How can you have better mental health? Itās a big question, so the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast is all about making better mental health simple! Iām Jeremy Godwin, podcast creator and counsellor, and each week I teach you simple ways to improve your mental health and improve your life based on quality research and my own experience of living with anxiety. No interviews or random opinions; just practical tips for transforming your mental wellbeing that you can apply immediately. Rea ...
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Figuring out who you REALLY are š¤ (Episode 249)
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Do you want to find out who you really are, not who youāre told to be? Donāt wait until youāre having an identity crisis or feeling like you want to reinvent yourselfā¦ letās talk about how to discover the real you now! If youāve ever found yourself struggling with your identity, and trying to discover the real you, then this is the episode for you;ā¦
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How to set boundaries... and stick to them! ā (Episode 248)
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Do you know how to set healthy boundaries? And, more importantly, do you know how to stick to your boundaries? š¤ Learning how to implement boundaries is only half the battle; learning how to stick to your boundaries is where the real challenge lies! Whether it's boundaries in your relationships, at work, or in your daily life, healthy boundaries arā¦
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247: How to love yourself more
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Are you ready to show yourself more love and kindness? If not, why not?! Because loving yourself more leads to greater self compassion and better mental health. But how can you learn how to love yourself more? Well, you start by putting in the work to build a better relationship with yourselfā¦ and thatās what Iām talking about in this episode of Leā¦
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246: Dealing with Tough Times
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Dealing with tough times can be challenging for your mental health. Why? Because when weāre dealing with tough times our lives can be thrown into chaos, or we can feel unsettled and unable to identify a way forward. But how do difficult times affect us? What do you do if youāre going through a rough patch and dealing with tough times? And how can yā¦
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245: The Power of Reframing Things
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Learning the power of reframing things helps you to see things from a different angle, allowing you to see more of the possibilities and solutions rather than just focusing on the problem. But what does reframing mean, and why is it important for your mental health? And how can you reframe things? Well, thatās what Iām talking about in this episodeā¦
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244: How assumptions can harm your mental health
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What is an assumption, and why are assumptions dangerous? Why do we often make assumptions, and how can you deal with assumptions in a more thoughtful way? Well, thatās what Iām talking about in this episode of Letās Talk About Mental Health ā the weekly podcast that makes better mental health simple. Ready to stop assuming and start being more conā¦
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243: Talking about your mental health challenges
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Why should you talk about your mental health more? Why is there still so much stigma around talking about mental health, and why is talking about mental health issues important? And then, how does talking improve your wellbeing and build greater mental health awareness? Well, thatās what Iām talking about in this episode of Letās Talk About Mental ā¦
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242: How to be more assertive
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What is assertiveness, and whatās the link between assertiveness and good mental health? And can you learn how to be assertive? Well, thatās what Iām talking about this week in Letās Talk About Mental Health ā the weekly podcast that makes better mental health simple. Ready to learn assertiveness techniques that actually work? Then, letās talk! š š„³ā¦
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241: Emotional Maturity and Mental Health
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What is emotional maturity, and why are so many people emotionally immature? Can you improve your own emotional maturity? And how can you deal with emotionally immature people (without tearing your hair out)? Well, thatās what Iām talking about this week in Letās Talk About Mental Health ā the weekly podcast that makes better mental health simple. ā¦
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240: Overcoming Codependency for Healthier Relationships
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What is codependency, and why are some relationships codependent? And, most importantly, how can you improve codependent relationships? This week in the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast Iām talking about codependency and mental health, and Iāll be looking at whatās involved in dealing with codependent relationships and overcoming codependencyā¦
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239: Emotional Discomfort (and how to deal with it)
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What is discomfort, and why is experiencing your emotional discomfort necessary? And how can you work through emotional discomfort in order to move forward with your life? Sitting with discomfort and uncomfortable feelings can feel awkward and unpleasant, but it plays a crucial role in effectively processing your feelings so you can figure out how ā¦
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Do you know how to let go of the past? Whatās involved in letting go, and how can you let go of the past so you can start moving forward in life? A big part of personal growth and self improvement is learning how to stop repeating the past (since repeating the past usually comes with a jumbo-sized dose of repeating past mistakes!), so this week in ā¦
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237: Judgement and how to deal with it
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What is judgement, and why does feeling judged feel so unpleasant? And then, beyond that, how can you figure out what to do when you feel judged without causing a bigger issue? Being judged by others can make you feel bad about yourself, but the thing is that it says way more about who they are rather than youā¦ so the trick is to learn how to managā¦
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236: How to stop overthinking so much!
