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Changeable Podcast
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Join psychologist, life coach and author Dr. Amy Johnson for Changeable, a podcast about a new paradigm in psychology that reveals the ironic way change really works. It’s easier than you think.
Episodes
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EP405: The challenge of identity: The sense of self
In this episode, Dan and I go more deeply into how identity — taking yourself to be a limited, separate-from-the-rest-of-life entity — is the key factor behind the ability to explore love and and relationship in the way we’ve discussed in our episodes thus far. The sense of self demands a lot of...
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EP404: Dealing with Issues in Relationship — Part 2
In Part 2, we look more deeply at how we work through relationship issues through the lens of our “post mortem” process. We also turn toward the underlying spiritual and identity work that we feel allows us room to look at issues with minimal defensiveness and more objectivity. We believe anyone...
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EP403: Dealing with Issues in Relationship — Part 1
In Part 1 of this two part episode, Dan and I give an example of a conditioned pattern that arises in our relationship and how we work through it. Our approach is rooted in our strong mutual desire to examine anything and everything that arises, and our strong aversion to avoiding triggers or...
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EP402: Re-engaging with your partner
Since we began recording episodes together, Dan and I have received several emails from people realizing their relationship isn’t where they want it to be. Some of those people want to re-engage with their partner but aren’t sure how. In episode 402, we share a few steps on how to re-engage with...
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EP401: The Deeper Purpose in Relationships
In this episode, Dan and I share the “whale under the boat” sense we’ve had from the beginning of our relationship that there is something very powerful and intelligent behind our union. In conventional thinking about relationships, two people get together for reasons of love, connection…
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EP400: Believing in love versus being in love
Dan and I look at the difference between believing you love your partner — a largely thought-based state– and the active, alive, energetic state of being ‘in love’ with your partner. We discuss being in love as an energy cycle that takes both people to keep it going and we explore the vital role…
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EP399: Clarifying direct perception versus thinking
In this episode, Dan and I explore the difference between thinking and direct perception. This distinction is crucial in the spiritual and self-investigative work we’ve done and that we’ll be discussing more in future episodes. It’s an important difference in how we relate in relationships and in...
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EP398: Asking meaningful questions
In this episode, Dan and I explore the benefits of asking meaningful questions. We discuss what meaningful questions are, the benefits of asking them, and why people don’t ask questions. We also go into depth about how we ask each other meaningful questions and the ways in which that has...
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EP397: From Independence to union
In EP397, Dan and I share how we went from being quite independent – in part as a way to prioritize our respective spiritual paths – to now being surprisingly (to us!) interdependent and closely enmeshed in many ways. Please email me at [email protected] with your feedback and suggestions...
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EP396: Exploring our connection through eye contact
In this conversation, Dan and I share one of the key ways our deep connection developed in the early days of our relationship; something we called “going into the portal” through sustained eye contact and feeling into the energies that were present. We discuss how this process went for us and the...
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EP395: The power of attention in relationships
In this episode, Dan and I look at the role of attention in a relationship. We’ll explore what attention and connection have to do with each other, how attention is an open and receptive presence (rather than monitoring, watching, or evaluating), the benefits of attention, and the obstacles to...
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EP394: The mystical nature of relationships
Changeable is back and I have a co-host! Dan Kelso and I explore the mystical nature of relationships and unveil our ideas for a new set of dialogues exploring the intersection of identity and relationship. Please email me at [email protected] with your feedback and suggestions about this...
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EP393: Why are outside circumstances affecting me so much? A question from a listener
Martha says she knows that circumstances can’t create suffering, yet she suffers when watching images of some things happening in the world. How can she reconcile this? uGfCbeGyYlpygwNQU7E8 The post EP393: Why are outside circumstances affecting me so much? A question from a listener appeared…
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EP392: Breaking Habits and Ending Self-Doubt: My episode on Gifted with ADHD
This week’s episode is a conversation with Juliet O’Rourke for her brand new podcast, Gifted with ADHD. Gifted with ADHD brings together mental health, wellbeing, and a big-picture spiritual understanding of how the mind works, particularly an ADHD mind. In our conversation, we go deep into the...
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EP391: Pruning life so attention can go where you want it to go
In this episode we’ll look at where attention naturally wants to go…and where attention might be going in ways that are unwanted. The more we have in our lives and around us that demand attention, the less free attention there is for exploring direct experience. ***I will be leading a Silent...
