What’s Coming This Episode? All around us people enact their power in order to win. It might be that we are at a crowded bar trying to get a drink so that we and a whole group of other people are trying to gain the attention of the bartender to get their order met. Who gets to the til first, gets on the bus first? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Read Sean’s blog post for the episode A bit of background on the tennis stuff Issues at Parliament eh? Support for work...
Jul 12, 2022•22 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Is it better to be polite and to say what you know, or think you know the other person wants to hear. Or to be honest and say what you actually think or feel? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Read Sean’s blog post for the episode Resource of the Week Sean – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Growing-Through-Feedback-Graciously/dp/1532845294/ Ed – https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2017/07/08/cruel-to-be-kind-when-its-ok-to-make-some...
Jul 01, 2022•28 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Kindness is a fundamental aspect of all successful human communications and relationships. In many ways we can’t talk about kindness enough. You would expect me to say this because I always do… …If we all look after each other we will all be okay… We all have such great potential for love, care and kindness if we just stop long enough to listen and respond appropriately. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Read Sean’s blog post for the epi...
Jun 10, 2022•29 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Ed & Sean are back from 4 days in the city of Amsterdam. It’s a funny place to come back from – most friends and family have made quips about getting stoned, drunk or hanging out with strippers. However, we were there on a mission to see how a functioning city works. We visited Fully Charged Live but also got to wander aimlessly around the amazing streets of the old city. People walking, cycling and even the odd person driving. It had a big impact on us both – her...
May 26, 2022•32 min
What’s Coming This Episode? There is a time in the madness of the world when I guess all that you can do is laugh. At this time it can be easy to feel that there is nothing good happening in the world. We have covid and the ongoing effects of covid, real wars and not just rumours of wars, the ongoing effects of Brexit, the ongoing antics of Trump and the ego stretching of Putin, what seems to be a collapsing NHS and Boris in number 10. This has to be the time to make a joke and have a laugh I th...
May 16, 2022•24 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Keep smiling. It’s Sean’s favourite sign off for each episode! Easy to say, and for some it’s easy to do. But do we know the science of smiling? Can smiling be ‘learned’ or is it instinctive for some and not for others? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Read Sean’s blog post for the episode The real benefits of smiling How Britain fell for adult braces Resource of the Week Sean – https://www.sclhealth.org/blog/2019/06/the-real-health-ben...
May 09, 2022•27 min
What’s Coming This Episode? With covid, food banks and the Ukrainian war the concept of generosity and giving comes, for many of us, clearly into focus. Often we feel helpless in the face of all the trauma and the need to give something can ease our emotional burden and make us feel better. How much can it help? Let’s explore… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Read Sean’s blog post for the episode Check out the Wirral Wombles – get litter picking! Resource of the W...
Apr 30, 2022•27 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Between the 1950s and the 1970s Britains favourite holiday destination was Britain. The West Country was heaving with people, not only from the UK but, from all over the world. COVID taught us to appreciate our local environment more and now a fuel and energy crisis looks to do similar. Can we take the hint? How can we make the most of our time off? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week History of the hol...
Apr 23, 2022•28 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Everywhere I am looking I am seeing the expanding crisis with Putin in Ukraine. As I look across the world it all seems so much like an action replay of the 1930s prior to the Second World War. This is a tough blog and very much embedded in our time and the very things that are happening around us. Across the world there is political lurch to the right that, in many cases, is becoming fascistic. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s S...
Apr 09, 2022•26 min
What’s Coming This Episode? We live in a strange world where physical violence is seen as bad and verbal violence becomes acceptable. Is it okay for someone to make a joke about your partner on national TV? Do we sit back and say nothing? To be kind is so easy and creates so much positivity. Why do we need to get nasty? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week The benefits of kindness https://www.happiness.com/magazine/science-psycholo...
Apr 01, 2022•29 min
What’s Coming This Episode? If happiness is infectious… could we create a pandemic of laughter? Why not??? Let’s raise the mood a bit. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week What’s with Bhutan? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14243512 Check out Headspace https://www.headspace.com Resource of the Week Sean – https://www.happiness.com/magazine/inspiration-spirituality/why-happiness-is-a-state-of-mind/ Ed – https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Mar 27, 2022•29 min
What’s Coming This Episode? We all have that inner voice that tells us if we are doing right or wrong. I say we all have it – even a full blown psychopath has an inner voice it is just that it is never heard or listened to. Your inner voice is your conscience. Let’s discuss how much it can be trusted and when to question it… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Resource of the Week Sean – https://thriveglobal.com/stories/why-you-sh...
Mar 18, 2022•26 min
What’s Coming This Episode? We use the word ‘addiction’ to indicate an illness which is based on the behaviour of a person who is compulsively or habitually ‘addicted’ to a substance or a set of behaviours. Most behaviours that are described as addictions are seen as negative. When we hear the word addiction we tend to think of drugs or alcohol. We might even consider the workaholic. Which ever way we view it addiction is seen negative. Are we all addicts? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podc...
Mar 13, 2022•28 min
What’s Coming This Episode? In modern psychology we talk a lot about living in the present, letting go of what has been and c relating the future that we want to live. The reality for us all is that you cannot get into you or present and create a new future if you are weighed down and hampered by unresolved past. In order that we are able to move on into a new future, that is not hampered by the weight of the unresolved past, we often need to do an internal audit of stock take at this time. Even...
Mar 04, 2022•23 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Science tells us that it takes seventeen muscles to smile and as many as forty three to frown. That means it takes a lot more effort to be miserable than it does to be happy. So, what it is that makes some people happy while others are not. So what does the science tell us? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Watch Enes Yilmazer gives amazing tours of the huge, empty homes of the rich Resource of the We...