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What is overthinking? Why do our minds become overactive sometimes, affecting our mental health? And can you learn how to handle overthinking and anxious thoughts effectively? If you want to discover how to finally overcome overthinking then youāve come to the right placeā¦ because thatās what Iām talking about this week in the Letās Talk About Mentā¦
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235: How to improve your wellbeing
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What is wellbeing, and what are the different aspects of well-being we all need to know about? And, most importantly, how can you actively improve your wellbeing? If you want to learn how to improve your wellbeing then youāve come to the right placeā¦ because thatās what Iām talking about this week here on Letās Talk About Mental Health ā the weeklyā¦
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234: Pride and LGBTQ Mental Health
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What is pride? Why is LGBTQ pride important? And what are the links between pride and mental health? Whether you identify as LGBTQIA+ or as straight, understanding why pride matters and how pride affects mental health for members of the LGBTQ+ community can help you better connect with yourself and/or the people you care about who identify as anythā¦
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233: Essential life lessons for better mental health
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What are life lessons, and how does thinking about simple philosophies for life improve your mental health? And, beyond that, what are some of the most important life lessons we all need to learn for the sake of our well-being? This week in the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast Iām talking about why learning life lessons matters and how to leaā¦
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232: How to increase your happiness!
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Increasing your happiness doesnāt have to be rocket science; true happiness and wellbeing go hand-in-hand with joyful living and learning to embrace simplicity, and a big part of self improvement involves learning to stop relying on others for your happiness and instead cultivating happiness for yourself. This week in the Letās Talk About Mental Heā¦
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231: Building your resilience for better mental health
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What is resilience, and why is resilience important? And can you learn to be more resilient? Thankfully, the answer is yes! Improving your resilience plays a huge role in good mental health, because a more resilient mind helps you to handle stress and challenging times... and actively learning to be more resilient can help you find greater peace ofā¦
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230: Navigating change and upheaval
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Dealing with change and upheaval can be challenging and it can take a real toll on your mental health. Change and uncertainty can make it hard to find a sense of calm in your life when you probably need it most, since life upheavals can be difficult to work through at the best of times! In this episode Iāll be talking about what navigating change mā¦
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229: Overcoming limiting beliefs
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What are limiting beliefs, and why do our beliefs have such a big impact on us? And, more importantly, can you learn how to let go of limiting beliefs so you can achieve all the things you want to in life? If youāre ready to change limiting beliefs in your life then this is the episode for you! Limiting beliefs can do a lot of harm to your mental hā¦
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228: Toxic relationships and how to manage them
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Toxic and dysfunctional relationships can do a lot of harm to your mental health, yet finding the strength to leave a relationship that is doing you harm can be tough. Toxic patterns and relationship toxicity can eat away at your self-confidence, and make it hard to see serious relationship conflicts for what they are: a sign that something needs tā¦
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227: PTSD and how it affects your mental health
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Post traumatic stress disorder (commonly referred to as PTSD) can have a massive impact on mental health and quality of life for those dealing with it, so itās essential to learn as much as possible about it if youāre dealing with this condition (or if you have a loved one with PTSD). This week in the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast Iām goinā¦
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226: Self pity and how to overcome feeling sorry for yourself
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Feeling sorry for yourself can rob you of your joy and self-worth, and it can make it hard to find the motivation you need to work through challenges and create positive change in your life. But the good news is that there are ways you can work through self-pity in order to feeling more positive and optimistic, and thatās what Iām talking about thiā¦
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225: Reducing stress for better mental health
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Stressed? Anxious? Itās time to do something about it! Stress has a huge impact on your mental health, not to mention your physical well-being, so itās critical that you learn how to manage stress proactively in order to avoid it from taking over your life. How do you do that? Well, thatās what Iām talking about this week in the latest episode of tā¦
