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Introducing Untold, a new podcast from the special investigations team at the Financial Times. In its first series, The Retreat, host Madison Marriage examines the world of the Goenka network, which promotes a type of intensive meditation known as Vipassana. Thousands of people go on Goenka retreats every year. People rave about them. But some people go to these meditation retreats, and they suffer. They might feel a deep sense of terror, or a break with reality. And on the other side, they’re not themselves anymore. Untold: The Retreat launches Jan. 24.

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Do you find yourself always measuring your life against other people you know? Or are you worried about whether you have achieved enough, made enough money, or got the right partner by a certain age?

If so, you know what it's like to be stuck in the "comparison trap". While it can be useful to have goals to keep us motivated, we have to remember we are often comparing ourselves to people with completely different lives and experiences than us.

In this clip, Matt explains his own struggles with comparison and how to keep your happiness and get perspective so you're not always focusing on other people's journey.

A huge number of relationships that end, should end.
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But how do we know if ‘ours’ should have ended. We leave with a giant question mark: “Did I just lose the person I was supposed to be with?”
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That lack of closure is a horrible feeling that eats away at us. We don’t always get perfect closure. But there is a way of being proactive about getting peace of mind if you feel like you have someone who is worth fighting for.
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It’s through a simple conversation, and I tell you how to have it in this video.
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And here’s the good news - whatever happens, you and I are going to move into this next chapter of our lives stronger. (Massive thanks to @rayna.greenberg, @ashhess and the @girlsgottaeatpodcast for making this conversation possible!)

This week on Illuminated, we’re talking with Melissa Stangl, Founding Partner and COO of The Soltara Healing Centre in Costa Rica. Melissa works with psychedelics and plant medicines, starting her journey back in 2015 when she quit her corporate job to live and work with ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. This week we share our own personal healing journeys with ayahuasca and how transformative this mode of therapy can be. 

In this episode, I share: 

• Mine and Melissa own personal healing journey with ayahuasca
• How Melissa became involved in ayahuasca therapy 
• The integration of the healing effects from an ayahuasca ceremony
• Changing, rewriting, and passing on your DNA through plant medicines
• The mind-body connection and what happens when we aren’t listening to our bodies
• Purging negative emotions and releasing mind chatter 
• Preparing the body for an ayahuasca retreat and ceremony
• Healing dependencies through ceremony
• The importance of maintaining the native roots of plant medicines and platforming indiginous voices
• How Soltara contributes to the psychedelic movement by bridging science and tradition
• Accessibility of plant medicines and giving back to the Amazon
• Trauma, ACE scores and how they can lead to chronic illness and disease 

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Are you a list maker? I am. It’s how I get things done.

But doesn’t life sometimes just feel like an endless “To-Do List”? We wake up, make a list, do what we can on that list, and before we know it, there’s another day, gone.

And, if we’re not careful, we get to the end of every day feeling like our confidence has been eroded because we didn’t even get to half of the list.

I don’t want my life to be one long box-ticking exercise, do you? If you want to feel like you’re truly LIVING, not just ticking boxes, check out this episode.

The technique I give in this episode shows us how to feel connected to the things we have to do in our day so that we don’t become list-checking zombies with no real joy in our lives.

I know once you learn this, it will become an indispensable part of your daily practice. I look forward to your feedback.

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Join me this week as I share the process I use when I feel triggered to grow and learn more about myself. I want this episode to act as a reminder that taking actions to move away from what feels bad isn’t a solution, and that there is so much missed opportunity when you do this.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://unfuckyourbrain.com/108

The holidays can be a magical time of new romance and quality time spent with family… But attempting to combine the two? Now that can get stressful. So is there a way to invite the guy you’re dating over to your house for an eggnog without making things seem too serious and freaking him out? Actually, yes. It’s quite simple, and in this episode I’ll give you a word-for-word script you can use that takes all the pressure off and makes him want to meet you under the mistletoe…even if it means meeting your mom, too.