We at Simply Happy are choosing happiness one episode at a time. Charlotte and Maddy are making one small change each week based on scientific research or anecdotal evidence claiming to improve your overall state of happiness and sharing their findings. Part self-help, part social experiment and a whole lot of heart. Tune in and join us each week in the pursuit of happiness!
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Simply Happy is your go-to for self empowered living. Learn about mental health, mindset, self love, emotional wellness, personal development, and taking control of your life. Even learn tips to overcome bipolar, anxiety, & depression! It's everything you need to know to embody freedom, confidence, ambition, and happiness.
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263: The Self-Empowered Path Theory
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AUTHOR READING // Bettering your mental health can feel like it comes with strict guidelines on how you have to approach it - you must consult a medical professional, therapy is the way, medication is a must - but what if you don’t want these roads or they don’t work for you? I’m reading you the birds eye view of what the self-empowered path looks …
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MOTIVATIONAL // Shame is a fierce beast to battle, especially when we try to bury it as deep as humanly possible within ourselves. Let’s sit down for a short while and unpack shame as a concept a little further and then shatter through the ceiling telling you that you have to keep holding it. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podca…
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261: A Trick To Seeing Your Strength
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BOOK REVIEW CHAT // We don’t always have to do inner work so directly. Support, guidance, and insight can come from the most unlikely places. Lately, I’ve been deep in the world of fantasy, and let me tell you, those characters hit me in the feels a lot harder than you might expect. Let’s talk about finding your strength without having to dig so ha…
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HOW TO // Leave it to me to be forced into a spontaneous example of practicing what I preach. Sometimes in life we find ourselves stuck in a situation and it’s up to us to play the brain game to help ourselves not feel so trapped by it. We’re not looking for perfection here, just some mental relief. —-------------------------------- Check out my ne…
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259: My Secret To Work/Life Balance
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PERSONAL // Work life balance boils down to a few simple things that I am in a consistent practice with. When it comes to now working a full time job, running my business, and having a happy and healthy home life - this is a topic close to my heart. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast - Tangents with Oli & Jess on Apple Podca…
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AUTHOR READING // Sharing about my move from non-fiction to fiction while still staying in the self-help genre and a reading of “The Moon’s Whisper” from my current anthology in the works to explore how there’s a place for learning through narrative and a place for learning through instruction. —-------------------------------- Check out my new pod…
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MOTIVATION // Whether you need me to give it to you or you want to give it to yourself - this episode is the permission slip for fun you’ve been waiting for. Not only that, but why making time for the fun in our lives is so valuable and even necessary to thriving in life. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast - Tangents with Ol…
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BOOK REVIEW CHAT // When we get hurt part of us can react and close ourselves in while also closing others out. Wild is the Witch by Rachel Griffin inspired me to talk about this topic and how fearing the hurt can shape us in ways that we may have never intended. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast - Tangents with Oli & Jess …
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255: One Simple Step To More Confidence
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HOW TO // There are plenty of tips and tricks for more confidence that can feel surface level at times. But there’s a psychology to why we might be lacking confidence and there’s one simple step that I think gets right to the heart of helping us feel more supported in whatever we’re needing confidence in. —-------------------------------- Check out…
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254 : Victimization That Hides In Plain Sight
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AUTHOR READING // When victimization is hiding in plain sight and slowly eating you alive…no thank you. I’ll be reading from Unboxed in this episode and chatting about the value in addressing what leaves us feeling victimized so that we can exercise courage in reclaiming that for ourselves. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast…
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MOTIVATION // We can break the bounds of how we’ve been told things “have to be done”. There is a reality where you can do life your way and find a sense of sustained happiness because of it. I’m here to be in your corner and encourage you to step outside the box. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast - Tangents with Oli & Jess…
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BOOK REVIEW CHAT // There are so many ways in which we get to know ourselves, but I’m going to share with you one of the ways that has helped me most. The Inner Sky by Steven Forrest was the starting point for me connecting all the contradictory dots that make up who I am. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast - Tangents with O…
