Welcome to The Head Trash & Healing Show. My name is Alexia Leachman and I am the developer of Head Trash Clearance, a potent healing modality that clears triggers, traumas, conflicts and sabotage quickly and effectively so that you can achieve clarity, confidence & contentment in your life and work. My goal with this podcast is to teach you how to create some head space by helping you to unpick what's blocking you and sharing some tips and how-to's for clearing it. Tune in every week as I s ...
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In this episode of the Head Trash & Healing Show, I delve into the topic of trauma therapy and why common approaches often fall short. Join me as I share insights and a powerful metaphor to help you better understand the true approach to healing trauma. Key Discussion Points: - The limitations of traditional methods for healing trauma and the preva…
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Healing by Accessing Unconscious Awareness, with Amanda Blau
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In this enlightening episode of 'Head Trash & Healing Show', host Alexia Leachman sits down with the profound Amanda Blau. Together, they delve into the enigmatic world of higher consciousness, human and soul perspectives, the power of acceptance and allowing oneself to feel, tracking change, and spiritual energy transchanneling. They also candidly…
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Setting Boundaries: Overcoming People-Pleasing with Melissa Mahon
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Join me, Alexia Leachman, in an energising conversation with Melissa as we comb through the uncomfortable snarls of people-pleasing, all in this episode of the Head Trash & Healing Show. In this episode, we go deep into understanding the roots and repercussions of being a people-pleaser. If you're finding yourself always saying yes when you mean no…
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The Impact of Mental and Physical Clutter Explained by Declutter Coach Susie
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Today, we delve into the impact of clutter, both physical and emotional, on our lives and feelings of inner peace. I'm thrilled to have with us professional declutter coach Susie, who shares insights from her work helping clients tackle their emotional, mental, and even physical clutter. We discuss the pitfalls of retail therapy, the potential emot…
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Turning Your Quirks into Success: How to be Crazy Successful with John Williams
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Self-Regulation and Trauma Healing: Allen's Journey to Inner Peace
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In this week's episode of the Head Trash Healing Show, I had the absolute pleasure of diving into a rich and candid conversation with the remarkable Allen. Our focus? The fascinating and transformative journey of self-regulation. Allen, with his openness and vulnerability, shared his deeply personal experience of seeking self-regulation as a means …
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How to Measure the Impact of Healing and Inner Work
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Today we have an incredibly fascinating topic to explore - the map of consciousness - and how it can be used to measure the progress of inner work. In this episode, we'll explore how our consciousness can impact our emotions, perceptions, and problem-solving abilities. I'll also be taking a closer look at the concept of healing work, its effectiven…
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Today we are diving deep into a fear that many people may not even realise is one of the most common fears out there. It's called emetophobia, the fear of vomit. Now, before you think this is just a trivial fear, let me assure you, it's a very serious phobia that can have a profound impact on people's lives.In this episode, we will explore what eme…
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On this episode of Head Trash Show, I explore the relationship between emotional healing and mental fitness, and how they can impact productivity in our daily lives. Through the discussion, I share that our mental fitness level can reveal patterns affecting emotional health, emphasising the need to tackle both. Regular "head trash clear out" is ess…
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Understanding Trauma with Alex Heath
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In this podcast episode, I'm chatting with Alex Heath about healing from trauma. I know Alex from my time working in the pregnancy and birth world, as Alex specialises in birth trauma and perinatal mental and emotional health. For me, birth trauma is unique as far as trauma goes. A huge aspect of trauma is the meaning we associate with a root event…
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Why you struggle making a life change
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Can you relate to this? You decide that you're going to make some kind of change in your life and then you never quite get started. Or at least, you make all the right noises, and you prepare in ALL THE WAYS, but when it comes to actually starting Doing The Thing... you don't. Do you start out with the very best intentions? In this podcast I dive i…
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5 emotional wounds we all suffer from
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Healing your emotional wounds is essential if you're to reach your happy place, and stay there. Your emotional wounds can often be the source of your day-to-day triggers, so by healing your emotional wounds you're able to reduce the stress and anxiety you experience each day. The problem is that we're not always aware of what those wounds are. Many…
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Micro-dosing for mental health, Simone's story
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Micro-dosing for mental health is something that has been explored for some time. The pioneer of this is the Czech-born psychologist Stanislav Grof. Micro-dosing is the practice of taking or administering very small amounts of a drug in order to test or benefit from its physiological action while minimising undesirable side effects. So when it come…
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Balancing your inner feminine and masculine
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Your inner masculine and feminine Do you think your inner masculine and feminine energies are in balance? Does this question even make sense to you? I ask that because I’ve had some conversations with people when they’ve looked a bit puzzled when asked. They simply didn’t understand the question. The idea of having inner masculine and feminine ener…
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Healing from Trauma Trauma is something we all have to wrestle with. But not all of us choose to do so. Sometimes we're forced into facing our traumas - as I was recently. This is why I wanted to have a chat with someone who works with trauma, so that they can share their perspective. Brooke is a trauma-informed coach who has experienced trauma thr…
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Does your anxiety come from your time in utero?
