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In this episode, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Amey Greenaway, host of the podcast Your Honest Ally. Amey discusses life and personal wellbeing to fulfil her calling of helping people to be their best selves. Here, we discuss the concept of what it means to be deserving. We explore how encouraging people to perceive themselves as worthy is an antidote to suppressed self-esteem, and the...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS I was honoured to recently partake in a conference of local community members to contribute ideas on how we could make our environment a better home for all. He...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Why do people struggle with the concept of letting others act as they wish as long as they aren't causing harm? Here's a brief philosophical experiment...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS We undoubtedly live in troubled economic times, and people are still suffering despite their best efforts to survive financially. But the economy's problems...

I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS In this episode, I change themes and discuss a topic which affects most of us: digital data. The fact is that most people I've met don't have a sound pl...

I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Any endeavour in life can be done well or not so well, and being a counsellor is no exception. Here, I discuss some of the fallacies both from inside and outsid...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — I appreciate it! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS We all seem to freely make fun of politics, without knowing exactly how much we allow ourselves to be affected by it. In this episode, I provide some truths abo...

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I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — it means the world to me! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Prefer to listen elsewhere? Find my podcast on your favourite platform here: https://linktr.ee/your.listener.coaching Is it unusual not to desire to ow...

I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — it means the world to me! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS Prefer to listen elsewhere? Find my podcast on your favourite platform here: https://linktr.ee/your.listener.coaching A smiling person is always listen...

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In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Paris Le Maistre. Paris has an incredible story to tell: overcoming the adversity of trauma, mental illness, and drug addiction, she now operates Sh*ts F*cked, an entire project involving her podcast featuring authentic discussions on addiction and mental health, and an evolving community of people with lived and professional experience making a...

Are spiritualists just hallucinating? Is living your life by science too rigid? And what exactly is manifesting, and does it have a place in scientific psychology? In this episode, I had the pleasure of collaborating with Ebony Uamaki. Ebony is a proud mother, intuitive reader, model, coach, speaker, and disability advocate. Ebony is also blind, and it's a testament to her resilience and wisdo...

In this episode, I collaborate with Evan Shapiro. Evan is an author, digital content creator, media enthusiast, and accidental Buddhist. On Evan's podcast, No Expert But..., he gives short philosophical commentaries on a range of important topics — it's a format so accessible that it may just convert you to philosophical thinking! Evan also co-hosts the radio program Celluloid Dreams on 2S...

I provide my content free of charge. If you enjoy it and want to show your appreciation, please consider making a small donation — it means the world to me! Donate at the following link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=3LY8DB82U3EMS It's obvious, but it bears repeating: being needlessly negative on the Internet is pathetic. Here's my reality-check. Note: no part of this con...