In today’s episode, we’re joined by Maxine Mallen, founder of Coming Home Coaching. Max’s work is shaped by both her professional training and her lived experience of rebuilding life after abuse and divorce. She brings a rare blend of psychological expertise and personal insight - supportingclients not just with theory, but with deep understanding, resilience, and hard‑won healing.

Trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Thinking Skills and Mindfulness, Max weaves structured therapeutic tools with compassion, grounding practices and practical strategies. Her approach helps people move through anxiety, low self‑esteem, relationship challenges, recovery and major life transitions with greater clarity, confidence and emotional stability.

For Max, healing isn’t about “fixing” yourself. It’s aboutrecognising your strength, reclaiming your voice, and creating a life that feels safe, aligned and empowered. Her story is a powerful reminder that riding the waves of change is a process of rebuilding, reconnecting and choosingyourself.

This episode is especially for midlife women navigatingmajor life transitions, healing from past relationships or seeking a more grounded, self‑led way forward.

You can contact Max via her website and social media channels:

Instagram: https://www.instragram.com/cominghomecoaching/

Facebook: Coming Home Coaching

Website: https://www.cominghomecaiching.net

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UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® ⁠ founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.

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In this episode, Marie explores the quiet, complicated wayschildhood survival strategies follow us into adulthood - especially the deep‑rooted need to control everything around us. What begins as a way to create safety inan unpredictable world can become a lifelong pattern of micromanaging, hypervigilance, fixing and gripping tightly to anything that feels like it might slip.

We look at how control becomes a shield, how it shapes yourrelationships and decision‑making, and what it feels like to slowly relinquish control. It’s about learning to trust life again, piece by piece, and discovering that letting go isn’t the same as losing power - it’s reclaiming it. This conversation unpacks what it means to recognise and hold space for thatunderstanding from a place of peace and acknowledgement.

You’ll hear reflections on:

• How childhood environments create control‑driven habits

• Why letting go can feel threatening, even when life is stable
• The emotional shift from survival mode to self‑trust
• Practical ways to soften old patterns without self‑judgment

If you’ve been labelled a control freak and ever wondered why you react so strongly to uncertainty, why you plan five steps ahead or why surrender makes you feel vulnerable, this episode offers a grounded, compassionate space to reflect. It’s not about blaming the past; it’s about understanding it so you can step into your next chapter with peace, acknowledgement and understanding.

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⁠UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® ⁠ founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.

Find our next event here

You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming herauthentic true self by reading and subscribing to ⁠⁠Growing with Grace. ⁠⁠Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.

If you would like to show your support for the Podcast andMarie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.

DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended tobe a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chamiah Goulbourne, the inspiring creator behind Nourish Me Wild. Chamiah is a plant‑based chef who travels across the UK and Europe, nourishing women on health and wellbeing retreats with food rooted in the seasons, bold flavours and a deep belief in plants as medicine.

When she’s not cooking, Chamiah is out exploring the land - foraging for wild herbs and natural remedies that she transforms into skincare, art and herbal tinctures for her online shop. Her lifelong connection to nature shapes everything she creates.

Chamiah opens up about how shifting to a plant‑based diet supported her own health challenges, including stress, inflammation and allergies. Her story is a powerful reminder of how reconnecting with nature and embracing simple, nourishing food can support women - especially during midlife through hormonal changes, burnout and the desire to feel more connected.

You can contact Chamiah, via her website and social media channels:

Website: https://nourishmewild.myshopify.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nourishme.wild

If you have resonated with any of the themes in this episode Subscribe, Review and Share. Tag UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® whenever you post on social media so we can continue to share the love.

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⁠UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® ⁠ founded by Marie Shaw, a well-being practitioner, X-HAIL® Instructor and NLP Coach in training. UNFUNK YOUR SOUL® is more than a wellness brand - it’s a movement created to help women reconnect with their authentic selves and reclaim joy, especially during midlife transitions. It’s rooted in holistic mind-body practices and designed to support emotional, physical, and spiritual transformation in Staffordshire, UK.

Find our next event here

You can follow Marie's personal journey to becoming her authentic true self by reading and subscribing to ⁠⁠Growing with Grace. ⁠⁠Where she reflects on life's lessons, blessings and the seasons of change as she enters her unapologetic AF ERA.

If you would like to show your support for the Podcast and Marie’s work buy a virtual vegan pizza at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠. This will help to support Marie, so she can continue creating more content for you.

DISCLAIMER: the content in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of this podcast. Always seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional if you are experiencing difficulties with mental health.