“Our emotion tends to get blocked up without us being aware of it”

— Kyle Davies

Need a new perspective and understanding of stress and emotions? Kyle Davies, a psychologist, coach and author specialising in chronic health challenges delivers this and more. We explore the role of emotion on health and wellbeing and do a deep dive on why change is needed from the inside out. Kyle’s message is one of empowerment and taking responsibility to create awareness of the integrated nature of the mind and body.

Inspire yourself with these essential insights from Kyle

We spoke about

Kyle’s own journey with anxiety and depression
The dramatic increase in chronic health challenges
Defining stress and emotion in a new way
Impact of “invisible” stress on the mind and body
The role of emotion on health and wellbeing
Change is needed from the inside out
Feelings don’t need to be solved
Kyle’s book ‘The Intelligent Body’

Value Quotes

“If a person goes through a transformation, during the period they are transforming there is a period of chaos. Which is a sort of breaking down of the old and a building up of the new”

“Medicine fails to take in the wider environment and looks at mind and body as being separate and it looks at the body in separate bits and your body is looked at as a machine”

“If we try to manage symptoms the body will tend to either perpetuate those symptoms and amplify those symptoms or send a different set of symptoms”

“Our emotion tends to get blocked up without us being aware of it”

“Our bodies and our mind are a self-correcting and self-healing system”

“When the body is in a perpetual state of stress there’s a battle going on internally to try to reset to our default setting”

“My body is the vehicle through which I experience life… my body lets me know through the symptom of pain…to get our attention”

“The flow of intelligence happens throughout the body… brain, heart and gut”

“We live in a culture where I think we are increasingly disempowered which is just not useful for us”

“When we grow up we tend to deviate from our true self in order to fit in, to get by, to be liked, to do the right thing all because of trauma”

“Taking time to listen to the gentle nudges of your true self that show up as symptoms in the body”

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Until next time fabulous podcast listener, I’m Bev and I invite you to live the fab life with me now!