TSHP058: Why Worry?

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What’s Coming This Episode?

Worrying is a habit, being happy is a habit. If you are a worrier, or if you are happy, where did you learn it?

When you are a worrier it is a form of obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD. Rumination on anything will make it bigger and bigger. It follows that rumination on positive things will lead to positive feelings and happiness. So…

Don’t worry, be happy. It’s The Self Help Podcast! Enjoy the show 🙂

Show Notes and Links

• Sean has of course written a blog post for this week’s show and here it is
• Here’s the chap that is documenting his progress whilst he works his way through our LITP book. We LOVE this
• We always bang on about the local coffee shop we hang out in, here where you can find it
• Letters from a Stoic by Seneca might just change your life
• More on Stoicism here

Resource of the Week

• Sean has found a great web page titled How to Stop Worrying: Self-Help Strategies for Anxiety Relief
• Ed is addicted to reading the Philosophers’ Mail, an offshoot of Alain de Botton’s The News: A User’s Manual

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