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I recently stumbled on a past trauma that proved to be the key to a lot of the things I've wrestled with as an adult. As someone who hunts down head trash - especially my own - this is a HUGE win for me. When something isn't shifting, I dig and dig until I can figure it out and get rid of it. I had some personal stuff that just wasn't shifting and …
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Not all public speaking fears are equal
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Not all public speaking or presenting is equal, at least when it comes to how we feel about it. Presenting and public speaking sit nicely at the top of any list about fears and anxiety. Thank you primal brain for that! But not all presenting or public speaking is equal in terms of its potential to make us nervous, fearful or anxious. And, this is d…
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If you've been following my adventures in trauma clearance, you'll know that I'm feeling very called to clear my traumas at the moment. If you missed it, I dive into that in my blog: Traumas & Yetis: 2 things they have in common. One theme of emotional pain that has come up a lot for me in my life is around abandonment and rejection so this has bee…
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Dr Thomas Verny, The Embodied Mind - Interview
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In this episode I get to chat to one of my heroes for the second time - lucky me! Dr Thomas Verny is the godfather of prenatal psychology and the author of the classic book The Secret Life of the Unborn Child. It was this book that was a huge inspiration to me when I wrote my first book Fearless Birthing. In his words.. "As a psychiatrist, I have h…
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Yetis & Trauma: 2 things they have in common
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I’m feeling very called to get back to work on clearing trauma at the moment. A few months ago I went all in with it when I was really ill. My mind had pretty much shut down and healing was my sole focus as I kicked off a physical healing protocol, but it would need time; I needed to detox The Thing that was making me ill, and then my body needed t…
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The dangers of playing hide and seek
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Did you ever play hide and seek as a kid? I bet it's a YES. Please don't say no... because that would be a little bit sad. If you did - and you did, right? - then your hide and seek shenanigans could be responsible for some head trashy challenges you might be experiencing as an adult. My kids LOVE playing hide and seek and I'm pretty sure it's some…
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Business, motherhood and mental health
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In this, my first podcast for a while, I chat to business founder Ela Senghera. Ela is the founder of Virtually Thrive, a mental health business that supports parents. During our conversation, Ela and I talk about founder anxiety an the stresses of creating and building a business the importance of self care for parents what you can do to care more…
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Clearing self-sabotage; what it looks like
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Today I want to share with you what clearing self-sabotage looks like. Like EXACTLY. I'm going to share with you an example of someone I worked with so that you can better understand how we self-sabotage. And perhaps this will help you with your own self-sabotaging ways. Self-sabotage is something we can all relate to. Personally, I'm an expert. An…
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I thought I loved planning. But it was all a lie! I’ve done a lot of planning and I think I’m pretty good at all sorts of planning shenanigans. From road trips across foreign lands and island-hopping holidays to secret birthday parties and complex international product launches. In corporate I used to do high level business planing all the time. As…
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Using the mind-body connection to feel better
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Whenever I see a face, I can usually tell whether they have a load of head trash. this is because whenever we have lots of stresses and anxieties, the tension that this creates shows up in our bodies, and our faces. We're familiar with the aching shoulders, tension head-aches and other bodily aches that come from being stressed and anxious, and in …
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Productivity: Getting distracted vs getting stuff done
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Getting stuff done and generally being productive requires the mind to stay focussed on singular tasks until they are complete. Sounds fairly straightforward, right? And yet this is where most people fall down, including you. Why? Simple. You get distracted You look away from what you're doing. Perhaps you open up another browser window to check Fa…
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COVID Anxiety and how to deal with it
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With so much uncertainty around right now, the only certainty seems to be this: COVID anxiety is a thing and it's becoming more of a problem as time goes by. COVID anxiety is affecting mental health for a lot of people and we need to do something about it. What is COVID anxiety? It's the various aspects of COVID that are creating additional anxieti…
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What is anxiety REALLY? And how to shift it.
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Anxiety is something we have all experienced a one time or other. Or at least I'm assuming you have by the very fact you're on this site. Here are some fun facts about anxiety that I found here; An estimated 284 million people worldwide experienced an anxiety disorder in 2017, making it the most prevalent mental health disorder on the planet (Ritch…
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Head trash and pursuing your dream life
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The Head Trash Show is back. After a long break In this episode I talk about the head trash I've had to wrestle with as I've been pursuing my dream life. Two years ago, we made the decision to leave the UK and move the family to France. We had always wanted to live somewhere sunny near the coast, so we decided to go for it. This was the beginning o…
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The Psychology of pain with Gary Keil
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Pain is interesting. At least I find it interesting. And I guess that comes from my work in helping women prepare for birth. Pain comes up a lot! In fact it comes up too much in my opinion. More than it should do. And this is because a fear of pain is probably one of the most common fears I come across. Well, it's only to be expected, after all chi…
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Being an introvert or extrovert - can we change?
