Heatwaves are silent killers, and the death toll is often recognised only months after the official figures emerge. If heatwaves were named as storms to highlight the risk they pose, the dangers would be more widely recognised. Indeed, one in Europe in 2017 got more attention when it was nicknamed Lucifer, which kills many more people each year in the UK than in any storm. Heat exposure has also been linked with an increased risk of death or disability among children, older adults, people with c...
Aug 15, 2022•16 min•Season 5Ep. 269
One of the body’s most influential alarm signals is a headache, which is often a sign of physical or psychological overload. A headache occurs because of a primary or secondary cause. Globally, it has been estimated that the prevalence among adults of current headache disorder is approximately 50%. Half to three-quarters of adults aged 18–65 worldwide have had a headache in the last year. Primary headaches Migraine, or tension headaches, are among the most common primary headaches that lead peop...
Aug 13, 2022•38 min•Season 5Ep. 268
What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a condition marked by a pattern of grandiosity, fixation on power fantasies, desire for admiration, arrogance, lack of empathy, and envy. Individuals with NPD may be overly sensitive to criticism, though they may hide their fragile self-esteem behind a self-important exterior. NPD is the second most prevalent personality disorder, affecting about 6.2% of the population 1 . It is one of ten personality disorders...
Aug 07, 2022•7 min•Season 5Ep. 267
Smart, Effective Ways to Protect Yourself from Negativity Negativity affects your life on every level. It can ruin relationships, decrease work performance, and increase stress levels. The good news is that you can fight it by changing your mindset. Not sure where to start? Listen to the following bright, effective ways to protect yourself from negativity: Don't Take It Personally. Most people act in a certain way based on their previous experiences and current circumstances. Perhaps someone too...
Aug 07, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 266
Self-respect and respect from others are closely aligned. They are both something that everyone desires. Self-esteem is an admirable trait. It is something that we can recognize in another person by their actions, attitudes and demeanour. When we see someone manifesting self-respect, we unconsciously respect them more. Conversely, it is harder to respect someone who exhibits little respect for themselves. While on the surface, it is reasonable to assume that everyone deserves respect, this is te...
Aug 06, 2022•10 min•Season 5Ep. 265
How to look after the most important person in your life. Interestingly, one of the things that we typically feel guilty about is taking care of our own needs. It feels downright selfish to focus on yourself when there is so much you could be doing for others. While compassion, empathy, and kindness are outstanding qualities, we also have to direct a little of that towards ourselves. If you have ever felt guilty about self-care, take some time to think about the following nine facts. Self-Care I...
Aug 06, 2022•6 min•Season 5Ep. 264
What’s Love Got to Do With It One way to define love is as a strong connection between two individuals. This relationship can be either romantic or platonic. Romantic love means that both parties are attracted to each other and want to spend time together. Platonic love refers to a close companionate friendship where people care deeply about each other without sexual involvement. Both relationships require trust, respect, honesty, and mutual understanding. We feel love when we care about another...
Jul 30, 2022•10 min•Season 5Ep. 263
Tips to Increase Trust in Yourself You may have a difficult time trusting yourself. Don’t despair. You are not alone. It is something that many people experience, and find difficult to overcome. When you lose trust in others, you start to lose trust in yourself. To help you overcome this problem, you need to focus on key aspects of trust. The first is to have faith in your accomplishments. If you pass off your accomplishments as not being that important, when you need to rely on them, they won’t...
Jul 23, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 262
Feeling a bit down lately, maintaining a positive mood when life gives us lemons can be challenging. If you are feeling down, there are ways to help yourself feel better. Here are some natural remedies that will help lift your spirits and improve your well-being Read A Book, Listen To A Podcast Or Music Reading a book or listening to a podcast is an easy and accessible way to take care of your mental health and relax. A book can be an enjoyable escape with something for everyone, while podcasts ...
Jul 22, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 261
Extroverts and introverts are two types of people who generally prefer different activities, environments, and work styles. Extroverts tend to be more social and enjoy being around other people, and they seek stimulation from their environment and thrive on new experiences. They may appear to be having fun, but they’re likely just doing it for you. Introverts are the opposite. They generally don’t enjoy being around many people or doing activities requiring attention from others. Instead, they p...
