Latest Harrypottersavedmylife Podcast Episodes
5.1: How To Cast Spells With Phoenix Huber
Harry Potter Saved My Life - December 11, 2021 19:11 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWriter and fellow Harry Potter superfan Phoenix Huber drops in to talk about a JK Rowling-inspired spell she uses to manage her eating. She also discusses: The need to create good habits when you use games and fantasy worlds such as Hogwarts to manage challenges of being trans What she tri...
BONUS: Managing Life's Curveballs with Catherine Rains
Harry Potter Saved My Life - November 29, 2021 20:47 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAn interview that makes no mention of Harry Potter – yes, it’s true! I interview artist Catherine Rains and we discuss nothing to do with the boy wizard. BUT I wanted to bring you this interview because I extracted so much wisdom from it. Catherine is an amazing human being who has just as many ...
4.7 What If Hermoine Had Not Been Clever?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 17, 2021 14:44 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHeads Up – Boundary Setting 101 week is comin on May 17th …and it’s completely free Make sure you sign up https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/ What if Hermoine had not been clever? This episode takes what some might see as a bit of a controversial stance on her relationship with Harry and R...
4.6 What If Sirius had Not Died?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 16, 2021 14:59 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHeads Up – Boundary Setting 101 week starts tomorrow May 17th …and it’s completely free Make sure you sign up https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/ The death of Harry’s godfather is in my opinion the biggest blow to Harry of the entire 7 books. Today I ask: what would have happened if Sirius...
4.5: What If Luna Had Had More Friends?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 15, 2021 17:29 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn today's minisode, I ask What if Luna Lovegood had had more friends? Discover the surprising answer to this question - and the double contrasting power that she holds. Grab your spot for Boundary Setting 101 Week here: https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/ Masterclass 1 ~ Turn Down T...
4.4 What If the Dursleys Had Been Kinder To Harry?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 14, 2021 16:51 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe ill-treated orphan trope is such a well-worn dramatic device. However, in JK Rowlings hands, it works. But what if the Dursleys had been kinder to Harry? Of course if we just stick to literary interpretation, there are certain consequences that would have affected the story if the author h...
4.3 What If Draco had Killed Dumbledore?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 13, 2021 09:51 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHeads Up – Boundary Setting 101 week is coming on May 17th …and it’s completely free Make sure you sign up https://www.theshiftinside.com/freed/ You can attend on Zoom or get the videos in your inbox. How would The Harry Potter series have been different had Draco killed Dumbledore in the ...
4.2 What if Voldemort Had Not Taken Harry’s Blood?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 12, 2021 10:35 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIf Voldemort had not taken Harry’s blood, he would not have made love an integral part of his regeneration – and therein lie the seeds of his own self destruction. Find out more today. Heads Up – Boundary Setting 101 week is coming on May 17th …and it’s completely free Make sure you sign up ...
Season 4: The What If? Series
Harry Potter Saved My Life - May 12, 2021 10:32 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat if Voldemort had not taken Harry’s blood? What if Draco had not Killed Luna? What if Luna had had more friends? In this series of minisodes, I explore what might have happened had key events NOT happened – or indeed HAD happened in the Harry Potter book series. The point is to show ...
S3E7: Neville - How To Stand Up For Yourself
Harry Potter Saved My Life - September 24, 2020 19:09 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingshttps://www.theshiftinside.com/stop/ Neville Longbottom certainly learns to stand up for himself during his time at Hogwarts. But there is more to Mr Longbottom than meets the eye. In this episode, I make the case for Neville being more heroic, more of a role model for fighting bullies than ...
S3E6: Polyjuice Potion: A Lesson In Body Image
Harry Potter Saved My Life - August 27, 2020 15:38 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis episode explores the meaning of polyjuice potion and how it can help us live more empowered lives, free from anxiety and depression. Instant physical transformation, or shapeshifting, is something that has existed in myths and legends for centuries. Humans crave it big time. But, as you s...
3.5: "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it”
Harry Potter Saved My Life - July 05, 2020 18:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’s Quotefest focuses on something Dumbledore says to Harry at the end of The Goblet of Fire after his horrific experience in the graveyard, being forced to watch Voldemort come back to human (ish) form. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it” Dumbledore ...
S3E4: "Dobby will have to shut his ears in the oven door for this” (Quotefest #3)
Harry Potter Saved My Life - June 17, 2020 18:51 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings“Dobby will have too punish himself most grievously for coming to see you Sir; Dobby will have to shut his ears in the oven door for this” (from The Chamber of Secrets). Today’s Quotefest episode uses this seemingly simple quote from Dobby to illustrate a deeper understanding of self-sabotagin...
S3E3: John Green on Harry Potter (Quotesfest #2)
Harry Potter Saved My Life - June 14, 2020 09:51 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday’s quote is about - not from - one of the Potter books and it comes from John Green, author of Paper Towns “Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real i...
S3E2: Great, Tell me when you’ve defeated Voldemort for me, will you?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - June 07, 2020 12:38 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome to The Harry Potter Saved My Life Quotefest. Every episode for the next few weeks or so, I will bring you two quotes – 1 meaningful and 1 pure comedy. I give you my spin on how these words can you life an more empowered life. MEANINGFUL QUOTE “Great, Tell me when you’ve defeated Vo...
