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Harry Potter Saved My Life
by Harriet MorrisUnexpected life lessons from The Boy Who Lived. Every episode, superfan Harriet Morris looks at one character, spell, invention or place from the magical world of Harry Potter (and related works) and asks: what hidden soul-saving teachings are there to help us navigate and dismantle anxiety, depression and the curveballs that life has a habit of throwing at us? As you will see, Winky the house elf, Draco Malfoy and the time turner all have as much to teach us about reclaiming our power as does Harry himself. Harry didn't literally save Harriet's life, but this more than any other work helped her recover from compulsive eating .
Copyright: Harriet Morris 2017
Episodes
S3E6: Polyjuice Potion: A Lesson In Body Image
21m · PublishedThis 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 shall hear, JK Rowling highlights the shortcomings of shapeshifting in the very way she crafted the idea of Polyjuice potion. There is so much to learn about self acceptance here. Who knew that Crabbe and Goyle had so much to teach us?!?
3m20: The meaning of shapeshifting in myths and legends
5m27: How the meaning of shapeshifting has become corrupted today
9m30: How Polyjuice can help us against the backdrop of this modern craving for uniformity, especially when contrasted with Tonks’ ability to transform at will
RESOURCES
The Body Confident Project – try it out for free
http://www.theshiftinside.com/tryit/
Polyjuice potion intro
https://www.wizardingworld.com/writing-by-jk-rowling/polyjuice-potion
Wikipedia entry on shapeshifting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting
3.5: "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it”
9m · PublishedToday’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 says to Sirius’ protests.
I am exploring this quote as a metaphor for addiction in this episode.
RESOURCES
Russell Brand: Recovery – Freedom From Our Addictions
Flaws by Bastille: https://youtu.be/gzRBoZb3GKw
S3E4: "Dobby will have to shut his ears in the oven door for this” (Quotefest #3)
15m · Published“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-sabotaging behaviour. I am talking about Invisible Pricetags.
Dobby creates a very visible pricetag for speaking the truth about his abuse at the hands of the Malfoys, and wanting to help Harry: he self harms.
The lessons we can draw from this are many and varied, but today I focus on the invisible version that I used to create for myself on a pretty much daily basis.
I talk about what invisible pricetags are and how you can stop paying them.
FUNNY QUOTE
…comes again from Dobby
RESOURCES
Email info (at) theshiftinside.com
Eating Coach Real vs Fake Pleasure episode : http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-real-vs-fake-pleasure/
Find out more about Cavebrain:
http://www.theshiftinside.com/rum-what-is-cavebrain/
S3E3: John Green on Harry Potter (Quotesfest #2)
6m · PublishedToday’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 if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.”
Today I discuss how this quote plays with the idea of truth, and how you need to challenge truth that your anxiety is telling you is fixed and certain.
FUNNY QUOTE
Fred and George in book 2 - The Chamber of Secrets
RESOURCES
Quote source:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/451540-harry-potter-isn-t-real-oh-no-wait-wait-what-do
Check out my other podcast The Eating Coach
Email me: info (at) theshiftinside.com
S3E2: Great, Tell me when you’ve defeated Voldemort for me, will you?
9m · PublishedWelcome 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 Voldemort for me, will you?” from Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows
I talk about what this quote means to me and how it can help you deal with anxiety, depression and live a more empowered, resilient life.
I discuss:
-Living in struggle and learnt helplessness
-The empowering questions that will get you to reframe lockdown and how you are moving through it to help you connect with the same strength that Harry does in his innumerable challengesthroughout the course of the seven books.
-The relief of being able to talk about mental health
FUNNY QUOTE
…comes from Ron, talking about Percy, possibly the most fertile ground for comedy of anyone in the whole series!
Check out my other podcast, The Eating Coach
Email; info (at) theshiftinside.com
#3.1 How Peeves Can Help You Cope With Coronavirus
15m · PublishedIf 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. The only souls, living or dead, that have any impact on his mischief-making are Dumbledore and The Bloody Baron. Everyone else must put up with him - because what else can they do? Whether he is lobbing water balloons at the students during the welcoming feast or making Neville set fire to his own pants, Peeves seems to have some kind of superhuman (super ex-human?) ability to be undetectable before he strikes. Sounds a bit like Coronavirus if you ask me.
