Am so delighted to welcome the Peace Begins at Home Summit Director, Gina Miltiadou, for Episode 81 of the Feel Better Every Day Podcast. Access full transcripts, links, show notes, and other resources at http://thefeelbettereverydaypodcast.com

The inaugural Peace Begins at Home Summit will take place on Wednesday, 29th October 2025 (and you can listen to the recordings for 30 days so don’t worry if you can’t make that day).

At a time of rising authoritarianism, climate crisis, and lost hope, the Summit combines lived testimony, research, and practical solutions to reclaim a culture of partnership.

Produced by the Center for Partnership Systems (CPS) and inspired by cultural historian Dr. Riane Eisler’s Partnership vs. Domination framework, the Summit reframes peace not as a distant ideal but as a systems challenge that begins where we live, love, and raise each other: In the home. Confirmed speakers include 26 leaders from 17 countries, among them:

• Dr. Riane Eisler – Holocaust survivor, cultural historian, systems scientist, and author of The Chalice and the Blade
• Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury – Former UN Under-Secretary-General and champion of the culture of peace
• Dr. Richard Davidson – World-renowned neuroscientist and TIME 100 honoree
• Ela Gandhi – Global peace activist, women’s rights advocate and granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi
• Gary Barker & Jackson Katz – International pioneers in reshaping masculinity
• Angela Sterritt – Award-winning investigative journalist and author, serving as MC

Find out more and book at www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org

CHAPTERS

0:00 Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the state of the world

2:08 Introducing Gina Miltiadou and the Peace Begins at Home Summit

2:53 The ripple effect of early trauma

4:10 Self-care when you’re near the finish line

5:41 Purpose as a form of self-care

7:07 Interconnectedness and hope

8:15 Dr. Riane Eisler’s domination to partnership framework

15:19 Peace begins at home

17:30 Turning pain into purpose

20:05 Stories of healing and collective care

25:16 Peace is personal

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the state of the world

2:08 Introducing Gina Miltiadou and the Peace Begins at Home Summit

2:53 The ripple effect of early trauma

4:10 Self-care when you’re near the finish line

5:41 Purpose as a form of self-care 7:07 Interconnectedness and hope

8:15 Dr. Riane Eisler’s domination to partnership framework

15:19 Peace begins at home

17:30 Turning pain into purpose

20:05 Stories of healing and collective care

25:16 Peace is personal

DISCLAIMER

The content I share is not a replacement for one to one trauma therapy (etc). While you can do an enormous amount to support yourself, please always seek appropriate medical advice.

FULL TRANSCRIPT

Do you ever feel overwhelmed and despairing at repeated patterns of horror endlessly perpetuated by humans, as if we never learn from the past? This episode’s for you. Feel Better Every Day. No, seriously.

It’s easy to feel helpless and hopeless, to go into that dorsal vagal “Freeze!” response. To feel completely overwhelmed, disconnected. Today’s guest has some hope and inspiration for you. Episode 81, I’m delighted to welcome you to Gina Miltiadou. She is the director of the Peace Begins at Home Summit. I’ll be sharing our interview together.

Welcome! You’re listening to the Feel Better Every Day Podcast (in spite of that gloomy intro). And I hope that you will find it helpful. Each Tuesday, I share new episodes, and they’re designed to help you work with the Feel. Love. Heal. framework I developed.

Today’s episode is very much in that Heal part, the collective care element, the co-regulation, the systemic elements of we’re all connected. The better we take care of ourselves and each other, the better for everyone.

You can find out more about the book, the podcast and older episodes and other free resources around trauma, ADHD, anxiety, sleep, menopause, being a solopreneur, all sorts of things, as well as ways in which we might work together, upcoming events, all of that at selfcarecoaching.net or the feelbettereverydaypodcast.com.

For now, welcome, welcome, welcome to this special episode, which I hope will inspire you.

So welcome, Gina. Thank you so much for joining me. And do you want to say a little bit about the summit and what you’re doing?

Yes, of course. Well, firstly, thank you so much for having me. It’s wonderful to have a chance to talk about this. But yes, I’m organising a global summit, which is happening on the 29th of October. And it is inspired by Dr. Riane Eisler’s work, which I’m sure we’ll talk more about later.

But what it is doing, it’s gathering 26 speakers from 17 different countries around the world. And essentially, we’re examining how early trauma or care experienced in the home ripples out into society and all the systems that we live in. So that’s my current project.

I love that so much. My membership is called the Sole to Soul Circle, like the soles of the feet to the soul. But it used to be called Personal Peace, because it was very much about the more where, OK, whether we’ve been raised in that caring environment, or whether we’ve healed that trauma, that then ripples out the intergenerational healing, all of it.

That’s exactly it. Wonderful.

I’m going to include a link in the show notes, but your summit takes place, this is going to go out on Tuesday.

It’s going to be tomorrow, as far as people watching are concerned.

It’s on the 29th of October. It’s the week after next.

I got the dates wrong! I was like, quick, quick, I really want to include it. Oh, that’s okay.

Yeah. Okay, so that’s fantastic. People have even more time to sort it out.

Exactly, exactly. And the best place to register is just go to peacebeginsathomesummit.org and they can register online.

So brilliant. And there’ll be a link in the show notes. Great. So you are very, very busy at the moment. Really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. How is your self care in terms of the feel part of my Feel. Love. Heal. framework? The kind of active self-care? What are your essential daily practices that you rely on or don’t have time for at the moment?

Oh, goodness. Eve, I do not want to lie to you. I am 10 days away from the summit so my self-care is kind of non-existent at the moment. It is about just getting to the finish line at the moment. This has been a project that has been in the making for the whole year. And it’s wonderful that we’re kind of reaching the finish line. But you know, part of it is, just being gentle with myself and giving myself permission to almost not self-care, not guilting myself into, oh my God, I really should be minding myself better. I know that, but I actually just do not have the time. So I think it’s also just loving myself enough to kind of go, you know what, that’s okay. This is a season. It’s 10 days to go. You’re not getting as much sleep as you need. You’re not eating as well as you can, but that’s what needs to happen right now.

So it’s the odd thing. I think getting outside and getting fresh air when I can has made a massive difference. Even just the little things like taking the dog for a walk or just watching a really stupid, mindless piece on Netflix has really helped as well.

And I’m not going to lie, you know, chocolate and wine has also helped.

Excellent. And I’m also thinking what you’re doing because it’s so meaningful. It’s different to if you were in a job you hated and the grind and like this just, we’ve only just met, but the purpose is a part of self care and like giving yourself grace.

That’s gorgeous. Exactly.

Exactly. And I think that’s the thing is because this has been so purpose led, it’s actually been easy to do. I mean, even though I really am exhausted, but I’m also so psyched about it and I’m so buzzed about it.

And I think, you know, just meeting all of the different speakers and hearing their stories and just the, I suppose, the feeling that this is really going to make a difference at a time when people need it so, so badly. People want hope so badly is enough to keep me going because it’s just bigger than all of us. Yeah.

That leads us beautifully into the Love part of the Feel. Love. Heal. framework I developed. Love. You don’t need to do a thing. You are already part of nature, part of the divine. You don’t need to be endles