Jun 23, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
Mia Walker belongs to an exclusive club: the one per cent club. For years, blissfully unaware, she lived with a condition that wasn’t normal – aphantasia. This revelation came as a shock when she…
Mia WalkerGuest
Catherine WilliamsonHostwas this extra dimension of the aphantasia came in but then on the back of that you're getting published you're connecting people from the other side of the world you're co-authoring it was really rich time wasn't it so what would you say ultimately you would take the takeaways for that time for you were
I think I think really is the fact that you are capable of doing anything if you believe you can do it and you your thoughts, your mind and your body are so connected that by changing your thoughts, that you change your physiology.
And it's such a powerful connection between the mind and the body that by being more positive, by thinking more positive, you create, uh, Almost like a better synchronicity between yourself, your mind and your body and your ability to move through the world and have an impact on it in a way that you wish to do so.
Because, you know, that day when the tipping point that said you were leaving the house and you said, essentially, I'm here and just bring it on.
You wouldn't have had a compelling vision of you trotting down the street and going and having a cup of coffee, would you? No.
You just had a motivation that the alternative to this was so dark you weren't prepared to do it.
And as I came downstairs, ready to embrace my 21st birthday, there was a knock at the door.
And although I was obviously shocked and upset by it, as everybody was, I realised that I will continue to be in the background and life will pass me by if I don't take it and step forward.
And on your 21st birthday, you gave yourself the key to the door, didn't you? Yes.
The fact that your lived experience told you that to get out of that, you had to just do it and face it and get on.
was this extra dimension of the aphantasia came in but then on the back of that you're getting published you're connecting people from the other side of the world you're co-authoring it was really rich time wasn't it so what would you say ultimately you would take the takeaways for that time for you were
I think I think really is the fact that you are capable of doing anything if you believe you can do it and you your thoughts, your mind and your body are so connected that by changing your thoughts, that you change your physiology.
And it's such a powerful connection between the mind and the body that by being more positive, by thinking more positive, you create, uh, Almost like a better synchronicity between yourself, your mind and your body and your ability to move through the world and have an impact on it in a way that you wish to do so.
Because, you know, that day when the tipping point that said you were leaving the house and you said, essentially, I'm here and just bring it on.
You wouldn't have had a compelling vision of you trotting down the street and going and having a cup of coffee, would you? No.
You just had a motivation that the alternative to this was so dark you weren't prepared to do it.
And as I came downstairs, ready to embrace my 21st birthday, there was a knock at the door.
And although I was obviously shocked and upset by it, as everybody was, I realised that I will continue to be in the background and life will pass me by if I don't take it and step forward.
And on your 21st birthday, you gave yourself the key to the door, didn't you? Yes.
The fact that your lived experience told you that to get out of that, you had to just do it and face it and get on.
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