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HOW TO // If fear is holding you back from pursuing the things you want to do in life then you have an issue with self-trust my friend. We could go deep on this topic, but in this episode we’ll simplify it into 3 steps that will lead to trusting yourself more. And THAT is better mental health, self-love, and more happiness for you right there. —---…
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Impatience can be one of our biggest sources of stress and can burn copious amounts of energy. So how do we cope? I want to share with you 3 methods you can utilize to ease you into a more patient way of living so that you can feel better and uplevel your mental health. —-------------------------------- Check out my new podcast - Tangents with Oli …
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249: Finding Peace In Ourselves Through Each Other
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AUTHOR READING // Reading an excerpt from my latest book Unboxed in the chapter unsubtly titled “White” we’ll explore a conversation about the value in allowing differences and how we can find peace in ourselves through each other. In the reading you’ll hear a little of my perspective and little story with my daughters that carries a big lesson. —-…
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MOTIVATION // Whether you’re used to independence, don’t want to feel like a burden, or don’t feel well-versed in asking for or accepting help - I hope to help broaden your perspective on how help is always at play in our realities. Open yourself up, find peace, and better support your mental health by trying on the notion that it is actually okay …
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247: Learning To Trust Where You’re At
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BOOK REVIEW CHAT // The Midnight Library by Matt Haig stirred my mind and emotions around what it would mean to make the “right” choices. It is such a visceral representation of how our mental health and sense of self-love can suffer when we aren’t in trust with where we’re at. I loved getting to explore a psychological conversation with an incredi…
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246: How To Nurse An Emotional Hangover
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HOW TO // If you’ve been there, then you probably know. The big feels, the exhaustion, the trying to recoup - it’s the emotional hangover. It’s okay to feel big AND it doesn’t have to be so challenging to come back from. Let’s get into the nitty gritty of how to nurse the experiences and come off of them in a way that feels better. —---------------…
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245: Gratitude In Tough Situations
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AUTHOR READING // After reading from the chapter Ground Breaking Gratitude from my book Back To Happy, we’ll chat about finding gratitude in tough situations and why I’m such an advocate. Gratitude doesn’t just have to be for the sun shining or the breath in our lungs, it can be for the little bits and pieces that help to pull us through the hard t…
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244: You Can Find Peace After Hardship
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MOTIVATION // We all experience our personal brand of hardship and sometimes it can feel like we can’t see a way through it. I’m here to encourage a bit of self-love and optimism with words of encouragement, why you can actually find peace after hardship, and how you might consider doing it. You’re not alone, and you can choose to move forward. —--…
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BOOK REVIEW CHAT // Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor changed my life in terms of breathing. Hearing someone tell me to “just breathe” used to enrage me. I’m sharing a recommendation and my thoughts with this book but also talking about breath and how we can utilize it in a way that works for us in a more general sense. Chronic …
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242: How To Slow Down In A Busy World
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HOW TO // What if you didn’t have to try to carve out chunks of time to slow down in a busy world? What if you could work it in right alongside the responsibilities, tasks, and bustle? Sometimes life demands a busy season of us and this episode is here to help you better navigate it and nourish yourself along the way. Just because life is busy does…
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I’d like to offer you a refreshed lens on how we experience life. Let’s take a closer look at our seasons (especially our “off” seasons) and what they have to offer us; as well as what we have to offer them. For those of you with seasonal depression, you might find this to be a helpful one. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Building seasonal…
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240: Navigating The Fear Of Change
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Change is enough to navigate on its own, but when we add fear in and have to navigate that too it can feel like a lot. For the sake of our mental health and being able to enjoy the inevitable changes life has to offer, let’s unpack what the fear of change is all about. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Addressing root fears. Finding faith in…
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Art comes in many different forms and can be an incredibly enlightening and revealing tool to utilize for ourselves. In this episode I’ll read an excerpt from my book Unboxed and the chapter Artist, and we’ll dive deeper into how you can seize the opportunity of using art as therapy. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: A reading from Unboxed. …
