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Lemons and Pineapples
by Emma O'Brien
On the Lemons and Pineapples podcast, no-nonsense life coach & entrepreneur Emma O'Brien shares inspirational stories, tried & tested tools and amazing guest interviews to guide you on your self development journey. Learn how to shift your mindset and change your life for the better with fun and entertaining weekly episodes that will help you live on the lighter side of life.
Episodes
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S5 Episode 20: What Your Pet Wants You To Know
Send us Fan Mail What Your Pets Want You to Know Lemons & Pineapples | Season 5, Episode 20 Ever wished your pet could tell you what’s bothering them? Why they’re anxious around visitors, reluctant to do something seemingly straightforward, or unsettled when things change at home? Our pets are…
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S5 Episode 19: Understanding Anxiety; When Calm Feels Dysregulating
Send us Fan Mail Why Calm Can Feel So Dysregulating Have you ever been enjoying a perfectly lovely moment, only for your brain to interrupt with, “Don’t get too comfortable. What if something goes wrong?” Or perhaps life is going smoothly, but instead of enjoying it, you feel guilty because…
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S5 Episode 18: The Healing Paradox
Send us Fan Mail The Healing Paradox: Why Letting Go of Familiar Patterns Is So Hard Season 5, Episode 18 | Lemons and Pineapples Podcast You want things to change. You’re tired of people-pleasing, carrying relationships and being the person who sorts everything out. So why is it so hard to do...
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S5 Episode 17: Family Constellations Explained
Send us Fan Mail Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns (Even When You Know Better) | Family Constellations Explained You know you need to set a boundary, stop people pleasing or do less of the emotional heavy lifting in your relationship. You may even know exactly what you want to do...
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S5 Episode 16: Existential Drift; The Danger of Never Changing
Send us Fan Mail Existential Drift: The Danger of Never Changing If your life continued in exactly the same way it is now, where would you be three years from today? And would you be happy with where you ended up? In this episode of Lemons and Pineapples, I’m talking about existential drift: that...
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S5 Episode 15: Why You Can't Stop People Pleasing - Even When You Know Better
Send us Fan Mail Why You Can’t Stop People-Pleasing — Even When You Know Better You know you’re people-pleasing. You can sometimes catch yourself doing it in the moment. You may even have read the books, practised setting boundaries and promised yourself you’ll stop automatically saying yes. So…
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S5 Episode 14: 5 Signs You're A Generational Cycle Breaker
Send us Fan Mail 5 Signs You’re a Generational Cycle Breaker Being the person who decides, “This stops with me,” sounds powerful, and it is. But breaking patterns that have travelled through a family for generations can also be lonely, uncomfortable and incredibly hard work. In this episode, I...
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S5 Episode 13: Ancestral Allegiances - Are Hidden Family Loyalties Keeping You Stuck?
Send us Fan Mail Ancestral Allegiances: Are Hidden Family Loyalties Keeping You Stuck? What if the pattern keeping you stuck isn’t simply a bad habit or personal failing, but an unconscious expression of love and loyalty to your family system? In this episode of Lemons and Pineapples, I explore...
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S5 Episode 12: How Family Constellations Can Help Heal Repeating Patterns
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever found yourself repeating the same relationship patterns, struggling with the same money issues or feeling stuck despite having done all the work? In this episode, I’m introducing you to Family Constellations—a powerful, experiential modality that helps reveal the...
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S5 Episode 11: How To Improve Your Intuition
Send us Fan Mail What if intuition isn’t “woo-woo” at all… but actually one of the most powerful tools you have? In this episode, I explore what intuition really is, how it works, why so many women have lost trust in it, and how you can start strengthening your own intuitive voice again. From...
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S5 Episode 10: Perimenopause, Hormones & Midlife Rage
Send us Fan Mail If you’re a woman over 40 and suddenly feeling more emotional, more reactive, more… done with everything, you’re not alone. And no, it’s not just your hormones. Yes, perimenopause brings very real hormonal shifts. Sleep gets disrupted, moods fluctuate, your energy drops. All of...
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S5 Episode 9: How Your Inner Child Is Running Your Life
Send us Fan Mail You’re not lazy. You’re not unmotivated. And you’re definitely not “just overthinking it.” But if you keep finding yourself stuck in the same patterns; procrastinating, people-pleasing, staying quiet, or getting triggered by things that shouldn’t feel like a big deal… There’s a...
