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The Self Help Podcast

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The Self Help Podcast is a show dedicated to your emotional health and well being. Self help is for everyone.
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Episodes

TDHP079: How to be Happy

[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? Ask most people what they really want from life and the answer will come back loud and clear – I want to be happy! It’s about time we really focussed on this issue then isn’t it? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s a link to this week’s blog post by Sean It’s official – The Sel...

Dec 04, 201437 min

TSHP078: Struggling to Empathise?

[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? It is often said that to be empathic you need to have walked in someone else’s shoes for a while to know exactly how they feel. Some are good at this and some not so good. Struggling with it? Fear not, it can be learned (or re-learned). Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s a lin...

Nov 27, 201437 min

TSHP077: Dealing With Loss

[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 there’s one certainty in life it’s that, for all of us, there will be an end. Dealing with our own is tricky enough to get your head round but, often, the loss of another can be the hardest thing of all. Sean and Ed are chatting about loss this week as well as the wider issue of change. Enjoy the show, it’s Th...

Nov 20, 201434 min

TSHP076: Goal Setting – How High Should You Aim?

[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? Goals. Some say they’re good, some aren’t so sure. Does the risk of failure and potential negative issues from that outweigh the glory of conquering that personal mountain? Who know? Perhaps Sean and Ed can shed some light on the issue… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s a lin...

Nov 13, 201435 min

TSHP075: Learning When to Say No

[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 title of this show is a little misleading as you’ll quickly realise. Sean isn’t a big fan of negative words and ‘No’ is pretty much as negative as it gets. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s a link to this week’s blog post by Sean Ed is a web designer , in case you didn’t ...

Nov 06, 201439 min

TSHP074: Keeping the ‘Spark’ in Your Relationship

[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? Ah, the early stages of romance. That buzz, that feeling. The funny thing is though, it tends not to last. Why? Well, quite a few reasons really but it’s not necessarily a bad thing. Over to Sean and Ed to shine some light on this one… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s a link...

Oct 30, 201435 min

TSHP073: What a Waste!

[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? Sean is mad with rage (well, as mad as Sean can get – which isn’t all that mad really) as he’s been reading about the amount of food we in the UK waste each year. It got us thinking about waste in general, about time and how much we value the energy given to us. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show No...

Oct 23, 201437 min

TSHP072: Dealing with Long Term Illness

[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? Whether you’re the person suffering from a long term illness or you happen to be caring for a loved one on a near-full time basis, your life is likely to be very challenging. Help is out there through, and it starts today with a few words from Sean and Ed… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes an...

Oct 16, 201437 min

TSHP071: The Importance of Failure

[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? Failure, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder; only you can define your failures and acknowledge your successes. Behind every great genius, inventor or business person extraordinaire there lies a huge catalogue of failures. So… how many mistakes have you made today? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcas...

Oct 09, 201438 min

TSHP070: Dealing With Abuse

[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 serious topic this week: domestic abuse. Where does it come from? Why does it take so long for those suffering to speak out? There are countless underlying issues to discuss here, and Sean spends roughly 20% of his professional life dealing with this in one form another. So here goes. Enjoy the show, it’s The S...

Oct 02, 201436 min

TSHP069: How Do We Define Success?

[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? How do you define success and how do you measure it? Money, cars, shiny things, titles and stature count for little in the game of life. So how do we measure ourselves? Let’s discuss it… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s a link to this week’s blog post by Sean A HuffPost blog...

Sep 25, 201442 min

TSHP068: Lessons From Little 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? A special guest these week meant a change of plan for the show – Ed’s 2 (and three quarter) year old son William! Will stayed in the background most of the time (apologies for the odd interruption on his behalf) and left Sean and Ed to talk about the lessons that people of his age, height and disposition can teac...

Sep 18, 201431 min

TSHP067: How to Start Over

[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 life is fun and the things that we do become a joy every Monday becomes a joy as we head back to work and every evening becomes a joy as we head home. When life is out of balance it does not work and we become unhappy. It’s at this time when we most need energy. So where can we find it? Enjoy the show, it’s ...

Sep 11, 201436 min

TSHP066: Suicide & The Value of Life

[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 death of Robin Williams has struck a chord and raised an issue that has, up to now, been mainly hidden. Middle aged suicides in both males and females has remained largely unaddressed. The idea that suicide is cowardice is held by those with little understanding or empathy and they can be forgiven for their i...

Sep 04, 201435 min

TSHP065: Food, Mood & Body Shape

[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? Food. We can’t live without it but it’s far more than just a simple source of energy for we civilised human beings of the developed world. A near unlimited supply of food for the lucky few plus access to a media that demands we be a certain shape and size, however, was bound to cause problems and many, if not all...

