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 207.

It's titled, Jealousy.

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

Happy new month, pod fans.

It's November already.

Unless you're a patron of mine on Patreon,

in which case you've got this episode a few days

early and it's not even Halloween yet.

Ooh!

An early release of a personal development podcast episode, non-patrons must be so jealous.

And I know that that's sort of shoehorning today's topic into the intro, with all the

subtleties of a foghorn in a caravan,

to which I offer no apology, other than to say that it's not actually what jealous means,

not in the psychological sense anyway.

Over the last few generations, we've tended to use the word jealous when referring to envious, haven't we?

Because jealousy is the feeling that comes from the worry

about someone taking something of yours, and envy is the feeling of wanting something that someone else

has. So, being pedantic, if you ever say, I love your shoes, I'm so jealous, that makes no sense, unless they were your shoes in the

first place and your friend is literally walking off with them. Although, taking that analogy further,

the feeling that can come from looking at your friend's shoes as they walk away from you is envy,

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