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Hard Times & Resilience
The episodes I make for the worst days. No silver linings, no everything happens for a reason. Just what has helped me get through mine.
SITS 177 · Steven's Story · 10 September 2026 · 18:29What Will I Miss? My Story for World Suicide Prevention DayWhat would you miss? This episode is about suicide, my granddad's and my own, and the one question that kept me here. If you need help right now, the numbers are just below.Listen to this episode 
SITS 172 · 26 July 2026 · 20:59Part of You Doesn't Want the Pain to Stop: Here's WhyWhy does part of you not want the pain to stop? Pain is inevitable. Suffering is the second arrow, and you fire that one.Listen to this episode 
SITS 167 · 17 May 2026 · 16:19Waking Up to Body Betrayal: How to Find Peace in the PainIs your body letting you down, or have you been sold that story? Mine is not the enemy. It has always told me exactly what it needed, and I did not always listen.Listen to this episode 
SITS 153 · 20 September 2025 · 20:02In a Hard World, Your Softest Skills Are Your Strongest AssetWhat cards were you actually dealt? I never finished school, I was kicked out of sixth form, and I have never passed an exam beyond GCSEs. You play the hand.Listen to this episode 
SITS 140 · 15 February 2025 · 12:37Finding Peace and Stillness in the Current StormsHow do you stay steady when the news will not stop? Six weeks into the year and it is already relentless.Listen to this episode 
SITS 138 · 29 January 2025 · 12:49Navigating Life's Struggles: Acceptance vs. AvoidanceAre you accepting your life, or quietly avoiding it? I wrote this at two in the morning and it caught me out.Listen to this episode 
SITS 134 · Self-Acceptance & Self-Love · 24 November 2024 · 16:01Vulnerability: A Pathway to Courage and WisdomIs being vulnerable the same as being weak? Asking for help is the most vulnerable thing most of us ever do.Listen to this episode 
SITS 83 · Inner Peace Foundations · 24 February 2023 · 26:55The Ultimate Guide to Living: 10 Lessons We All Can Learn from Those Who've Lived ItIf you had ten lessons left to hand on, what would they be? Here are mine, and death is what made me write them.Listen to this episode 
SITS 76 · 7 December 2022 · 22:46How I Handle Toughest Times (probably shared too much here)Have you ever been so low that euthanasia started to sound reasonable? I got there this week, and I had never been there before.Listen to this episode 
SITS 65 · 30 September 2021 · 15:243 Things That Will Make You Happier In Difficult TimesWould your life really have been better if the bad thing had not happened? Three things that keep me steady, and the first is that the alternative might have been worse.Listen to this episode 
SITS 60 · 31 May 2021 · 12:03What Are Your HIDDEN Strengths?Does what doesn't kill you really make you stronger? Partly, and it also annoys me. Strength is the ability to deal with change, not the ability to jump out of aeroplanes.Listen to this episode 
SITS 48 · 2 January 2021 · 12:15How You Choose Your AltitudeWhat if this year you do not need a big change, just a slightly different altitude?Listen to this episode 
SITS 38 · 17 September 2020 · 17:15Why Your BODY IS Your BEST TEACHERWhat is your body trying to tell you, and why can you not read it? Mine speaks a language I had to learn from scratch.Listen to this episode 
SITS 33 · 28 July 2020 · 25:437 Things We and Governments Should Learn from 2020What should we and our governments actually learn from 2020? Seven things, and clapping is not one of them.Listen to this episode 
SITS 28 · 2 June 2020 · 18:30Getting Out Of Your Comfort ZoneHow do you actually get out of your comfort zone? Every quote online makes it sound easy. It is not.Listen to this episode 
SITS 27 · 17 May 2020 · 18:58What to Do When Your Life Doesn't Go to PlanWould the other version of your life really have been better? I spent three months not getting out of bed at all, and I worked out how to eat with a fork through my hand.Listen to this episode 
SITS 26 · Working with Emotions · 5 May 2020 · 14:08When Hugging Your Dragons Is Not EnoughWhat if you have hugged all your dragons and you are still stuck? Then the thing holding you is not the dragon.Listen to this episode 
SITS 23 · 31 March 2020 · 16:193 Things We ALL NEED to GET THROUGH this TogetherHow do you stop an argument before it starts? Agree the rule in advance. Twenty seconds, which is three breaths, and anybody can manage three breaths.Listen to this episode 
SITS 17 · 19 February 2020 · 18:57How to Save Someone's Life! The MOST DIFFICULT Story I've Ever ToldWhy is asking for help the hardest thing we ever do? Because shame is the lowest feeling there is, and shame does not ask.Listen to this episode 
SITS 12 · 7 December 2019 · 11:31Dealing with Life's Knockout BlowsWhy do feelings come in waves? Because that is what they are. And the serenity prayer is not really about the big things at all, it is about the next five minutes.Listen to this episode 
SITS 6 · 20 August 2019 · 18:25Things You Need to Know When You're StrugglingWhat do you do when you cannot pay the bills and you have stopped eating? I know, because I did it. The answer was the thing I was most avoiding.Listen to this episode Somewhere else
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