The Self Help Podcast: Recent Episodes
Live in the Present
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What’s Coming This Episode?It’s Chriiiiiistmaaaaaas! The time of year of giving and receiving. Of spending time with family and friends. Food! And more. It’s also a time to reflect and to assess.
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Links* Giving and Receiving Is Not Just For Christmas * It’s Christmas time to see the light and the love
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What’s Coming This Episode?Hygge is a Danish concept that is defined as a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being. This it would seem would be be the natural desire of all people. The perfect relationship between couple and in families embodies these very things. Yet, despite our best efforts, it is for many of us, so hard to attain. Divorce rates, of those that bother to marry, are high. You will have heard us going on about…
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Links* Sean’s blog post for this week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Remembrance Day is a powerful time of year for me. It was on that day, a while ago now, when Mike, my father in law dew his last breath. I looked at my watch and it was 2.33 in the afternoon. So, now, every November 11th at 2.33 I raise a glass of and wish him well. He was, I assume still is, a lovely soul. I am not sure that we ever get over those feelings of loss. We may come to terms with them and perhaps with time the volume of the emotional disturbance is lessened.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Links* Sean’s blog post for this week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Our sense of smell is probably our most underrated and misunderstood of all of our senses. We have tended to lose the importance of our sense of smell because we have devalued it and hijacked it with chemical additives.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Links* Sean’s blog post for this week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Ed has been thinking about the importance of local action recently. Some fantastic volunteers have been hard at work in his area and he’s been amazed by the reaction of people. How can we harness this effect more widely? What can our listeners do to get stuck in?
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Links* Some local news from Ed, where local volunteers have been hard at work * Remember ‘The Big Society’? * Local action and net zero
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What’s Coming This Episode?Sean has some news – a grandchild has arrived for him and his family! Very exciting news… but it’s an important job with important responsibilities. Let’s have a chat about how to make the most of this potentially fantastic period of our lives.
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Links* Tips and advice for grandparents
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What’s Coming This Episode?Today we’re talking about getting out of your comfort zone and meeting people! We were inspired by a story on The Good News Network. Have a listen and let us know your thoughts.
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Links* The Good News Network – lady in Warrington challenges herself! * Here’s a video of the story as well * Bald & Bankrupt is a great YouTube channel – explore!
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What’s Coming This Episode?We have just seen the attempted assassination of Donald Trump followed by an appeal by President Biden for the population to come together and accept disagreement with out seeing it as a threat. It is okay to disagree with other people. It does not need to lead to violence, war and death. Now we see violence on the streets of the UK!
We often see anger as a negative force. Though it can be a very creative and useful force.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Links* Sean’s blog post here
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?George Orwell, author of Animal Farm, described a political landscape that I am starting to see developing all around me. I see laws and rules being created only then to see them not being followed or totally ignored by those people who created them in the first place. The obvious was the fiasco of Dominic Cummings and the Barnard Castle affair and the Party Gate nonsense.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Links* Sean’s blog post here
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?The election is here (in the UK)!!! Sean and Ed recorded a quick episode before the big day… but in the knowledge that it would likely be published after the results had been announced. Will it hold up? Will it be of any use??! Let’s find out…
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What’s Coming This Episode?How do we know what we are belong told is true?
How do we know if what we believe is real?
We are all told things from the day we are born about life, other people, history and events. Politicians, teachers, religious leaders, advertisers, propagandists, to the covid doom sayers and conspiracy theorists and even our loved ones all want us to share their point of view and to believe what they tell us.
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?This week we are revisiting our relationship with nature and the effect that it has on our mental health and wellbeing. Finally the rain seems to have stopped and we are enjoying some sunshine. I was reminded of when I was looking out of the window of my apartment in Doha Qatar when I was working at Sidra Hospital. Below me the City was a busy place and I could see at least a thousand houses. Each house full of people, thousands of people. The roads full, sometimes gridlocked, as all these people rushed from somewhere to somewhere else. All in a frenzied dash that is, for many human beings throughout the world, normal everyday life. I was struck by the overwhelming concept of ‘just how many of us human beings are there living on this planet?’
