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Episode 038: What is happiness?
Another drive to work episode.
Thoughts about what it means to be happy.
It's not just about the absence of unhappiness.
I talk about external vs internal loci of control; reversion to the mean; values; and things...
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Episode 037: What am I worth?
What is my value? What is my worth?
If you're interested, come and hang out with me on my drive to work (not literally) and I hope that the things I say on this episode will help you work through these important...
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Episode 036: Why intuition might not help you in a zombie apocalypse!
Zombies and Bayes Theorem. What?!
Okay, bear with me. Sometimes, our intuition leads us into perilous situations.
Our brains try to be helpful...but because of mental shortcuts...it doesn't always work out so well for...
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Episode 035: Helping anxious kids - with clinical psychologist, Tanzi Bennison
Anxiety affects us all. Adults, teachers, parents and kids. How do we help our anxious kids? especially when we're feeling awful ourselves or struggling with our own emotions.
Join me and tune in to my conversation...
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Episode 034: Setting boundaries with your kids without the guilt
We can all feel bad when we're trying to set boundaries; sometimes we carry our baggage from the past with us into the present.
It doesn't have to be that way.
Sometimes our kids push back...that's normal...but it...
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Episode 033: ADHD in brief part 2
Just adding a little bit more knowledge for you knowledge-philes. I'll drip feed bits every so often to help us 'round' out our understanding of how ADHD affects kids and adults and that'll point us towards more...
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Episode 032a: Teach your kids to see the good and bad in people (without the coughing!)
Sorry for last week's dog's breakfast of an episode. Coughing and spluttering is not really great to listen to. This is episode 32a. In the audio I said 31a, that's wrong. It's 32a. Sorry...again.
You can listen to...
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Episode 032: How do you teach your kids to see the good and the bad in others?
Humans like to split people and lump people into groups. You're in or you're out. How do we talk to our kids and teach them to see people as individuals so they don't breed unhelpful bias or prejudice in their...
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Episode 031: How to make poo shine
Our perceptions of things in life is not going to change reality, but it can change how we feel about ourselves, others and the future. In this episode I talk about the idea of how we can catch unhelpful thoughts that...
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Episode 030: Reflections - I feel like i've failed...so what am I going to do about it?
Personal reflections from yours truly about feeling like a failure and what I've been thinking about to get through it. Hope it helps.
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Episode 029: ADHD in brief
In this episode I talk briefly about how I like to conceptualise ADHD. It's a helpful way of 'seeing' ADHD and it helps us find creative ways to intervene and help those who have difficulties.
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Episode 028: How do I help someone who is depressed?
The solution to other people's problems are not always easy to find. Sometimes it's not always what is needed in a moment of crisis. In this episode, I share my perspectives on depression and share some ideas as to...
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