What You Resist Persists

You're Angry at You!

Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening.  Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are either unaware of their obligations or aware but left with no clear pathway to meet them. Many are DIYing it on their own time, which creates its own risks. Mid-level managers in particular are being handed responsibility without the agency, resources, or support to actually deliver it, and Tasha's research found they are burning out as a result.  Tasha and Tam cover what a genuine systems approach looks like versus a tick-box one, who should actually own psychosocial safety within an organisation, how to facilitate real cross-level dialogue, the silence problem around vulnerable workers, and some practical things leaders can do right now without waiting for organisational change.  Honest, rigorous, and genuinely important for anyone who manages people or influences how workplaces are designed.  In this episode:  * What Tasha's PhD research set out to find and what it revealed  * Why leaders are DIYing psychosocial safety and why that's a problem  * Who should own this, and why handing it to safety or HR alone doesn't work  * Building a cross-functional reference group that actually functions  * The mid-level manager squeeze: responsibility without authority  * Why vulnerable workers often can't report, and what organisations miss because of it  * NDAs, exit processes, and the ethical concerns Tasha raises  * Practical steps: the 10-minute check-in, device habits, and consultation pathway  https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C8EfBw7yP/ [https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C8EfBw7yP/]   https://www.instagram.com/upspiral.life?igsh=MjN6eHZkY3Y1Z3po [https://www.instagram.com/upspiral.life?igsh=MjN6eHZkY3Y1Z3po]   'Drink the Poison' Quote Info -    https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/holding-onto-anger-is-like-drinking-poison/ [https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/holding-onto-anger-is-like-drinking-poison/]   Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast [https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast]  Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan  Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio [https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio]  Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.  ———————  Chapters  0:00 Intro & Guest Introduction  0:35 Episode Purpose & Webinar Reflections  2:31 PhD Research Focus: Psychosocial Safety  4:24 Study Method & Key Findings Overview  5:41 Leaders' Uncertainty and DIY Responses  7:28 Theories Used: Systems Thinking & SDT  9:53 Who Owns Psychosocial Safety?  11:07 Building a Cross-Functional Reference Group  13:30 Facilitating Safe Cross-Level Dialogue (example)  22:06 Mid-Level Managers: Burden, Burnout & Boundaries  28:24 Psychosocial Silence: Reporting & Vulnerable Workers  33:54 NDAs, Exit Processes & Ethical Concerns  39:19 Regulatory Duty, SDT & Simple Leadership Tips  40:48 Practical Moves: 10-Minute Check-Ins & Device Habits  45:59 Team-Level Ownership & Consultation Pathways  58:48 Closing: Make Work Better — Vision & Next Steps  ———————  #PsychosocialSafety #TashaBroomhall #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #WorkplaceWellbeing #Leadership #MidLevelManagers #WorkplaceCulture #HRPodcast #PsychologicalSafety #WorkHealthAndSafety #SystemsThinking #ManagerBurnout #PodcastAustralia #MakeWorkBetter

Tasha Broomhall - Psychosocial Safety at Work: From Simple to Systems-Based Solutions

T Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds returns to share the findings from her PhD research into how workers and leaders are experiencing Australia's psychosocial safety regulations, and the results are eye-opening.  Leaders across organisations, including very senior ones in large companies, are either unaware of their obligations or aware but left with no clear pathway to meet them. Many are DIYing it on their own time, which creates its own risks. Mid-level managers in particular are being handed responsibility without the agency, resources, or support to actually deliver it, and Tasha's research found they are burning out as a result.  Tasha and Tam cover what a genuine systems approach looks like versus a tick-box one, who should actually own psychosocial safety within an organisation, how to facilitate real cross-level dialogue, the silence problem around vulnerable workers, and some practical things leaders can do right now without waiting for organisational change.  Honest, rigorous, and genuinely important for anyone who manages people or influences how workplaces are designed.  In this episode:  * What Tasha's PhD research set out to find and what it revealed  * Why leaders are DIYing psychosocial safety and why that's a problem  * Who should own this, and why handing it to safety or HR alone doesn't work  * Building a cross-functional reference group that actually functions  * The mid-level manager squeeze: responsibility without authority  * Why vulnerable workers often can't report, and what organisations miss because of it  * NDAs, exit processes, and the ethical concerns Tasha raises  * Practical steps: the 10-minute check-in, device habits, and consultation pathway  Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast [https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast]  Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan  Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio [https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio]  Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.  ———————  Chapters  0:00 Intro & Guest Introduction  0:35 Episode Purpose & Webinar Reflections  2:31 PhD Research Focus: Psychosocial Safety  4:24 Study Method & Key Findings Overview  5:41 Leaders' Uncertainty and DIY Responses  7:28 Theories Used: Systems Thinking & SDT  9:53 Who Owns Psychosocial Safety?  11:07 Building a Cross-Functional Reference Group  13:30 Facilitating Safe Cross-Level Dialogue (example)  22:06 Mid-Level Managers: Burden, Burnout & Boundaries  28:24 Psychosocial Silence: Reporting & Vulnerable Workers  33:54 NDAs, Exit Processes & Ethical Concerns  39:19 Regulatory Duty, SDT & Simple Leadership Tips  40:48 Practical Moves: 10-Minute Check-Ins & Device Habits  45:59 Team-Level Ownership & Consultation Pathways  58:48 Closing: Make Work Better — Vision & Next Steps  ———————  #PsychosocialSafety #TashaBroomhall #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #WorkplaceWellbeing #Leadership #MidLevelManagers #WorkplaceCulture #HRPodcast #PsychologicalSafety #WorkHealthAndSafety #SystemsThinking #ManagerBurnout #PodcastAustralia #MakeWorkBetter

All of you is welcome - How Acceptance Ends Inner Battles

What if the parts of yourself you most want to get rid of are actually trying to help you? In this episode, Tam Callaghan explores parts therapy and why resisting any part of yourself, whether it's striving, jealousy, impatience, or anxiety, makes it louder, not quieter.  Drawing on her own experience with her striving part, and a conversation with a friend battling impatience, Tam makes a case for welcoming all parts of yourself rather than fighting them. It's the same principle as the previous episode on emotions, applied to the deeper, more persistent forces that drive how we behave.  She shares the experts and resources that have helped her most, and sets herself some homework alongside you.  A good companion episode to What You Resist Persists, but works as a standalone too.  Kim Holland - https://trulybe.au/ [https://trulybe.au/] Usha Raman - https://usharaman.com.au/ [https://usharaman.com.au/] Lachie Samuel - https://www.lachiesamuel.com/ [https://www.lachiesamuel.com/]   Peter Crone - https://www.petercrone.com/ [https://www.petercrone.com/]   Mike Fields - https://jmikefields.com/ [https://jmikefields.com/]   What is "Parts" Therapy? - https://integrativepsych.co/new-blog/what-is-parts-work-therapy-ifs#:~:text=Parts%20work%20is%20a%20type%20of%20therapy,versions%20of%20managers%20that%20act%20more%20impulsively [https://integrativepsych.co/new-blog/what-is-parts-work-therapy-ifs#:~:text=Parts%20work%20is%20a%20type%20of%20therapy,versions%20of%20managers%20that%20act%20more%20impulsively]   In this episode:  * What parts therapy is and how it differs from working with emotions  * Why rejecting a part of yourself just makes it fight harder  * Tam's striving part and what it was actually trying to do  * The jealousy example and why she couldn't be with it  * Reframing impatience as a strength, not a flaw  * Recommended experts including Usha Rahman, Peter Crone, Lockie Samuel and J Mike Fields  * Homework: practice arriving as you are     Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast [https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast]  Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan  Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio [https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio]  Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.   #AllOfYouIsWelcome #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #PartsTherapy #InternalFamilySystems #IFS #SelfCompassion #PersonalGrowth #Striving #PeoplePleasing #Impatience #SelfAcceptance #Mindset #PodcastAustralia #MentalWellness