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Currently the world seems a not very safe place, the news is full of war reports and stabbings in schools. Alongside this are all the reports of violent shop lifting and assaults on care staff in the NHS. More and more counselling clients are sharing their anxious concerns for themselves and their families especially their children. There is an increase in trauma both direct and vicariously experienced.
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week * David Bowie talking sense
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What’s Coming This Episode?This week Ed and I were talking about the effects of persuasion and how people can seem to gullibly just believe anything. I was explaining about the Barnum effect. Barnum was the great circus master who was into the concepts of illusion and fooling the audience into believing that what they were seeing was real.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?An episode recorded near Easter which enabled us to chat about new beginnings.
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week * The ‘new’ oldest man in the world
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Social media is full of conspiracy theories. Currently those about Katherine Princess of Wales are rife. There is great interest, in certain groups, as to whether the stories about her abdominal surgery and public appearance and photograph are real or fake. The thing that interests Ed and I is why is it so important? What is it about gossip and rumour that we all get so hooked up in?
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?The idea of needing to get away would suggest that where we are is never really good enough. I get it that the act of taking a break, of doing something different, is stimulating and often relaxing but the question got me thinking about do we appreciate where we are and what we have? Are we able to enjoy the space that we live in.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week * Bald & Bankrupt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0wQPMwvVc * Dubai is a joke video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Well Valentine’s has been and gone, the day of love, how was it for you? we often have talked about mood boosts and love, feeing loved, being loved and sharing love they are right at the top of positive mood, self esteem, raised energy and wellbeing. The magic is in ‘feeling’ loved.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Following on from last weeks look at the potential of global conflict. A listener reminded me of this and asked ‘why don’t we just encourage everybody to smile at each other?’ An excellent question! Let’s discuss…
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Ed and I did a similar episode in 2019. The issues of war and potentially a world war were on us then and, sadly, very little seems to have changed. Over the last few months the people visiting my consulting room have been more and more concerned about the potential for another world war. We need to talk about potential conflict…
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week * https://www.liveinthepresent.co.uk/2019/11/war-what-is-it-good-for/ * https://www.liveinthepresent.co.uk/2019/11/tshp337-is-it-ok-to-go-to-war/ * Sean linked to this book on negative thinking * Amazing video showing life in Pakistan
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What’s Coming This Episode?Ok, so it is New Year!
Standing at the beginning of 2024 you, and I, will be making choices about how and what this year will be. 2023 will certainly be a year to remember and for many perhaps a year to forget. People tell me that is is as though it never happened or that with the aftermath of covid and the financial crisis one they will never forget.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?For a lot of people around the world this year Christmas Day might just be another day in a difficult year. In a work of wars, financial crisis and global warming there are a lot of people worrying. What will it be like for you this year?
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Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
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What’s Coming This Episode?It has never been a better time to talk seriously about the blame game and good will. As we approach the festive season and, in theory at least, a time of goodwill it seems that we are living in a divided world where everyone is finding reasons to blame other people for something.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week * Guy starts strange dance at a festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2Pk * Sean’s resource of the week
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?What’s more important? Expertise or experience? Sean and Ed have a chat…
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Show Notes and Links* Links to follow
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What’s Coming This Episode?Remembrance Day, 11 November, is a memorial day that has been observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War in 1919. This has been to honour armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In theory, at least, we unite across faiths, cultures and backgrounds to remember. The thing that is vastly important in remembering is the art of forgiveness. In forgiveness we let go. Often in simple remembrance we can feed our hatred of those that we perceive as the enemy.
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast * Examples of personal forgiveness * More stories of forgiveness * Sean loves this book
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What’s Coming This Episode?We use the word ‘addiction’ to indicate an illness which is based on the behaviour of a person who is compulsively or habitually ‘addicted’ to a substance or a set of behaviours. Most behaviours that are described as addictions are seen as negative. We think of drugs or alcohol. We might even consider the workaholic. Whichever way we view it addiction is normally seen negative.
