauty around us

Being aware of the beauty around us is a great source for boosting appreciation. Listen to the topic from the book Gratitude Prompts

Being aware of the beauty around us is a great source for boosting our appreciation for the small things. even things we may tend to see as irritating. They say beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

This is a short episode – under 5 minutes. This is a straight reading from the book.

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Katherine Bess shares how the loss of her nearly term baby started a career change

Katherine Bess shares how the loss of her nearly term baby started a career change on MOE podcast

Katherine is a registered nurse having changed career as a result of the loss of her nearly term baby. She gave birth to hum and her body did everything to expect a baby to be feeding and binding.

It was during this grieving process that Katherine knew she needed to do something different with her life.

Katherine had always wanted to do something in the medical field and the time didn’t feel…

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Listen to the topic - Becoming more from Gratitude Prompts

This is a reading of the topic, Becoming more. About raising our internal energy

Becoming more is about accessing our internal energy and raising it so we shine more brightly each day. This is a short episode – under 5 minutes. This is a straight reading from the book.

If you would like to have support and meet up with other people on developing and deepening their gratitude practice, check out the Gratitude Community

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Jim Higgins shares overcoming external pressure to find him

Jim Higgins shares overcoming external pressure to find himself. Listen to this episode of Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

Jim is  a retired High School Teacher of History, English and Drama who spent 24 years being an effective classroom teacher and initiator of whole school programs in performance, before being diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (depression) and being medically retired. 

He was then Head of Department, English, History at a school and found the pressure of a dysfunctional staff and lack of…

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Judy Newbery interviewed on Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

Judy Newbery interviewed on Making the Ordinary Extraordinary on how she shifted from serving others at a cost to herself to loving herself first

Meet Judy Newbery, facial reflexologist from Melbourne, who helps women to cut physical and mental fatigue through reducing stress, boosting their immune systems and establishing healthy boundaries.

Her background is in nursing and worked as a trained nurse, midwife and district nurse which Judy originally loved, however she became fed up with a system that spent very little time listening to the…

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Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

Making the Ordinary Extraordinary

During March, I called for people to be interviewed for this podcast and I am pleased to say, that so many people stepped forward.

This podcast is about stories of people who listened to the call and overcame their fear of the unknown to make a more fulfilling life for themselves.

I combine interviewing people with reading topics from Gratitude Prompts so you can take your perferred information.

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Interview on Gratitude

This post is a bit scant as it is really a link to the interview while Griatude Prompts was still in crowdfunding.

Here’s the interview