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Extraversion

written by: Richard Nicholls
Myth busting today.
Following on a little from the episode the other week on introversion. Today is about the opposite end of the scale.
Or is it?
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Cliches and Toxic Positivity

written by: Richard Nicholls
Positive messages such as "Keep Calm & Carry On" or "Don't Worry Be Happy" sound like a good idea.
But sometimes we need to acknowledge how we feel and I wonder if the overly optimistic ignorance of positive messages can do more harm than good sometimes.
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Hope

written by: Richard Nicholls
Today feels very solemn. The TV and Radio are playing non stop slow music and even adverts were suspended.
So it feels a little incongruent for me to start your Monday with a cheery "It's great to be alive!"
I'll take it a little slow this week. And we'll see what protocols we're all expected to follow for old Queenie's funeral next week.
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Psychometrics & Introverts

written by: Richard Nicholls
Psychometric tests like Myers-Briggs have been around for a hundred years, but are the actually any use to us?
Do these labels actually offer any advice?
All these questions and more in today's instalment!

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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 217: Forgive and Forget

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The dictionary defines "to forgive" as this: Verb. To stop feeling angry or resentful towards someone for an offence, flaw, or mistake.
But language evolves. And maybe, to you, forgive and forget doesn't mean letting go of something so as to feel better. It means forgive the abuser and forget the victim. And it shouldn't.
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Matt Elswood

Bonus Episode: Andrea McLean

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I was recently contacted by TV legend Andrea Mclean. Andrea has been working in the media for years but recently made the decision to take her life in a different direction and created an online community called This Girl Is On Fire all about personal growth.
This week is the launch of an App that accompanies it and so I thought it would be nice to get her on the podcast to talk a little bit about it.
I hope you find what we say useful!
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 216: Can We Not Care What Others Think?

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Worrying about what people think is a common issue.
Almost everyone comes into therapy with some aspect of this. It's worth drilling down on who we actually mean though, when we say to ourselves that we worry what "other people" think.
Who are these anonymous other people?
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 215: Sensitivity

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Because of what's called neurodiversity everyone's brain responds differently to stimulation.
Whether that's environmental or chemical stimulation.
Today's episode is about thriving in a stimulating world when our brain is sensitive to it.
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 214: Mental Focus

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Today is all about losing concentration, procrastinating and the reason why to be at your best you need to rest makes so much sense.
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 213: Situational Anxiety

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Situational anxiety is different to a generalised anxiety and needs working with in a slightly more "cognitive" way.

Today I talk about how to deal with some specific events that may be coming up in your life.
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 212: The Negativity Bias

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Did you know that after experiencing a negative stimulus in order to get your emotional state back to where it was before hand you need at least 4 experiences of something positive to erase the effects of that one experience of something negative?
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 211: Control

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When it feels as if the world is falling apart, our instincts can kick in to try and protect us by creating an urge to control as much as we can.
The thing is many of life's challenges are outside of our control anyway. Today we explore how to handle things when life feels out of control.
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Overwhelming Emotions

Episode 210: Overwhelming Emotions

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Emotions can overwhelm is to such a degree sometimes that we feel completely out of control. Complete rage or total panic.
How we handle those sorts of situations is going to be different for everyone, but maybe there are a few ways that you can learn about today.
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Life Changes

Episode 209: Life Changes

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Plato, the ancient Greek philosopher is quoted as once saying "Everything changes and nothing remains still. You cannot step twice into the same stream" I think he probably got the idea from Heraclitus who said “The only constant in life is change” So even 2 and a half thousand years ago we knew what we were up against. That change is normal and needs to be accepted. But that doesn't make it any easier when big things happen does it?
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Dealing With Toxic People

Episode 208: Dealing With Toxic People

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Love it or hate it, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas isn't it?
Unfortunately for a lot of folk, the people we might be expected to spend time with are not always the people whose company we enjoy.
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