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast * Matthew Perry has died * Perry and Peter Hitchins * Getting help for addiction * More help for addiction
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What’s Coming This Episode?Sean’s been on a speed awareness course! Ed is busy campaigning for slower, safer streets! Has the world gotten too fast? Can we slow down and enjoy life that little bit more?
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast * Wales has a default 20mph limit now * The psychology of speed
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Have you ever wanted to give you a body a good clean, but from the inside? It is rebooting your entire system. A bit like when you turn your laptop off and on again and then defrag the hard drive.
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast * Food and mental health
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What’s Coming This Episode?Lately the international news has been full of stories of inappropriate touching kissing, and so on, in a variety of areas from sport to politics. The implication is that we either no longer have a clear idea of what our boundaries are or that our attitude to boundaries is changing. We are living in a world of change. It could that this is the reality of the end of the age of Pisces the beginning of the age of Aquarius. Or it could simply be that we are waking up a bit as in the evolution of human consciousness.
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Last week Auntie Vera passed at the age of 96. As the last person in that age group in the family her loss has been very profound the grief intense. There is joy and happiness for the memories of what a lovely person she was set against the hurt and pain of her going. Thankfully her passing was a good one.
Dealing with the grief that follows a death is something that can never be understood unless it has been experienced directly. I see so many people who feel a sense of guilt because they are still grieving only three months after a loss when, in reality, grieving takes a long time, and sometimes may even last a lifetime.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast
Stay in TouchWe’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:
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What’s Coming This Episode?Here we are again. It is the end of the summer, winter is on the horizon and as they say “it won’t be long and then it will be Christmas”. With the loss of light comes a reduction the available vitamins D in our bodies that direct effects the levels of serotonin in our brains and the a feeling of well being that can so easily lead to low mood, depression and seasonal affective disorder SAD.
Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast!
Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blogpost for the podcast
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What's Coming This Episode? Animals and pets can give us so much - from companionship to direct nutrition. Ed & Sean are joined by Cooper the dog to have a chat about how we have used and continue to use animals in our lives each day...
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The evolution of pet ownership Mood boosting power of dogs
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What's Coming This Episode? Since Covid and lockdown more and more people have developed the symptoms of post trauma. This can be difficult and debilitating. However the mechanism that leads to our repression of difficult experiences is our memory. The issue with post traumatic stress disorder is not memory it is recall.
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Sean's blog post Sean's book recommendation
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What's Coming This Episode? Following Covid I have spoken with so many people who, even now, are having problems getting going again. For some there is a frustration with their life for others it is that feeling of they simply can’t be bothered. For many trying to get their work life balance back is proving difficult. Working from home can be a challenge when it is easier to stay in bed, sit in the garden or engage in your favourite hobby rather than doing the work that you are being paid for. While I get all this I want to make a positive stand for doing nothing as being a good thing...
So, does money make you happy?
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Sean's blog post https://simplelionheartlife.com/how-to-slow-down/ https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230530-will-the-four-day-workweek-get-employees-back-in-office https://amzn.eu/d/4f9FhtU The Little Book of Procrastination
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What's Coming This Episode? In this episode we are revisiting an old topic - MONEY. With the current economic crisis and the ongoing effects of Russias war in the Ukraine things ate tight. Interest rates are on the rise and available income is diminishing. The people in the know say that it will get worse before it gets better. Lots of fun.
So, does money make you happy?
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Sean's blog post A massive house, but are they happy??
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What's Coming This Episode? What happens when friendships turn sour? Do we grin and bear it or find a way out?
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Sean's blog post (written by AI!) https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/toxic-friends https://www.headspace.com/articles/toxic-friendships https://www.wikihow.com/End-a-Toxic-Friendship The Asshole Pandemic
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What's Coming This Episode? Being rational is easy, right?! Well, yeah. Maybe not. Sometimes our minds want to do their own thing and we can discover other sides to our personalities. Can we control it? Should we always seek to?