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S5 Episode 8: How To Release Energetic Cords & Reclaim Your Power
Send us Fan Mail Cut the Cord: How to Release Energetic Ties & Reclaim Your Power If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in a loop; replaying conversations, holding onto old hurt, or feeling emotionally drained by a person or situation this episode is for you. In today’s conversation, I’m diving…
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S5-Episode 7: Reconnecting To Yourself Through Shamanic Soul Retrieval
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lemons & Pineapples, I’m talking about Shamanic Soul Retrieval; one of the most requested sessions I offer, and one of the most powerful ways to reconnect to yourself when you feel lost, disconnected, or like you’re living life on autopilot. Soul retrieval is...
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S5-Episode 6: A Powerful Framework For Real, Lasting Change
Send us Fan Mail The Andean Medicine Wheel: A Powerful Map for Real Change In this episode of Lemons & Pineapples, I’m sharing one of the most transformative frameworks I use in my own life and with my clients: the Andean Medicine Wheel. If you’ve ever thought: “I know this isn’t working…” “I...
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S5 Epsiode 5: The Practical Power of Shamanic Journey Work
Send us Fan Mail Three years ago, if you’d asked me whether I’d ever call myself a shamanic practitioner, I would have laughed. And yet here we are. In this episode, I unpack what shamanism actually is (beyond feathers and smoke), what shamanic journey work involves, and why — despite the…
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S5-Episode 4: Conscious Femininity - What The World Needs Right Now
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m talking about conscious femininity; why the world needs more of it right now, where the phrase comes from (Marion Woodman, via Sharon Blackie’s If Women Rose Rooted), and what it looks like in everyday life. We explore the difference between unconscious...
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S5-Episode 3: Why Getting Lost in Midlife Might Be the First Step to Finding Yourself
Send us Fan Mail What if feeling lost in midlife isn’t a failure… but an invitation? In this episode, I’m exploring something I see again and again — both in my own life and in the women I work with. That moment (often in our 40s and beyond) when we wake up and quietly think: Is this it? Is this...
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S5-Episode 2: Shedding The Old - From Snake to Fire Horse
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I explore why change so often feels uncomfortable, slow, and frustrating, especially when we’re ready for something new but life hasn’t caught up yet. I reflect on the transition from the Year of the Snake into the Year of the Fire Horse, and why the early part…
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S5-Episode 1: How To Stop Over-Functioning & Reclaim your Energy
Send us Fan Mail How to Stop Over-Functioning & Reclaim Your Energy Are you exhausted from doing everything for everyone — at home, at work, and in your relationships? In this episode of the Lemons & Pineapples Podcast I explore over-functioning — the hidden pattern behind burnout, resentment…
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S4-Episode 20: Rebuilding Self-Worth After Divorce with Isabelle Ulenaers
Send us Fan Mail Divorce can feel like an ending… but what if it’s actually a portal? In this episode, Emma O’Brien is joined by Isabelle Ulenaers—psychologist, trauma specialist, and best-selling author—who supports women through the emotional aftermath of divorce using a neuroscience-informed...
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S4-Episode 19: 12 Questions To Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet!
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m sharing the 12 powerful reflection questions I’m personally using to make sure that 2026 is not another year on repeat. If you’ve ever reached the end of a year thinking “Nothing really changed”, despite good intentions, this episode is for you. I talk…
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S4-Episode 18: How To Make 2026 The Year Your Life Changes
Send us Fan Mail Have you reached the end of this year and realised… nothing has really changed? In this episode of Lemons & Pineapples, I’m speaking directly to you if you promised yourself last year would be different — and you’re now finding yourself in the same relationship, the same…
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S4-Episode 17: How To Stop Attracting Unavailable Partners With Dr. Ray Doktor
Send us Fan Mail In this powerful and deeply honest conversation, I'm joined by clinical psychologist, relationship coach, and bestselling author Dr. Ray Doktor to explore why so many capable, self-aware women keep finding themselves drawn to emotionally unavailable men and, more importantly, how...
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S4-Episode 16: How To Heal Anxious Attachment & Stop Choosing Unavailable Partners with Valerie Rubin
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever found yourself obsessing over texts, over-giving in relationships, or feeling painfully hooked on emotionally unavailable people, this episode is going to feel like a deep exhale. In this conversation, I’m joined by trauma-informed somatic coach and anxious...
