This week's episode is the fifth of six re-releases from season one. In the one about 'Being Willing and Highly Involved' my guest is Stefanos Sifandos, a trained educator, Behavioural Scientist and relationships expert with an extensive background in Psychology, Philosophy and Ecology.

Listen in as we talk about:

• How true adulting is about the willingness to participate fully in your own life, and what that looks like in practice.
• The concept of ‘Selfish Selflessness’ as the key to meeting your needs, and the needs of those around you.
• Masculine and feminine energy, both in the psychospiritual sense and the biological sense.
• Embodiment, and how it really lies at the heart of personal development work.
• How to understand and integrate our sexuality so that it’s not just about genitalia and becomes about life itself.
• Overcoming pain and suffering by being willing to let it in.
• Where to start if you are stuck in negative patterns that you want to change.

Plus, we talk about…how, if you are experiencing pain and suffering, it’s not going to last forever, but it’s important that you reach out for support.

And, in this week's behind-the-scenes 'The Patron Part about Being Willing and Highly Involved' I look back at how this episode has impacted me personally and how it resonates differently with me 5 years on. I share some big news about changes happening in the next few weeks and Stefanos gives us a personal update.

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Meet Stefanos Sifandos

With over 15 years of experience in the personal development space, Stefanos is a trained educator, Behavioural Scientist and relationships expert with an extensive background in Psychology, Philosophy and Ecology. He is passionate about and committed to leading people to closer to their highest potential and to each other. Stefanos’ philosophy merges the best of Eastern and Western methodologies to promote spiritual balance and empower people in life and love.

From trauma release to navigating the murky waters of modern masculinity, to helping women understand the men in their lives, he helps people escape negative patterns and cultivate a positive sense of self. Stefanos has worked with thousands of men and women from all walks of life; special forces soldiers, Olympic gold medalists, elite world champion fighters, and everyday people have relied on him to restructure and reframe their relationships with themselves, their past, their trauma, their potential and their loved ones.

Fav quotes from this episode:

“Are you willing to do the hard work? Are you willing to look at your stuff? Are you willing to experience joy?”

“How can we leverage our healthy expressive traits of masculine and feminine in contemporary times?”

“Sexuality is life force energy. Sexuality is direction. Sexuality is much more than just physical sexuality and physical sexual expression.”

“We have this ability to take our bodies into amazingly deep places and that intensity teaches us so much about who we are.”

“The more we go into that intensity, the shorter it is. The more we avoid it, the more it prolongs it.”

“Men are so reluctant to reach out. You’ve got to fucking reach out.”

Resources:

• Find out more about Stefanos and the courses and programmes he offers: https://stefanossifandos.com/
• Visit Stefanos’s Youtube channel: HERE
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