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https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-risks-being-rational-sensible-distant-man-snsw/ https://psychcentral.com/lib/humor-as-weapon-shield-and-psychological-salve https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/LSRP.php
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What’s Coming This Episode?Ed has been elected as a local councillor! Wow. The fun starts now. We thought an episode about democracy was in order. What does it mean? How did we end up where we are? Can Ed navigate the ups and downs of local politics?
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week
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What’s Coming This Episode?In the world of religion beliefs will often clash. This God, that God, the other God… while religion and spirituality has the ability to lift us up and fill us with purpose and wonder, it can also leave a negative mark. What’s your perspective?
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week * Ed recommended the movie ‘Spotlight’ * Sean linked to The Textbook of Yoga Psychology by R. S. Mishra
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What’s Coming This Episode?There has been a wedding in the family, so Sean is thinking about relationships again! Let’s have a chat…
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week
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What’s Coming This Episode?Boris Johnson has been up to some of his old tricks again – bending the truth. Yet, is he being truthful? We’ve seen the photos and videos, yet he seems to be speaking the truth… so what is the truth??
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What’s Coming This Episode?A bit of a ‘shoot from the hip’ episode from Sean and Ed today, where they decided to just shoot the breeze and talk politics, the world and a few things in between. Enjoy!
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What’s Coming This Episode?Why is it that some people seem to get all of the luck and others always seem to have none? It is just chance or are there deeper issues at play? Let’s chat!
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week * International Women’s Day * The harder I work, the luckier I get * World’s most unlucky people * 10 proven ways to make your own luck
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What’s Coming This Episode?It’s good to talk. We all know that! Don’t we? Well, yeah probably. But best to have a chat about it hey? Let’s go…
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week * Time to Talk Day * Why it’s not always good to talk * Ed linked to the great folks at Create Streets
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What’s Coming This Episode?Blue Monday has been and gone, but how much should we worry about it? The seasons affect our mood, but how can we set ourselves up for the best chance of keeping a level head through the winter months and beyond?
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Show Notes and Links* Credit card borrowing is very high. Yikes * What is Blue Monday?
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What’s Coming This Episode?The Royal Family are in the news – airing their dirty washing in public as we see from time to time. Families are complex things so there’s plenty we can learn about how we interact with our nearest and dearest…
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Show Notes and Links* Life lessons from the Royal family * More lessons we can learn from the Windsors, etc.
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What’s Coming This Episode?New year, new you! Hit the gym! No booze! Well, probably, but maybe not. Goals don’t have to be big or small… you don’t even have to set any! Sean and Ed talk it through. All the best for 2023.
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week * Are new years resolutions effective? * Resolution ideas from the NYT
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What’s Coming This Episode?And, here we are again! The season of goodwill is upon us. Why do we need to wait for Christmas to offer our fellow human beings goodwill? What is the matter with 364 other days of the years that you don’t offer goodwill then? It gives a lot of meaning to the song “I wish it could be Christmas everyday”.
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week * The true meaning of Christmas * The history of Christmas
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What’s Coming This Episode?When children fly the nest it can leave quite a hole – not just in the home itself but also in the lives of the people that live there. How can you prepare for the changes and how can you embrace your new life? Let’s talk!
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Show Notes and Links* Sean’s blog post for the week * Advice for kids when moving out * Tips for parents when kids move out
Resource of the week* Sean linked to this blog post * Ed reminded folks of this great move – The Bucket List
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What's Coming This Episode? Winter is setting in and this year is a bit different thanks to a serious cost of living crisis that has hit the UK and many other nations across the world. Sean and Ed are keen to talk about their tips for staying warm and conserving energy as best we can.
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Heating spaces not people The history of the Qatar World Cup Hip scarves for Christmas?
