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 and this episode is titled Gaslighting.

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

Hey there, me again. I say again, but unless you're a subscriber to my Patreon stuff,

you don't hear from me that often, I guess. If you listen to my short

bonus Friday episodes, then I'm hardly around for more than half an hour a month for you. But if

you hang on my every word, then you probably remember a couple of weeks ago when I briefly mentioned

that I was presenting at a conference in the

autumn. It was the episode about self-discipline. You might remember that episode because it was

the episode that I started by saying, all right, everybody peeps, which is a throwback to a Harry Enfield

character from the 80s, and clearly a desperate plight for me to try and regain my

youth. It was the episode where I spoke about good old Phineas Gage, the guy who probably had the most

famous brain injury in history. Now, you remember it now, don't you? Yes, of course you do. Well,

the reason I talk about it now is because of that

conference invitation, because I was expecting them to ask me to present something to this massive

group of other therapists all about podcasting. The ethics of podcasting, how to handle it as a therapist,

if you've got clients who listen, that sort of thing, how to not break confidential a therapist if you've got clients who listen, that sort of thing,

how to not break confidentiality, if you've got a story that you want to share, all that sort of

stuff. But after a lovely Zoom catch-up with the organiser earlier in the week, they've told me

that they simply want me to tell my story, how I became a therapist.

I just want me to talk about how I became a podcaster, just the story of my life, really.

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