Tickety Boo - Exploring Mental Health with Care and Compassion

🎉 Episode 100 of Tickety Boo — and fittingly, we didn't plan the topic.

This one came from a random card pull, and the question we landed on was:

"When do you have a hard time asking for help?"

What starts as a simple question quickly turns into a really honest conversation about vulnerability, pride, and why so many of us wait until things hit crisis point before we finally reach out.

We talk about:

• Why asking for help feels so uncomfortable

• The pressure to appear strong and "handle it yourself"

• How pride, fear, and conditioning keep people silent

• Why we often wait until things are falling apart before we open up

It's reflective, personal, and exactly the kind of conversation Tickety Boo has always been about.

If you've ever told yourself "I'll deal with it myself" this episode will probably resonate.

And to everyone who's listened, shared, or supported the podcast along the way thank you for helping us reach 100 episodes.

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Maybe you're not unmotivated. Maybe you're just tired of trying to get everything right.

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we talk about the lessons that slowly teach you how to relax… and actually enjoy your life.

Not the Instagram version. Not the productivity-optimised version. Your real life.

We explore:

• Why so many people feel guilty for slowing down

• The pressure to "do life properly"

• How burnout gets mistaken for laziness

• And what actually changes when you stop performing and start living

Most people aren't lazy. They're exhausted from trying to meet invisible standards.

This episode is about learning the difference between ambition and anxiety. Between striving and surviving. Between forcing life and flowing with it.

If you've ever felt like you're failing because you're tired — this one will hit.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube

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Everyone feels behind at some point.

Behind in career. Behind in money. Behind in life.

But behind who, exactly?

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we unpack the quiet pressure that makes us force life instead of flow with it.

We talk about:

• The guilt that shows up when you slow down

• Why forcing progress often creates burnout

• The difference between ambition and anxiety

• And the uncomfortable truth that not everyone around you will come on your journey

Sometimes the problem isn't that you're behind. It's that you're racing towards something you haven't even questioned.

If you've been pushing hard, feeling restless, or secretly worried you're running out of time this conversation will land.

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Sometimes it's not advice we need. It's the right questions.

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we strip it right back and explore three simple but uncomfortable questions that can quietly change how you see your life.

No self-help fluff. No "here's what you should do." Just honest reflection.

We talk about:

• The questions we avoid because they feel exposing

• Why clarity often comes from sitting with discomfort

• How asking better questions can reveal what you've been ignoring

• And why answers don't always arrive straight away — and that's okay

These aren't questions to rush. They're questions to sit with.

If you've been feeling restless, stuck, disconnected, or quietly wondering "Is this it?" — this conversation will land.

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More money. More success. More stuff. More achievement.

We tell ourselves this time it'll be enough. That once we hit that goal, buy that thing, reach that level… we'll finally feel settled.

But it never quite lands.

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we talk about the psychology of "enough" — and why chasing more rarely gives us the peace we're looking for.

We explore:

• Why the goalposts keep moving

• How success and happiness get tangled up

• The quiet emptiness that can sit behind achievement

• And why "more" often feels like the answer when it's actually the distraction

This isn't about ambition being bad. It's about noticing when striving turns into running — and asking what we're really hoping more will fix.

If you've ever thought "I should be happier than this" — this episode will resonate.

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Some questions stay in the background for a reason. They hit a nerve. Make us pause. Feel a bit too close to the bone.

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we don't avoid them we ask them.

No scripts. No prep. Just a stack of deep, reflective prompts that spark the kind of conversation that gets under your skin in the best way.

We talk about:

• The uncomfortable questions that reveal what we've been running from

• Why certain answers scare us

• What happens when we stop avoiding and start getting honest with ourselves

This one will stick with you. Maybe even challenge you to stop scrolling and sit with the questions you've been dodging.

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If you could rewatch one year of your life like a film what would it be?

In this unscripted card-pull episode of Tickety Boo, that question takes us from light-hearted nostalgia into something deeper. We talk about:

• The childhood moments we'd love to revisit

• How life taught us things too early, or missed teaching us what we needed

• Why we tend to forget the good stuff and always feel like we're behind

This one's honest, gentle, and full of real reflections on joy, loss, growth, and the years we carry with us whether we want to or not.

It might just get you thinking about your year.

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Ever been told "you're so strong" and felt… nothing good about it?

This episode of Tickety Boo is for the people who always cope. The ones everyone leans on. The ones who don't remember agreeing to be the strong one… but somehow became them anyway.

We talk about:

• How you end up as the reliable one in families, friendships, and relationships

• The quiet pressure of being the one who holds it together

• Why being "strong" often means you don't get asked how you are

• Emotional burnout that hides behind competence

• What happens when you're fed up of being the safe pair of hands

This isn't about blaming anyone. It's about naming something a lot of people feel but don't say out loud.

If you've ever thought: Why am I always the one coping? Why does everyone assume I'll be fine? What happens if I stop being strong?

This episode is for you.

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Do you ever feel like your worth is measured by what you do for others rather than who you are?

In this episode of Tickety Boo, we talk about the hidden pressure so many people carry: The belief that being helpful, needed, productive or constantly putting others first is the only way to feel valuable.

We dig into:

• Why doing things for everyone else feels safer than focusing on your own needs

• Where this belief often comes from (spoiler: childhood conditioning, praise patterns, people pleasing)

• How easy it is to lose your sense of identity when your worth is always tied to being useful

If resting makes you feel guilty... If saying "no" makes you feel selfish… If you struggle to feel enough unless you're fixing, supporting, or giving… This episode is for you.

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How many times have you held yourself back not because you couldn't do something, but because you were scared of how it might look?

In this episode, we get into the fear of being judged. The fear of standing out. Of taking a different path. Of showing people who you really are and risking the side-eyes, whispers, or silence.

We talk about how this fear shows up like not saying what you really want to say, staying in jobs or relationships that don't fit anymore, or avoiding decisions just in case someone doesn't approve.

The truth is, when you live your life trying to avoid judgment… You end up judging yourself even more.

This is the episode for anyone who's done the mental gymnastics to keep other people comfortable at the cost of their own peace.

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