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224: Self-Empowerment and better mental health
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What is self empowerment, and how does it help to improve your mental health? Well, for starters, empowering yourself is a choice to work on your world within and start showing yourself greater kindness and supportā¦ and itās also a choice to draw your motivation from within, rather than relying on others. After all, itās your lifeā¦ so why not learnā¦
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223: Excuses and how they affect your mental health
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No more excuses! Itās time to stop blaming others and take responsibility for your life, because making excuses holds you back from your personal growthā¦ so this week Iām teaching you how to stop making excuses and take responsibility, for the sake of your mental health and general well-being. If youāve ever wondered about the relationship between ā¦
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222: Patterns and how they impact your mental health
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Many of us have patterns that show up often in our lives, such as how our relationships look or how we approach work, but did you know that itās possible to change patterns in your life that arenāt in your best interests? Some patterns are healthy, some are harmlessā¦ however, some negative patterns turn into vicious cycles that have the potential tā¦
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221: Difficult parents and how to deal with them
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How do you navigate a relationship with one or more parents who are challenging, or even outright toxic? Our relationships with our parents (or parental figures) can have a huge impact on our mental health, not to mention the role they play in influencing many of our other relationships in life. If you find yourself in a situation where a parent orā¦
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Recently I decided that quitting YouTube and choosing to stop making videos each week was the best decision for me. Why? There were several contributing factors, so I made this video to explain why and to also share the message that quitting is not a bad thing (and Iāll explore why that is in the video). But the good news is that you can continue tā¦
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220: Friendship breakups and how to recover from them
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Why does a friendship breakup hurt so much? How can you work through the end of a friendship? And whatās the secret to healing from a friendship breakup in a healthy way? In the latest episode of the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast Iām talking about why friendships end and how recover from the end of a friendship. So, letās talk! š šŗ For morā¦
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Why does a friendship breakup hurt so much? How can you work through the end of a friendship? And whatās the secret to healing from a friendship breakup in a healthy way? Look, Iām not a friendship expertā¦ but I am a mental health counsellor with plenty of experience in my personal life of navigating through friendship breakups as well as being ablā¦
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219: Comparison and how it affects your mental health
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Stop comparing yourself to others! Why? Because itās doing a lot of harm to you! The danger of comparing yourself is that it leads to unfair comparisons and low self-esteem, both of which do a lot of harm to your mental health and wellbeing. In the latest episode of the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast Iām talking about why we compare ourselvā¦
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Stop comparing yourself to others! Why? Because itās doing a lot of harm to you! The danger of comparing yourself is that it leads to unfair comparisons and low self-esteem, both of which do a lot of harm to your mental health and wellbeing. In my latest episode, linked with the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast, Iām talking about why we compaā¦
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218: Being intentional for better mental health
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Want to live authentically? Start living with more intention! A happy life involves living on your own terms and learning to be deliberate with your choices, which helps your personal growth. Living with intent means finding the right balance between spontaneity and intentionality, so you can make smarter choices and have an intentional life more iā¦
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Want to live authentically? Start living with more intention! A happy life involves living on your own terms and learning to be deliberate with your choices, which helps your personal growth. Living with intent means finding the right balance between spontaneity and intentionality, so you can make smarter choices and have an intentional life more iā¦
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217: Compulsions and how to manage them
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What are compulsions? Understanding and learning how to manage compulsive behaviours and intrusive thoughts requires you to reflect and build your self-awareness, in order to better identify how to handle your situation. Compulsions often go hand-in-hand with conditions like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) or obsessive compulsive personality diā¦
