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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

TSHP020 – What Are You Afraid Of?

[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? Rational or otherwise, fear is something that affects us all in one form or another. For Ed it’s spiders (how predictable). Sean? He has a fear of drowning that stems, he thinks, from the day he was born. True story. Many phobias are completely natural. A fear of heights keeps from harm, as does a healthy respect...

Oct 17, 201337 min

TSHP019 – Who’s Your Guru?

[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 guru is defined, quite simply, as someone ‘who imparts initiations’. Guess what that means? YOU ARE A GURU! Yep, you are a teacher and you have an impact on every person that you have ever met or hope to meet. On the flip side, maybe it’s time to look at who it is that you spend the most time with and assess wh...

Oct 10, 201335 min

TSHP018 – The Trouble With The Secret

[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 tough at the top. People are always slinging mud and taking pot shots. Today,we’re the mudslingers! The Secret is an amazing product full of superb wisdom, ideas and lessons. It also doesn’t explain enough, in our view, about the sheer hard work that needs to be put in to making big changes in your life. Ult...

Oct 03, 201341 min

TSHP017 – How to Keep Your Relationship On Track

[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’s your relationship? We all have our good and bad days and it’s hard to stay on track, but there are certain things that we can all do to help ourselves (and the ones we love). This episode is full of rock solid advice for those in relationships (and for those who aren’t – there are lessons here for all who i...

Sep 26, 201339 min

TSHP016 – Is Mindfulness Worth the Hype?

[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 word ‘Mindfulness’ and the phrase ‘to be mindful’ seems to be cropping up more and more in popular culture. What IS mindfulness, what does it mean and is it worth the hype? Well, if it’s good enough for Novak Djokovic, then it’s good enough for us. Be calm, live longer! Sean and Ed dive in… Enjoy the show! Sh...

Sep 19, 201337 min

TSHP015 – Money: A Force for Good?

[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? Money is an amplifier. Spend it wisely and you’ll see positive changes in your life. Make some poor decisions and odds are that you’ll spiral downwards. Our relationship with money is programmed into us at an early age but, ultimately, we’re all entrepreneurs of one kind or another. Thanks again to listener Vide ...

Sep 12, 201343 min

TSHP014 – How to Avoid a Stressful Holiday

[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? Holidays. Buckets and spades, water slides, tension-filled airports and sun burnt faces. A good holiday is hard to come by and, if you’re not careful, can result in higher stress levels than before you set off. Autumn is starting to close in here in the UK which can be a tough time for those in strained relations...

Sep 05, 201336 min

TSHP013 – Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?

[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] Note from Ed: We ran over a little bit this week – Sean and Ed just couldn’t shut up! Apologies to all who are used to listening on their 30 minutes commute to work! That said, we’ve had a lot of feedback that people would like the show to be longer. Let us know if you agree! What’s Coming This Episode? Let’s be clear from the start: 100% h...

Aug 29, 201339 min

TSHP012 – What’s Your Addiction?

[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 we differentiate between an addiction and a habit? Is one worse than the other? Sean has live quite a life and has been addicted to all sorts. Now he says he’s ‘addicted to life’. Ed is addicted to oxygen and water. Oh, and information too. He’s one of those people that reaches for his phone within seconds...

Aug 22, 201332 min

TSHP011 – Fidelity in the Digital Age

[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, pornography. We’re all watching (well, 68% of us are apparently) yet no one’s talking about it. Sean and Ed are here to start the debate. A whole generation are growing up with it in their lives and we’re yet to see the consequences. Morality, addiction and censorship are all discussed. Elsewhere, Sean has be...

Aug 15, 201331 min

TSHP010 – How Do We Forgive the Unforgivable

[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 quick are you to forgive? Sean is very clear – if you want to move on from a negative incident you’ll have to learn to forgive. For some, however, the idea of forgiveness is impossible to comprehend. Sean talks candidly about his father who, for a variety of reasons, was a bit of a bugger. It took time, but S...

Aug 08, 201331 min

TSHP009 – Is Love All You Need?

[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? Is Love All You Need? If it is, then why do we spend so much of our lives chasing other things? Sean has his own definition of love, and talks a lot about elasticity. Sean proclaims his love for Ed! So stay tuned, enjoy and let us know your thoughts in the comments on our website. Sean is STILL running! Go Sean. ...

Aug 01, 201329 min

TSHP008 – Rich and Unhappy

[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 can it be the so many people that seemingly have it all can be so unhappy? What does wealth and richness actually mean? Life is a rich experience, and there’s far more too it than material wealth. Sean’s been running (not rowing) and his body isn’t happy.Ed’s got high cholesterol! Go and get yours checked out...

Jul 25, 201335 min

TSHP007 – The Male Revolution

[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? This week we’re grateful as we’e finally on iTunes and a great deal of reviews have begun to appear. Thank you one and all! Sean goes a little news crazy to begin with but we’ll let him off because he’s got the fitness bug thanks to his ‘Couch to 5K’ regime. Ed talks briefly about the sad news regarding Cory Mont...

Jul 18, 201333 min

TSHP006 – The Work Life Balance Myth

[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? Chasing that perfect work life balance? Maybe you should come at it from another angle. This week Sean has been working with clients around the world using FaceTime. Ed has been listening to a lot of Daft Punk. We both discuss Stephen Hawking, Katie Hopkins, names and the top 5 regrets of the dying. Enjoy! Show N...

Jul 11, 201329 min

TSHP005 – Why Do We Change Our Bodies?

[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 and Ed discuss plastic surgery, moving on to the wider question of how important do we view our physical appearance? Would we be happier without all forms of physical self improvement? Where do we draw the line between supposedly healthy things such as shaving, makeup, etc. and surgical implants, gender swit...

Jul 04, 201329 min

TSHP004 – Why Live in the Present?

What’s Coming This Episode? Why Live in the Present? We named our company with a great deal of care. To live in the present, to be mindful and full of awareness is to be alive! Ian Brady is back in the news this week in the UK. Also, Ed and Sean talk about a very boozy tiramisu (which Ed’s 18 month old son enjoyed), Ed’s near death experience in his kart, Where’s Wally? and it’s value as a therapy tool and why you shouldn’t have an orgasm whilst driving. Enjoy! Show Notes and Links Running is me...

Jun 27, 201331 min

TSHP003 – Is the World a Safe Place?

[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? This week Sean and Ed talked about safety. Is the world a safe place in which to live? It’s easy to watch the news and think perhaps not, but the reality is a little different. What do you think? Let us know in the comments below this post. Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it 🙂 Show Notes and Links Ed, wi...

Jun 18, 201332 min

TSHP002 – Anxiety

[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? This week Sean and Ed talked about anxiety. In Sean’s own words, anxiety is the single biggest issue affecting the health and well being of the people of planet earth. Would 30 minutes really be enough time to put this one to bed? We gave it a good go… Show Notes and Links Spring had arrived! We discuss the Briti...

Jun 18, 201331 min

TSHP001 – Sunlight

[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] A quick apology for the sound quality in this episode. We were still finding our feet with the microphone and our audio setup. We considered not publishing it but, hey, it’s better to have a go and fail rather than hide your efforts from the world, right? What’s Coming This Episode? This week Sean and Ed talked about sunlight. There’s much ...

Jun 18, 201323 min
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