The Happy Man Podcast - For the man who has everything BUT happiness

Christina gives advice on how we can become the best and happiest version of ourselves. This is her most spiritual episode to date. She talks about the role of self-love on our emotional journey and she highlights the differences between wounded masculines and healed masculines, from her experiences. As usual, she has 3 nuggets to help you heal, grow and bloom into the man you were always meant to be. The happy, healed version.

Christina discusses why self-care is not just a manicure or a day at the spa for the ladies. And neither is it just going to the gym occasionally and having a few early nights. She talks about why we feel selfish or guilty when we care for ourselves, and how we can overcome that. Resting and recharging need to be a natural part of life, so she has 12 tips on how to set yourself up for success and improve your overall self-care game.

Christina changes things up a bit in this episode. She introduces Jack, a typical client, who although very wealthy is extremely lonely. She talks about Jack's childhood, career, health, wealth and family life. Then goes into detail about how she would support him in overcoming his loneliness and finally achieving peace of mind.

Christina talks about how we can escape the emotional prison we put ourselves in when we worry too much about what others think. She gives tips on how to be brave enough to remove the masks we all wear, in order to live a fulfilling life as our real selves. She has nuggets about creating your ideal life, writing a personal manifesto and taking on the qualities that we admire in others.

Christina discusses the difference between IQ and EQ and why EQ is so much more important for our emotinal wellbeing. She has lots of examples of low EQ, which need to be avoided and lots of examples of high EQ which should be embraced. Unlike IQ which is fairly fixed, EQ is very malleable and can be changed. As usual she has lots of tips and practical exercises to help you improve in this area.

Christina discusses cherophobia - the fear of being happy. This is a surprisingly common fear. She talks about when happiness feels unfamiliar, or wrong and why future happiness can feel dangerous. She also explains her formual for happiness. She has 3 exercises that will help us start to overcome the fear, look for pockets of joy and train our brain to be more postive.

Christina discusses what overthinking is, why we do it, and how dangerous it can be, particularly for men. She also gives an explanation of what intuition is, and and why we should be using it more. Plus, find out why we actually have 3 "brains". As usual there are hints, tips and exercises to help you assimilate the topic.

Christina talks about loss and grief in this episode. She discusses grieving when the loss is a person and also grieving when the loss is something other than a person, such as a job, friendship or promotion.  She suggests lots of ways to ease grief, to support others who are grieving, and to generally let go of negative emotions that are trapped inside.

Christina talks about why she became a Divorce Coach and what it taught her about healing a broken heart. She provides do's and don'ts on how to deal with a break up and how to maximise your chances of making a new relationship work. As usual, she has 3 more tools, or golden nuggets to help you on your happiness/healing journey.  

Christina discusses how we all have narratives. Stories that we constantly tell ourselves about who we are and what we deserve. Our stories are given to us when we are children, so they have a deep and lasting effect on us unless we do something to consciously change them. Changing the meaning we give to our story can change our whole lives. She also talks about HSPs - highly sensitive people, and how they are more deeply affected by their negative stories. But also, what they can do about it. As usual she has 3 more gold nuggets - tools, tips, or exercises designed to help you to start to make a change.

An introduction to series 2. For men who are stressed, depressed, or just not at their best. Christina discusses the benefits of therapy for men and why so many men are currently therapy averse. Is it time you started looking after yourself as well as you look after everything else in your life?

Christina talks about the importance of facing up to our inner demons, if we're ever to be truly happy. In this episode she covers what inner demons are and what we can do about them. She explains that we don't have to be stuck with them forever.  She gives tools for how to heal and move past them to a life of emotional freedom.

Christina talks about the link between finding our purpose in life and our overall happiness. She discusses our 4 main zones - incompetence, competence, excellence and genius. Why getting stuck in our zone of excellence is so dangerous and how we can encourage our genius to emerge. She has a list of questions to help you find your unique purpose and 4 further golden nuggets on the topic.

Christina talks about why so many men are the walking dead - not dead, but not really alive either, and why we need to clear a mental space to reconnect with our soul. She also discusses lots of different activities that will help us to reconnect with our most real selves. It's when we are connected in this way we are at our absolute happiest. As usual, she has 3 more tools or nuggets - Become great at letting go, find some fuel for your soul and givers are getters.

Christina talks about the prevalence and impact of chronic loneliness. Prolonged isolation is more toxic to our long-term health than cigarettes or obesity. She discusses how family is whoever we want it to be. How important our energy is when it comes to connection and how to make friends as an adult. As usual she has 3 golden nuggets that relate to the topic.

Christina talks about why so many of us get love wrong and what we can do to change it. She discusses limiting beliefs and fears around love, and the importance of being our real selves if we want to experience real love. As usual, she has 3 golden nuggets. How to uncover your real self, what to do to deepen an existing relationship, and how to get yourself better prepared for love if you're single and looking.

Christina talks about why it's so important to allow ourselves to cry when we're feeling psychological pain.  How not to have regrets on ours or our loved ones deathbeds, and also what vulnerability actually is. She also shares a possible link between the fear of vulnerability and depression. She has 3 tools that teach us how to be more vulnerable, to reach out to someone special and to name and tame our emotions.

Christina talks about why we have anger, how it manifests itself in our lives, and most importantly what we can do about it. She discusses domestic violence against men. And provides an investigation tool, a mantra for coping with strong emotions and 12 anger management tips.

Christina talks about what stress actually is, why it's so prevalent in our busy, modern lives and how we can maximise our happy hormones to help combat it. She introduces us to her stress scale, and shares tapping and 12 other different stress-busting activities.

Christina talks about what emotions are, how we can gauge our emotionality, why we often deal with our emotions in unhealthy ways, and the secret to true love! She also provides 3 tools to help you learn to process your emotions rather than suppressing them.

Christina talks about how important it is to get the balance right when it comes to our ego. Too little and we never truly believe in ourselves, too much, and we sabotage our connections and close relationships, along with our happiness. She explains what an emotional trigger is, and how we can stop them from happening. She also delves into our shadow side, where our demons live. Integrating all parts of ourselves, even the parts we feel shame about, is the key to feeling whole and complete.  

Christina talks about the impact of a difficult childhood on our happiness levels. She discusses Adverse Childhood Experiences and what we can do to heal them. How our childhood coping mechanisms are now causing adult difficulties. And the process of healing our wounded inner child. In the episode she refers to the following blogs: -  Are you a Golden Sheep? and Love in the Lakes and a Very Important Quiz

Christina talks about why so many financially successful men are walking wounded. How trauma could be the greatest threat to the 21st century. And why it's so important to heal our past if we're to be happy. She offers 3 tools that we can all use to begin to heal some of our emotional pain.

An introductory episode - for men who are stressed, depressed or just not at their best. Christina talks about why men, particularly successful middle-aged men, struggle to find lasting happiness and why she wants to help them. She also stresses the importance of why we all need to look after our emotional and spiritual health, not just our physical and mental health, if we're to be truly happy.