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EP390: Open and closed
This episode explores what it means to be energetically open versus closed, why and how we open and close, and what being open (versus closed) does for our vitality, wellbeing, and relationships. ***I will be leading a Silent Retreat in Taos, New Mexico, February 22-27. The retreat will provide a...
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EP389: More on patterns
I’ll explore how to look at, and ultimately change, patterns in more detail. I discuss how and why to reflect on patterns, how and why to communicate what’s arising, and how and why to examine identity as part of this exploration. ***I will be leading a Silent Retreat in Taos, New Mexico…
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EP388: Beliefs you live by but didn’t choose
In this episode, I strongly encourage you to look at the beliefs you’re living by. There may be conflicting beliefs. You may believe things you swear you don’t believe. The only way to know – and for those beliefs to change – is to honestly and eagerly look and be willing to see what’s there.…
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EP387: Choosing the wrong relationships: A question from a listener
In this episode, I speak to a question from a listener who says she chooses romantic partners who are not right for her because – in her words – they make her feel more worthy. I talk her through some of the ways she can examine this pattern in depth, noticing the beliefs behind her The post…
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EP386: Special Rebroadcast: Unraveling Ego at the Feeling Level
There’s a progression that seems to happen. You might say it’s from gross to subtle. Where attention shifts from being absorbed in abstractions, thoughts, representations, and relationships…to attention moving to much more subtle energies like sensations, sensory input, and maybe something like...
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EP385: Special Rebroadcast: Noise is Silence Shouting
Being in silence is not about suppressing anything. It’s also not about creating anything, such as an environment of peace or thoughtlessness or anything like that. It’s the exact opposite, actually. It’s about leaving everything alone to simply be exactly what it is.“What it is” is constantly...
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EP384: 95/5
What if 95% of attention and energy went toward sensing, feeling, and intuition, and 5% went toward the use of thought? That ratio is typically reversed. I’ll explore this with regard to being with trauma, brainstorming and problem solving, and self inquiry.***I will be leading a Silent Retreat…
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EP383: Staying open
In this episode, we’ll explore how to end habitual psychological patterns such as reactivity, shutting down, becoming controlling or hypervigilant, or eating or drinking. The way to end a pattern – very oversimplified – is to become deeply familiar with the elements of the pattern and stay open,...
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EP382: I’m not acceptable unless I’m thin. Questions from a listener with a 45 year history of disordered eating.
Emma believes that she is unacceptable if her weight goes above a particular threshold. This belief is behind 45 years of restrictive and binge eating. Emma is onto the fact that this is a belief, but that doesn’t feel like enough. If she doesn’t have the ability to simply stop believing this...
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EP381: Attention On versus Attention In
There’s an extremely important distinction to be made when it comes to where and how attention falls. It’s the difference between attention being on something versus absorbed in it. Attention on the fact of thought is completely different from attention being absorbed in the content of...
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EP380: Chaos is extremely good news
“Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news” – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Chaos seems unwanted and perhaps terrifying to a mind that’s always trying to hold things together.But in Greek mythology, Chaos is viewed as a primordial void or emptiness from which all else emerges. It’s the source of...
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EP379: The Intelligence in feeling
There seems to be an innate intelligence that guides us when we deeply feel what is present. An intelligence emerges from simply being in what is without resistance. This intelligence is often less about firm conclusions and more about doing what feels most right right now. It’s less about…
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EP378: Prevention
There is a lot of talk about prevention in the physical health world. It makes sense to prevent physical health problems when possible. Does this extend to emotional health?Can we prevent emotional discomfort? Does it make sense to try? Or is it safe to “wear your heart on your sleeve”, even when...
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EP377: Communicating feelings in a helpful way
How – and why – communicate how you’re feeling with someone else? Dropping into the inner landscape and opening to what’s there…the thoughts, sensations, emotions, and beliefs that are present…and then expressing those to another person feels infinitely helpful.And it feels like something we…
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EP376: How can I stop being so reactive toward my mom? A question from a listener.
In this episode I speak to a listener’s question about how she can be less reactive and more patient with her mom. We explore how she can watch the reactive patterns that arise with a sense of objectivity, curious about what’s showing up rather than judgmental of it and trying to change it. We…
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EP375: Awareness and Love with Kat Adamson
This week’s episode is a portion of a call with Kat Adamson. Kat talks about how awareness is the essence of all things. Mostly, she talks about love. She shares her experience of the death of her partner and she discusses unconditional love and compatibility.I hope you are as impacted by this...