Jul 20, 2022•10 min•Season 5Ep. 260
Five Steps to More Confident Decision-Making How do you make a decision? Do you know the steps? If you’re having trouble feeling confident in your actions and wish you had an unwavering self-belief in your decisions, maybe it's time to look at your decision-making process. Decisions made impulsively or without careful thought might not always turn out the way you hope they will. Of course, there's something to be said for instinct and even dumb luck. But what if good decisions were inevitable ra...
Jul 16, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 259
8 Tips That Work for Stopping Negative Thinking Patterns You’re tired, and it’s been a long day. It feels like there’s more in your life going wrong than going right. You come home and slump on the couch and wonder just how it was that your life started going so wrong. Stop. We all fall prey to negative thought patterns. It’s so easy to see the worst-case scenario, to focus on the bad things in our lives, especially when we’re tired. But by focusing on the negativity, what we’re doing is hurting...
Jul 09, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 258
Confidence I talk to a lot of professionals and salespeople and even entrepreneurs, people starting their own businesses, and they want to learn how can I develop more confidence or even just get myself a bit of confidence so that I can be more successful in what I do. You have to realize what confidence comes from and what confidence means. Confidence is your ability to take action and feel good about yourself. Feel like whatever it is you're about to endeavour into, that you can do a good job ...
Jul 09, 2022•4 min•Season 5Ep. 257
I want to talk a little about goal setting and goal achievement, which quite truthfully is probably the most overdone topic in any genre in the world. Everybody has done a goal-setting exercise at some point, whether it was in high school or in college or university or their first job. I realize that we've all done it, but the truth of the matter is very few people, in the grand scheme of things in this world, anywhere on the globe, very few people have goals written down. What that tells me is ...
Jul 09, 2022•6 min•Season 5Ep. 256
8 Proven Ways Walking Improves Your Brain It might surprise you to hear that something as simple as walking can actually improve your brainpower. It doesn’t even have to be full-on power walking! Even a twenty- or thirty-minute walk during your lunch break can have a positive impact on your brain. Here are eight ways science has proven that walking is excellent for your brain. 1. Walking Helps Lower Your Risk of Depression Walking is an excellent way to improve your mental health. A 2018 study s...
Jul 06, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 255
In psychology, emotion is often defined as a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence thought and behaviour. In other words, It impacts how we feel, believe, and behave, and it also plays a role in determining how we manage social situations and make decisions. Different Types of Emotions There are three main types of emotions: 1. Positive Emotions (enthusiasm, joy, love, pride, gratitude, and hope), 2. Negative Emotions (anxiety, depression, gui...
Jul 04, 2022•12 min•Season 5Ep. 254
When Is Empathy the Wrong Response? Are you an empathetic person? A lot of people will answer that question positively. No one likes to admit that they're selfish or that they can't understand the emotions of others. Then there are those people who simply don't realize they aren't good at identifying situations that require an empathetic response. The definition of empathy is understanding another person's feelings about a situation by looking at it from their point of view. Empathy then means s...
Jul 02, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 253
Introduction Grief is a powerful emotion generally associated with death. You might hear that someone is grieving after the loss of a loved one. It's a natural step to recovery. Psychiatrist Elizabeth Kubler Ross published a book in 1969 titled "On Death and Dying" and introduced us to the five stages of grief. These are different emotions a person experiences when dealing with a terminal illness or the death of someone close to them. Author David Kessler added a sixth stage of grief in his book...
Jul 02, 2022•9 min•Season 5Ep. 252
Understanding the 3 Types of Empathy Empathy is a wonderfully selfless response to someone else's plight. Not only do you feel sympathetic for someone in a bad situation, but you understand their feelings. You fully experience the event from the perspective of the person going through it. In some cases, it's almost as if you're physically and emotionally living through the experience yourself. This can be very draining for the highly empathetic individual. They're always seeing situations where ...
Jul 01, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 251
Understanding the 3 Types of Empathy Empathy is a wonderfully selfless response to someone else's plight. Not only do you feel sympathetic for someone in a bad situation, but you understand their feelings. You fully experience the event from the perspective of the person going through it. In some cases, it's almost as if you're physically and emotionally living through the experience yourself. This can be very draining for the highly empathetic individual. They're always seeing situations where ...