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Do you struggle with perfectionism? Learning how to let go of perfectionist tendencies and overcoming perfectionism takes time and effort, but there are plenty of things you can do to take control. Striving for excellence is admirable, and we should want to do things wellā¦ but the problem with perfect is that it doesnāt exist, so we end up creatingā¦
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216: Resentment and how it affects your mental health
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Overcoming resentment, bitterness and anger takes workā¦ but itās better than letting it eat away at your soul and becoming nasty and miserable! With time and effort you can learn to forgive someone who wronged you and also how to stop bringing up the past, so that you can focus on moving forward with your life and gain greater peace of mind. In theā¦
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Overcoming resentment, bitterness and anger takes workā¦ but itās better than letting it eat away at your soul and becoming nasty and miserable! With time and effort you can learn to feel less anger and bitterness, forgive someone who wronged you, and also how to stop bringing up the past, so that you can focus on moving forward with your life and gā¦
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215: The present and how being present improves your mental health
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Learning to be more present is a way of grounding yourself, which leads to better mental health. Why? Because to be more present in life means that youāre able to embrace the power of the present moment, rather than letting yourself be distracted by worries about the future or ruminating over the past. In the latest episode of the Letās Talk About ā¦
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Learning to be more present is a way of grounding yourself, which leads to better mental health. Why? Because to be more present in life means that youāre able to embrace the power of the present moment, rather than letting yourself be distracted by worries about the future or ruminating over the past. What does it mean to be fully present? In thisā¦
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214: Being hopeful and better mental health
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Why is being hopeful important? Can you learn how to find a greater sense of hope? Learning how to improve your hopefulness involves working through challenges with an open mind and learning how to see things from different perspectivesā¦ and thatās exactly what Iām focusing on in the latest episode of the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast. Reaā¦
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Want to stop feeling hopeless, and learn how to start being hopeful? It can be hard to know what to do when you feel hopeless about the future, and many people, especially in challenging times, might feel hopeless about future prospects, wondering if things will ever get better. But the good news is that it is absolutely possible to start feeling mā¦
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213: Finding meaning in life for better mental health
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Whatās the meaning of life, and how do you figure out what to do with the time you have on this planet? And why is āa sense of meaningā so important for your mental health and well-being anyway?! If youāve ever asked yourself, āIs life meaningful?ā or āDoes life have a purpose?ā then youāll know how challenging finding greater meaning in life can bā¦
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Wondering how to live a more meaningful life? Asking yourself āIs life meaningful?ā Not sure where to start finding greater meaning in life? Then Iāve got you covered! If youāve ever asked yourself, āDoes life have a purpose?ā Or āwhy is āa sense of meaningā so important for your mental health and well-being anyway?!ā then youāll know just how chalā¦
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212: Your mental health questions answered! (Part Two)
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This week is all about your mental health questions! I recently did a shout-out on social media for questions youād like me to cover, and there were so many good ones I had to do this as a two-parter. This week Iām talking about topics like validation, parents, anxiety, trauma, physical health and more, and then next week Iāll be back to my regularā¦
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Are you constantly caught in the web of people pleasing? Tired of feeling like you're seeking external validation? Then this is the video for you! In today's episode, Iām talking about the world of people pleasing, uncovering the secrets to help you break free from the chains of people pleasing tendencies. We'll explore practical strategies to stopā¦
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211: Your mental health questions answered! (Part One)
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This week is all about your mental health questions! I recently did a shout-out on social media for questions youād like me to cover, and there were so many good ones I had to do this as a two-parter. This week Iām answering questions about topics like growth, world events, unreliable people, healing, worry, procrastination, friendships and more, aā¦
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Ever wondered how truly knowing yourself can revolutionise your life? Dive into the world of self-awareness with this latest video based on the Letās Talk About Mental Health podcast, uncovering how to know yourself better and the many self awareness benefits that can improve your mental health. This video is your guide to understanding the benefitā¦
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