Emotions Matter. Really!
Chantal Dawtrey and Matthew Green, founders of 5th Place, explore everything about emotions, feelings, and what it is to become and remain mentally healthy and emotionally fit.
Emotions Matter. Really!
Why do emotions matter? We are Chantal Dawtrey and Matthew Green, founders of 5th Place, where our mission is to make the world a better place by enabling the “how”. In this podcast we explore everything about emotions, feelings, and what it is to become and remain emotionally fit.
We believe that, although our emotions have been made the underdog to our analytical, rational minds, our emotions underpin everything we do and are. Emotions do matter. Emotions separate and connect us, they drive our behaviour and decision making, they allow us to thrive or barely survive.
We want to bring people back to the intelligence of their bodies, to connect to their feelings and, working with the information they offer, take steps to build their emotional fitness and make the world a better place. We want to change the narrative about mental health and emotional wellbeing. By advocating for increased awareness and understanding, we are determined to blow the lid off the taboo, misunderstanding and downright incorrect information about what makes us truly human.
Together we have combined decades of personal journeying, studying, working, research and guidance into our approach and process that we will share with you.
We interrogate the taboo around expressing and talking about emotions and feelings. We talk about all those things we want less of like stress, anxiety and burnout and the things we want more of, like sleep, calm, and self care.
We explore tools, tips and techniques for managing your emotions, including “Shape of Emotion”, the pioneering mind/body model, process and tool that we developed to regulate how you feel. We will examine what it means to be emotionally fit and why this equals a better quality of life.
We also cover stories from society through meaningful conversations with a wide range of people from all walks of life, about their work, their emotional challenges and their strategies to cope. We explore books, movies, stories, research and experiences that tap into what our emotions do for us, and how they could support us better rather than trip us up. And we also have a bit of fun.
Episodes
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
38 min
Here at 5th Place we do love poetry and being creative. In this podcast Chantal and Matthew look at what poets themselves have said about poetry, how poetry and poems can support emotional fitness, creativity and the concept of flow. They discuss how poetry has impacted them as people and they share a few of their favourite poems.
Links of interest
Book: Poetry Rx: How Fifty Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy to Your Life
Episode links
To experience an Emotional Fitness Class: https://5th.place/5th-place-offerings/emotional-fitness-class/emotional-fitness-class-on-insight-timer/
To stay connected with Matthew & Chantal join the 5th Place mailing list. Go to: https://5th.place/ to do so.
Apr 12, 2022
Apr 12, 2022
39hr
World Health Day was last week. The theme for 2022 is Our World, Our Health. We are all part of the environment, nature is key to our emotional wellbeing. In this episode Chantal and Matthew explore why looking after our planet is key to our emotional health. They look at how climate change and environmental concerns are fueling our mental health concerns and share what small things can be done to make ourselves feel better about this apparently huge and overwhelming problem that faces humanity.
Links of interest
"The Parting of the Plastic Sea" - An installation made from 168,000 used plastic straws.
What is an eco-brick?
Want to try worm composting or bokashi?
4-Tray Worm Compost Kit
Countertop Compost Bin with Lid
Bokashi starter kit with bucket and bran
Replacement bokashi bran for food waste disposal
Episode links
To experience Shape of Emotion or to let go of your eco-anxiety feelings, find out more about an Emotional Fitness Class, what it is and when the next one is being held.
We also invite you to stay to stay connected with us, Matthew & Chantal from 5th Place.
Apr 5, 2022
Apr 5, 2022
29 min
April is International Stress Awareness Month. We are all so stressed out but do we actually register that fact or has this thing called stress become such a part of who we are we don’t even notice it any more? Chantal and Matthew explore just what stress actually is, how it affects us and some strategies to attend to our stress, especially if we have perfectionist, over-achieving, superwoman, rescuer or boundary challenges.
The episode is once again closed out with the reciting of a poem by Chantal.
Episode links
For more ways to manage your stress try out our mini audio-course called How to Master your Emotions and develop your emotional fitness.
To let go of anything stressing you out, find out more about an Emotional Fitness Class, what it is and when the next one is being held.
And we invite you to stay to stay connected with Matthew & Chantal from 5th Place.
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022
28 min
Although we all have a body, we tend to either take it for granted, see it as a vehicle for our superior brains or denigrate it as not being up to some societal or self imposed standard.
In this episode Chantal and Matthew explore why bodyfulness and coming back and reconnecting to the intelligence of your body is so necessary to feel better, live better and make the world a better place.
Find out more about how to experience an Emotional Fitness Class, what it is and when the next one is being held.
To stay connected with Matthew & Chantal from 5th Place, visit their website.
If you want to learn How to Master your Emotions and develop your emotional fitness, take our mini audio-course. It comprises 10 modules where you will learn about the science of how emotions are made, the importance of being able to regulate how you feel and a way to work with emotions that is both easy to learn and easy to use called Shape of Emotion.
References
This podcast episode references the following research papers(s) and or books(s).
Books about coming back to your body
Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life by Christine Caldwell
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace Pert
Seven And A Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
30 min
In this episode of Emotions Matter. Really! we are going to look at what we mean by the acronym BAN, and what it has to do with emotions. We explore the multitude of ways we BAN as well as some of the more resourceful ways we deal with the way we feel.
If you want to learn How to Master your Emotions and develop your emotional fitness, take our mini audio-course. It comprises 10 modules where you will learn about the science of how emotions are made, the importance of being able to regulate how you feel and a way to work with emotions that is both easy to learn and easy to use called Shape of Emotion.
Find out more about how to experience an Emotional Fitness Class, what it is and when the next one is being held.
To stay connected with Matthew & Chantal from 5th Place, visit our website.
Mar 15, 2022
Mar 15, 2022
24 min
It’s International Sleep Awareness Week and Chantal and Matthew explore sleep, why it has been treated so badly, how it affects us when we don’t get enough, what it takes to get back on the good sleep track and how to sleep better at night naturally.
To stay connected with what we do at 5th Place, join our mailing list called The Week That Was.
To experience a free, self-paced Emotional Fitness Class or to find out more, visit our dedicated Emotional Fitness Class webpage that explains what they are about and how you can join the next one.
References
This podcast episode references the following research papers(s) and or books(s).
Book: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Mar 8, 2022
Mar 8, 2022
16 min
In a world where we have been convinced that being emotional is a bad thing and expressing how we feel is viewed as mostly a minefield of messiness and not done, do emotions really matter? Or would it be better to be more like a robot, unfeeling, calculating and precise?
Matthew and Chantal talk about their exploration into emotions, why they started out on this journey in the first place and what they came to discover on the way.
Mar 5, 2022
Mar 5, 2022
3 min
Matthew Green and Chantal Dawtrey introduce you to their podcast about all things emotions, building emotional resilience and why it is so important.
Build your Emotional Fitness
Low levels of emotional fitness costs us in all areas of our life. It costs us in our relationships, it costs us in our health. It costs us in our ability to earn money. Low levels of emotional fitness costs your business because your employees are not present, productive or engaged.
Matthew & Chantal are emotional fitness experts, coaches and trainers. Their organisation, 5th Place, trains people, individuals, groups and organisations on how to become and remain emotionally fit.
Their Emotional Fitness training is based on the most recent developments in Neuroscience and utilises a pioneering body / mind process called Shape of Emotion.
Find out more at the 5th Place website - www.5th.place