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What's Coming This Episode? We've been quiet... again! This is just a quick episode to say what's been occurring and how we're all doing. We also chat about the current predicament facing the good folks of the UK and Planet Earth.
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It's the permacrisis, innit Sean's original explanation about his health Issues in the UK around the cost of living How to recover from open heart surgery
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What's Coming This Episode? It always seems amazing when a dramatic situation develops somewhere in the world and, what seems to be, the whole of humanity come together in a spirit of good will with the desire to get something right. Do you remember when the Wild Boars football team became trapped in a cave system alongside their coach. Luckily the coach was an ex Buddhist monk, of ten years standing, who taught the team to be mindful, meditate and await a rescue that non of them knew would come.
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Sean's blog post for the week
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What's Coming This Episode? Is it right to give part of your body to another person? Some people who become donors donate their body once they are dead while others do so while they are still alive giving away a kidney, bone marrow, eggs and semen, blood and so on. The whole issues raises so many questions. The main one being just because we can do something should we?
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Sean's blog post for the week The NS organ donation website
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What's Coming This Episode? The Queen is dead. A big moment for a nation and not something us Brits have experienced for a very long time. Death ain't easy but what happens when a nation mourns?
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A Twitter thread discussing the idea of the Queen's death
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What's Coming This Episode? Why do we gossip? The assumption by evolutionary psychology is that creating a small gossiping group was a way of bonding the group together. The gossip would normally concern people outside of this small group that would be open to criticism. Yet, we can be a part of the group and still be the subject of gossip when we are not there. Have you ever walked into a room and suddenly it goes quiet and the question is ‘what were you all talking about before I came in?’
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode Why people gossip
Resource of the Week
Sean - The LITP Book Ed - https://time.com/5680457/why-do-people-gossip/
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What's Coming This Episode? 'My current experience of family is mind blowing. I recently had ten weeks in hospital and the family were in daily contact, wishing me well, enquiries, food and gifts. What a difference. Back in my childhood home I could have felt abandoned. Though it is true that in extreme emergencies they would gather round and act.'
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode https://hanleyfoundation.org/resources/educational-tools/the-importance-of-family/ https://theimportantsite.com/10-reasons-family-is-important/ https://family.lovetoknow.com/about-family-values/no-family-no-friends-how-cope-being-alone https://www.wikihow.com/Live-a-Good-Life-Without-Good-Family
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Create-Family-Life-step-step/dp/1797452002/ Ed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMgokYWboU
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A very special edition of The Self Help Podcast today as we explain why the show has been off air for so long. It turns out Sean has been quite unwell (to put it mildly).
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What's Coming This Episode? All around us people enact their power in order to win. It might be that we are at a crowded bar trying to get a drink so that we and a whole group of other people are trying to gain the attention of the bartender to get their order met. Who gets to the til first, gets on the bus first?
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode A bit of background on the tennis stuff Issues at Parliament eh? Support for work place bullying
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.businessinsider.com/difference-between-being-mentally-strong-and-having-big-ego-2020-7?amp Ed - https://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Being-a-Victim-of-Bullying
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What's Coming This Episode? Is it better to be polite and to say what you know, or think you know the other person wants to hear. Or to be honest and say what you actually think or feel?
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Growing-Through-Feedback-Graciously/dp/1532845294/ Ed - https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2017/07/08/cruel-to-be-kind-when-its-ok-to-make-someone-feel-bad
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What's Coming This Episode? Kindness is a fundamental aspect of all successful human communications and relationships. In many ways we can’t talk about kindness enough. You would expect me to say this because I always do… …If we all look after each other we will all be okay… We all have such great potential for love, care and kindness if we just stop long enough to listen and respond appropriately.
