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TSHP202: Where do our attitudes come from and how can we change the unhealthy ones

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? Our attitudes are not often something we think about. They are how they are – we’ve had them for years and we do things without thinking. But take a look in the mirror every now and then and you may find […]

TSHP201: The Power of Altruism

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? You’d think after 200 episodes that we’d have exhausted all possible half help categories but far from it. The subject of altruism popped up on Ed’s feed and it’s a fantastic one. Here goes… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help […]

TSHP200: Why We Celebrate (OMG 200 EPISODES!)

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? A special occasion for the show as we hit 200 episodes. THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR SUPPORTING US OVER THE YEARS. We thought we’d take a moment to delve into why we have these […]

TSHP199: How to keep smiling

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? The World Happiness Report was recently published and it made for interesting reading as ever. There are plenty of clues within that can guide us on a path to ‘happiness’ (whatever that may be). Let’s dive in… Enjoy the show, it’s […]

TSHP198: Dealing with abandonment

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? When we make a change in our lives it can feel great. Progress! But what about those that are left behind, the abandoned? Let’s take a look at the other side… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes […]

TSHP196: Can depression be good for you?

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode?   Depression ain’t no walk in the park, that’s for sure. It’s a debilitating condition that can wreak havoc on a persons life. But is there light in amongst the darkness? Can some good come from depression? Enjoy the show, it’s […]

Depression might actually be a good thing

According to Kevin Loria in the Business Insider Thursday 16 February 2017 Depression may be our brain’s way of telling us to stop and solve a problem There is a theory that suggests that rather than being a problem depression might be a specific behavioural strategy that we have evolved as a biological adaptation that […]

TSHP195: Explaining the rise of fascism

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? If you’ve seen the news of late you may have noticed the wall to wall politics. The UK withdrawing in on it’s self, and the US now doing similar. Both are still functioning democracies but, for a small percentage of each […]

TSHP194: Is goal setting bad for us?

[button link=”https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-self-help-podcast/id663490789″ bg_color=”#2d7ec4″]Subscribe to The Self Help Podcast in iTunes[/button] What’s Coming This Episode? Do we really need goals? Most self help and development blogs will say ‘yes’. We probably have agreed at some point, but today Sean and Ed are exploring the idea that goal settings can be harmful. Enjoy the show, it’s The […]

Enough is Enough

Human beings tend to be acquisitive. They gather and collect. Part of this has to be based in our evolutionary past. Most animals survive by the gathering and hoarding of necessary staple supplies. I guess there is little difference between a squirrel burying nuts, a spider trapping a live wasp in its nest and the […]