Stephan Bodian - Infinite Awakening: The Pathless Path to Presence and Love

Tam Callaghan sits down with author, meditation teacher and former Zen monk Stephan Bodian to talk about his new book Infinite Awakening, a guide to non-dual wisdom for people walking what he calls the pathless path, those who have found their way to awakening outside of monasteries, ashrams, or formal traditions. Stephen has spent decades as a psychotherapist and teacher at his School of Awakening, and this conversation draws on all of it. They cover why spiritual bypassing is so common and so hard to spot, the difference between awakening light and the real work, and what it actually means to rest and allow rather than push and achieve. Tam shares how Stephen's welcoming emotions meditation and the four Rs (remember, recognise, return, rest) have already changed her daily experience, and Stephen walks through his 'is anything missing?' inquiry live in the conversation. One of the most grounded and genuinely useful conversations on meditation and awareness you'll find anywhere. In this episode: * How Infinite Awakening came to be and who it's for * The pathless path and why it's valid without a monastery behind it * What spiritual bypassing actually looks like in practice * Why awakened people can still be angry, and what that really means * The four Rs and how to use them throughout the day * The 'is anything missing?' meditation, explained and experienced * How to share this kind of practice without coming across as an evangelist * What the School of Awakening offers and how it works   Infinite Awakening by Stephen Bodian:-https://infinite-awakening.org/ [https://infinite-awakening.org/] His series on Waking Up - https://dynamic.wakingup.com/pack/PDC04C?source=content%20share&share_id=1DEF4C54&code=SCF32EE09 [https://dynamic.wakingup.com/pack/PDC04C?source=content%20share&share_id=1DEF4C54&code=SCF32EE09]   His discussions with  Sam - https://dynamic.wakingup.com/pack/PKB5F28?source=content%20share&share_id=9D7E18CC&code=SCF32EE09 [https://dynamic.wakingup.com/pack/PKB5F28?source=content%20share&share_id=9D7E18CC&code=SCF32EE09]   His interview with Sam Harris - This track called The Direct Path got me thinking. I thought you might like it, too. https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/C4407A?source=content%20share&share_id=AB3D2ABD&code=SCF32EE09 [https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/C4407A?source=content%20share&share_id=AB3D2ABD&code=SCF32EE09]   Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast [https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast] Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio [https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio] Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast. #StephenBodian #InfiniteAwakening #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #NonDual #Meditation #Awakening #SpiritualBypassing #MindfulnessPodcast #PathlessPath #SchoolOfAwakening #WakingUp #Consciousness #PersonalGrowth #PodcastAustralia

What You Resist Persists

What you resist persists. It's one of those lines that's easy to nod at and genuinely hard to live. In this episode, Tam Callaghan gets into why avoiding painful emotions doesn't make them go away, and what it actually looks like to stop fighting what's there.  Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, her own experience with 4 a.m. fear spirals before training sessions, the work of Eckhart Tolle, and Rumi's Guesthouse poem, Tam walks through what shifted for her and how you can start applying the same ideas without having to overhaul your whole inner world overnight.  She also shares the practical resources that have made the biggest difference, including Stephen Bodian's Welcoming Emotions meditation and a free month with the Waking Up app.  Honest, personal, and genuinely useful.  This track called Welcoming Emotions got me thinking. I thought you might like it, too. https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/C0C545?source=content%20share&share_id=E9A776F8&code=SCF32EE09 [https://dynamic.wakingup.com/course/C0C545?source=content%20share&share_id=E9A776F8&code=SCF32EE09]   I've been using Waking Up and really enjoying it. I wanted to offer you 30 days free! No credit card required. https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SCF32EE09 [https://dynamic.wakingup.com/guestpass/SCF32EE09]   Rumi Guest House https://grateful.org/resource/guest-house-rumi/ [https://grateful.org/resource/guest-house-rumi/]   In this episode:  * Why trying to push painful feelings away makes them worse  * The downward spiral of self-critique and how to get off it  * ACT and what acceptance actually means in practice  * The 4 a.m. breakthrough that changed things for Tam  * Eckhart Tolle's 'accept, then act' and why it works  * Rumi's Guesthouse poem as a way of living     Do Yourself a Favour is available on YouTube: https://linktr.ee/5050_podcast  Join the conversation! Do Yourself a Favour is on Facebook  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tamaracallaghan  Do Yourself a Favour is recorded at Tailwind Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tailwind-studio  Formerly known as the 50/50 Podcast.    #WhatYouResistPersists #TamCallaghan #DoYourselfAFavour #AcceptanceAndCommitmentTherapy #ACT #EckhartTolle #Rumi #MindsetShift #EmotionalHealth #Meditation #AnxietyTips #SelfCompassion #PersonalGrowth #WakingUp #PodcastAustralia