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S4-Episode 15: Self-Worth & The Cult Of The Unavailable Man
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, we are diving deep into a relationship pattern so many brilliant, capable, beautiful women find themselves stuck in: the magnetic pull toward the emotionally unavailable man. If you’ve ever chased crumbs, waited for the 2am “u up?” text, or convinced...
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S4-Episode 14: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Change The Way You Love
Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, we’re going down a rabbit hole I’ve been exploring deeply over the past month — a trail that started with my shamanic soul-retrieval work, moved into inner child healing, and has now led me into the world of attachment styles in romantic relationships. If...
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S4 - Episode 13: Healing Your Inner Child & Re-parenting Yourself
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I’m diving into one of my favourite topics: inner child healing and how re-parenting yourself can help you reconnect to your brilliant, innate, authentic self. We explore why so many of your current triggers, perfectionism, people-pleasing and “why am I reacting...
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S4-Episode 12: The Witch Wound - How Collective Trauma Keeps Women Playing Small
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I dive into the Witch Wound: the ancestral, collective trauma rooted in the Burning Times that still shapes how women show up today. If you’ve ever felt afraid to be visible, worried about being “too much”, or guilty for wanting more than the bare minimum… this…
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S4-Episode 11: Why Women Struggle to Make Money (and How to Rewire for Wealth & Worth) with Karen Berzanski
Send us Fan Mail This conversation is a straight-talking road map for women who feel stuck around money. We unpack why so many of us unconsciously give our financial power away (hello, patriarchy + intergenerational programming), how those beliefs show up as procrastination, over-giving,...
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S4-Episode 10: How Intergenerational Trauma Shapes Your Core Beliefs
Send us Fan Mail If you caught last week’s episode, you’ll know we talked about limiting beliefs — where they come from and how to start shifting them - you can catch that episode here. This week, we’re taking that work a layer deeper, exploring how intergenerational trauma — the patterns, fears,...
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S4-Episode 9: How to Identify and Shift your Limiting Beliefs
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m diving into one of my favourite topics — limiting beliefs: what they are, where they come from, how they quietly run your life from the shadows, and most importantly, how to shift them so you can stop playing small and start moving forward with clarity and...
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S4 Episode 8: How To Stop Over-Functioning In Relationships
Send us Fan Mail In this episode I’m talking about the over-functioner vs under-functioner dance (hat tip to Harriet Lerner). If you’re the one who remembers the dentist appointments, carries the emotional load, and secretly reloads the dishwasher after your partner… hi, it’s us. I share why we…
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S4-Episode 7: How to Regulate Your Nervous System & Build Resilience with HeartMath
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Lemons and Pineapples, I dive into the fascinating world of the nervous system and why learning to regulate it is the key to building resilience, reducing stress, and reclaiming your sense of calm. I explain the science behind the autonomic nervous system, the...
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S4-Episode 6: What HeartMath is and Why It Will Change Your Life
Send us Fan Mail Are you stuck in a cycle of stress, overthinking, and reactivity? In this episode of the Lemons and Pineapples Podcast, I dive into the powerful science of HeartMath — a research-backed method that helps you reset your nervous system, improve focus, and show up as a calmer, more...
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S4-Episode 5: Why Stress Is Making Your Perimenopause Worse & How To Regain Control Of Your Health
Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Season 4, Episode 5 – Why Stress Makes Perimenopause Symptoms Worse (and What You Can Do About It) In this episode of Lemons and Pineapples, Emma O’Brien and her co-host, functional medicine health coach Sam Shrosbree, dive into the powerful connection between stress and...
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S4-Episode 4: How To Re-Calibrate Before You Burnout
Send us Fan Mail How to Re-Calibrate your mind, body and life before burnout hits. In this episode my co-host Sam and I share the subtle - and not-so-subtle - signs that you're heading towards burnout and what you can do to course correct before everything falls apart. If you're feeling…
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S4-Episode 3: Why Mindset Alone Isn't Enough
Send us Fan Mail You've done the journaling, the affirmations, the mindset shifts...so why are you still feeling stuck? In this episode, I'm joined by functional medicine health coach Sam Shrosbree to unpack why mindset work on its own isn't enough and what's missing when progress just won't…
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S4-Episode 2: Why Self-Care Isn't Working (And What Will)
Send us Fan Mail You’ve tried the self-care routines. The journaling, the meditations, the Sunday resets. So why do you still feel disconnected, foggy, and on edge? In this episode, Sam and I dig into why self-care often doesn’t land—especially when your nervous system is dysregulated—and what it...