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EP374: An inch deep and a mile wide
An inch deep and a mile wide typically describes a person with superficial knowledge of many things, but without deep knowledge of anything. A generalist, broad but shallow. Is experience an inch deep and a mile wide? In this episode, we use this phrase to explore the depths and dimensions of the...
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EP373: What thought is saying vs. what it’s doing
Thought says no end of things. But what does thought do? Thought does things like conclude, restate, and provide frames and contexts.What thought does is often more subtle and easy to miss than what thought says, but it’s far more valuable to see.***I will be leading two Silent Retreats in 2026....
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EP372: Distraction
When someone says they are distracted, they are expressing an agenda or expectation for where attention should be. They are essentially saying “I’d like attention to be on this project or on my breath or on the person in front of me, but it’s somewhere else”.What would it be like to simply watch...
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EP371: How can I let go of guilt? A question from a listener
Mary is struggling with guilt over something that happened in her relationship a few years ago. Listen in as we explore our responsibility for feelings, societal ideas of right and wrong, honesty, and much more. The post EP371: How can I let go of guilt? A question from a listener appeared first…
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EP370: Coaching around – and finding peace in – chronic pain
In this episode I explore how one might coach someone with chronic pain. Is chronic pain really treated the same way as anxiety, habits and depression? Can it be helped solely through the lens of what’s shared in here?I’ll discuss the impact of the word “chronic” in all suffering and how we can...
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EP369: Attention
Is the quality and nature of present moment experience solely a function of attention? Attention is always contracting and expanding. Sometimes it’s so absorbed in me-and-my-life that all we seem to experience is a stream of me-centered ups and downs.Other times, attention seems to release or...
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EP368: Feeling your way through anxiety
In this episode I share an exchange between myself and a member of our community around her experience of anxiety. I am pointing to What Is before summary thoughts like “I keep feeling anxiety” or “I am afraid something is wrong”. Those summary thoughts are fine – they are powerless – but they…
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EP367: “No matter what” is a powerless thought
Some thoughts, like “no matter what”, “ too late now”, “this always happens”, “I knew it”, somehow feel more true than others, don’t they? Thoughts like these have a scent of finality and certainty. They seem unquestionable. They don’t appear as thought most of the time. They appear as a...
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EP366: Identity with Lisa Natoli
In this episode, Lisa Natoli and I talk about identity. She shares her experience coming to identify with the simple aliveness that’s always here. We discuss the role of being in what is and exploring that in helping her see through identity with the Lisa character. If you’d like to see more…
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EP365: Anxiety First
When one is experiencing health anxiety, for example, and they are often sure that “this time is different”. They are sure they are unwell, running to doctors, trying to solve health problems that don’t actually exist. It’s very simple and extremely helpful to assume the issue is anxiety first....
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EP364: Beyond belief
Beliefs, including spiritual beliefs, are helpful to a point. Then they become decidedly unhelpful.What happens at that point? You look beyond belief.We’ll look at what it means to go beyond belief and how that’s very different from continually clinging to “better” beliefs.***The (now) annual...
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EP363: Personal
The post EP363: Personal appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.
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EP362: What’s wrong with right now?: If you don’t think about it
The title of this week’s episode is also the title of a book by Sailor Bob Adamson. This is the book we’ll be exploring in the Summer Book Club. In this episode, I share some quotes from the book that have stood out in my initial reading. As the author says, this book “is not about The post…
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EP361: Anticipation is Imagination
Let’s talk about the experience we call anticipation. It seems like we’re looking ahead to something that’s almost certain to happen. And it seems like it’s very likely to happen the way we’re imagining it. The way it’s likely to go feels like sound logic – of course it might not happen that way,...
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EP360: The Biggest Irony – Part 2
Shortly after I recorded last week’s episode, The Biggest Irony, someone shared an experience on one of our forums that perfectly illustrated what I was trying to express. Today’s episode shares that illustration and expands on the idea that all of our teachings, pointers and understandings have…
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EP359: The biggest irony
The post EP359: The biggest irony appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.
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EP358: Abstractions and Reality with Chris Niebauer
The post EP358: Abstractions and Reality with Chris Niebauer appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.
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EP357: More abstract, more suffering
The post EP357: More abstract, more suffering appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.
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EP356: Breaking down the experience of needing to be productive
The post EP356: Breaking down the experience of needing to be productive appeared first on Dr. Amy Johnson.
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