Today we're poking at the power of teeny, innocent-seeming words in creating enormous, perilous towers of thought stories.
Join me to meander through:
- My research project on inner peace and how it led to a little tangent on the power of words
- How seeing the creation of Big Collective Thought releases you from taking your personal, individual thought too seriously
- Exploring how casual historical labels can shape our modern thinking
- Noticing how the recency bias in historical narratives has implications on societal values and norms in the present day (including around productivity, anxiety and progress)
- Links between this and our individual experiences of inadequacy, stress, worry and overwhelm.
- The freedom that comes with recognising how thought patterns are shaped beyond your control - and how seeing your innocence in this can unclip you from your own inadequacies
- Several questionable analogies
- 'Nothingburger' is used on the show for the first time
- Anxious Alice is in a sulk
Mentioned:
Episosde: We’ve Made up What Mental Illness Is (And Who Decides What’s Normal Anyway?)
Episosde: Expanding the Conversation to Meet These Extraordinarily Precarious Times
Episosde: How That Anxious, Restless, Unsettled Feeling Is Originally Created (Clue: It’s Nothing to Do with You)
Email me with questions, comments, ideas or if you need support.
Pop your name on my Friends List here for a monthly email with updates, news and suchlike.
Thanks for listening. You're my favourite.
