What’s Coming This Episode? The election is here (in the UK)!!! Sean and Ed recorded a quick episode before the big day… but in the knowledge that it would likely be published after the results had been announced. Will it hold up? Will it be of any use??! Let’s find out… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! 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 inspiration Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Tw ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? How do we know what we are belong told is true? How do we know if what we believe is real? We are all told things from the day we are born about life, other people, history and events. Politicians, teachers, religious leaders, advertisers, propagandists, to the covid doom sayers and conspiracy theorists and even our loved ones all want us to share their point of view and to believe what they tell us. 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 to ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? This week we are revisiting our relationship with nature and the effect that it has on our mental health and wellbeing. Finally the rain seems to have stopped and we are enjoying some sunshine. I was reminded of when I was looking out of the window of my apartment in Doha Qatar when I was working at Sidra Hospital. Below me the City was a busy place and I could see at least a thousand houses. Each house full of people, thousands of people. The roads full, sometimes gridlocked, as all these people rushed from somewhere to somewhere else. All in a frenzied dash that i ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? Currently the world seems a not very safe place, the news is full of war reports and stabbings in schools. Alongside this are all the reports of violent shop lifting and assaults on care staff in the NHS. More and more counselling clients are sharing their anxious concerns for themselves and their families especially their children. There is an increase in trauma both direct and vicariously experienced. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week David Bowie talking sense Stay in Touch We’re all over the we ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? This week Ed and I were talking about the effects of persuasion and how people can seem to gullibly just believe anything. I was explaining about the Barnum effect. Barnum was the great circus master who was into the concepts of illusion and fooling the audience into believing that what they were seeing was real. 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 fo ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? An episode recorded near Easter which enabled us to chat about new beginnings. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week The ‘new’ oldest man in the world 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 inspiration Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Twitter Subscribe to our weekly podcast on iTunes Leave us an Hones ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? The idea of needing to get away would suggest that where we are is never really good enough. I get it that the act of taking a break, of doing something different, is stimulating and often relaxing but the question got me thinking about do we appreciate where we are and what we have? Are we able to enjoy the space that we live in. Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week Bald & Bankrupt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0wQPMwvVc Dubai is a joke video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqe6sre2I ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? Well Valentine’s has been and gone, the day of love, how was it for you? we often have talked about mood boosts and love, feeing loved, being loved and sharing love they are right at the top of positive mood, self esteem, raised energy and wellbeing. The magic is in ‘feeling’ loved. 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 inspiration Fo ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? Following on from last weeks look at the potential of global conflict. A listener reminded me of this and asked ‘why don’t we just encourage everybody to smile at each other?’ An excellent question! Let’s discuss… 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 inspiration Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter Follow therapist Sean Orfor ..read more

What’s Coming This Episode? Ed and I did a similar episode in 2019. The issues of war and potentially a world war were on us then and, sadly, very little seems to have changed. Over the last few months the people visiting my consulting room have been more and more concerned about the potential for another world war. We need to talk about potential conflict… Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! Show Notes and Links Here’s Sean’s blog post for the week https://www.liveinthepresent.co.uk/2019/11/war-what-is-it-good-for/ https://www.liveinthepresent.co.uk/2019/11/tshp337-is-it-ok-to-go-to ..read more