The Self Help Podcast

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Valentine's Day is upon us once again so Sean and Ed are gazing into one another's eyes and talking about love.

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• 36 Questions to Bring You Closer Together
• Tiny Buddha – 4 Tips for a Strong Relationship
• Psych Central – 9 Tips for Building a Strong Relationship

• Sean recommends you sit down with your partner and watch a good rom-com. Four Weddings and a Funeral was suggested
• Ed mentioned a film too. The modern, quirky classic 500 Days of Summer

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

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• Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Twitter
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Can relationships survive distance? Of course they can! Is it straight forward and easy? Certainly not. Sean and Ed dive in to this weeks topic…

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• Check out the work of listener Connie Rose, amazing!
• It's #TimetoTalk
• To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
• 36 Questions to Bring You Closer Together
• Loving From a Distance
• A few benefits of long distance relationships
• Why more couples are choosing to live alone

• Sean has the gall to mention his own book! Great read though. The classic ‘What Colour is Your Knicker Elastic?‘
• Ed insists that you work your way through this video playlist by The School of Life on relationships

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

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• Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter
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Memories. So little of our lives springs to mind. Are they all there, hidden away? What can trigger the? Can we train ourselves to remember more? Let's dive in…

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• It's World Cancer Day on Feb 5th 2015
• Tim Ferriss talks to memory master Ed Cooke
• Learn anything with Memrise.com
• Dispelling the goldfish myth
• 7 Tips for a better memory
• Psychologists document the age our earliest memories fade

• Sean's resource can't be linked to – it's a pen and paper!
• Ed is trialling a stunning app called Day One. Get it!

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

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Life is a set of choices. We're making them minute by minute, second by second. So why do we occasionally feel stuck or held back? How can we overcome those obstacles and smash through the fear of failure?

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• 30 powerful quotes about failure
• Archived episode – How Do We Define Success?
• What's it like to work at Pixar?
• Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

• Sean returned to The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale
• Ed is getting stuck into this great biography of the magnificent Danny Boyle

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

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• Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter
• Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Twitter
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Some bad news from Paris this week with another major terrorist incident. What to do? Sean and Ed do their best to shed some light on the issue of offence, laughter and, er, stand up comedy.

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• Muslim and Jewish comics on YouTube – explore!
• Fox News made a bit of a slip up this week which made us chuckle
• Chris Rock with some ‘funny racist jokes‘

• Sean loves Eddie Izzard. Here's his full show from Madison Square Garden, 2011
• Ed suggests you dive deeper into what really makes good comedy with this Talking Funny discussion between four top comics

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

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• Follow presenter Edward Lamb on Twitter
• Follow therapist Sean Orford on Facebook and Twitter
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Karma is a word that a lot throw around but what are it's origins and does it really exist as a universal law? What say we investigate it this week?

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• Karma explained
• ‘If karma really exists, why do good things happen to bad people and good people suffer?‘

• Sean might have mentioned this before, but again recommended The Bhagavad Gita
• Ed suggested searching YouTube for examples of ‘instant karma' (some of these might not be safe for work – you've been warned!)

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

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A New Year is upon us once again and across the globe millions of people will be setting goals of various kind – work, health, happiness…

Trouble is, it's hard to keep up the motivation to see things through. What you need are some tips to help you along the way.

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• A history of New Year's Resolutions
• Five Easy Tips for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
• A few New Year's quotes

• Sean recommends a book called The Passion Test by Janet Attwood and Chris Attwood
• Ed thinks your should check out the excellent Live Your Legend by Scott Dinsmore

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

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It's Christmas! Deck the halls, etc., etc. It has a unique meaning to all of us who celebrate at this time of year and can be a tremendous force for good. But what does it really mean?

Enjoy the show, it’s The Self Help Podcast! And Happy Christmas from Ed, Sean & Rie!

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• Wikipedia's take on this week's topic
• The Huffington Post's take on the same

• Sean has this tune stuck in his head so thought he'd inflict it on you too
• Ed thinks you should get cozy and watch It's A Wonderful Life

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

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People can be wonderful. People can be kind. People can be mean and nasty and, occasionally, betray our trust in them. So how do we deal with that? A listener request this week…

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• ‘Sleep-sharing: The family bed‘
• ‘Nearly one in two men feel depressed over Christmas, survey reveals‘

• Sean has found an article on Recovery Stories that deals with today's topic nicely
• Ed suggests you take a look at Tiny Buddha for all of your self development blogging needs (don't forget about us though hey?)

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

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It's Christmas which can mean only one thing – it's time to SHOP. That's a bit harsh really as Christmas has many meanings, but for many the joy (and addiction?) of shopping reaches fever pitch. Let's explore that shall we?

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

• Here's a link to this week's blog post by Sean
• Sean has seen the high brow Nativity 3 this week
• Hey, there's a Wikipedia entry that explains the actual definition of Retail Therapy
• ‘Feeling sad? Go shopping because it really does make you happier, say psychologists‘
• Have you SEEN the John Lewis advert? How about the Sainsbury's one?
• Keep up the good work Action for Happiness
• If anyone has a spare Fujifilm X100S lying around then Ed would love to take it off your hands

• Sean implores you to read this article, ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic‘ and explore this article about addiction and it's effect on the brain
• Ed has found a handy little app that hides you from the bots, the fuzz and those pesky CIA agents that are watching your every move – Tunnel Bear

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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