This Won't Fix You
Have you ever wanted to go beyond the therapist’s waiting room to find out what happens in counselling sessions? Join me on This Won’t Fix You, where I take you into a library of interesting therapy-inspired ways to help you understand - and maybe even marvel at – what it is to be human, from our yearnings and motivations through to our frustrations and the patterns that block us as we muddle through life.
Episodes
17 episodes
Gravity - Surviving Overwhelming Pain: B-Side
This episode discusses the importance of confronting unresolved pain, as we see with Dr. Ryan Stone in Gravity. Avoiding pain can lead to emotional shutdown and inauthentic living. Therapy helps by revisiting past traumas, bre...
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Episode 14
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13:41
Gravity - Surviving Overwhelming Pain: A-Side
If you, like most people, enjoyed the episode on Frozen (Conceal; Don’t Feel: A-Side) then buckle up because Anoushka Beazley is back with an exploration of the film Gravity. We talk about grief, loss, loneliness, and Anous...
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Episode 13
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48:52
Meet The Host, with Nadine and Lucy
This is a brief one-off segment recorded during this summer break where the host of The Wilderness of Creativity, Lucy Colgan, and I have a chat about who we are, why we run the p...
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13:49
Being Curious: B-Side - Jung's Shadow Theory
There are things that influence us which lie deep in our subconscious. This episode is about some of those. They are psychological backseat drivers. We all have a shadow, and into our shadow we stuff all the parts of ourselves we wish weren't t...
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Episode 12
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23:18
Being Curious About Yourself: A-Side
Therapist, Emma McDermott, and I talk about how we can only really be curious about ourselves, especially the darker parts of ourselves, when we have the luxury of being stable.When we have the luxury to be able to reflect, we are empowe...
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Episode 10
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45:28
Anxiety and The Monster In The Cupboard: B-Side
Delving in more detail into the difference between red flags and anxiety, as discussed by Meg and I on the A-Side.I talk a lot about a model, a graph, in this episode. You can have a look at the graph by visiting
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Episode 10
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23:13
Anxiety and The Monster In The Cupboard: A-Side
Meg and I talk about fear, and how much of our fear (maybe all of it) is generated by the mind itself as we try to predict the future, project the best version of ourselves out into the world and avoid pain. We all strive to find h...
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Episode 9
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52:36
One Task Of Mourning: B-Side
This episode explores how therapy might help you to process your grief... It is the B-Side to the One Task Of Mourning A-Side which was released two weeks previously.
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Episode 6
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18:47
One Task Of Mourning: A-Side
How our loss of a person, either through death or separation, is also a loss of the way we related to that person – which is ultimately a loss of a part of us. Or let me put it this way, when we lose someone we must grieve the unique soul of th...
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Episode 7
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42:27
Conceal; Don't Feel: B-Side
Following the last episode where Anoushka and I discussed the film Frozen, this episode looks at narratives: how the stories that are told about us become something that we can't help but react to.I talk a little about IFS (Internal Fam...
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Episode 6
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18:13
Frozen: Conceal; Don't Feel, The: A-Side
This episode, we talk about the film Frozen and the dangers of suppression and the power of expression! We talk about how narratives that are spun about us, and the way experiences are framed in our lives – especially our childhoods – are key p...
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Episode 5
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44:21
When The Fire Goes Out: B Side
Why do we get stuck? What makes it difficult to move on or through something? What narratives are at play in our psyche which we have utterly subscribed to which colour all our experiences?This episode I look at how we get stuck because...
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Episode 4
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16:25
When The Fire Goes Out: A Side
What happens when we get bored? I mean bored with work or bored with people? And what can we do about it? Maybe you feel frustrated with your current relationship or work situation, and you wan...
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Episode 3
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43:25
I'm Fundamentally Flawed: B-Side
Essentially this goes into more detail about shame - what happens when we do begin to share some of our truths, in particular, what happens if we share something and the other person can't hold it with compassion, can't hold it with care, and y...
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Episode 2
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8:16