I offer advice & support on how to navigate poisonous relationships.

Have you ever been made to feel small by a family member? Insulted by a work colleague? Made to feel worthless by a passive-aggressive postman? It’s not uncommon.

Many of us have experienced difficult relationships in our lives. They have the power to serious damage our mental health - effecting our decisions, corroding our outlook, causing unwarranted stress and spiking our emotions.

It can be psychically draining and emotionally exhausting; anxiety, anger, depression, low self esteem, embarrassment, the list goes on.

On this weeks podcast, I offer advice & support on how to protect yourself, cope and navigate these poisonous relationships, talking about topics including:

• Changing the environment
• Having respectful & adult conversations
• The difference between accepting reality as it is & not accepting being disrespected
• Acknowledge your differences 
• Practising non judgement (of yourself & others)
• What you can and cannot control

This podcast may difficult to listen to if you’re experiencing this, so I recommend trusting yourself to listen when you feel ready and prepared. It can be triggering to confront these issues, especially when they can make us feel so powerless.

I hope that this presents you with some coping strategies and new perspectives to relieve some tension, find peace and freedom. 

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Music by Danny Tonks 

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I share my thoughts and offer advice around the concept of New Years resolutions.

Many of us are familiar with the pattern - over indulge at Christmas, set grand goals for the new year, fall short of those goals and feel upset. Don’t worry we’ve all been there.

In this loose and meandering episode, recorded on a walk in the woods, I offer my thoughts on the problematic nature of New Years resolutions and offer advice on how to best navigate this time of year.

I talk about subjects including:

• How to make habits stick
• Repetition vs Emotional reward
• Making new habits easy
• Redefining your goals
• How the New Year is an industry
• What messages we are told about ourselves
• Do you actually want to change something about yourself?
• And much, much more…

This is an illuminating, differing perspective on the concept of New Year’s resolutions, one that needs to amplified more in the current climate of continually seeking unattainable perfection.

Happy New Year!

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Music by Danny Tonks 

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I run through the psychopath checklist to determine whether James Bond could clinically be diagnosed as a psychopath. If you wish to understand more about psychopathy, you can listen to the previous episode - Ep.34 Psychopathy: What is it & how is it shaped by our culture?

“Keeping the British end up, Sir” - sexual promiscuity?

“Shaken, not stirred” - controlling behaviour?

“The name’s Bond - James Bond” - grandiose sense of self worth?

From womanising & killing without remorse, to impulsivity & manipulation - James Bond displays a frightening number of psychopathic traits, as laid out on the psychopath checklist. In this podcast, I go through three separate Bond films - Octopussy, From Russia With Love & Skyfall - analyse them for psychopathic traits & compare scores at the end.

This episode is filled with plenty of humour, as well as a stark examining and redefining of the UK’s most famous fictional character. From sexual assault to defusing a bomb dressed as a clown, this episode is very silly, serious & saucy (problematically saucy…)

Is Bond a genuine psychopath? What does this mean in the wider context of society? And what does it say about us?

This has been one of my favourite podcasts to date - absolutely worth giving this one a listen!

Please support this on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/savbalpod 

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WEBSITE: www.savbalpod.com 

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Logo, Youtube & Website artwork by Dolly grey

Music by Danny Tonks 

They’re both tremendously talented, so please support them however you can.

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