Finding Your Right Mind — with Vanessa Potter
Join my 'consciousness road-trip' where I delve into the many ways we can help ourselves live less frenetic and stressed-out lives. With regular guests, I'll discuss different 'mind practices' from mindfulness, yoga, compassion, bodywork, forest bathing psychedelics — no practice is off bounds. I'll talk about the science behind each practice, what it's really like to experience, the pitfalls and challenges and how we can discover our own wisdom. If you want to find out what made me quite so curious about mind and body practices, check out my book "Finding My Right Mind: One Woman's Experiment to put Meditation to the Test", (Welbeck 2021) Got questions or topics you'd like me to cover? contact me at www.vanessapotter.com
Episodes
43 episodes
Go Jauntly: Walking a different path...
In this interview I talk to Sage from Go Jauntly (which is a walking App) about the different ways we can walk - whether it's alone or with friends or family. Go Jauntly is a start up, providing tons of digital mapped walks via their App. We fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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46:11
Street Wisdom: Take the first step...
This episode is a real treat. I had an inspiring chat with Rachel Crowther from Street Wisdom, the social movement, that gets people from all around the world walking, looking at and experiencing their local streets in a whole new way.
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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55:12
Lil Stevens: Casting light on fossils, ferns and the prehistoric legacy of Dino Island.
Welcome to another ParkBathe conversation where we dig down (literally) into nature and conservation. This episode features Dinosaur island and a fascinating area of research, namely, paleo planting. I talk to Dr Lil Stevens from the Nati...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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47:06
Joanna Bristow-Watkins: The inside scoop on Forest Bathing
This week I am sharing a fascinating chat with Joanna Bristow-Watkins, a forest bathing guide based in Surrey. We talk about what it's like to be a guide and what benefits there are to be gained from forest bathing in an ancient woodland - from...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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46:35
Emily Finch: Using Art to see the Wood from the Trees
Today I’m sharing a poignant and at times, emotive interview with Emily Finch as she describes her deeply personal and intense relationship to trees. London-based artist, Emily has always had an affinity to the natural world, but this took on a...
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38:33
Louise Montgomery: Digging into our relationship with nature
I really wanted to share this interview. Although it was recorded just after the last lockdown, so much of what Louise talks about is relevant today. We discuss plant blindness - how 'not noticing' the evidence of nature around us...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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53:15
Stefan Batorijs: The language of nature and a cathedral made of trees.
Welcome to series 4!We are kicking off this series with a thought-providing conversation with Stefan from Nature and Therapy UK, where he combines a mixture of ancient wisdom with modern science to help people navigate their lives more ...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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1:04:57
ParkBathe: Rewilding, conservation and thinking like an Environmentalist.
Welcome to the episode 7 of our ParkBathe podcast, getting our hands dirty as we dig into conservation, environmentalism and giving back to nature. What is conservation? What is ReWilding? Kirsten and I shed some light ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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55:10
Conservation BONUS: Ways to improve your life AND the planet
Conservation, re-wilding and environmentalism are such huge topics that we have spilled out into our bonus episode with more though-provoking ways to think differently about helping ourselves and our planet.Conservation isn't always abo...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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17:20
Blue Health: Watery delights and Secrets of Crystal Palace Park
Welcome to this week’s episode which dives into blue Health and Crystal Palace Park ! We have so much to share in this packed-out episode. Meet the amazing Crystal Palace dinosaur team, hear from the lovely paleo-botanist Lil as she explains th...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:00:29
ParkBathe Bonus: Delights of Crystal Palace Park
We have some treats for you in this week’s ParkBathe bonus. check out Sage's favourite walk from Go Jauntly, the walking App - guess where it is !And I promised some instructions from Jules Howard, allround zoologist and pond nerd on how...
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Season 3
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10:21
ParkBathe Bonus: Engaging Children with Nature
Here are some fun nature activities to do with friends and family in your local park. These activities can be done at any time of year and with pretty much any age group too - so big kids are catered for ! Stephanie Thorlby, o...
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Season 3
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6:27
Mother Nature: Connecting Children to Nature.
Welcome to this episode examining the relationship between children and nature. Today we eavesdrop on some of our younger ParkBathers as they experience forest bathing in Crystal Palace park. We're also exploring our own experiences ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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36:26
ParkBathe: Coming to our Senses
Happy new year and welcome to this new episode investigating everything you need to know about our sensory system and how we see, hear and feel when we're out in nature...Forest bathing is simply walking mindfully in nature while ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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48:25
Senses BONUS: tips and ideas to stimulate your senses.
To accompany our episode on our sensory system here are some activities that you might like to try in your local green space, garden or in the streets where you live.We've talked a lot about fractals, these are the repeated geometric pat...
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Season 3
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10:57
ParkBathe: Geeking out on Trees. Why forests are SO good for us.
Today on the ParkBathe podcast Kirsten and I are indulging in our tree-nerd alter-egos! I’ve always liked trees, but learning about forest bathing has given me a new respect for our tall friends. Forest Bathing is all about trees – as you walk ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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37:28
Tree BONUS: Fun ways to learn about and engage with trees!
This bonus track is jam-packed full of tree tips ! It's got great advice from both Ellen Devine from Forestry England and Karen Prices from the
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Season 3
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13:47
ParkBathe: Nature's de-stress revolution
Series 3 has arrived with a super exciting new citizen science health project called ParkBathe ! What is ParkBathe? Earlier this year I created a new health intervention ba...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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36:35
ParkBathe BONUS: Make your own Reed Diffuser !
If you'd like to bring the benefits of trees into your own home — ParkBathe can help ! This track provides instructions on how to make your own reed diffuser which you can place in rooms around your home — or give away as a present ! Re...
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Season 3
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5:08
ParkBathe: The Science of Forest Bathing. Why it’s Not New-Age Nonsense.
In episode 2 of the ParkBathe series we provide a comprehensive low-down of the mind-boggling science of forest bathing. Here we dive into why forest bathing (which is simply walking mind...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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54:01
Forest Bathing Audio Guide
In anticipation of the soon-to-arrive ParkBathe podcast series, here is an audio guide so you can try out your own forest bathing session. If you've recently experienced one of our ParkBathe sessions in Crystal Palace park, then these instructi...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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22:37
Series 3 - ParkBathe
Series 3 is a whole new adventure!In March this year I interviewed Kirsten McEwan a health researcher at Derby University about her work using compassion practices (check out the episode) Off-air we ended up chatting about walking, nature a...
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Season 3
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Episode 0
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6:08
Why Women Audit their Lives on Decade Birthdays: Joyce age 90
A belated hello ! I am living, "better late than never" this week ! What with school holidays, domestic distastes and illness this last Decade Dames episode is a bit late ! But, I hope it is worth the wait. I think it will be as most of my inte...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:04:03
Why Women Audit Their Lives on Decade Birthdays: Brenda Triffitt age 80.
Oh my goodness — we are marching through my 'Decade Dames' series where I interview women on a 'big' decade birthday from ages 20 to 90. This week we meet Brenda who turned 80 during the pandemic. Brenda is a divorcee with two grownup ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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42:59
Why Women Audit their Lives on Decade Birthdays - Elaine Chua age 70
Welcome to my female wisdom series - I'm think of rebranding it 'Decade Dames' after it was called that ! A much better description?Today you meet Elaine, a 70 year old Malaysian woman who has lived in Britain since she was 19 years old, an...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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52:44
