Chris and Rowan discuss some insights that can be gained from exploring the different meanings of engineering terms such as "stress" and "strain" and applying them to psychology and our mental health.

Chris and Rowan are joined by Dr Juliet Trail, who has done extensive research on networks and how networks can optimally function.
We discuss the different types of networks we may be involved in, plus what we can do to ensure that we're getting the most out of our networks and the relationships associated with them.

Chris and Rowan discuss how we can look at the schemas through a more positive lens, our character strengths. In recent episodes, we've looked at some of the more negative patterns that we can develop within our personality, but this week, we will look at a more optimistic way of thinking about our personality patterns.

In the final episode of our series on schemas and schema therapy, Chris and Rowan discuss unrelenting standards. Unrelenting standards or hypercriticalness is the final of the 18 schemas we will discuss and relates to rigid internal expectations for our behaviour and performance. Unrelenting standards are a significant contributor to depression and anxiety.

Chris and Rowan continue our series on schema therapy with the schemas relating to over-vigilance and other-directedness, which means being overly focused on the thoughts of others. These schemas include negativity/pessimism, emotional inhibition, punitiveness, approval seeking/recognition seeking, subjugation and self-sacrifice.

Chris and Rowan continue their series on schema therapy with the second episode, related to developing your sense of self and self-control. These schemes are from the family of schemas relating to impaired autonomy and performance, or your sense of self, and impaired limits, or your self-control.

Chris and Rowan discuss 5 of the 18 different schemas Jeff Young outlined when creating schema therapy. We discuss the schemas related to a lack of positive attachment during childhood that can make people feel disconnected and rejected in later life.

Chris and Rowan discuss a therapy technique called chair work that comes from Gestalt therapy and involves acting out different parts of ourselves.
We discuss some of the principles behind chair work and the benefits of acknowledging and expressing different parts of ourselves.

For our 100th podcast episode, Chris and Rowan talk about a fundamental aspect of psychological therapy, helping someone to take the next step.
It can seem simplistic on the surface, but the next step can often be difficult, uninteresting or uninspiring. In this episode, we discuss some ways of taking the next step, look at the benefits of mobilising ourselves in whatever way we can and talk about some situations where people have really benefitted from taking the next step.

Chris and Rowan share stories of people who've had encounters with the deceased and ask what meaning or benefit can come out of such experiences?
Sometimes, when someone has an experience with the spirit of a loved one, they will hide it through fear of being intellectually weak or using magical thinking. However, many healthy people believe in encounters with a spirit or someone who's passed away and many of Chris's clients' wellbeing has improved greatly after they experienced some sort of spiritual encounter.