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode The Science of Kindness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9UByLyOjBM
Resource of the Week
Sean - Here is a link to a full metta loving kindness meditation https://palousemindfulness.com/meditations/lovingkindness.html Ed. Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHlpmxLTxpw
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What's Coming This Episode? Ed & Sean are back from 4 days in the city of Amsterdam. It's a funny place to come back from - most friends and family have made quips about getting stoned, drunk or hanging out with strippers. However, we were there on a mission to see how a functioning city works. We visited Fully Charged Live but also got to wander aimlessly around the amazing streets of the old city. People walking, cycling and even the odd person driving. It had a big impact on us both - here's what we thought.
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode Fully Charged Show Fully Charged Recruitment Not Just Bikes See Ed's photos here How the Dutch got their cycle paths
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What's Coming This Episode? There is a time in the madness of the world when I guess all that you can do is laugh. At this time it can be easy to feel that there is nothing good happening in the world. We have covid and the ongoing effects of covid, real wars and not just rumours of wars, the ongoing effects of Brexit, the ongoing antics of Trump and the ego stretching of Putin, what seems to be a collapsing NHS and Boris in number 10. This has to be the time to make a joke and have a laugh I think.
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode Sean appeared on an episode of 'Making Sense' with our very good friend Alison Blackler Laughter is the best medicine
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.scienceofpeople.com/laughter-lunch/ Ed - https://happytimesactivities.co.uk
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What's Coming This Episode? Keep smiling. It's Sean's favourite sign off for each episode! Easy to say, and for some it's easy to do. But do we know the science of smiling? Can smiling be 'learned' or is it instinctive for some and not for others?
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode The real benefits of smiling How Britain fell for adult braces
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.sclhealth.org/blog/2019/06/the-real-health-benefits-of-smiling-and-laughing/ Ed - https://selecthealth.org/blog/2019/04/why-smiling-is-good-for-you
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What's Coming This Episode? With covid, food banks and the Ukrainian war the concept of generosity and giving comes, for many of us, clearly into focus. Often we feel helpless in the face of all the trauma and the need to give something can ease our emotional burden and make us feel better. How much can it help? Let's explore...
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Read Sean's blog post for the episode Check out the Wirral Wombles - get litter picking!
Resource of the Week
Sean - Write a Gratitude Journal Ed - https://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_delong_generosity_a_path_to_deep_connection
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What's Coming This Episode? Between the 1950s and the 1970s Britains favourite holiday destination was Britain. The West Country was heaving with people, not only from the UK but, from all over the world. COVID taught us to appreciate our local environment more and now a fuel and energy crisis looks to do similar. Can we take the hint? How can we make the most of our time off?
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week History of the holiday
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.timeout.com/uk/things-to-do/best-places-to-visit-in-the-uk Ed - Cheap train tickets! https://www.gov.uk/government/news/over-one-million-half-price-rail-tickets-in-first-ever-great-british-rail-sale
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What's Coming This Episode? Everywhere I am looking I am seeing the expanding crisis with Putin in Ukraine. As I look across the world it all seems so much like an action replay of the 1930s prior to the Second World War. This is a tough blog and very much embedded in our time and the very things that are happening around us. Across the world there is political lurch to the right that, in many cases, is becoming fascistic.
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week 2 + 2 = 5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5 Three levels of human consciousness
Resource of the Week
Sean - How to avoid a fascist future https://psmag.com/ideas/natasha-lennard-on-how-to-avoid-a-fascist-future Ed - IPCC report HOLY SHIT https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60987614
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What's Coming This Episode? We live in a strange world where physical violence is seen as bad and verbal violence becomes acceptable. Is it okay for someone to make a joke about your partner on national TV? Do we sit back and say nothing? To be kind is so easy and creates so much positivity. Why do we need to get nasty?
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week The benefits of kindness https://www.happiness.com/magazine/science-psychology/benefits-of-kindness/ Kindness at work https://hbr.org/2021/05/dont-underestimate-the-power-of-kindness-at-work
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Kindness-Unexpected-Benefits-Compassionate/dp/1585425885 Ed - https://gonaturalenglish.com/how-to-say-no-politely/
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What's Coming This Episode? If happiness is infectious... could we create a pandemic of laughter? Why not??? Let's raise the mood a bit.
