Help Hole with Sofie Hagen and Abby Wambaugh

We are alive and kickin' over on Patreon !! We have the sweetest bunch of people and over 50 hours of podcasts (including the whole Artist's Way!!), zooms and chats waiting for you to there. Join us!! You can find our guest, the brilliant Dr. Emily Anhalt on socials: @dremilyanhalt  Check out dremilyanhalt.com/book to grab a copy of Flex Your Feelings. or find out more about Coa the gym...

... And shopping and doing No Buy or Low Buy Years.  NOTE : I (Sofie) refer to Aja Barber as Aja Barker - a very rude mistake from my end, I apologise profusely! Also I just learned that I also mispronounced her first name. I'm so so so sorry.  MAIN SOURCE The Year of Less by Cait Flanders Cait Flanders' Substack about The Year of Less REFERENCES Adventures in Opting Out by Cait Flanders...

Just a little update on this month's (late!) episode and some Artist Way Introduction Stuff... A List of All The Books We've Covered Here Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January! Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok Sofie is on Instagram , TikTok , Threads , Twitter and Facebook Abby is on Instagram , TikTok and Threads Abb...

MAIN SOURCE How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie REFERENCES Flirtology by Jean Smith Bad People Podcast on BBC Sounds A List of All The Books We've Covered Here Subscribe to our Patreon for extra bonus episodes and to sign up for our The Artist Way thing in January! Help Hole is on Instagram and TikTok Sofie is on Instagram , TikTok , Threads , Twitter and Facebook Abby is...

Do you spend too much time on your phone? And would you like to spend LESS time on your phone? Well, this is the episode for you. Abby has a problem and Sofie might also have a problem, if she'd be up for admitting to it. Abby has read Cal Newport's book on Digital Minimalism and is up for the challenge. MAIN SOURCE Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport REFERENCES The Artist's Way by Ju...

We throw ourselves at KC Davies' book How To Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach To Cleaning and Organising. We discuss shame and executive dysfunction and tidying and cleaning, but in a real FUN WAY. MAIN SOURCE How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davies REFERENCES Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price, Ph. D KC Davies' podcast Struggle Care The episode we did on Hygge A Li...

Oh, it's a Big One. It's finally here. The Artist's Way, read and presented by Abby, who has read it five times and who lives it on a daily basis. It's the Bible of creativity and we're here to discuss it. If you want to join our little discussion group in January, sign up to our Patreon here and be ready. MAIN SOURCE The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron REFERENCES Abby&...

A little teaser of our brand new Patreon SPECIAL bonus episode. Sofie has watched Couples Therapy, but first, we get into talking about the apocalypse again. Also, Abby sings. Does she sing well? Time will tell. Listen on Patreon now.

We dive into Kae Tempest's On Connection - a book about connections and the magic that happens when connection happens and other stuff to do with connection. (Sofie writes these blurbs and there is a chance Sofie didn't fully understand what the book was about.) We also discuss weddings and creativity. It's fun. MAIN SOURCE On Connection by Kae Tempest ALSO MENTIONED Self Compassion...

It's another little teaser. On Patreon, you can find the full episode (and you can watch the episode too, on video!), where, still at Sofie's place, Abby and Sofie go over some of the inspirational quotes Sofie has saved in her phone. But Abby struggles to get over the fact that Sofie owes her money. It's a very inspirational episode. Patreon is here - sign up for just £3 a month!

In this SPECIAL EPISODE (of which you only get a little teaser) recorded in the SAME ROOM (which you can also see as a video on Patreon!), we discuss stand-up, Nicolas Cage (or should we say... Nicolas Coppola) and trains and more stuff. Sign up on Patreon for the full episode and loads more goodies here .

Sofie read Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood when she was 19 and it changed her life. Will it have the same effect now? Does Abby love too little, enough or too much? Also, a post-recording correction: Akon did the lovely song ' Lonely ', not the other lovely song 'F**k it' - that belonged to Eamon . Get your 00s music facts straight, Sofie Hagen. Also this is a special...

A lot of you have been asking 'what are these morning pages of which you constantly speak' and we are here to reply.  But first, we catch up and discuss mushrooms, tattoos, medical trials and more. To listen to the full episode, go to patreon.com/helphole and sign up for as little as £3 a month!

To listen to the full episode, go to patreon.com/helphole and sign up for as little as £3 a month.

What do you want to do with what's left of your 4000 weeks? Well, you can spend only a fraction of that time listening to this frankly, brilliantly informative and entertaining episode of Help Hole, where Abby and Sofie explore how Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Not only will you see how to make the time you have count, if you never thought Rod Stewart ha...

Today, you get a little teaser - a snippet - of the bonus episode about the movie Julie & Julia, which is about Julia Child. Or, Julia Cameron, as Abby pronounces it. To hear the FULL episode - which includes fun stories about Julia Child being a spy!? - go sign up for Patreon . Or become a supporter through Apple Podcasts. You can do that too. See you there!

What's the after effect of almost being hit by a car? Do you fight, fight or freeze and what does each of these mean? Well luckily for us, Sofie has read 'the Body Keeps the Score' by Bessel van der Kolk and can tell us everything we need to know about how the body processes trauma and why it can manifest for years after the event.  Main source: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind...

This episode of Help Hole feels close to home in more ways than one, as not only are our hosts in the very same room for the chat, but the book they are talking about, is written by none other than Sofie Hagen! Will I Ever Have Sex Again, by Sofie Hagen is an exploration of the modern sexual landscape and how it impacts not just on the author, but society as a whole- even Abby...although mostly on...

It's a little snippet of our Every Other Monday bonus episode! You can hear them all, and, support the podcast on patreon.com/helphole ! 

Todays episode will lift your spirits for a number of reasons, firstly our hosts crossed oceans in order to record in person AND they're in Denmark, home of Hygge - so it feelt only right that the book they delve into should be Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking.  As well as exploring why Hygge can only be achieved if there are adequate bins in the street, the...

A little SNIPPET of our full-length bonus episode, which you can hear in full over on patreon.com/helphole!

The Joy of Being Selfish by Michelle Elman is the inspiration for this edition of Help Hole, as Sofie and Abby explore the fascinating subject of boundaries and how being 'selfish' can actually be an act of love to the people around you.  And as an extra treat, we also get to hear from the author herself as she directly answers one of Sofie's burning questions.  Main source: The Joy...

A little snippet, or, a teaser, from our Patreon and Subscribers ONLY exclusive content. Abby gets us in legal trouble with Disney and then we begin answering a listener question but get sidetracked by talks and feelings about GENDER. Abby is also uncharacteristically problematic in this episode, and Sofie (who's writing this) can only apologise. For the full episode, subscribe on Apple or si...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön, supplies the context for this episode, and was in no small part inspired by a staggering act of kindness Abby experienced in her own life. One of the inevitabilities of life is that at some stage or another, things will fall apart, so how can this book teach us to survive and learn from these times?  Main source: When Things...

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