100 episodes
The Self Help Podcast Live in the Present
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- Society & Culture
The Self Help Podcast is a weekly podcast dedicated to your emotional health and wellbeing brought to you by Live in the Present. Each week entrepreneur Edward Lamb talks to psychotherapist Sean Orford about all things interesting. Why self help? Well, what makes we human beings tick? Why are some more susceptible to depression, anxiety, etc. than others? Why does Sean help more people in the Winter than the Summer? So many questions and so little time! Ultimately, the aim of The Self Help Podcast is to help our listeners to become better human beings.
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TSHP513 – The Barnum Effect (Revisited)
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.
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TSHP512: New Beginnings
An episode recorded near Easter which enabled us to chat about new beginnings.
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TSHP511: Gossip, rumours and conspiracy theories
Social media is full of conspiracy theories. Currently those about Katherine Princess of Wales are rife. There is great interest, in certain groups, as to whether the stories about her abdominal surgery and public appearance and photograph are real or fake. The thing that interests Ed and I is why is it so important? What is it about gossip and rumour that we all get so hooked up in?
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TSHP510: Good things about where you live
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.
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TSHP509: Can you feel the love?
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.
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TSHP508: The Power of a Smile
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...
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