Building self confidence and self-awareness is the key to recovering from trauma and mental illness.

Anu Verma has lived experience of numerous different types of abuse. Anu now works to support other survivors to understand their experiences and learn how to develop the confidence and self-awareness so that they can regain their individual power and live authentically.

WARNING

This episode of Rest and Recreation is a conversation about recovering from the trauma and consequent mental illness that is caused by childhood sexual abuse and abusive adult relationships. The discussion includes references to drug abuse and suicide.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation, Anu helps host Michael Millward to understand the impact childhood sexual abuse had on her adult life. Anu also explains the passion her experiences gave her for helping other survivors to achieve the same changes in their lives.

Anu and Michael discuss

• The connection between an abusive childhood and abusive relationships in adult life.
• Going from people pleaser to self-first approach to life.
• Breaking free from the opinions of other people.
• Building self-confidence
• Building self-awareness
• The role of exercise in improving mental health
• How to use affirmations to reinforce positive self-beliefs.

Discover more about Anu and Michael at Abeceder.co.uk

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Sometimes it takes a kick in the teeth for us to start living our best life.

Amie Yaniak has a successful career as a music therapist, until the COVID lockdown. Then Amie received a stage four cancer diagnosis.

That news was the catalyst for Amie to change her life for the better.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation, Amie and host Michael Millward explore her wide-ranging experience and how she now lives a full and satisfying life while living with stage four cancer.

Why, they ask, does it take a kick in the teeth like a cancer diagnosis before we start living our best lives.

They examine the different ways in which friends, family and society in general puts barriers in our way that we perceive limit our life choices.

Amie explains how she is completing her bucket list activities, like acting in a film and recording an album of gospel music God's Amazing Grace...Music To Touch Your Heart

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Friends are hard to find, but when life gets busy, friends are very easy to lose.

That is the reality for many people. Regardless of our age, life throws all sorts of demands on our time, it is often if not usually our friendships that get left on the sidelines.

That was the predicament that Daniella Granzotto was in until she discovered the Wednesday Waffles concept and decided to turn the weekly friendship ritual into an App.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation, Daniella explains to host Michael Millward how Wednesday Waffles was created, and how the App works.

Michael and Daniella discuss what friendship is and why something that is so important can, without anyone being directly responsible, just fizzle out.

They also highlight that family relationships can also fizzle out in the same way when careers and marriages mean that people move away.

Daniella explains why the weekly friendship ritual that Wednesday Waffles curates works and the impact keeping up with the ritual has on maintaining friendships, at any age across any distance.

This is the podcast for people who find themselves separated from friends or family.

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B. Able stands at the forefront of a new narrative: one that challenges stereotypes and demands that the world “see the able, not the label.”

Revolutionary recording artist, songwriter, actor and saxophonist B. Able blends hip-hop, R&B, soul, and jazz influences to create music that awakens awareness as much as it entertains.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation, B.Able explains to host Michael Millward how as a man who is openly on the autism spectrum, he is awakening awareness of autism, and how people focus on the label not the individual person.

B.Able explains how after moving to Los Angeles he built a network of the right people and how he combats the masking that people with autism adopt to fit in.

They discuss

• ·B.Able’s first single “The Definition,” and his follow-up project “Working on Myself,” which embodies disciplined growth in action.
• Being defined as autistic at age 2 and the challenges that created
• The value of family support
• How B.Able built his music career
• How B.Able spends his rest and recreation time.

Discover more about B.Able and Michael at Abeceder.co.uk

Mentioned in this programme

• Ian Drury and the Blockheads
• Breaking Barriers

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A fascination for facts led to a curiosity about the people behind the facts

Rashad Woods is the host of T.R.O.N. the hit podcast that developed out of his fascination with facts and the people who worked on the projects that resulted in the fact.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation, Rashad describes to host Michael Millward how having the encyclopaedia Brittanica resulted in him developing the ability to store and recall facts, making him the sort of person you need on your pub quiz team.

Rashad’s enduring curiosity with other people and the work that they do led to him launching the T.R.O.N podcast.

Rashad and Michael discuss the similarities and differences in their experience of hosting a podcast and the lessons they have learnt.

Their discussion covers

• Creating a positive experience for guests
• Adding value for the audience
• How conversations develop
• Being a podcast that guests want to appear on
• Learning from guests like Elizabeth Solaru

Rashad describes how he spends his leisure time and the lessons he learnt from participating in those hobbies.

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Exploring empathy and understanding how to teach empathy.

After a career in paediatric health care Roxanne Daleo decided to focus on helping children and the adults who care for them to manage their stress levels by understanding themselves and other people.

That explains Roxanne in this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation is a good summary of what empathy is.

Roxanne tells host Michael Millward why people who understand how to use empathy will have lower stress levels.

She also explains how behaviours that restrict empathy are often the result of a traumatic experience.

This is ideal podcast listening for adults who care for a tantrum throwing child or truculent teenager.

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Exploring how LBGTQ+ people experience life and how we can all ally to be more supportive.

For Zach Randles-Friedman podcasting started as a hobby, but the success of his two podcasts, Everything & Anything… and a Bit Gay, a long-form interview podcast and the daily short-form LGBTQ+ new programme Listen Up Girl provided him with the opportunity to consider becoming a full time podcaster.

Zach has been acclaimed for his empathetic approach to helping guests tell their stories.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Zach explains to host Michael Millward what the acronym means and the pros and cons of labelling different ways of living.

Zach explores the lived experience of LGBTQ+ people in different countries, highlighting that in some countries being LGBTQ+ can be a death sentence. He investigates the advantages of living authentically, and how sharing stories of lived experience can be healing for the storyteller and inspiring for the audience.

Despite the personal stresses of helping other people to tell their stories Zach remains committed to building his programmes.

This conversation will inspire you to investigate how you can be a better ally of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Exploring what we mean by work life balance and considering if there might be a better way.

Cindy Koehler is a transformational business and life coach, and founder of Mind Garage.

In this episode of the Abeceder work life balance podcast Rest and Recreation Cindy explains to host Michael Millward that we are wrong to view success in life as the achievement of a good work life balance.

Instead, Cindy proposes that we should aim to live a life in which our work activities and our non-work activities are aligned.

Cindy and Michael discuss how

• Many people work to pay their bills with a hope of eventually living a long and happy retirement.
• Work should instead think about how work enables people to live their best lives in the present.
• Forced unemployment is when people explore what they want out of life
• We define and find happiness in work and life
• We define the value we derive from work
• Asking better questionscan improve how we enjoy life

This conversation will made you reconsider your own relationship between work and life.

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