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week What's with Bhutan? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14243512 Check out Headspace https://www.headspace.com
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://www.happiness.com/magazine/inspiration-spirituality/why-happiness-is-a-state-of-mind/ Ed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAYEQP8gx3w
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What's Coming This Episode? We all have that inner voice that tells us if we are doing right or wrong. I say we all have it – even a full blown psychopath has an inner voice it is just that it is never heard or listened to. Your inner voice is your conscience. Let's discuss how much it can be trusted and when to question it...
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://thriveglobal.com/stories/why-you-should-listen-to-your-inner-voice/ Ed - https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/internal-monologue
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What's Coming This Episode? We use the word ‘addiction’ to indicate an illness which is based on the behaviour of a person who is compulsively or habitually ‘addicted’ to a substance or a set of behaviours. Most behaviours that are described as addictions are seen as negative. When we hear the word addiction we tend to think of drugs or alcohol. We might even consider the workaholic. Which ever way we view it addiction is seen negative. Are we all addicts?
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/alcohol-support https://drinkcoach.org.uk/where-can-i-get-help
Resource of the Week
Sean - https://ascpjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13722-018-0115-3 Ed - https://www.ted.com/talks/rod_phillips_a_brief_history_of_alcohol
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What's Coming This Episode? In modern psychology we talk a lot about living in the present, letting go of what has been and c relating the future that we want to live. The reality for us all is that you cannot get into you or present and create a new future if you are weighed down and hampered by unresolved past. In order that we are able to move on into a new future, that is not hampered by the weight of the unresolved past, we often need to do an internal audit of stock take at this time. Even that sounds easier than it is. Let’s have quick review of what we mean by past, present and future...
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week Watch Enes Yilmazer gives amazing tours of the huge, empty homes of the rich
Resource of the Week
Sean linked to the LITP book Ed linked to our free podcast version of the LITP course starting at episode 398
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What's Coming This Episode? Science tells us that it takes seventeen muscles to smile and as many as forty three to frown. That means it takes a lot more effort to be miserable than it does to be happy. So, what it is that makes some people happy while others are not. So what does the science tell us?
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Here's Sean's blog post for the week Watch Enes Yilmazer gives amazing tours of the huge, empty homes of the rich
Resource of the Week
Sean is still loving The Happy Newspaper Ed loved A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD with Tom Hanks
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What’s Coming This Episode? Following on from the last episode Sean had a conversation with a group of workers who have decided to do something different. The group discussion got into the fear of staying where they are as opposed to the fear of change and owing something different. Are you ready to make the change? What are the ups and downs?
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Show Notes and Links * Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Resource of the Week * Sean linked to the classic ‘The Attractor Factor’ by Joe Vitale * Ed enjoyed this ‘10 Steps to a successful Career Change‘ article
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What’s Coming This Episode? A listener contacted us and told their recent story of disappointment after they didn’t get their dream job. Do we need to be disappointed? Can it be avoided, or is there a lesson in there for us to take forward?
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Show Notes and Links * Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Resource of the Week * Sean liked this Tiny Buddha post * Ed found this article on Positivity Blog
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What’s Coming This Episode? Doubt and fear are both forms of anxiety and worry. We know that worrying is a habit as is being happy. If you are a worrier, or if you are happy, then you were not born like it, where did you learn it?
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Show Notes and Links * Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Resource of the Week * Sean * Ed
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What’s Coming This Episode? Winter is here. Sort of. I mean, it’s quite cold and definitely dark. Anyway, it can have an impact on us (as discussed last week) so how do we make the most of it and keep our chins up?
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Show Notes and Links * Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week
Resource of the Week * Sean linked to this book about the Danish art of Hygge * Ed showed his love of hot water bottles
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The lockdown continues. Week 4 in the UK and some new habits are forming. The excitement has worn off and reality is setting in. As ever though, we have a choice as to how we respond. Sean and Ed do their best to help you choose learning and growth...