Peeves stands for chaos and disruption. But look a bit deeper, and he is also a powerful metaphor for how to cope with that disruption.
In this episode I explain the hidden goodness of Hogwarts' most onerous ghost. Enjoy!
RESOURCES
Contact me: info @ theshiftinside.com
The One-Minute Thought Experiment to lower your anxiety
http://www.theshiftinside.com/minute/
Update January 2019
3m · PublishedA 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
42m · PublishedIn 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 take her own life – we are talking about passive suicidal ideation (i.e. dealing with thoughts such as ‘I don’t want to be here anymore’ rather than any active intention to end her life).
4 min 30: HOW TO CHANNEL SUICIDAL URGES USING THE DEATHLY HALLOWS
I talk about the work I did with my client around safely channelling and releasing her desire to die via the 3 chapters The Forest Again, King’s Cross and The Flaw In The Plan from Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows.
This is all about the power of imagination instead of well-worn clichés that try and fail to appeal to logic. Sharing Harry’s terror and hopelessness then return to Hogwarts allowed Sophie to connect with her desire to live and resilience.
If you are not already a member of Audible, you can get this audiobook free. Go to http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach and you can help support the show.
20 min 16: THE 5 QUESTIONS TO REFRAME THE DESIRE TO DIE
Q1: Can you translate this desire?
Q2: What in your life must die?
Q3 relates to expressing suicidal urges
Q4: Have you met Cavebrain, your secret superpower?
CONCLUSION
What to do at the end of this podcast
RESOURCES
Suicide Prevention Help:
UK – The Samaritans
https://www.samaritans.org/
Tel: 116 123
In The USA:
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Tel 1-800—273-8255
Karla McLaren – The Language of Emotions
Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – if you are not already a member of Audible, you can get this audiobook free. Go to http://www.audibletrial.com/EatingCoach and you can help support the show.
James Altucher’s article :
https://jamesaltucher.com/blog/i-want-to-die/
Matthew Hussey
http://www.matthewhussey.com/
The Eating Coach episodes on Cavebrain: http://www.theshiftinside.com/audio-why-cant-i-stop-stress-eating-ask-your-cavebrain/
http://www.theshiftinside.com/how-to-stop-stress-eating-part-2/
CONTACT ME
Info (at) theshiftinside.com
Or leave me a voice message here:
www.theshiftinside.com/harry
#2.3: Hagrid (part 1)
28m · PublishedHogwart’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, let’s talk about:
#1 Building Better Boundaries. Hagrid is an anti-teacher in this respect – he shows us what happens when we fail to build healthy boundaries. This is apparent not just in his naïve love of all things monster, but in the varied and horribly hilarious examples I give from the whole series.
#2 Acknowledge your strengths. We all know Hagrid is physically strong, but he is more resilient and mentally tough than anyone – especially Hagrid – gives him credit for. I discuss exactly how, and how to start giving YOURSELF credit.
#3 ???
In this episode you will discover:
*The difference between taking responsibility and taking the blame
*Some powerful questions to ask yourself if you feel people are asking too much of you
*The very rare ability Hagrid shares with Harry, Dumbledore, Sirius and Hermione
Potter Fan of The Week
Our featured listener is Kristen Chavez from the Your Biggest Fangirl podcast http://www.yourbiggestfangirl.com/
To be featured, just go to
http://www.theshiftinside.com/harry/
Podcast of The Week
...is Caskets and Cocktails
Quote of the episode: ‘Life doesn’t get easier for Hagrid just because it should’.
RESOURCES
One-to-One coaching:http://www.theshiftinside.com/harry-potter-coaching/
Episode 1 of The Eating Coach on Harry and the hero’s journey:
http://eatingcoach.libsyn.com/ec0001-from-struggle-to-adventure
Find Caskets and Cocktails at:
https://anchor.fm/casketsandcocktails
#2.2 Crimes of Grindelwald Review
12m · PublishedA 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 blood pact trinket
*What I think about Queenie’s defection to Grindelwald
*Is it right for it to take such a dark turn after Fantastic Beasts?
RESOURCES
Episode on Draco:http://harrypottersavedmylife.com/7-draco-the-loneliness-of-change
GET IN TOUCH
www.theshiftinside.com/harry
info {at} theshiftinside.com
Harry Potter Saved My Life has 36 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 9:00:26. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 7th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on September 27th, 2023 22:41.