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S4-Episode 1: How Dysregulation Is Fuelling Your Struggle
Send us Fan Mail What if your “lack of motivation,” “indecision,” or “overwhelm” isn’t personal failure… but simply your nervous system trying to keep you safe? In this episode, my co-host Sam Shrosbree and I break down one of the most misunderstood reasons smart, high-achieving people stay…
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Episode 20: Stop Letting Life Pass You By - Here's How
Send us Fan Mail "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think." If you were to live to 73 (the average lifespan of a human on planet Earth) how many summers do you have left? That's a question that'll bring your life right now into sharp perspective I imagine. If you're waiting for the 'right time'...
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Episode 19: How Your Inner World Shapes Your Outer Reality
Send us Fan Mail You'll likely have heard the phrase "Thoughts become things" - thanks Mike Dooley - but have you really considered how true it is? The state of your inner landscape plays an enormous role in the way your outer circumstances unfold. Your thoughts and feelings influence your…
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Episode 18: Why You Keep Sabotaging Yourself (& How To Stop)
Send us Fan Mail You say you want the thing or the change or the new opportunity, but as soon as you start working towards it, you stop. Something comes up, there's a drama or you find something urgent to do and you let yourself down, again. Self-sabotage isn't laziness, it's fear in disguise. In...
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Episode 17: How To Change Your Life
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt like you need to make some changes in your life, but the prospect is incredibly overwhelming, so you don't? The state of feeling stuck, knowing you want something else, but not knowing where to begin is awful. I know, I've been there. You can't fight the deep...
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Episode 16: How to Connect With your Purpose
Send us Fan Mail If you don't know where you're going, how will you ever get there? Feeling lost, stuck, depressed and like life is a constant struggle is a sure sign that you've lost touch with your sense of purpose. In this episode, I delve into what it means to have purpose in your life and I...
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Episode 15: 5 Principles to Shift your Perspective on Life
Send us Fan Mail I stumbled upon the 5 Principles I reference in this podcast episode whilst Googling Shamanic stuff and although they are touted as Shamanic laws, my talking points for this episode are actually the 5 Principles of Open Space Technology created by Owen Harrison. Listen to see why...
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Episode 14: How To Build Resilience
Send us Fan Mail I went for a walk on the wild side and ended up falling into a pile of sh*t. But I'll tell you what I got out of it, aside from sore feet and 6.5 hours of suffering; resilience. You build resilience by doing hard things and in this episode I share what happened when I…
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Episode 13: How to Communicate More Effectively
Send us Fan Mail Inspired by a catastrophic miscommunication with ChatGPT that reminded me of the importance of CLEARLY asking for EXACTLY what I want, this is an episode where I share how to ask for what you want and get it. If you struggle to get your needs met despite (thinking) you've asked...
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Episode 12: Productivity Hacks for Procrastinators
Send us Fan Mail Are you an expert level procrastinator? Do you often get to the end of the day having been incredibly busy, yet you've achieved very little? Are you fed up of working really hard but not making progress? If "yes" was your answer to any of the above, this episode is for you. As...
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Episode 11: Why Therapy is Keeping You Stuck
Send us Fan Mail There's undoubtedly a time and a place for therapy, used correctly, it's invaluable for healing and personal development. When it lacks direction, it's a modality that, in my opinion, does more harm than good. Have you been seeing your therapist for years? Are you seeing any…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
On the Lemons and Pineapples podcast, no-nonsense life coach & entrepreneur Emma O'Brien shares inspirational stories, tried & tested tools and amazing guest interviews to guide you on your self development journey.
Learn how to shift your mindset and change your life for the better with fun and entertaining weekly episodes that will help you live on the lighter side of life.
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Emma O'Brien
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On the Lemons and Pineapples podcast, no-nonsense life coach & entrepreneur Emma O'Brien shares inspirational stories, tried & tested tools and amazing guest interviews to guide you on your self development journey. Learn how to shift your mindset and change your life for the better with fun and...
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