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This week on the podcast I'm exploring the idea of being an introvert or extrovert, and I'm asking the question "Is it fixed? Or can we change?" I don't often hear extroverts wanting to change, but I do often come across introverts not enjoying being an introvert. Or at least, they make excuses for it and make changes to their life to allow for bei…
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The mother wound is a new term for me, but the minute I heard it, it made so much sense. I knew immediately that whatever it was, I had it! Well, let's face it, we all have it. I was intrigued as to how the mother wound would show up in our day-to-day lives. I've done a lot of mother wound work on myself, so I had inklings on how my mother wound ha…
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Have you got sleep stress? We often hear about how stress affects our sleep, but not always about how sleep affects our stress. As in, how sleep CREATES stress! You know, SLEEP STRESS! Yes, you read that right; sleep is stressful. Which when you're already stressed and can't sleep, isn't exactly good news. The thing is as you lie in bed awake waiti…
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Parent and baby mental health are not discussed enough in my opinion. And yet they are incredibly important not just for the families involved, but for society. One of the reasons why I’m so passionate about helping women to build their emotional resilience during pregnancy is that it’s powerful place to start if you want to support the mental heal…
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Why Head Trash Clearance is a Practice
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To feel and perform at your best, I believe that head trash clearance and mindset should be a practice. But I realise that not everyone sees things in that way. Once you get your head around the idea of head trash and that it’s something that you can clear quite easily, it’s easy to get excited about it. Well, it was for me. Noticing such huge diff…
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On today’s show I’m chatting with Louise Hallam who is a mindfulness and meditation teacher. The reason I wanted to get Louise on the show is because Louise recently did some head trash clearance with me and I thought it would be useful to share her perspective on using meditation and head trash clearance, and how they can be best used side by side…
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I’m so excited to bring the Head Trash Show back. It’s been a long break, but one that has been worth it. So in this opening episode this is what I want to share with you; Where I’ve been You might be wondering why I took a break and what I’ve been up to. If I said to you that I had a baby, you’d probably think “oh sure, you’ve been at home with th…
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I'm not the first person to say this so it shouldn't be news to you, but if you want to change the world start with yourself. The "world" doesn't have to be some grandiose idea about changing humanity, it can be as simple as changing YOUR world. And this couldn't be truer when it comes to your stresses. If you find yourself being stressed out by LI…
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Do you find that you're holding on to patterns of thought, behaviours and bodily dis-ease that you'd just rather shake? Well, you're going to love today's podcast. Today I chat to Matt Sison, who is an author, speaker and a coach who shares his approach for letting go of what he calls the conditions and programs that hold you back from your authent…
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Feeling rejected sucks! I'm saying that because that's how it felt to me when I felt rejected a few weeks back. It all started with an email landing in my inbox. Without going into masses of detail, the email basically said "We don't want you anymore! We changed our minds." It was a business thing... I had jumped through hoops and done a shed-load …
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If you're feeling like life is a bit rubbish and you need to turn things around, then I hope that today's guest will inspire to do just that. Today I'm chatting to Tanya Mann Rennick about how to turn your life around, or more specifually how she managed to turn her life around. Tanya will be sharing her guiding STARR principles that she used to tr…
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If you've been wondering how to stop smoking then you are are going to LOVE this week's podcast. This week I chat to fellow Head Trash Clearance specialist, Shaun Hopkins, about how to stop smoking using our 5 step process (Reflective Repatterning). I've been asked many times What makes this podcast brilliant is Shaun's story. Shaun has been smokin…
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The theme for me over the last two weeks has very much been about letting go. Well, for the last 6 weeks actually! My little ones have had a succession of illnesses which meant that they’ve taken turns at being off nursery and at home. Having them at home has meant zero work for me! Then last week, just as I had shipped the latest ill one back into…
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There’s a psychologist called Eric Robinson who has a surprising tool for weight loss. Clue: we all have one, but we don’t use it as much as we could and we are always losing it. Our memory! I first came across Robinson’s work in this BBC article How to curb hunger pangs with your mind and immediately I was intrigued. I’ve long believed that we und…
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Most of us understand what it means to love another person. The emotional investment coupled with feelings of intense desire and admiration is familiar territory for us. In fact, we consciously take time to nurture and develop our live with others… we say nice things, we offer gifts, we do nice things, and importantly we let them know how we feel. …
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In this podcast I thought I’d spend a bit of time talking about how head trash might show up in your life and to help you to trace it back to its roots cause and what you can do about it. Today I’m going to talk about something that I think we all feel at some point... feeling trapped. What is that all about then? And is there anything that can be …
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If your body is suffering from some physical conditions or dis-ease, then maybe a good place to start is by taking a closer look at what's going on in your head. The link between mind and body is finally being acknowledged by the scientific community and the field of psycho-neuro-immunology (PNI) is where some of the latest scientific thinking in t…
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In today's podcast, I'm thrilled and honoured to bring you an interview with Kevin Laye. Kevin is one of the leading Jedi masters of the personal change industry who's been personally mentored by the co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, and the creator of Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Roger Callahan. It was his friend Paul Mckenna who encouraged him …
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