Mental Chats

Relationships take balance.

Letting people grow closer through trust and consistent actions, while protecting your needs with healthy boundaries.

In this episode Alice explores common relationship mistakes:

from rushing intimacy or shutting people out to forgiving repeated hurt,

giving too much or too little,

and cutting people off too quickly.

She also shares how difficult conversations and breaking points can reveal whether a relationship can grow stronger or needs more distance.

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In this episode Alice explains the single most important technique you can learn, practice and master to take your personal growth journey to the next level.

You read the books, you listened to the theory on how to improve your wellbeing and your life from the inside-out...

Now it is time to put it all to practice!

And you will NEED this technique to succeed.

Happy listening.

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This is a special episode for the Podcasthon charity initiative.

In the episode Alice interview Craig, digital content creator for the charity MQ Mental Health Research

who funds ground-breaking mental health research to understand, prevent and treat mental health difficulties.

Mental health issues affect 1 in 4 people in the UK at any given time. This means that eventually one in a lifetime we will all experience mental health difficulties. However the funding for mental health research are minuscules compare to physical health.

Much help is needed to charities like MQ who dedicate its work to saving people lives, by preventing and treating mental health.

You can donate, run, skydive… anything you like to support this amazing charity.

donate: https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/donate/

take on a challenge: https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/take-on-a-challenge/

And if you have experienced mental health difficulties, you can also help shape future research and be part of the revolution!!

https://www.mqmentalhealth.org/who-we-are/lived-experience-research-network/

For more information about Podcathon visit: @Podcasthon_en

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Did you know not all therapists are created equal?

From psychologists to life coaches, the landscape can be overwhelming!

In our latest podcast, Alice unpacks the roles of different mental health professionals so that you can make informed choices.

For more info about the difference between counselling and psychotherapy click HERE

For more information about the pathway to psychiatry, click HERE

And as always, you can access our free resources HERE

Bye!

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In This episode Alice interviews prof. Joanna Moncrieff, practicing psychiatrist and professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London.

Together they discuss:

The origin and evidence for the current theory of mental distress: The Theory of the Chemical Imbalance in the Brain.

How to chose if to start medications

How to stop medications

and the help available

So that you can make an informed choice!

You can find the information on antidepressant on the UK Royal College of Psychiatry HERE

The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines HERE

More information on prof. Joanna Moncrieff HERE

and her books:

Chemically Imbalanced HERE

Straight Talking about Psychiatric Drugs HERE

The Myth of the Chemical Cure HERE

For more information and FREE resources visit https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings

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The way we interpret reality determines how we feel and how we act in life and the response from the world.

So by changing our interpretation of reality, we can change how we fee and what we do, and therefore the response of the environment.

In this episode Alice explains what the Confirmation Bias is and describes a few techniques that you can use to challenge thoughts when unhelpful.

To know more about the techniques explained in this episode, please have a look at the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

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You can access the FREE resources here: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

and to know more about the Confirmation Bias, please read on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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In this episode Alice explains why fear is not the enemy and what to do to overcome it.

You do not want to overcome the Ring of Fear just for the sake of it, you want to overcome it when that particular fear is a limitation to living the life you want to live.

The only way to overcome fear is to go through it and emerge on the other side, expanding your comfort zone in the process.

Stop going around in circles inside your comfort zone, make friend with fear and start moving in the direction of what you value in life.

Free resources to do so: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

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Knowing your internal motivators is essential to have direction, motivation and purpose in life.

In this episode, Alice will guide you in differentiating between internal and external motivators and

will help you to identify your Values: the everlasting internal motors of our lives.

To know more about Values, please watch our Values Vs Goals video in our FREE resources on :

https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resources

To join the waiting list for the next intake of the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program, please visit:

https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

If you have any questions, please send them to: [email protected]

and if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a great review and share it, share it, share it with anyone you care about helping on their life journey.

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In this episode Alice explain the 5 essential steps you need to take to create the life you want to live.

If you have any questions on the concept explained, please email us at [email protected] and we will do our best to answer in one of the next episodes.

In this episode, Alice also talks about the Hero's Journey. To know more about the Hero's Journey visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey

To have a look at our Living a Meaningful and Successful Life programme visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

For more information and FREE resources visit https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings

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For more information and FREE resources visit https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/trainings

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