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238: Handling Anxiety From Feeling Calm Instead Of Stressed
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It’s a weird thought that you could have anxiety be triggered from a state of calmness, but it’s an incredibly real thing. If you’ve ever waited for the other shoe to drop or just can’t seem to keep yourself hanging out in a state of calm this episode might be a big help for you. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Why our brain might revert t…
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237: Grasping The Power Of Patience
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In this more personal episode I’m sharing my journey with the universe forcing me to learn the power of patience. Let me tell you, it’s been a wonder for my mental health, spiritual growth, and tapping into my brand of magic. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: The lesson I didn’t get during the pandemic. Finding peace. Blending the fast and t…
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A short and sweet motivational episode where I’m encouraging you that you can in fact make whatever you’re facing right now feel easier. Let’s pump up the encouragement, get creative, and help you feel relieved from whatever you’re going through. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Some loving mantras. Getting honest. Forgetting the old progra…
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235: How To Cultivate/Teach Empathy
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Empathy can feel like a loaded word and a skill that people seem to have in full or not at all. In my own unique way I’m taking you through how I cultivate empathy within myself and teach it to my kids and others. Take it or leave it - this episode may help you see empathy in a new light. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Unpacking what empa…
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234: The Secret To Peaceful Surrendered Living
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When I read about “surrendering” I always got tripped up on the how. How do you do it? What’s the key besides just “letting go”? I’ve finally figured this out in a way that helps me make more sense of the art of peaceful and surrendered living and my hope is that this explanation will help you too. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Defining …
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233: “Zoning Out” And How It Helps Us
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In this episode I’m sharing a different take on “zoning out” - what it is, why we do it, and how it’s actually benefiting us and our mental health. So if you’ve ever dealt with stress, overwhelm, depression, anxiety, etc. and people have told you to stop doing this - I’m here to tell you the opposite. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Sharin…
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232: Finding Your Truth & Seeing The Paradox
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Buckle up, because we’re getting super nerdy on this episode of Simply Happy. Going down definition rabbit holes, quantum physics, and the weight of perception. We’re here to help you find YOUR truth because the alternatives are two extremes that create severe limitations in life. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: An honest look at the word …
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We all have a vision of what our dream life looks like. Are we living it? Or are we still waiting for it to arrive? Let’s talk about how you can be living your dream life right now and get to the heart of what that actually looks like. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Grasping our unique dream life. Adopting a key understanding about our re…
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230: Tapping Into The Subconscious/Conscious Cycle
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If you’ve ever felt in the trap of being at the mercy of your bodies automatic thoughts or actions, this is the way to step in. We’ll unpack the subcoscious/conscious cycle - what it means, how it works, and the ways in which you can tap into it to make potent change in your life. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Our subconscious superpower…
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229: Cultivating A Peace Practice For Happiness
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At happinesses center we can find a tone of peace, contentment, and acceptance. The last few months for me have highlighted the importance of a peace practice; and not the superficial kind that many of us tend to get wrapped up in. For better mental health, happiness, and wellness let’s explore the value of making peace a priority in our lives and …
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A short and sweet motivational episode to give you that dose of what you’ve been needing to hear. Sometimes our grip is so tight on things that it’s draining, damaging, and a heavy burden to bear. I’m here to tell you that no matter what it is, you CAN let it go. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Letting go is for you alone. What you gain wh…
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227: Navigating Changing Routines and Role Shifts
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An amazing episode suggestion from one of our Patreon members! Making it through either of these changes can take a long time and feel oddly challenging or can happen quickly and smoothly. That’s our aim in this episode, exploring techniques that will help you navigate the transition gap. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Where to hold aware…
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226: Why Does Self-Improvement Really Matter?