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An update from the UK as we continue with restrictions on movement and everyday life. Are things getting tougher or easier? Let's have a chat and don't be shy about getting in touch, guys.
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The lockdown continues in the UK and around the world - it will be with us for a while. New routines and habits are being formed. Struggles remain, but hope exists and good things are a'happening. Sean and Ed take a look at some of the positives from #COVID19...
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Well, we're all settling in to our new way of living. It's hard, for sure. Many feel trapped or disillusioned. Some feel a deep sense of loneliness or loss. However, are there some upsides to our new world? Is it OK to embrace certain aspects of it?
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The world has tilted on its axis in a matter of weeks. There's pain and anxiety, but there is hope too. Sean and Ed dive in for a quick catchup on where we're up to and setup the possibility of greater things to come for us all...
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COVID-19 has made a dramatic entrance in recent weeks. Around the world, life for us all has changed in ways we could barely have predicted just a few weeks ago. Isolation is a reality for many already and, as drastic measures are put in place, it will become reality for many more. How can we cope in this new life? What can we do to adapt? Let's dive in...
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Performance anxiety should be well known to many of us, but can have a huge effect on the wellbeing of an individual. Sure, we may have heard of well known artists that struggle on stage. Their struggle is real, but it also can effect us every day Joe's on a day to day basis.
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Being a little shy is one thing, but imagine being completely unable to cope in social situations - at work, at your local supermarket... social anxiety disorder is real and requires serious work to overcome. Let's have a chat about it...
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People often suffer in silence. Many go through that trauma in silence. But when a high profile man or woman leaves us we are left to ask why, as a community. The death of Caroline Flack has asked us all some very big questions one of which is, why can we be so unkind?
In the next part of our anxiety series, we're looking at phobias. Ed doesn't like spiders. Like really doesn't like them. But why?! Is it rational or irrational to be afraid of things... and can it be cured?
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Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterised by recurrent unexpected panic attacks. One thing is for sure - they ain't much fun. In our mini-series focussing on different types of anxiety, Sean and Ed take a look at panic attacks and how to deal with them.
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Anxiety is something we all deal with in one form or another, and is a topic that crops up over and over again in the work we do. Sean stumbled across an article that seeked to take a fresh look at what is, or can be, an extremely serious reason for poor mental health.
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It's important to take time out. We all know that. But when does taking time out become time wasting, laziness and procrastination? Let's dig in...
Blue Monday has been and gone! Hopefully you were completely unaware and are still smashing 2020 with that new year, new decade vibe. But the winter blues are a real, and many be reeling from the post-Christmas blues. Is this a dangerous time of year for the more fragile amongst us? For all of us??
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Harry and Meghan have hit the news in recent weeks as they seek to blaze a new trail as independent, care free citizens of Planet Earth. Theirs is quite a unique case but there are lessons to be learnt for us ere mortals. How do we solve family feuds?
Would you trust you country in the hands of a 34 year old? Finlanders have! Sean and Ed got to thinking about the age old question around youth vs experience. Do you need a certain number of years to lead people? Are you ever too long in the tooth to take a certain job? Let's dive in...
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Last week we talked about how you can use the past as a positive resource. This week we look ahead to the new decade and give advice on how to stick to your guns. Happy new year!
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What’s Coming This Episode? Well the decade is drawing to a close. How’s it been for you? This week, Sean and Ed have a chat about whether it’s healthy to look back on life… Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links The only 5 reasons your should […]
It's the most wonderful time of the year, right? Things dingle-ing-ing, etc.? Well, for some it ain't such a happy time. Stress to keep up appearances, spend time with people you'd rather not see and the financial hit can make it an unhappy time for many. Let's have a chat and see if we can work through it...
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It's election day in the UK and it's a big moment. 3 years of argy-bargy comes down to this. Don't get scared now. Sean and Ed needed to get some things off their chests and we hope some of you find this mildly therapeutic! Get and vote, folks...
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