It's a long and lonely road for over 100,000 young people in care throughout the UK. Local Authorities and foster carers do everything possible to help with their journey through adolescence, but disrupted education and insecurity often leads up to a cliff-edge entry to adulthood at 18. In a stable family setting, parents provide resources and life skills, and help build the attitudinal transformation necessary for a forward-looking approach with which to start adult life. In its work for the DfE on behalf of young people in care, The Share Foundation helps to build that same strong foundation. Background music: 'Everything Has a Beginning' by Joel Cummins
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This episode is about training your neural pathways to resolve fear: it's focused on pigeons, but it could apply to many other situations. By picking something symbolic of what worries you but which you know is fine — for example a robot image of a pigeon — Adam Cox shows how to map that sense of confidence across to resolve what is really worrying you.
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
Herd mentality among humans is amply demonstrated in family, sport and business, but collective self-interest becomes more threatening in politics and particularly in international relations. Developing an individual perspective on life is central to freedom, but it needs to be accompanied by a generosity of spirit in order to respect the right of 'each to their own' among others. Background music: 'Freedom' by Dan Lebowitz
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Summer holidays are a good time to take stock and deal with serious levels of fatigue. Adam Cox helps you to re-connect with times when you didn't fell so drained of energy, and to give new meaning to previous events which might have seemed traumatic at the time. A pre-supposition of hope can re-kindle resources and give new meaning to things in the past, and can help to re-build a positive self-evaluation for looking forward.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
Rather a long title, but this is all about looking forwards! How would you like the future to be — new job, new home, new relationships ...? Try writing your own journal of the future, setting out what you would like it to be, and what will work for you as if it really happens — it just might!
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
If you've already made some progress with losing weight but you want to achieve a bit more before that summer holiday you've got planned, this could be just the ticket! Using a technique called, 'Pseudo Orientation in Time', Adam Cox helps you to create a compelling vision that you not only could lose that extra bit of weight, but will do so. Imagine the photos you'll be taking on holiday — imagine packing only clothes which are one size smaller: this will give you confidence to achieve that aim.
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Resorting to anger as adults can be linked to difficult childhood situations where perceived unfairness can give rise to suspecting others of malicious thinking, rather than neutral motivations where they're caught up in their own world. In contrast to what otherwise might be an instinctive reaction to defend oneself, this episode may help in remaining on the look-out for such situations for thinking differently — giving the ability to neutralise situations before they get out of hand, and to avoid instinctive frustration which can otherwise boil over.
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Original Broadcast: The Hypnotist
The title for this episode must spell out what the great majority of people are looking for, although the episode itself was designed for and individual person. More choice, more happiness, more opportunities — and freedom from anxiety, tension and being surrounded with constraints. For those who concur with Share Radio's search for a more egalitarian form of capitalism, Adam Cox sets a good marker for which to aim — for the whole human family.
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Original Broadcast: Thought for the Week
The English language does a real dis-service to Love. How can we use the same word to show our appreciation of ice cream as to define the nature of God — and everything in between? But the driving passion which is often described by the word love is often more about control. In contrast, we turn once again to 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran to find his definition, which is much better phrased in terms of mutual trust and respect: both of which could significantly benefit inter-faith relations. Background music: 'Young And Old Know Love' by Puddle of Infinity
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Original Broadcast: Modern Mindset
Rory McGowan is joined by Dr Olivia Ahn, co-founder of FLUUS and an expert in innovation and sustainability. With it being Climate Change Action Week, Dr Olivia talks about new research that shows a growing demand in sustainable period care. https://wearefluus.com/
Guests: Olivia Ahn
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