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SITS 170 · 18 June 2026 · 14:46The Mind That Will Not Be QuietWhy does your mind pick 3am? You have thirty to forty thoughts a minute and you asked for none of them. The mistake is deciding the goal is a blank, silent mind.Listen to this episode 
SITS 163 · Self-Acceptance & Self-Love · 11 April 2026 · 16:21The Dignity of Being Tired: Give Yourself a BreakWhy is it so hard to say I am tired? Tiredness is not a weakness. It is your body telling you something honest, and ignoring it was never a strategy.Listen to this episode 
SITS 148 · 8 June 2025 · 20:24Overthinking Is Not Your Fault (But Here's How to Stop)Whose thoughts are they, actually? Mostly your parents', your grandparents', your teachers'. Overthinking is not your fault, which is the good news and the bad news at once.Listen to this episode 
SITS 147 · 1 June 2025 · 18:35The Truth About Anxiety & Imposter SyndromeDo anxiety and imposter syndrome ever go away? No. Mine did not. What changed is that I stopped treating them as the problem and started treating them as voices.Listen to this episode 
SITS 130 · 22 October 2024 · 20:49Transforming Your Thoughts: The Truth About Positive and Negative ThinkingIs there really such a thing as a negative thought? By the end of this I do not think you will say yes.Listen to this episode 
SITS 125 · 8 July 2024 · 18:48Reducing Overwhelm: How to Simplify Life and Find Inner PeaceWhy are you exhausted after the supermarket? Hundreds of tiny decisions. Overwhelm is rarely one big thing, it is the small ones piling up unnoticed.Listen to this episode 
SITS 124 · 14 June 2024 · 6:03Achieving Calm by Trusting Your Body's WisdomDoes this moment really need you to do anything with it? Usually not. A short one, and that question is most of the content.Listen to this episode 
SITS 122 · 16 May 2024 · 16:59Mastering the Art of Questioning: Transforming Anxiety and Finding ClarityWhat happens if you ask somebody how they are and actually mean it? Most of us ask and neither side expects a real answer. Your life is not your depression.Listen to this episode 
SITS 119 · 7 April 2024 · 22:10Why Panic Attacks Happen (And How to Find Calm)Why do panic attacks arrive out of nowhere? They do not. Mine turned up on the way to buy a poppy, and it felt like the whole world was ending.Listen to this episode 
SITS 108 · 24 December 2023 · 15:33Remaining Calm in the Festive Chaos: Plus Post-Hospital UpdateHow do you get through Christmas when you do not feel like celebrating? You are not ruining anybody's Christmas by not being in the mood for it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 89 · 18 May 2023 · 21:05Uncluttering the Mind: Finding Stillness Amidst Anxiety and OverwhelmWhy are you so tired when you have not done much? Because your head is full. Lists you never finished, voices from things you binge watched, and visual noise you never notice.Listen to this episode 
SITS 74 · 24 September 2022 · 18:34Simplify Everything to Reduce AnxietyAre you overcomplicating it? Nobody noticed my dark green shirt today. Most of what we agonise over was never being watched in the first place.Listen to this episode 
SITS 70 · 27 February 2022 · 12:11What to Do When the World Is Burning and You Feel HelplessWhat do you do when the world is on fire and you can do nothing about it? You work out what is genuinely at arm's length, and you start there.Listen to this episode 
SITS 57 · 16 April 2021 · 14:29How to Deal with Life’s Pressures (Anxiety, Overwhelm and Stress)Where does the pressure actually build up? Not in the big things. In the notifications and the small unanswered stuff, in a cooker nobody thinks to let out.Listen to this episode 
SITS 52 · 6 March 2021 · 14:40Why can’t I sleep? #1 reason you Cannot Fall Asleep!Why will your body not let you fall asleep? Because it is checking you are safe. Sleep evolved to happen in a cave, and your bedroom has to convince it.Listen to this episode 
SITS 47 · 22 December 2020 · 17:093 WAYS steps to DEAL with STRESS quicklyWhat is the first thing to do when stress has hold of you? Be quiet. Not deep breathing, not affirmations. Stop talking, and let the body come down a gear.Listen to this episode 
SITS 43 · 22 October 2020 · 13:09I really didn’t want to do thisWhat does it look like when the person who teaches calm is the one having the panic attack?Listen to this episode 
SITS 42 · Inner Peace Foundations · 13 October 2020 · 20:50How to Think Positive Even with a Negative BiasCan you think positive when your brain is built with a negative bias? Just think positive is the worst advice I ever gave, and I gave it for twenty years.Listen to this episode 
SITS 19 · 1 March 2020 · 17:26Dealing with OVERWHELMING THOUGHTS and EMOTIONSHave you ever shut the door, drawn the curtains and sat on the floor with your head on your knees? That is where this one starts.Listen to this episode 
SITS 5 · 1 August 2019 · 23:26How to Sleep Even When It's Too Hot to SleepWhy can you not sleep when it is hot, and can you catch it up at the weekend? You cannot. Sleep is a skill, and most of us were never taught it.Listen to this episode Somewhere else
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