#3.1 How Peeves Can Help You Cope With Coronavirus
Harry Potter Saved My Life - March 20, 2020 12:32 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIf Coronavirus Were A Harry Potter Character, It Would Not Be Voldemort. So Who Then? Why, Peeves The Poltergeist of course. For me, the most useful metaphor for Coronavirus in the world of Hogwarts is Peeves the poltergeist. Hogwart’s most un-favourite poltergeist is pretty unmanageable. ...
Update January 2019
Harry Potter Saved My Life - January 25, 2019 18:32 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA quick update on what I am working on - and one of my favourite passages from the entire series, taken from The Goblet of Fire
S2E4: How To Stop Feeling Suicidal Using Harry Potter
Harry Potter Saved My Life - December 30, 2018 14:13 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn this episode, I explain how I used Harry Potter to help a client deal with her suicidal urges. Please note that my area of expertise is compulsive and binge eating, not suicide – so take everything you hear as anecdote, rather than expert advice. In addition, my client has never attempted to ...
#2.3: Hagrid (part 1)
Harry Potter Saved My Life - December 19, 2018 14:22 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHogwart’s favourite half-giant teaches us three important life lessons throughout the course of the seven books. What are they? Loyalty? Being a good father figure? Well, although these are traits that many people think of, I believe they are least interesting for our purposes here. Instead,...
#2.2 Crimes of Grindelwald Review
Harry Potter Saved My Life - November 26, 2018 16:21 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA choc-full-of-spoilers review of the latest Fantastic Beasts installment. I talk about what was great, and what was not so great. In particular: *The theme of belonging and can an isolated outsider ever become a leader? *The surprising symbolism of the niffler stealing Grindelwald’s blo...
#2.1: Should I Go and See The Crimes of Grindelwald?
Harry Potter Saved My Life - November 18, 2018 17:29 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsS2E1: A no-spoilers episode to kick off season 2. I give you a review of the latest Fantastic Beasts film that contains absolutely no major plot giveaways – beyond what your local cinema might have in their description blurb. I talk about what’s good and not so good about The Crimes of Grindel...
#14: Season 2 Trailer - and a bit about Jacob Kowalski
Harry Potter Saved My Life - November 11, 2018 13:19 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSeason 2 of this podcast is just around the corner! Be sure to subscribe so you get the next episode the moment it is released. I include an excerpt about Jacob Kowalski (the thoroughly befuddled muggle from Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them) which was featured in episode 14 of my other ...
#13: The Time Turner: Neutralising Regret
Harry Potter Saved My Life - March 17, 2018 05:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWouldn’t we all just love a Time Turner? How fabulous would it be to go back in time and wipe out that awful interview, the person you wish you had never met, or the job you would avoid like the plague if you had your time over again. However, I believe that the REAL fantasy pull of the Ti...
#12: Voldemort: Dismantle Your Fears
Harry Potter Saved My Life - March 03, 2018 18:52 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSo many of our fears have a very powerful misunderstanding at their core. Find out why so many of us are servants to our fears, instead of brave adventurers who dismantle them at every opportunity. Harry chooses to face Voldemort in the forest – and we too can stand up to our fears…with equally ...
#11: Omnioculars - Reel VS Real Life
Harry Potter Saved My Life - February 17, 2018 17:19 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday I look at the significance of omnioculars in the Muggle world. If you have forgotten, they appear at the start of Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire when our hero is watching the Quidditch World Cup: "You can replay action ... slow everything down ... and they flash up a play-by-play br...
#10: Snape - The Dangers of Confirmation Bias
Harry Potter Saved My Life - February 03, 2018 17:12 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsToday we look at our own tendancy to use events and actions of other people to confirm our pre-existing beliefs through Snape...and indeed Harry. Find out exactly how they are inverted mirror images of each other, a kind of mutually destructive, corrupted yin and yang. And of course we take th...
#9: The Dursleys - The Hidden Benefits of Jealousy
Harry Potter Saved My Life - January 20, 2018 16:33 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat surprising lessons can Harry Potter's hideous relatives have to offer us? The hidden benefits of jealousy, that's what. Another shot of inspiration from superfan Harriet Morris who can seemingly find not exactly a font of wisdom from Privet drive, but some backwards, unintended life advic...
#8: Halloween - Discover Life’s Greatest Paradox
Harry Potter Saved My Life - October 29, 2017 12:31 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe 31st October is massively significant in the Potterverse, and even more meaningful for us – if we look deep enough. How we do it is by unearthing the strange paradoxes that occur every Halloween to Harry and his friends. His parents died on this day – but it is also the day that he, Ro...
#7: Draco - The Loneliness of Change
Harry Potter Saved My Life - October 22, 2017 18:43 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDraco Malfoy is much more than a bully gifted with magical powers. He offers us two very different sources of inspiration when it comes to empowering ourselves. First of all, he makes us ask What is great about that person who drives me crazy? It is the ONLY question we can ask. Without Draco,...
#6: Felix Felicis - Change Your Story
Harry Potter Saved My Life - October 14, 2017 19:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow can we shed our victimhood using the metaphor of Felix Felicis? This is the continuation of last episode on Ron - so go back and re-listen to that first if you haven't already. Lucky potion, as introduced by professor Slughorn in Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, can be used to ...
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