Aug 28, 201434 min

TSHP064: Travel as Therapy

[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? It’s holiday season and people across the UK and beyond are packing up their bags and heading away for a week or two. Are they headed to the right places though? Travel is a wonderful thing and deserves a lot of thought. The right holiday can change your life for the better, the wrong choice can leave you in a wo...

Aug 21, 201436 min

TSHP063: Watch Your Mouth!

[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? An interesting thing happens when you open your mouth to talk. Your mind hears what you’re saying. Do you listen to what you say? Do you hear the tone of your voice? Do you realise how you are heard by others? Well, maybe you should… Enjoy, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s the link to this ...

Aug 14, 201437 min

TSHP062: Wasting Time

[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? At the start of everyday the universe gives you a cheque for time, that is 24 hours or 1440 minutes. The same happens everyday. That is 525,600 minutes per year or in a lifetime, if you live to ninety, and you probably will, a total of 47,304,000 minutes. What do you do with your time? Time can be invested well, ...

Aug 07, 201435 min

TSHP061: The Joy of Giving & Receiving

[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 law of attraction would state that you need to be able to give in order to receive. When it comes right down to it all that we ever give is love. It may be in the form of charity as money, food or water aid or disaster relief. We may volunteer our time or resources. We may give gifts for birthdays, Christmas,...

Jul 31, 201435 min

TSHP60: Dealing With Rejection

[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 feel devalued by rejection it is because we do not value our self enough. The feeling of rejection happens within us, it is not done to us we do it to our self. That said, rejection is something that will haunt us all at one time or another, so let’s dive deeper and explore it this week… It’s The Self Hel...

Jul 24, 201436 min

TSHP059: Dealing With Traumatic Events

[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? At some point in our lives, like it or not, a potentially traumatic event will hit us. Trauma is a Greek word meaning “wound”. A wound can be physical, mental, emotional, financial and so on. The concept of trauma comes from the idea that the wound, or event that is being experienced, is greater than our resource...

Jul 17, 201453 min

TSHP058: Why Worry?

[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? 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 fe...

Jul 10, 201438 min

TSHP057: Finding Spirituality in Everyday Life

[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? It’s special guest time. This week we’re joined by Chris, a 47 year old ‘bloke from Liverpool’ who has been a Kadampa Buddhist* for 15 years, who goes under the pseudonym of Vide Kadampa. Chris explains to us how he came to be a Buddhist, how it has effected his life and how it has shaped his understanding of the...

Jul 03, 201456 min

TSHP056: Addiction & Habits Take 2!

[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? Some addictions are unconscious habits while others are avoidance habits. It can be easy to slip into habits of behaviour through family and friends etc. You may even have a genetic propensity towards certain behaviours. What are you addicted to? It’s The Self Help Podcast! Enjoy the show 🙂 Show Notes and Links ...

Jun 26, 201436 min

TSHP055: Critics, Opinions & Feedback

[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? Feedback is either a blessing or a curse depending on whether you want it or, the intention of the person giving it to you. Feedback can be positive or negative, useful or critical. However, even critical feedback is useful when it is well intended and given from the point of care or love. Anyway, what is feedbac...

Jun 19, 201444 min

TSHP054: Why Retire?

[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? At what point do we stand back from life, do we retire? For some people this begins at fifty and for others it never happens. Our definition of success and happiness is waking with a smile on your face feeling that you have something that you truly want to get out of bed for something to go and do that if both me...

Jun 12, 201433 min

TSHP053: Forgive and Forget

[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? First up, apologies for the sound quality on Sean’s side of the microphone this week. The test run was fine I swear! We’ll make sure all is as it should be next week once more. ^Ed Forgiveness may be difficult but it’s not impossible. Again and again I work with people who are weighed down and disabled by their p...

Jun 05, 201439 min

TSHP052: How to Grow Old Gracefully

[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? Oh my word, we’ve somehow managed to clock up a whole year of podcasts! It’s been a joy to be honest (aside from the late Wednesday nights editing the darn thing) but first we’d like to say a HUGE thank you to all who have listened and continue to support the show – we actually crossed the 100,00 download mark la...

May 29, 201448 min

TSHP051: The Purpose of Life

[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? What is life about ? Why are we here? It is easy to think that we know it all, that we have the physical world taped and that we know all about life, but what is really going on here? Finding the purpose of life is a lifelong journey but it’s worth investing the time. It’s The Self Help Podcast! Enjoy the show 🙂...

May 22, 201440 min

TSHP050: The Importance of Kindness

[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? Kindness is in the same spectrum as love. It is part of the positive forces that brings people together, solves problems and creates happiness. Worth discussing then wouldn’t you say? It’s The Self Help Podcast! Enjoy the show 🙂 Show Notes and Links Sean’s blog post where he writes about kindness It’s not too la...

May 15, 201444 min
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