To inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be. Learn about tackling mental health problems like Anxiety and Depression as well as simple tips to understand the world better, in a down to earth and genuine way with the Best Selling Author and Psychotherapist Richard Nicholls.
Overthinkers tell me all the time that a lot of their rumination is about what other people are thinking. But it's not whether other people are thinking positive things, people don't seem to ruminate on that. It's about judgement.
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Are you living your life based on your values or your goals?
What's the difference anyway?
Let's find out.
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Even without depression, sometimes we just get into a funk. Our motivation drops and all we feel capable of doing is staring into the distance and waiting to go back to bed again. It might seem as if there's no coming back from that but there is.
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With lots of retailers moving from the high street to retail parks or online. And with Brexit meaning a combination of both people and businesses moving to other countries we might find that moving jobs becomes more commonplace nowadays.
So how can we handle all of this?
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Have you ever bought something simply because a celebrity you like was paid to advertise it?
Maybe you haven't, maybe you think you can make your own mind up.
Or maybe you're as much of a sucker as the rest of us!
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If you didn't already know, the patriarchy still exists I'm sorry to say. Women are still having a hard time of things compared to men. But there seems to be an issue in creating equality.
Men don't seem to like it!
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Gaslighting is a phrase we use to mean being manipulated and to have your reality questioned.
Cults have been doing it for decades, maybe even for thousands of years.
Today I'm going to scratch the surface a bit.
Come and have a listen.
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One thing we can all guarantee is that we'll all receive some sort of criticism at some point.
The trick is to not let it get under our skin. Easier said than done though, but don't let that stop you.
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When "future you" doesn't even exist, it can be really hard to stick to your plan in the "now" to ensure that future you gets their needs met.
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Back in 1995 when britpop ruled the charts and the UN designated it The United Nations Year for Tolerance, British Telecom started a friends and family service to make it cheaper to call a handful of your favourite people with the slogan It's Good To Talk.
Everyone agreed.
Hopefully we do still think that, don't we?
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If you've ever set a goal for yourself and then found yourself deliberately sticking a spanner in the works knowing full well it'll cause you to fail then welcome to the human race. Because everyone does it.
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I might not the young man I once was, but there is a certain childishness to me that I'm hoping can keep me young.
Looking at the studies into attitude and ageing the odds are in my favour!
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Having free will is generally thought of as a good thing but it also comes with responsibility.
That's why decisions cause anxiety, whether it's about the little things or the big things.
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Most people live their life based around making other people happy to some degree. It's just how far we take it that determines whether or not it becomes a problem.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and its counterpart Complex PTSD, are life-altering conditions.
And although the symptoms may often resemble Anxiety and Depression, they need to be worked on in slightly different ways.
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Prompted by a few emails over the years. Today is all about dealing with having an insecure attachment style and how to best cope in a relationship despite it.
36 questions that lead to love.
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Today is all about biases.
In particular the in-group and out-group bias that drives our emotions way more than it should in the modern world.
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It's often said that there are 3 types of perfectionism. Self-Oriented Perfectionism, Other-Oriented Perfectionism and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism. Let's take a peek into them shall we?
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I have a couple of catchphrases, or if you ask my wife I repeat myself a lot and can be boring and predictable, either way you'll often hear me say one particular phrase.
"The brain can't separate fact from fiction."
If you've got this far through my Podcast series and not heard me say that then I must boring after all because you clearly fell asleep, because I say it a lot. And for good reason.
Gratitude, even about the simpler things in life, helps to dilute down the frustrations about the annoying things. But it's not always easy to find reasons to be grateful is it?
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