Feb 25, 2022•25 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Following on from the last episode Sean had a conversation with a group of workers who have decided to do something different. The group discussion got into the fear of staying where they are as opposed to the fear of change and owing something different. Are you ready to make the change? What are the ups and downs? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Resource of the Week Sean linked to the classic ‘ Th...
Feb 17, 2022•26 min
What’s Coming This Episode? A listener contacted us and told their recent story of disappointment after they didn’t get their dream job. Do we need to be disappointed? Can it be avoided, or is there a lesson in there for us to take forward? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Resource of the Week Sean liked this Tiny Buddha post Ed found this article on Positivity Blog Stay in Touch We’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in ...
Feb 10, 2022•25 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Doubt and fear are both forms of anxiety and worry. We know that worrying is a habit as is being happy. If you are a worrier, or if you are happy, then you were not born like it, where did you learn it? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Resource of the Week Sean Ed Stay in Touch We’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch: Follow Live in the Present on Twitter and Facebook for daily doses of...
Feb 03, 2022•34 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Winter is here. Sort of. I mean, it’s quite cold and definitely dark. Anyway, it can have an impact on us (as discussed last week) so how do we make the most of it and keep our chins up? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Resource of the Week Sean linked to this book about the Danish art of Hygge Ed showed his love of hot water bottles Stay in Touch We’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch...
Jan 27, 2022•25 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Blink and you may have missed it… but ‘Blue Monday’ has been and gone – the (apparently) bleakest day of the year. Should we believe the hype? Can we avoid it completely??! Of course we can! Let’s dive in… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week What is Blue Monday? A bit more from Wikipedia Blue Monday creator apologises! Resource of the Week Sean just said ‘Google it!’ Ed wants you to watch The Matrix. Wh...
Jan 20, 2022•24 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Sean and Ed (OK, mainly Sean) are always dishing out advice. Sean does it for a living. Could you? A career in therapy can be hugely rewarding. Obviously it’s not without a certain amount of risk – you’re letting yourself in for a lot of sensitive information that can weigh heavily on you – but what career doesn’t? Let’s have a chat about it… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week A Guardian article on bec...
Jan 16, 2022•34 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Look left, look right. The Green Cross Code. Road safety is drilled into us from a very early age… and rightly so! With an increasing number of weapons grade vehicles swooshing around our streets we’d be wise to take care. Right? Well… yes, but as Ed has found out in recent years, it’s far more complicated than that. Time for a new approach to road safety? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week It’s Indian...
Jan 09, 2022•34 min
What’s Coming This Episode? It’s that time again! The calendar clicks across to a new year and we are given the chance to set some serious goals for ourselves. How do we stick to them? Are they the right goals? How to we stay on track?? Happy new year! Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Ed linked to Udemy and Masterclass for online learning Sean linked to a post about tips for creating goals for 2022 and beyond Stay in Touch We’r...
Jan 02, 2022•25 min
What’s Coming This Episode? It is time to see the growing light of the lengthening days and shortening nights. Following the darkness of winter, that has its depth at the winter solstice and the longest night, comes the lightening, as the days draw out. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Stay in Touch We’re all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch: Follow Live in the Present on Twitter and Facebook for daily doses of inspi...
Dec 23, 2021•18 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Does Father Christmas exist? Does Boris Johnson exist? This week the issue on every front page has been the issue of the staff at Number 10 having jolly Christmas parties while at the same time telling the rest of the world that they cannot. The repeated word is liar and lying. If you have ever had to deal with a liar you may well have a very strong point of view about it. The word liar and lies seems to be a moveable feast that can change as and when we need them to....
Dec 15, 2021•25 min
What’s Coming This Episode? With Covid and related stresses I notice that fuses are getting shorter and intolerance is on the increase. Do you listen to what you say? Do you hear the tone of your voice? Do you realise how you are heard by others? I guess if your answer to these questions was ‘no’ then you would probably not be reading this blog. However, becoming really aware of what is coming out of our mouths is an art and requires awareness and awake-ness. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help P...
Dec 09, 2021•23 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Relationships are complex and probably one of our biggest challenges. Most adults spend much of their life in an intimate relationship. Relationships are potentially satisfying. They protect us from loneliness and can improve our mental and emotional wellbeing. This week we’re joined by author and transformational mind coach Alison Blackler to see how we can work through our relationship issues. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s A...
Dec 01, 2021•34 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Surveys will often show that, above a certain level of income, money does not make us happy. In fact it can actually make us deeply unhappy! Why is this, and how can we find the sweet spot of financial and emotional happiness? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Therapist reveals all about super rich clients Check out the big, soulless, empty houses beautifully presented by Enes Yilmazer Resource of the...
Nov 25, 2021•27 min
What’s Coming This Episode? Anyone following UK politics over the last couple of years could not fail to notice the interesting difference between what comes out of our politicians moths and their actions. It is as though there are two scripts running side by side one for us and one for them. Why? Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week The UK and it’s love of the monarchy UK thoughts on it’s ’empire’ Resource of the week Sean recomme...
Nov 18, 2021•21 min
What’s Coming This Episode? How do you feel about getting on plane right now and jetting away? The people I am talking to are split both ways. There are those that would grab a bag right now and rush to the airport while others are saying to me that they don’t expect to be going abroad until at least 2023. But… you don’t need to get on a plane to have a break do you? Do you??! Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Resource of the we...
Nov 10, 2021•25 min
