Short Stuff: Parentification
Send us Fan Mail Being called mature for your age is meant as a compliment. But quite often it's a description of a child who didn't get to...
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The Richard Nicholls Podcast
To inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be. Learn about tackling mental health problems like Anxiety and Depression as well as simple tips to understand the world better,...
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Impatience
Send us Fan Mail Once we expect something, our brain acts as if it's about to happen any second, and then gets cross when it doesn't. This w...
Short Stuff: The Myth Of Closure
Send us Fan Mail Somebody dies, or something awful happens, and sooner or later somebody will ask if you've got closure yet. Like it's a cer...
Short Stuff: Radical Acceptance
Send us Fan Mail This week I'm looking at Radical Acceptance, where it comes from, what the word radical actually means, and why letting go...
Short Stuff: You've Changed
Send us Fan Mail Today I'm talking about a phrase that gets said to people all the time, usually by someone who loves them, and it's meant a...
Short Stuff: Compulsive Lying
Send us Fan Mail This week I'm talking about compulsive lying, and why the picture most of us have of it, someone cold and calculating who's...
Why You Shouldn't Complain So Much
Send us Fan Mail Does venting your frustrations make you feel better? Turns out, not so much. No. So what we can we do instead? Support the...
Short Stuff: Laughter & Perspectives
Send us Fan Mail Is laughter the best medicine? Maybe not, but it's better than nothing! Support the show Join the Patreon community https:/...
Short Stuff: Empty Nest Syndrome
Send us Fan Mail Empty nest syndrome is one of those things people feel a bit embarrassed to admit to. Your child leaving home is meant to b...
Short Stuff: Infidelity
Send us Fan Mail Infidelity is one of those topics that gets talked about constantly but almost never honestly. The public conversation tend...
Short Stuff: Trauma and Personality
Send us Fan Mail Following on from last week I'm going into why some neurodiversity isn't genetic. How childhood trauma can shape a brain in...
Clutter & Overwhelm
Send us Fan Mail Why is it so much easier to sort out a friend's messy cupboard than my own? This month I'm getting into overwhelm and execu...
Short Stuff: Neurodiversity
Send us Fan Mail Different brains aren't broken brains. They're just running on an operating system the world wasn't built to support. So th...
Short Stuff: Bullying
Send us Fan Mail This week we're talking about bullying, and not just the playground kind. We dig into how being bullied as a child can leav...
Short Stuff: Anger
Send us Fan Mail Anger gets such a rough deal, doesn't it. People either think they've got too much of it and feel ashamed, or they reckon t...
Acceptance and Commitment
Send us Fan Mail This week I’m talking about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT. A therapy model that sounds a bit like “just accept...
Of Mice and Men
Send us Fan Mail Jumping into the time machine today, back to 1968 when a researcher built a paradise for mice. A place with unlimited food,...
Panic Attacks
Send us Fan Mail People often use the word panic to mean the same as anxiety. But in my world, the 2 are separated so as to ensure people ge...
Attention Seeking
Send us Fan Mail Attention seeking gets used as an insult, doesn't it. But wanting to be noticed is one of the most fundamental human drives...
Self-Forgiveness
Send us Fan Mail Self forgiveness isn’t about pretending the past didn’t happen, or letting ourselves off the hook. It’s about learning the...