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Sure, self-improvement is valuable for the obvious reasons and has even become a bit of a fad over the years (I’m not complaining). But it also has a value that runs much deeper than the benefit of ourselves. Let’s get to the big picture reason self-improvement really matters. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Collective shifts through embod…
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225: A Compass For Your Mental Health Skills
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Go to my sponsor https://trykeen.com/simplyoli to get a 10 minute reading for just $1.99 - that’s up to $99 in savings! For years I have been teaching different perspectives, techniques, skills, and tools to better your mental health, live in alignment, be happier, have more self-love, and so much more. Often, we rely on ourselves to be the guide f…
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As the fifth episode for this month, I’m sharing a personal chat about what’s been going on in my life and what I’ve been exploring. Although nothing too wild has been happening, it’s opened me up to the subtleties of finding my way with things and figuring out the nuances of day to day life. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Navigating fati…
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This is one of those short and sweet motivational episodes to help remind you of what you already know within yourself. I’m always here to help and lend my guidance, but in the end YOU know yourself best. It’s time to lean into trusting that. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: Recognizing the doubts aren’t yours. The power of action. Tuning i…
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Far too many of us have had to go through the process of recovering from burnout. This might even be where you’re finding yourself on the cusp of being right now. In this episode I have some suggestions for making helpful shifts in easy ways, and some major pitfalls to keep an eye out for. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: My experience with…
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221: Our Chaotic Love Story - Navigating Imperfection
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I’ve talked about “one day” sharing the story of how the relationship with my husband began. In this episode I’ll finally be sharing that story by reading it from my latest book Unboxed. It was a beautiful but chaotic beginning where the core has still rang true nearly a decade later - if we can make it through this, we can make it through anything…
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220: Boundaries For Empathetic People
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If you identify with being heavily empathetic, then you know it can be a gift and a source of overwhelm. That level of sensitivity can be incredibly helpful but feels even better for us when we can have healthy boundaries in place to keep it from being such a drain on our systems. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into: A gift that needs protectio…
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One of those fun motivational episodes to pump up your belief and free yourself from any degrading thoughts that are keeping you in a heighten state of stress. A permission slip (not that you need one) to lean into the truth that - you are doing enough. An episode packed with love, insight, and encouragement. In today’s episode, we dive deeper into…
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218: Questioning Emotions To Improve Mental Health
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In this episode I’ll walk you through a practical tool to ease stress, shift your mindset, and assess whether the emotion rising up is actually benefiting you. Putting this into practice is a powerful way to help improve your mental health and exist more mindfully. A perfect aid for those having to live through the riptide of overwhelming emotions.…
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217: Your Struggles Are Your Advantage
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In a reading from my newest book Unboxed - I share about one of my biggest fears entering motherhood and how one kind-hearted sentence from my husband changed everything. A belief ushered in so fiercely that I want to share it with you. This episode is to offer encouragement that we can in fact transform our struggles into our advantages through ou…
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216: Getting Comfortable With Stability
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For those of us that have lived through trauma, mental health struggles, and chaotic upbringings; stability can seem like a far-fetched dream. Even viewing ourselves as “stable” can become a feat. But it’s worth exploring the perspective that it is something we could work towards becoming comfortable with. In this episode we’ll go on that journey. …
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A personal episode where I share a bit about what I’ve been navigating in my own life, mindset, and mental health. Lately it’s been fighting against a much deeper rooted story of feeling like the victim. Join me for a more casual free flow chat and an inside look into my thought processes and techniques for acceptance and change. In today’s episode…
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This is one of those short and sweet motivational episodes that’s here to remind you that you’re allowed to own your “crazy”. Whatever it is that people think is too much, unusual, crazy, out of the norm, dare I even say unacceptable - you are allowed to celebrate it. If it’s fulfilling, brings you joy, centers you into your most authentic self-exp…
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