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TSHP521: New Life & Grandparenting

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. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! […]

TSHP520: Getting out of your comfort zone

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. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Links The Good News Network – lady in Warrington challenges […]

TSHP519: How useful is anger?

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 […]

THSP518: Truth & Lies

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 […]

TSHP517: A Quick Pre/Post Election Episode

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… Enjoy the show, it’s […]

TSHP516: Your Brain Can Be Fooled

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 […]

TSHP515: Nature and Mental Health 

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 […]

TSHP514: Processing Trauma

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 […]

TSHP513 – The Barnum Effect (Revisited)

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 […]

TSHP512: New Beginnings

What’s Coming This Episode? An episode recorded near Easter which enabled us to chat about new beginnings. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week The ‘new’ oldest man in the world Stay in Touch We’re all over the web, so feel free to […]