Jul 01, 2022•3 min•Season 3Ep. 251
The Benefits of Empathy The empathetic person takes on the feelings of another. When you act with empathy, you share emotions and feelings. Some people can almost physically feel what another person is going through. Others might have a less intense experience. In any situation, empathy helps you to understand and relate to others. It's a social skill that everyone should develop. Empathy can help you build trust in your personal and career relationships. Like sympathy, empathy means you feel ba...
Jul 01, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 250
5 Steps to Shift Your Limiting Beliefs for Good How are you your own worst enemy? We limit ourselves so much. We live in our heads and come up with all these ways to keep us from getting anything accomplished. Even though deep down, we know we're good enough, and how much we're fully capable of getting things done. The only way to get past these self-sabotaging behaviours is to take active, intentional steps to remedy your thinking. Let's look at 5 steps that will shift your limiting beliefs for...
Jun 28, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 249
Restoring Your Self-Worth After a Toxic Relationship Well, that didn’t go right. We walk into a relationship with so much enthusiasm. We think what we’ve found is the best thing in the world, which is a heady feeling for while it lasts. Sadly, when a relationship is toxic, we’re frequently the last to know. By the time we escape, our self-worth has already taken a hefty blow. So, how do you restore positive feelings about yourself after a toxic relationship? Release Your Victimhood The more you ...
Jun 28, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 248
Do You Love Or Hate Your Work? Back in my corporate days, I worked for a huge company where it was easy to become just another face in the crowd. It was your typical corporate setting where you would find many people who truly hated being there. There was one lady in particular whose cubicle I would pass on a daily basis. Practically every time I walked by, she would be on a social networking or celebrity gossip website. If managers were in the area, she would quickly perk up and look busy. When...
Jun 25, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 247
Am I Too Impatient? The next time you get on an elevator, pay attention to the other passengers when they get on. The patient ones will step in, push the button to their desired floor, step aside and smile while they ride. An impatient person will step in, choose their floor, and start tapping the close door button if it doesn’t move fast enough. You might shake your head at the spectacle unless you can commiserate with the impatient person. It is possible to be too impatient. Your quality of li...
Jun 19, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 246
Reasons We Struggle with Patience The alarm fails to go off, so you oversleep. Now you are late, and you have a flat tire to make things worse. You know that if one more thing happens, you might explode with some expletives that would make a sailor blush. Every day, we fight to maintain a sense of calm as the world around us pushes our patience buttons. We may have heard that patience is a virtue, but why is it so hard to be patient? What factors play into our ability to let go of our frustratio...
Jun 19, 2022•2 min•Season 5Ep. 245
Great Leaders Embrace Failure – You Should Too If you hate failing, that's a good thing. It means you're driven. People that aren't fazed by failure or loss don't expect much of themselves. You're different. You're like most folks because failure is frustrating to you. You can begin to question yourself when you get something wrong. Likewise, you wonder if you're capable of achieving what's important to you. Even small failures can lead to an "I quit" attitude. Have several small setbacks in a r...
Jun 19, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 244
Steve Jobs Gives You Permission to Be Different Steve Jobs was notoriously hard on his staff. It's well known that he could be difficult to work for. He was also superb at running Apple Inc., which he co-founded with Stephen Wozniak. The two young men began business together in 1976. They worked out of Jobs' garage. What would eventually become a hugely successful computer and cell phone manufacturing company started out with very little money? Wozniak sold a programmable calculator, and Steve J...
Jun 18, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 243
What a Dyslexic High School Dropout Turned Billionaire Can Teach You About Leadership If you accumulate a billion dollars in net worth, you'll develop some leadership skills in the process. Hit that billion-dollar figure several times over, and your ability as a leader has to be pretty sharp. That's the case with a high school dropout who ran away from education at the tender age of 16. His teachers called him lazy. He just didn't seem to fit in. He didn't know it at the time, but many of his pr...
Jun 18, 2022•3 min•Season 5Ep. 242
Gender identity Gender is used to describe the characteristics of men and women that are socially constructed, while sex refers to those that are biologically determined. Individuals are born male or female but learn to be boys and girls who grow into men and women, and this learned behaviour makes up their gender identity and determines gender roles. (The WHO gender policy, 2002). Gender identity, and sexual orientation, are two very different things. Gender identity refers to a person’s sense ...
Jun 13, 2022•27 min•Season 5Ep. 241
