The Self Help Podcast

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Christmas brings us together like no other time of year but it's not without its pressures. Pressure to spend money, pressure to rush around and see everyone and to make things just perfect. But does it have to be this way? Sean and Ed discuss how to have the best Christmas you can…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• 25 ways to make this the best Christmas ever
• How to make this your best Christmas ever

• Sean found a Christmas quiz for some festive fun
• Ed demands you watch Home Alone – best Christmas movie ever FACT

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We all love music, right? RIGHT? Well you'd better. It makes us dance, laugh, cry… whatever you want, music can do it. But why? Where does this desire come from? Over to Sean and Ed…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• Another shout out to our good pal Daf Lewis
• You gotta see Bohemian Rhapsody, guys
• The power of music on the brain
• How music can benefit your health

• Blogs from Sean, blogs and blogs!
• Ed has been meeting with the team at Wirral Council that are encouraging folks to litter pick

We're all over the web, so feel free to stay in touch:

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What have you volunteered for lately? Making a cup of tea for your spouse? Manning the phones at your local church hall? Doing a free website for your Auntie Margaret? Volunteers are honoured by the UN on December 5th and, this week, Sean and Ed discuss the ins and outs of doing something for (seemingly) nothing…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• Heaven's Here by Daf Lewis
• UN Volunteer Day
• The surprising benefits of volunteering

• Ed has been meeting with the team at Wirral Council that are encouraging folks to litter pick

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
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Are you ready for change? Do you fight like mad to avoid a new routine or do you embrace the madness of our universe? Change will come to us all – it might be a shift in career or the loss of a loved one. Our ability to adapt and show resilience to these changes can have a big impact on our wellbeing…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• 7 tips for dealing with change
• More on dealing with change here
• Workplace change

•  Sean shared The 5 Payoffs to Avoiding Change
• Ed saw the movie ‘Searching‘ at the weekend – really decent!

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
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Climate Change. It's here. It's changing… but are we ready for the change? Aside from the terrible predictions of fire, flood and famine, we're interested in the chance it gives us to become better. Better friends, family neighbours and wider communities…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• Floods in Qatar
• Fire in California
• Extinction Rebellion
• Great work by the BID team in Birkenhead, spreading some kindness and community spirit!

•  Sean shared (again) the lovely goodnewsnetwork.org
• Ed gave another shout to Extinction Rebellion – coming to a major road near you soon

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
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Kindness needs a bump. We know it's important by why don't we always act like it? In honour of World Kindness Day 2018, we thought now was a great time to explore the art of kindness…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• World Kindness Day
• … it worked!
• The Importance of Kindness
• Great work by the BID team in Birkenhead, spreading some kindness and community spirit!

•  Sean shared goodnewsnetwork.org
• Ed found out about thinkkindness.org

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

We'd be amazingly grateful if you could leave us a review on iTunes. It will really help us to build our audience. So, if your like what you hear (and would like to hear more great free content) then visit our iTunes page and leave us an honest review (all feedback gratefully received!).

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As we approach the Christmas holidays a lot of people will be saving hard (or maxing out that credit card) to enter into the gift giving yuletide spirit. We know that financial pressure can bring huge amounts of anxiety. We also know that consumerism needs containing. So can we live a more simple, frugal life and be happier than ever?

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• Martin Lewis on Christmas presents
• Some frugal living tips
• The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding is a must read

•  Sean found this blog post that talks about travelling on a shoe string budget
• Ed found some decent related articles on this website

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
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It's Halloween as we record today which to Sean thinking about why we dress us like zombies and beg for sweets at at neighbours' front doors. It's a fascinating history as it turns out and we dive deeper into the world of respecting and remembering the deceased…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• Information about the Day of the Dead
• History of Halloween
• Remembering our dead
• A lovely article talking about our responsibility to remember loved ones that had passed on

• Sean loves these pumpkin designs
• Ed demands you watch Coco RIGHT NOW

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
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We have our family and we have our community. For most, a close unit of family members is a given. But how well do you know your neighbours? How about a few doors down? How many community meetings and projects have you attended or got stuck into lately? A healthy community leads to a healthy village, town, city and county. Let's talk about it…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• Ed gave a shout out to Douglas Tree Forest School – Wirral folks, check 'em out!
• 7 keys to a strong community
• What makes a community great?

• Sean mentioned a Channel 4 show where youngsters and elderly folks get to hang out together
• Ed suggested 1000 True Fans – a great blog post by Kevin Kelly on how to grow a successful online community

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
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How often do we shirk responsibility? How often when, given the choice, do we face up to our problems instead of running away from them? Sean and Ed have both met with ‘interesting' road-related issues in the past week, incidents where the perpetrators fled the scene. Let's talk about responsibility…

Enjoy the show and take care, it’s The Self Help Podcast!

• Sean has written a blog post to accompany this episode
• A bit about the day courtesy of the WHO
• Some tips on taking responsibility
• Police statement on the BBC re. dash cam footage
• 8 ways to take responsibility for your actions

• Sean linked to some dash cam recommendations
• Ed been watching footage of local driving instructor Ashley Neal

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

We'd be amazingly grateful if you could leave us a review on iTunes. It will really help us to build our audience. So, if your like what you hear (and would like to hear more great free content) then visit our iTunes page and leave us an honest review (all feedback gratefully received!).

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