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Choose Your Narrative
In Choose Your Narrative, host Nat Smithson shares stories of her journey through the ups and downs of life and discusses mindfulness strategies she uses in an effort to motivate people to explore, challenge, and strengthen their own thinking and mindset to encourage happiness, fulfillment and positive growth in their lives.
Episodes
15 episodes
Building and maintaining resilience
In this episode, Nat talks about the importance of being intentional about developing our resilience and shares ideas for how we can achieve this. We're all forced to navigate difficult situations throughout our lives, often with little warning...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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21:38
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Using reinforcement to create positive change
In this episode, Nat gives listeners an understanding of what reinforcement and some other common behaviour modifiers are and how they can be used to cause adjustments to the behaviour of those who are subjected to them. She provides some simpl...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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17:24
Take control of your thoughts
In 'Take control of your thoughts' Nat gets us thinking about the relationship we have with our thoughts and how the way we interact with, and interpret them guides how we perceive ourselves, those around us, and the experiences we have. She re...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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20:47
Successful goal setting
'Successful goal setting' is a fantastic and informative episode for those wanting to learn about, or be reminded of, the priorities we should have when planning and working towards achieving goals that will create a positive and purposeful imp...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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22:53
Understanding and repurposing insecurity
In 'Understanding and repurposing insecurity' Nat talks about how insecurity could be showing up in our lives and why it's in our best interest to explore how it could be negatively impacting us and if necessary, seek change. Every...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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17:56
The importance of personal responsibility
Do you feel like you have a lot of responsibilities you're trying to juggle? And more importantly, are you one of them? Many of us lead such busy, high pressured lives that sometimes we forget to make time to check in with oursel...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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23:38
Where's your focus at?
In Episode 9, ‘Where's your focus at’, Nat shares a bit about her previous and current experience with focus and why it’s so important to stop and acknowledge when our focus is being distracted, either by external disruptions, or even our own t...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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18:38
Channeling Gratitude
In episode eight, 'Channeling Gratitude', Nat brings our attention to the benefits of taking time to stop and reflect on the people, opportunities, and things in our lives that we are grateful for. She also suggests we be more intentional in ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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22:02
The benefits of stepping outside your comfort zone
In episode seven, 'The benefits of stepping outside your comfort zone', Nat explains some of the main reasons why many of us can get stuck existing in a space called our comfort zone, and why although this does have a time and a place, there ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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18:40
The Consequences of People Pleasing
In 'The Consequences of People Pleasing', Nat provides a quick refresh on some of the most common people pleasing behaviours that were introduced in the prior episode, 'What is People Pleasing'. This episode then dives a little deeper into the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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15:45
What Is People Pleasing?
The term 'people pleaser' seems to get thrown around a lot, with many being quick to assign or be assigned, this title, as a way of providing reasoning behind particular actions or thoughts. But when we hear it, or say it, do we really even kno...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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16:24
Patience is a Virtue
Patience is a virtue. We've all heard or said this somewhere along the line. But when you do hear or say it, do you stop and actually think about how important patience truly is in the accomplishment of some of life's biggest successes?...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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16:08
Managing Your Fears
Instead of trying to become 'fearless', Nat encourages her listeners to stop and consider their current relationship with fear. Do they carry fears that are holding them back from pursuing opportunities that they would really like to go after?&...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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19:08
The New Confident You
In 'The New Confident You', Nat encourages her audience to focus on four key areas when embarking on the journey to build their confidence:1) Identify their purpose and passion, what is it that makes them tick?2) Believe in themselv...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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23:46
What is Choose Your Narrative?
Choose Your Narrative, a podcast created by host Nat Smithson, explores how the adoption of simple mindfulness practices and the application of targeted mindset shifts can prove advantageous in the development of improved mental and physical he...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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5:58