Let's Talk About Mental Health

What is surrender and how does it help you stop trying to control everything? How can surrender and acceptance help you to heal emotional wounds so you can let go and move on? Letting go is all about learning to trust life more, which leads to better mental health and personal development, and when you learn how to let go of control and surrender to the stuff that is out of your direct control, yo...

What is surrender and how does it help you stop trying to control everything? How can surrender and acceptance help you to heal emotional wounds so you can let go and move on? Letting go is all about learning to trust life more, which leads to better mental health and personal development, and when you learn how to let go of control and surrender to the stuff that is out of your direct control, yo...

What is individuality? Why is individuality important? And how can you start embracing your individuality more? (Hint: it has a lot to do with unconditional self acceptance and really embracing your uniqueness!) That’s what I’m talking about this week in the Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast… so, let’s talk! Buy my latest book Life Advice That Doesn’t Suck! , out now: https://jeremygodwin.com...

What is individuality? Why is individuality important? And how can you start embracing your individuality more? (Hint: it has a lot to do with unconditional self acceptance and really embracing your uniqueness!) That’s what I’m talking about this week in the Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast… so, let’s talk! You can also explore this topic in a lot more detail in the full-length podcast episo...

What is giving? How does giving improve your mental health? And how can you give in a balanced way? If you want to have better relationships, feel better about yourself and set yourself up for success in the future then you’ll find that giving more than you take will help you to do all that and more! How can you give more than you take? Well, that’s what I’m talking about this week in the Let’s Ta...

What is giving? What is the importance of giving? And how can you give more than you get? Well, this week I’m talking about giving and mental health including why giving matters, how giving helps your wellbeing, and how to give in a balanced way. Because when you give more than you take, you receive so much more in return! You can also explore this topic in a lot more detail in the full-length pod...

Do you know what a dysfunctional relationship is? It’s exhausting, that’s what it is! Unhealthy and damaging relationships can be draining and are very unlikely to meet your emotional needs, but what are the signs of a dysfunctional relationship? Why are some relationships dysfunctional? And how can you deal with these sorts of toxic relationships in a healthy way? Well, that’s what I’m talking ab...

What are dysfunctional relationships? Why are some relationships dysfunctional? And how can you manage dysfunctional relationships in a healthy way? In this quick mini-episode of the Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast, I’m talking about these three questions to help you start thinking about how to meet your own emotional needs and also improve the quality of your relationships. You can also ex...

One of the toughest conversations about mental health involves the ways in which our self harming behaviour can have an enormous negative impact on our state of mind. Self harm isn’t just limited to physical forms; it’s anything you do to yourself to either intentionally harm yourself or which you know is harmful but you do it anyway (such as when your anxiety coping skills are actually unhealthy...

Stop feeling bad about yourself! Wouldn’t it be great if I could just say that and suddenly you would instantly have better self-confidence?! Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that… but by focusing on your personal development every day and learning how to stop comparing yourself to others, while also building your confidence one day at a time, you’ll slowly become more and more self-confident. T...

Handling disagreements in a healthy way requires you to approach the situation carefully and thoughtfully... which can be tough to do when you're feeling angry or upset with someone! There are a lot of different conflict management strategies out there, but really you'll find that resolving arguments effectively comes down to one thing: wanting to find a solution rather than wanting to win. In the...

“Who made up all the rules? We follow them like fools…” That’s what Jem sang in her 2004 single ‘They’ and it’s what I’m going to be talking about in this week’s episode, because we need to be able to approach rules and guidelines in a thoughtful and considered way in order to understand why they exist and where we might need to challenge them in order to change things for the better, for ourselve...

What does it mean to live a good life? What is quality of life? What does it mean to feel fulfilled in life? What is better living? And how can you live a more fulfilling life? So many questions! But the good news is that all of that is what I’m talking about this week in the Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast. So, let’s talk about life! Buy my latest book Life Advice That Doesn’t Suck! , out...

Your personal standards — what you expect from others and from yourself — will directly influence the quality of your relationships with others and with yourself. But what are standards? And what are reasonable standards? Why does having realistic standards matter? And, most importantly, what are some simple techniques for how to raise your standards? Well, that’s what I’m talking about this week...

Making progress in life isn’t just a case of doing some quick goal setting and then hoping for the best/waiting for growth to happen; it involves taking the time to identify what personal progress means to you and, more importantly, figuring out why making progress matters, and then setting goals that allow you to really focus on your personal development and long-term personal growth. How do you...

What are resolutions? Why do new year’s resolutions fail? And how can you go about setting better resolutions? If you’re looking for new years resolution tips that actually work then you’ve come to the right place because I’m exploring how to accomplish your new year’s resolutions with new years resolution advice that isn’t just ‘make better resolutions’ (lol)! So, come join me for the Let’s Talk...

Money and mental health are commonly connected, and with good reason: it’s hard to feel great about your life when you’re struggling to make ends meet. But the relationship between mental health and money is much deeper than simply how much you have in the bank; it’s the way we approach money and your mindset about money that determines how money affects us. A big part of that involves considering...

What’s worse than feeling a loss of control? I’d say it’s this: not knowing that you’re always in control of what really matters: you, and what you choose to do and say. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, the power is always with you; it’s just up to you to find it and tap into it. How do you do that? Well, that’s what I’m talking about this week in my Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast, full o...

Anxiety and catastrophising often go hand-in-hand, where you may find yourself fearing the future or plagued by challenging thoughts about the likelihood of things going wrong. But there is an enormous difference between ‘possibility’ and ‘certainty’, and so learning how to stop catastrophic thinking (which is one of many common cognitive distortions) and also challenging black and white thinking...

Trusting your instincts can be difficult, especially if you’re not sure how to listen to your inner voice, but instinct and intuition can tell us a lot about a situation (and did you know there’s actually scientific evidence to support that, based on the way your enteric nervous system operates?!). But what is instinct and intuition? What’s the meaning of instinct? And how do intuition and mental...

Your relationship with your parents, guardians or primary caregivers will have a lifelong impact on you, whether you care to admit it or not, and as time progresses that relationship will evolve. So how do you create a healthy relationship with your parents? How to build better relationships with your parents, how to deal with difficult parents, how to deal with difficult parents, how to deal with...

Better mental health starts and ends with learning how to accept yourself unconditionally, by challenging limiting beliefs and doing the work to be more accepting of yourself. Life is too valuable to spend it being mean to yourself or bullying yourself, and you are absolutely worthy of unconditional self acceptance! So, what is self acceptance? How does it affect your mental health and wellbeing?...

If you want a better life, start with self compassion! Why? When you have limiting beliefs about yourself, rather than learning how to be self compassionate, it can be hard to see your strengths and positive attributes which can then have a damaging effect on your self esteem. Like, REALLY damaging. Because if you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love someone else?! (Thanks RuPaul!)...

What role does personal freedom play in your mental health and wellbeing? And how do you develop a greater sense of freedom in your life? That’s what I’m talking about this week on… Let’s Talk About Mental Health — the weekly podcast about looking after your wellbeing, with simple ideas and mental health tips that you can put into practice immediately. So, let’s talk about finding purpose! Buy my...

How can having greater empathy towards others and towards yourself improve your mental health and wellbeing? And how can you be more empathetic? That’s what I’m talking about this week on… Let’s Talk About Mental Health — the weekly podcast about looking after your wellbeing, with simple ideas and mental health tips that you can put into practice immediately. So, let’s talk about finding purpose!...