Another fabulous episode! 🎉 Despite feeling quite unwell and trying to ignore the nausea, I really enjoyed my chat with the brilliant and super inspiring Emily Forbes 🥰
Please Note: This chat was recorded on Substack ‘Live’ on 21st July 2026
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Emily writes ‘Too Hard To Swallow’ on Substack and is an integrative executive coach and former public sector Chief Executive, who founded her own coaching business - Wylde Wellbeing Coaching - along side building her proprietary Whole-Wellness™ framework.
“I am the only Whole-Wellness™ architect helping the high achieving woman rebuild her life with agency and momentum, in the knowledge that capability is not the same as capacity; and she deserves to know the difference.”
💬 Our Chat
Adjusting after major surgery and how it changes us
Accepting that change and finding the new version of ourselves
Managing your capacity and energy and how Emily has applied science to this
Emily’s brilliant ‘sustainable capacity equation’ explained
The fundamental difference between capacity and capability
Why protecting our energy & capacity is absolutely vital!
The difficulties with explaining the nuance of invisible disability/illness
We get to the crux of the key difference between an emotion and a feeling
The dragon in Emily’s kitchen! Read her incredible piece HERE
Our experiences of visceral surges of ‘rage’ (sorry dad♥️)
How Emily managed to step away and get a handle on things in the moment
A deep dive into the importance of allowing our emotions to move through us and how to separate our emotions from the feelings and beliefs
Emily explains her wonderful ‘ABC model’ and how it caught her mid-spiral
Watch the cogs turn as I join the dots and get to grips with all this live! 😉
📣Mentions
Selina Barker and her Another Way Substack & gorgeous Project You Club
Toni Jones and her brilliant Shelf Help Book Club
Book: ‘How Emotions are Made’ by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Oliver Burkman - you can find his wonderful books and newsletter HERE
Gloria Willcox - ‘The Feelings Wheel’ - You can download the PDF for FREE! 👍
📆 Back in September!
Ok, that’s it folks for a little while. I’m having a little break over the summer holidays to focus on time with the kids and tinkering around in the background moving all the previous episodes of ChatStack over to here.
🎥 Previous episodes are HERE
📌Keep an eye on the Notice Board for updates and guest announcements!
See you soon!
