Mental Chats

In this episode Alice explains why fear is not the enemy and what to do to overcome it.You do not want to overcome the Ring of Fear just for the sake of it, you want to overcome it when that particular fear is a limitation to living the life you want to live.The only way to overcome fear is to go through it and emerge on the other side, expanding your comfort zone in the process.Stop going around in circles inside your comfort zone, make friend with fear and start moving in the direction of what you value in life.Free resources to do so: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resourcesSend questions to: mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk

Knowing your internal motivators is essential to have direction, motivation and purpose in life.In this episode, Alice will guide you in differentiating between internal and external motivators and will help you to identify your Values: the everlasting internal motors of our lives.To know more about Values, please watch our Values Vs Goals video in our FREE resources on :https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resourcesTo join the waiting list for the next intake of the Living a Meaningful and Successful Life program, please visit:https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-courseIf you have any questions, please send them to: MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.ukand if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a great review and share it, share it, share it with anyone you care about helping on their life journey.

In this episode Alice explain the 5 essential steps you need to take to create the life you want to live.If you have any questions on the concept explained, please email us at MentalChats@crossroadspsychology.co.uk and we will do our best to answer in one of the next episodes.In this episode, Alice also talks about the Hero's Journey. To know more about the Hero's Journey visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journeyTo have a look at our Living a Meaningful and Successful Life programme visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/meaningful-successful-life-online-course

In this episode Alice explains why our emotions are healthy helpful responses and what the function of Fear, Anger, Sadness and Joy is.Any questions, please emails us at mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.ukTo access our FREE resources visit: https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-online-coursesFor more detailed information on the scientific research about primary emotions visit:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_accounts_of_emotionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification

Welcome to the first episode of the Mental Chats podcast!In this episode Alice will explain the aims for this podcast and will introduce the theoretical models she uses to help people improve their lives in her daily work as a Clinical Director at Crossroads Psychology.These are: CBT, Mindfulness and ACT, models that you will soon learn, and that you can apply to your life, to change it, improve it, or perfect it.You can find the Crossroads Psychology's FREE resources mentioned at https://crossroadspsychology.co.uk/crossroads-psychology-free-resourcesIf you like this podcast, please leave us a review and share it, share it, share it with friends and family.This will help us to reach more people and improve more lives.If you have any questions, topics that you would like Alice to cover, or you would like to be featured on the podcast, please send an email to mentalchats@crossroadspsychology.co.ukReferences:Evidence of effectiveness of CBThttps://babcp.com/What-is-CBT/Cognitive-Behavioural-Therapy-Whats-the-EvidenceThe efficacy of CBT, a review of meta-analyseshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584580/