Self Help Sat Nav

<p>In this episode, Jim Lucas talks to Dr Ray Owen author of Living with The Enemy and Facing the Storm.</p> <p>Ray talks about how he maintains direction by focusing on what matters most across different situations...

<p>In this episode, I interview Psychologist Aisling Leonard Curtin about how she uses self-help in her life.</p> <p>We talk about how she uses mindfulness to engage with the life she wants to build. She refers to being...

<p>In this episode, Jim interviews psychologist Mike Sinclair. Mike tells a story from his professional life of a client who he has helped a grieving husband. He was struggling with his wife's terminal illness and...

<p>Jim Lucas builds on the first two parts in this episode by exploring the failure lifetap. We take a closer look at the Young and Klosko Self Help book, Reinventing Your Life.</p> <p>Having a Failure lifetrap means...

<p>In this episode, Jim talks to author John Forsyth. John wrote The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety. They discuss his book and the impact it had on its readers. </p> <p>John recalls a long-term anxiety...

<p>In part two of the reinventing your life mini-series, Jim Lucas discusses the Abandonment Lifetrap.</p> <p>The fear of abandonment is a strong persistent fear that everyone will leave you. Due to a history of...

<p>Do you get stuck in the same patterns? Would you like to break free from your bad habits? Lifetraps or repeatable patterns often appear in relationships, work, health and well-being. </p> <p>Jim introduces you to...

<p>In this episode of Self-Help Sat-Nav, well-being specialist Jim Lucas explore mindfulness in the 21st century. </p> <p>Jim considers how and why mindfulness has become so popular in the Western world. There are so...

<p>Listen to my interview with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) trainer, therapist and supervisor Joe Oliver.</p> <p>Joe is a Clinical Psychologist based in London, UK and runs an ACT training organisation called...

<p>Many people feel alone and unloved due to an emotional deprivation life trap. Listen to Jim's analysis of Reinventing Your Life by Young and Klosko. </p>

<p>Are you your worst critic? Do you label yourself in negative ways? </p> <p>Dr Mary Welford is the author of The Compassionate Mind Guide to Building Self Confidence in 2012, Compassion Focused Therapy for Dummies in...

<p>What thoughts and feelings get in the way of your helpful habits? How do you stay motivated when behaviour change is so hard?</p> <p>Therapist and trainer Benji Schoendorff teach you how to complete an ACT...

<p>Do you struggle with exercise? Does your motivation come in waves? Do you get caught up with thoughts that you can't be bothered? </p> <p>In this episode, your host Jim Lucas talks about how to get motivated and stay...

<p>What is Self-help? Can it help? What sort of problems does it help you solve?</p> <p>The Self-help industry is enormous, which is a double-edged sword - there is a lot to choose from, and there is too much to choose...

Find some calm with just 10 mins of Mindfulness Mindfulness isn't new. It might even be as old as horses. What works isn't about finding the latest and shiniest new thing. What works is about what has been tested over...