Your Health is Freedom with Satram Blair

It's time to reunite and enjoy the food, ambience and atmosphere. A display of emotions is expected and appropriate. It’s crucial to reflect, release and respect not only on the good times but having hard discussions to unravel what caused the rift, tension, disintegration, hurt, anger, disillusionment, betrayal, hypocrisy and lies. Struggling with unresolved feelings during Christmas, we get the sensation that we’ve been plagued by a series of events and adversities. These setbacks result in enormous, unprecedented destruction, frozen cold feeling like thunder. We see a dark, loveless cave with no light, no hope anywhere and not even the faintest crack. Hurt people, hurt people. It’s a vicious circle and it can be broken. It’s difficult to facilitate positive change in the family system where unresolved feelings remain. It is important to exhibits a variety of truths while exploring behavioural patterns and family dynamics. Understanding patterns that seed the problems of roles within the family, interactions, communication and language used to discuss the problems when allowing the family to challenge perceptions of events. The behaviour may be in response to the unconscious anxiety about family breakdown, conflict and indifferences Family Dynamics Influences: Personalities of family members Parental relationship Events such as divorce, trauma, grief, unemployment, homeless and more Family values, culture, ethnicity, hierarchy, power, status, Family violence, abuse, alcohol, drug use, mental health difficulties, disabilities and illness What to do: Seek professional advice (therapist, social worker and physicians) Effective communication, sharing and supporting each other in decision making Reflect healthily, Release positively and Respect our differences Marching Ahead The courage to rise above the suppressed, repressed emotions and feelings is remarkable Guest on this episode: Thenjiwe Mamane

Have you ever felt helpless, trapped, hopeless, resentful, detached, disillusioned, cynical, withdrawal from responsibilities, procrastinating with a negative outlook and completely exhausted? You may be on the road to Burnout. It's a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Burnout tangles and weaves into every area of life including your work, home and social life. These feelings cause body reactions leaving you vulnerable to illness. Signs and symptoms are subtle at first and worsen when not addressed. Our guest Kathy Mann, author of two books on Avoiding Burnout "The Seven Principles of Self Preservation" and Harnessing Stress "Blending The Wisdom of Everyday People with Expert Advice", takes us through her journey on burnout self-discovery. She endured a great loss of pain, discomfort, self-identity and time passing her by before coming out of the fog. Today her best life is characterised by joy, vibrancy and optimism. She unpacks how the Burnout experience was a catalyst to fix her life. Kathy changed her lifestyle and could not return to the environment that broke her. She followed her passion and connected with the things that brought her flow. Her tools will help you find your flow.

Everything is energy. When we grasp this on the deepest level we begin to use vibrations to heal and avoid the vibrations that cause discomfort and agony.