And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can

be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 206.

It's titled, Belonging.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

What the heck?

It's October already, and other month.

Only this one's got Halloween in it, which gives us an excuse to dress up daft and celebrate life.

And then before you know it, it'll be November, and we'll have bonfire parties.

And then it'll be Christmas.

And by then, so many people, hopefully, will be vaccinated and plenty will have had boosters.

And we can all get together in sweet harmony.

Although if you've ever heard me sing, you'll find that sweet harmony is not really my bag, if I'm honest.

But we're tribal species.

We're pack animals that want to find our tribe and stick together.

And usually, this month would have been a month I'd be really looking forward to,

although I am, but let me rewind here. Usually, we do something in June and we couldn't this year because of COVID, but once a year I would normally be helping out at an annual

psychotherapy conference run by an association that I'm a member of. That's an offshoot

of a college I trained at. The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, a superorganization.

And I'd highly recommend their training courses if you were thinking of becoming a hypnipsychotherapist

or a hypnotherapist. And the reason I enjoy the conference so much isn't just because of the lectures and

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